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Pingree and Golden Vote for Billions to Ukraine and Nothing for the U.S. BorderBy Seamus Othot
Reps. Chellie Pingree and Jared Golden (D-Maine) voted with the majority of the house over the weekend to send billions of taxpayer dollars to defend the borders of Ukraine, as the U.S. border remains open. [RELATED: Angus King Wants American Military Using “Off the Shelf” Gear While Biden Admin Sends Ukraine Billions…] “The defense of [...]
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Parental Rights Activists Launch Campaign Warning Parents of the Disastrous Effects of TikTok on American ChildrenBy Seamus Othot
The American Parents Coalition (APC), a group dedicated to promoting parental rights and defending America’s children, launched a campaign on Friday intended to warn parents of the disastrous effects of the social media site TikTok on the country’s youth. [RELATED: Transgender Teacher at Maine Middle School Shared Salacious TikTok Videos With 6th Graders…] “TikTok’s algorithm [...]
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Portland Set to Consider Allocation of $750,000 in Opioid Settlement FundsBy Edward Tomic
The City of Portland is set to begin considering ways to allocate nearly $750,000 in funds received from a 2022 settlement in a nationwide lawsuit against several opioid manufacturers and distributors. [RELATED: Maine Reports Nearly 10,000 Drug Overdoses in 2023, 16 Percent Decrease in Fatal Overdoses from 2022…] In September 2017, the Portland City Council passed [...]
The post Portland Set to Consider Allocation of $750,000 in Opioid Settlement Funds appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Man Arrested After Series of Robberies at Southern Maine ChurchesBy Edward Tomic
A former New Hampshire man has been arrested in relation to a series of robberies at southern Maine churches, authorities announced Sunday. According to the Maine State Police, shortly after 10 a.m. on Sunday, April 21, a woman called 911 from the parking lot of a church located at 213 Federal Road in Parsonsfield, reporting [...]
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TRIAD WEED: First Chinese National Faces Federal Charges for Weed Operation in MaineBy Seamus Othot
A Chinese national arrested at an illegal marijuana grow site in February has become the first person to face federal charges relating to the criminal enterprise operating hundreds of these sites across Maine. In February, police raided a house in Passadumkeag which had been renovated to allow for the illegal cultivation of marijuana. [RELATED: TRIAD [...]
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Recent ArticlesMaine Housing Prices Up 12% Compared to March 2023, Sale Volume Also Up 3.5%
AG Garland Had “No Theory” About Triad Weed in Maine When Asked by Susan Collins, Avoiding Mentioning China by Name in His Response to Questions
Maine CDC Calls for Increased HIV Testing Statewide After Three New Cases in Penobscot County ‘Cluster’
Army to Assess New Recruits’ Brains, Explore Additional Blast Protection After Lewiston Shooter’s Brain Showed Evidence of Traumatic Injuries
Reps. Chellie Pingree and Jared Golden (D-Maine) voted with the majority of the house over the weekend to send billions of taxpayer dollars to defend the borders of Ukraine, as the U.S. border remains open. [RELATED: Angus King Wants American Military Using “Off the Shelf” Gear While Biden Admin Sends Ukraine Billions…] “The defense of [...]
The post Pingree and Golden Vote for Billions to Ukraine and Nothing for the U.S. Border appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Parental Rights Activists Launch Campaign Warning Parents of the Disastrous Effects of TikTok on American ChildrenBy Seamus Othot
The American Parents Coalition (APC), a group dedicated to promoting parental rights and defending America’s children, launched a campaign on Friday intended to warn parents of the disastrous effects of the social media site TikTok on the country’s youth. [RELATED: Transgender Teacher at Maine Middle School Shared Salacious TikTok Videos With 6th Graders…] “TikTok’s algorithm [...]
The post Parental Rights Activists Launch Campaign Warning Parents of the Disastrous Effects of TikTok on American Children appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Portland Set to Consider Allocation of $750,000 in Opioid Settlement FundsBy Edward Tomic
The City of Portland is set to begin considering ways to allocate nearly $750,000 in funds received from a 2022 settlement in a nationwide lawsuit against several opioid manufacturers and distributors. [RELATED: Maine Reports Nearly 10,000 Drug Overdoses in 2023, 16 Percent Decrease in Fatal Overdoses from 2022…] In September 2017, the Portland City Council passed [...]
The post Portland Set to Consider Allocation of $750,000 in Opioid Settlement Funds appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Man Arrested After Series of Robberies at Southern Maine ChurchesBy Edward Tomic
A former New Hampshire man has been arrested in relation to a series of robberies at southern Maine churches, authorities announced Sunday. According to the Maine State Police, shortly after 10 a.m. on Sunday, April 21, a woman called 911 from the parking lot of a church located at 213 Federal Road in Parsonsfield, reporting [...]
The post Man Arrested After Series of Robberies at Southern Maine Churches appeared first on The Maine Wire.
TRIAD WEED: First Chinese National Faces Federal Charges for Weed Operation in MaineBy Seamus Othot
A Chinese national arrested at an illegal marijuana grow site in February has become the first person to face federal charges relating to the criminal enterprise operating hundreds of these sites across Maine. In February, police raided a house in Passadumkeag which had been renovated to allow for the illegal cultivation of marijuana. [RELATED: TRIAD [...]
The post TRIAD WEED: First Chinese National Faces Federal Charges for Weed Operation in Maine appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Recent ArticlesMaine Housing Prices Up 12% Compared to March 2023, Sale Volume Also Up 3.5%
AG Garland Had “No Theory” About Triad Weed in Maine When Asked by Susan Collins, Avoiding Mentioning China by Name in His Response to Questions
Maine CDC Calls for Increased HIV Testing Statewide After Three New Cases in Penobscot County ‘Cluster’
Army to Assess New Recruits’ Brains, Explore Additional Blast Protection After Lewiston Shooter’s Brain Showed Evidence of Traumatic Injuries
National Popular Vote legislation that Janet Mills just allowed into law.
From Jason Savage
Here's a quick update from our perspective:
1 This new scheme is not in place for this election. More states would have to pass it for it to go into effect in the future. In fact, if you help us elect more Republican legislators, we can get Maine out of this before it ever goes into effect, even before the next Presidential election in 2028.
2 We are preparing for legal action should it go into effect before we can get it repealed. Please be ready to help with that legal action. As of now, with NPV some 61 electoral college votes short of going into effect, we do not see a path, yet, for the legal action that will be needed to get it ruled unconstitutional under the US Constitution's Compact Clause.
3 This is an unconstitutional power grab that takes away power from Mainers and gives it to Californians. We will fight it tooth and nail and we appreciate the Republican legislators who fought it in Augusta. Again, we need to send more Republicans to Augusta. Click here to support our program that specifically backs Republican candidates to the Maine Legislature.
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es not go into effect in 2024.
Despite Shenna Bellows and the Democrats' best efforts, electoral votes in Maine will go to Donald Trump if we work as hard as we can to get him elected.
We went to court and beat Shenna Bellows to defeat the Democrats scheme to get Trump in
2024.
We will go to court to beat NPV when the time comes in the future.
From Jason Savage
Here's a quick update from our perspective:
1 This new scheme is not in place for this election. More states would have to pass it for it to go into effect in the future. In fact, if you help us elect more Republican legislators, we can get Maine out of this before it ever goes into effect, even before the next Presidential election in 2028.
2 We are preparing for legal action should it go into effect before we can get it repealed. Please be ready to help with that legal action. As of now, with NPV some 61 electoral college votes short of going into effect, we do not see a path, yet, for the legal action that will be needed to get it ruled unconstitutional under the US Constitution's Compact Clause.
3 This is an unconstitutional power grab that takes away power from Mainers and gives it to Californians. We will fight it tooth and nail and we appreciate the Republican legislators who fought it in Augusta. Again, we need to send more Republicans to Augusta. Click here to support our program that specifically backs Republican candidates to the Maine Legislature.
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Again -- this scheme do
es not go into effect in 2024.
Despite Shenna Bellows and the Democrats' best efforts, electoral votes in Maine will go to Donald Trump if we work as hard as we can to get him elected.
We went to court and beat Shenna Bellows to defeat the Democrats scheme to get Trump in
2024.
We will go to court to beat NPV when the time comes in the future.
Maine Housing Prices Up 12% Compared to March 2023, Sale Volume Also Up 3.5%
By Libby Palanza
Homes in Maine are significantly more expensive than they were a year ago. At the same time, however, more people appear to be buying. The median sale price of homes in Maine has increased more than twelve percent compared to this time last year. During this same period, however, the state also saw a 3.5 [...]
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AG Garland Had “No Theory” About Triad Weed in Maine When Asked by Susan Collins, Avoiding Mentioning China by Name in His Response to QuestionsBy Seamus Othot
U.S. Attorney General (AG) Merrick Garland could not provide an answer when asked by Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) about the motivation of Chinese criminals operating hundreds of illegal marijuana grow sites throughout Maine. “Particularly in our rural communities, Chinese nationals are establishing and operating illegal marijuana growing operations. I first raised concerns about this problem [...]
The post AG Garland Had “No Theory” About Triad Weed in Maine When Asked by Susan Collins, Avoiding Mentioning China by Name in His Response to Questions appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Maine CDC Calls for Increased HIV Testing Statewide After Three New Cases in Penobscot County ‘Cluster’By Edward Tomic
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) is calling for increased regular testing for HIV statewide for people with ongoing risk factors after three new HIV diagnoses were confirmed in Penobscot County, the agency announced in a public health advisory Friday. [RELATED: New Maine CDC Director Recommends Masks and Latest COVID Booster for [...]
The post Maine CDC Calls for Increased HIV Testing Statewide After Three New Cases in Penobscot County ‘Cluster’ appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Army to Assess New Recruits’ Brains, Explore Additional Blast Protection After Lewiston Shooter’s Brain Showed Evidence of Traumatic InjuriesBy Edward Tomic
The U.S. Army will begin conducting cognitive assessments on new soldiers and is exploring ways to provide servicemembers who are routinely exposed to blast pressure with additional protective equipment, a top Army official revealed during a recent hearing on Capitol Hill. The move comes after a brain tissue analysis of Lewiston mass shooter Robert Card [...]
The post Army to Assess New Recruits’ Brains, Explore Additional Blast Protection After Lewiston Shooter’s Brain Showed Evidence of Traumatic Injuries appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Maine Senate Passes 72-Hour Firearm Purchase Waiting Period Through Vote Pairing As Troy Jackson Denies InvolvementBy Seamus Othot
Maine’s senate approved a bill on Wednesday, the final day of the legislative session, which will require a 72-hour waiting period for anyone seeking to purchase a firearm. [RELATED: Maine House Approves Bill to Require 72-Hour Waiting Period on Firearm Purchases…] The bill only passed through the use of vote pairing, a process by which [...]
The post Maine Senate Passes 72-Hour Firearm Purchase Waiting Period Through Vote Pairing As Troy Jackson Denies Involvement appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Raid on Suspected Berwick Drug House Leads to Nine Arrests, $15,000 Worth of Narcotics SeizedBy Edward Tomic
Nine individuals were arrested Thursday following a joint operation by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) and the Berwick Police Department targeting a single-family home in Berwick, which had been under investigation for suspected drug trafficking for the past two months. [RELATED: Undercover Operation Leads to Arrest of Portland Man on Drug Trafficking Charges, Seizure [...]
The post Raid on Suspected Berwick Drug House Leads to Nine Arrests, $15,000 Worth of Narcotics Seized appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Recent ArticlesExpected Lifespan of Maine’s 207 Area Code Extended Additional Year to End of 2033
Buxton Man Will Spend Just Over a Year Behind Bars for Threat Against Jewish People on Twitter
Authorities Discover ‘Massive’ Marijuana Growing Operation in Jay Farmhouse
Mexican Organization Helping People Cross the Border Issues Fliers Telling Immigrants to Vote for Biden
By Libby Palanza
Homes in Maine are significantly more expensive than they were a year ago. At the same time, however, more people appear to be buying. The median sale price of homes in Maine has increased more than twelve percent compared to this time last year. During this same period, however, the state also saw a 3.5 [...]
The post Maine Housing Prices Up 12% Compared to March 2023, Sale Volume Also Up 3.5% appeared first on The Maine Wire.
AG Garland Had “No Theory” About Triad Weed in Maine When Asked by Susan Collins, Avoiding Mentioning China by Name in His Response to QuestionsBy Seamus Othot
U.S. Attorney General (AG) Merrick Garland could not provide an answer when asked by Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) about the motivation of Chinese criminals operating hundreds of illegal marijuana grow sites throughout Maine. “Particularly in our rural communities, Chinese nationals are establishing and operating illegal marijuana growing operations. I first raised concerns about this problem [...]
The post AG Garland Had “No Theory” About Triad Weed in Maine When Asked by Susan Collins, Avoiding Mentioning China by Name in His Response to Questions appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Maine CDC Calls for Increased HIV Testing Statewide After Three New Cases in Penobscot County ‘Cluster’By Edward Tomic
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) is calling for increased regular testing for HIV statewide for people with ongoing risk factors after three new HIV diagnoses were confirmed in Penobscot County, the agency announced in a public health advisory Friday. [RELATED: New Maine CDC Director Recommends Masks and Latest COVID Booster for [...]
The post Maine CDC Calls for Increased HIV Testing Statewide After Three New Cases in Penobscot County ‘Cluster’ appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Army to Assess New Recruits’ Brains, Explore Additional Blast Protection After Lewiston Shooter’s Brain Showed Evidence of Traumatic InjuriesBy Edward Tomic
The U.S. Army will begin conducting cognitive assessments on new soldiers and is exploring ways to provide servicemembers who are routinely exposed to blast pressure with additional protective equipment, a top Army official revealed during a recent hearing on Capitol Hill. The move comes after a brain tissue analysis of Lewiston mass shooter Robert Card [...]
The post Army to Assess New Recruits’ Brains, Explore Additional Blast Protection After Lewiston Shooter’s Brain Showed Evidence of Traumatic Injuries appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Maine Senate Passes 72-Hour Firearm Purchase Waiting Period Through Vote Pairing As Troy Jackson Denies InvolvementBy Seamus Othot
Maine’s senate approved a bill on Wednesday, the final day of the legislative session, which will require a 72-hour waiting period for anyone seeking to purchase a firearm. [RELATED: Maine House Approves Bill to Require 72-Hour Waiting Period on Firearm Purchases…] The bill only passed through the use of vote pairing, a process by which [...]
The post Maine Senate Passes 72-Hour Firearm Purchase Waiting Period Through Vote Pairing As Troy Jackson Denies Involvement appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Raid on Suspected Berwick Drug House Leads to Nine Arrests, $15,000 Worth of Narcotics SeizedBy Edward Tomic
Nine individuals were arrested Thursday following a joint operation by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) and the Berwick Police Department targeting a single-family home in Berwick, which had been under investigation for suspected drug trafficking for the past two months. [RELATED: Undercover Operation Leads to Arrest of Portland Man on Drug Trafficking Charges, Seizure [...]
The post Raid on Suspected Berwick Drug House Leads to Nine Arrests, $15,000 Worth of Narcotics Seized appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Recent ArticlesExpected Lifespan of Maine’s 207 Area Code Extended Additional Year to End of 2033
Buxton Man Will Spend Just Over a Year Behind Bars for Threat Against Jewish People on Twitter
Authorities Discover ‘Massive’ Marijuana Growing Operation in Jay Farmhouse
Mexican Organization Helping People Cross the Border Issues Fliers Telling Immigrants to Vote for Biden
Patriot’s Day: Maine Dems Mark Anniversary of American War for Independence by Voting for Gun Control
By Steve Robinson
The Democrat-controlled Maine State Legislature elected on Patriot’s Day — the holiday that commemorates some of the first battles in America’s Revolutionary War against a tyrannical government — by voting for more restrictions of Mainers’ Second Amendment rights. [Editorial: History Shows Gun Control Inevitably Becomes a Political Weapon…] According to Maine’s State Constitution, Article I, [...]
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Collins Rips White House for Border Crisis, Warns of Harm to Maine’s Cruise Ship EconomyBy Libby Palanza
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) called out President Joe Biden’s (D) Fiscal Year 2025 budget for not doing “nearly enough to address the flood of illegal migrants and fentanyl entering the United States” at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing last week. Also at this hearing, Sen. Collins asked Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas to [...]
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SCOTUS: Cop Can Sue BLM Activist and Bowdoin College Grad for a 2016 Protest That Turned ViolentBy Seamus Othot
The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decided Monday that it would not hear an appeal from Black Lives Matter (BLM) activist and Bowdoin College graduate DeRay McKesson. SCOTUS’ refusal to hear the appeal will allow McKesson to be sued by a Louisiana police officer who was injured during a 2016 BLM riot organized by McKesson. “I’ve [...]
The post SCOTUS: Cop Can Sue BLM Activist and Bowdoin College Grad for a 2016 Protest That Turned Violent appeared first on The Maine Wire.
NPR’s New Ultra Woke CEO Adds to Controversy Fueled by Former Editor Outing Left-Wing Bias in the Taxpayer Funded OutletBy Seamus Othot
The extreme left-wing bias of NPR’s new CEO has added to the controversy surrounding the taxpayer-funded outlet, which began when a former editor for the outlet published a report highlighting the company’s coordinated efforts to under former President Donald Trump. “Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different: the [...]
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Illegal Immigrant Gang Facing Federal Charges After Five-Year Crime Spree Robbing Home Depot’s Across New England and BeyondBy Seamus Othot
Four Illegal Immigrants have been arrested and face federal charges for their involvement with a group which has stolen from Home Depots across New England and beyond, including in Rockland, Maine last year. The men, Marvin Estuardo Morales De Paz,33 ; Abraham Dayger-Enrique, 24; Sebastian Lajuj-Soloman, 30; and Jonathan Josue Amperez-Perez, 31, are being charged [...]
The post Illegal Immigrant Gang Facing Federal Charges After Five-Year Crime Spree Robbing Home Depot’s Across New England and Beyond appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Right to Repair Electronic Devices Receives Nearly-Unanimous Support in State SenateBy Libby Palanza
Lawmakers in Augusta voted nearly-unanimously this past Friday to advance a bill guaranteeing Mainers the right to repair their electronic devices. This was followed by a more partisan vote to adopt a floor amendment advanced by the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Mike Tipping (D-Penobscot). The only senator to vote against LD 1487 — as amended by [...]
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Maine Courtroom Devolves Into a Brawl During Sentencing of a Massachusetts Man Who Murdered a Skowhegan WomanBy Seamus Othot
A Skowhegan courtroom devolved into an all-out brawl during the sentencing of Jason Servil for the 2022 murder of Alice Abbot. “You deserve to die, you deserve to die,” Abbot’s mother can be heard screaming at Servil during the brawl. During the sentencing hearing, in which the 21-year-old Servil was ordered to serve 45 years [...]
The post Maine Courtroom Devolves Into a Brawl During Sentencing of a Massachusetts Man Who Murdered a Skowhegan Woman appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Maine Dems Stage Walkout During House Proceedings Honoring Dr. Meryl NassBy Seamus Othot
Numerous Democrat representatives walked out of the House on Thursday when Rep. Heidi Sampson (R-Alfred) delivered a speech meant to honor Dr. Meryl Nass, a decorated physician who lost her medical license after she opposed many of the mandates and prevailing medical opinions during the COVID pandemic. Although Dr. Nass would eventually see here license [...]
The post Maine Dems Stage Walkout During House Proceedings Honoring Dr. Meryl Nass appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Janet Mills Signs Bill Repealing 2005 Limit on Municipal Property Tax HikesBy Libby Palanza
Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed into law a bill last week repealing limitations on municipal property tax collection that have been in place for nearly twenty years. Brought forward by Sen. Teresa Pierce (D-Cumberland), LD 2102 sought to roll back statutes that have been in place since 2005 and were designed to curb government spending [...]
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Firearm Industry Threatens Exodus Over Proposed Maine Bill Allowing Lawsuits Against Manufacturers
By Steve Robinson
The Democrat-controlled Maine State Legislature elected on Patriot’s Day — the holiday that commemorates some of the first battles in America’s Revolutionary War against a tyrannical government — by voting for more restrictions of Mainers’ Second Amendment rights. [Editorial: History Shows Gun Control Inevitably Becomes a Political Weapon…] According to Maine’s State Constitution, Article I, [...]
The post Patriot’s Day: Maine Dems Mark Anniversary of American War for Independence by Voting for Gun Control appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Collins Rips White House for Border Crisis, Warns of Harm to Maine’s Cruise Ship EconomyBy Libby Palanza
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) called out President Joe Biden’s (D) Fiscal Year 2025 budget for not doing “nearly enough to address the flood of illegal migrants and fentanyl entering the United States” at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing last week. Also at this hearing, Sen. Collins asked Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas to [...]
The post Collins Rips White House for Border Crisis, Warns of Harm to Maine’s Cruise Ship Economy appeared first on The Maine Wire.
SCOTUS: Cop Can Sue BLM Activist and Bowdoin College Grad for a 2016 Protest That Turned ViolentBy Seamus Othot
The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decided Monday that it would not hear an appeal from Black Lives Matter (BLM) activist and Bowdoin College graduate DeRay McKesson. SCOTUS’ refusal to hear the appeal will allow McKesson to be sued by a Louisiana police officer who was injured during a 2016 BLM riot organized by McKesson. “I’ve [...]
The post SCOTUS: Cop Can Sue BLM Activist and Bowdoin College Grad for a 2016 Protest That Turned Violent appeared first on The Maine Wire.
NPR’s New Ultra Woke CEO Adds to Controversy Fueled by Former Editor Outing Left-Wing Bias in the Taxpayer Funded OutletBy Seamus Othot
The extreme left-wing bias of NPR’s new CEO has added to the controversy surrounding the taxpayer-funded outlet, which began when a former editor for the outlet published a report highlighting the company’s coordinated efforts to under former President Donald Trump. “Today, those who listen to NPR or read its coverage online find something different: the [...]
The post NPR’s New Ultra Woke CEO Adds to Controversy Fueled by Former Editor Outing Left-Wing Bias in the Taxpayer Funded Outlet appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Illegal Immigrant Gang Facing Federal Charges After Five-Year Crime Spree Robbing Home Depot’s Across New England and BeyondBy Seamus Othot
Four Illegal Immigrants have been arrested and face federal charges for their involvement with a group which has stolen from Home Depots across New England and beyond, including in Rockland, Maine last year. The men, Marvin Estuardo Morales De Paz,33 ; Abraham Dayger-Enrique, 24; Sebastian Lajuj-Soloman, 30; and Jonathan Josue Amperez-Perez, 31, are being charged [...]
The post Illegal Immigrant Gang Facing Federal Charges After Five-Year Crime Spree Robbing Home Depot’s Across New England and Beyond appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Right to Repair Electronic Devices Receives Nearly-Unanimous Support in State SenateBy Libby Palanza
Lawmakers in Augusta voted nearly-unanimously this past Friday to advance a bill guaranteeing Mainers the right to repair their electronic devices. This was followed by a more partisan vote to adopt a floor amendment advanced by the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Mike Tipping (D-Penobscot). The only senator to vote against LD 1487 — as amended by [...]
The post Right to Repair Electronic Devices Receives Nearly-Unanimous Support in State Senate appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Maine Courtroom Devolves Into a Brawl During Sentencing of a Massachusetts Man Who Murdered a Skowhegan WomanBy Seamus Othot
A Skowhegan courtroom devolved into an all-out brawl during the sentencing of Jason Servil for the 2022 murder of Alice Abbot. “You deserve to die, you deserve to die,” Abbot’s mother can be heard screaming at Servil during the brawl. During the sentencing hearing, in which the 21-year-old Servil was ordered to serve 45 years [...]
The post Maine Courtroom Devolves Into a Brawl During Sentencing of a Massachusetts Man Who Murdered a Skowhegan Woman appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Maine Dems Stage Walkout During House Proceedings Honoring Dr. Meryl NassBy Seamus Othot
Numerous Democrat representatives walked out of the House on Thursday when Rep. Heidi Sampson (R-Alfred) delivered a speech meant to honor Dr. Meryl Nass, a decorated physician who lost her medical license after she opposed many of the mandates and prevailing medical opinions during the COVID pandemic. Although Dr. Nass would eventually see here license [...]
The post Maine Dems Stage Walkout During House Proceedings Honoring Dr. Meryl Nass appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Janet Mills Signs Bill Repealing 2005 Limit on Municipal Property Tax HikesBy Libby Palanza
Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed into law a bill last week repealing limitations on municipal property tax collection that have been in place for nearly twenty years. Brought forward by Sen. Teresa Pierce (D-Cumberland), LD 2102 sought to roll back statutes that have been in place since 2005 and were designed to curb government spending [...]
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Firearm Industry Threatens Exodus Over Proposed Maine Bill Allowing Lawsuits Against Manufacturers
Maine: Senate Advances Anti-Gun Bills, Votes on the House Floor are Imminent!
Late Friday night, the Maine Senate passed a number of extreme anti-gun bills that have now moved to the House and could receive floor votes as soon as Monday. The eligible bills include 72-hour waiting periods on firearm purchases and transfers, redefining semi-automatic firearms as "machine guns," and expanded background checks. The bills undermine Mainers' constitutional rights and would destroy Maine's robust firearm and hunting tourism industries.
It's critical that NRA members and gun rights supporters engage with lawmakers by using the Take Action button below and attending the "Patriot's Day Gun Owners Lobby Day" on Monday, April 15th at the Maine State House.
Below is a list of extreme gun-control bills that Mike Bloomberg and his extreme gun-control lobby are pushing in Maine:
LD 2238 delays Second Amendment rights by imposing a three-day waiting period before an individual may receive a firearm that they lawfully purchase, with limited exemptions. There is no evidence that waiting periods reduce violent crime. If passed, LD 2238 would deny the right of self-defense to abuse victims or any individual facing an imminent threat. Additionally, waiting periods would destroy Maine’s hunting tourism industry because guides would be unable to provide hunters with firearms and local firearm dealers would be unable to sell and transfer firearms in a timely manner.
LD 2086, introduced by leading gun-grabbing politician Sen. Anne Carney, creates a backdoor ban on commonly owned firearms and firearm parts by redefining a “machine gun” to include any semi-automatic firearm that includes parts that can “increase the rate of fire." This poorly written bill attempts to sneak a so-called “rapid-fire modification ban” past Mainers in a bill completely unrelated to firearm parts. As written, this bill would ban legally and commonly owned firearm parts used for training, hunting, or self-defense, and could be utilized to ban shotguns and other firearms capable of firing birdshot or snake shot.
LD 2224 seeks to expand Yellow Flag laws and implement the first steps toward Universal Background Checks in Maine. If passed, this bill would require all “advertised” sales to be subject to background checks regardless of the relationship between the buyer and the seller, in an effort to close the so-called “gun show loophole” and to stop Mainers from selling firearms on Facebook. First and foremost, there is no gun-show loophole, all purchases through Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs) are required to go through background checks regardless of location or where the sale takes place. Additionally, Facebook already bans firearm sales on their website, highlighting a further misunderstanding of firearm sales by the Mills administration. Finally, this bill puts Mainers at risk of becoming felons for the simple act of transferring a firearm to a family member, friend, or neighbor.
In addition to proposing failed Universal Background Checks, LD 2224 also seeks to expand Maine’s current Yellow Flag law to Red Flag “Extreme Risk Protection Order” laws. These laws strip citizens of their Second Amendment rights without due process based on weak and nebulous standards. If passed, Maine’s Red Flag law could strip Mainers of their Constitutional rights without a hearing and based on hearsay for up to 30 days. It does not include any penalties for erroneous accusations, allowing for an open season against gun owners in Maine.
LD 2283 is a last-minute submission by Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland) to replace Maine's Yellow Flag law with a more extreme Bloomberg-style Red Flag law. This Hail Mary attempt by anti-gun lawmakers in Augusta has prompted major push back, including Sen. Matt Harrington (R-York) calling the tactics "absurd" on the Senate floor. If passed, LD 2283 would remove protective barriers and streamline the process for government officials to strip you of your Second Amendment rights without due process.
LD 1696 creates a “course of action” against firearm manufacturers and retailers whose firearms are used in criminal activity. This “course of action” attempts to evade the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), which protects manufacturers from being held responsible for third-party misuse. Just like it is unreasonable for an auto retailer to be held liable when a driver harms someone with their vehicle, it is unreasonable for firearm manufacturers and retailers to be held liable when their products are used in a crime.
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Late Friday night, the Maine Senate passed a number of extreme anti-gun bills that have now moved to the House and could receive floor votes as soon as Monday. The eligible bills include 72-hour waiting periods on firearm purchases and transfers, redefining semi-automatic firearms as "machine guns," and expanded background checks. The bills undermine Mainers' constitutional rights and would destroy Maine's robust firearm and hunting tourism industries.
It's critical that NRA members and gun rights supporters engage with lawmakers by using the Take Action button below and attending the "Patriot's Day Gun Owners Lobby Day" on Monday, April 15th at the Maine State House.
Below is a list of extreme gun-control bills that Mike Bloomberg and his extreme gun-control lobby are pushing in Maine:
LD 2238 delays Second Amendment rights by imposing a three-day waiting period before an individual may receive a firearm that they lawfully purchase, with limited exemptions. There is no evidence that waiting periods reduce violent crime. If passed, LD 2238 would deny the right of self-defense to abuse victims or any individual facing an imminent threat. Additionally, waiting periods would destroy Maine’s hunting tourism industry because guides would be unable to provide hunters with firearms and local firearm dealers would be unable to sell and transfer firearms in a timely manner.
LD 2086, introduced by leading gun-grabbing politician Sen. Anne Carney, creates a backdoor ban on commonly owned firearms and firearm parts by redefining a “machine gun” to include any semi-automatic firearm that includes parts that can “increase the rate of fire." This poorly written bill attempts to sneak a so-called “rapid-fire modification ban” past Mainers in a bill completely unrelated to firearm parts. As written, this bill would ban legally and commonly owned firearm parts used for training, hunting, or self-defense, and could be utilized to ban shotguns and other firearms capable of firing birdshot or snake shot.
LD 2224 seeks to expand Yellow Flag laws and implement the first steps toward Universal Background Checks in Maine. If passed, this bill would require all “advertised” sales to be subject to background checks regardless of the relationship between the buyer and the seller, in an effort to close the so-called “gun show loophole” and to stop Mainers from selling firearms on Facebook. First and foremost, there is no gun-show loophole, all purchases through Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs) are required to go through background checks regardless of location or where the sale takes place. Additionally, Facebook already bans firearm sales on their website, highlighting a further misunderstanding of firearm sales by the Mills administration. Finally, this bill puts Mainers at risk of becoming felons for the simple act of transferring a firearm to a family member, friend, or neighbor.
In addition to proposing failed Universal Background Checks, LD 2224 also seeks to expand Maine’s current Yellow Flag law to Red Flag “Extreme Risk Protection Order” laws. These laws strip citizens of their Second Amendment rights without due process based on weak and nebulous standards. If passed, Maine’s Red Flag law could strip Mainers of their Constitutional rights without a hearing and based on hearsay for up to 30 days. It does not include any penalties for erroneous accusations, allowing for an open season against gun owners in Maine.
LD 2283 is a last-minute submission by Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland) to replace Maine's Yellow Flag law with a more extreme Bloomberg-style Red Flag law. This Hail Mary attempt by anti-gun lawmakers in Augusta has prompted major push back, including Sen. Matt Harrington (R-York) calling the tactics "absurd" on the Senate floor. If passed, LD 2283 would remove protective barriers and streamline the process for government officials to strip you of your Second Amendment rights without due process.
LD 1696 creates a “course of action” against firearm manufacturers and retailers whose firearms are used in criminal activity. This “course of action” attempts to evade the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), which protects manufacturers from being held responsible for third-party misuse. Just like it is unreasonable for an auto retailer to be held liable when a driver harms someone with their vehicle, it is unreasonable for firearm manufacturers and retailers to be held liable when their products are used in a crime.
Again, please contact these lawmakers NOW. For those who wish to contact them via email, please click the TAKE ACTION button above.
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New Englanders Bear Some of the Highest Tax Burdens in the Nation, Study Reveals
By The Maine Wire
Residents of New England are paying some of the highest taxes in the United States, according to a comprehensive study analyzing the lifetime tax burdens across all fifty states. The report, recently published by financial services firm Self Financial, provides an eye-opening glimpse into the financial futures of Americans based on current tax policies. On [...]
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Gov. Mills Calls, House Speaker Ask Budget Committee to Reconvene Following Extremely Controversial MeetingBy Seamus Othot
Gov. Janet Mills (D) and House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland) issued a joint statement on Thursday requesting that the Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs (AFA) reconvene to reconsider a supplemental budget. “The Legislature has less than a week to finish its business before statutory adjournment, and there is broad agreement among lawmakers that [...]
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ME-CD2: Theriault Says “Fake Poll” Is Lying About Trump EndorsementBy Edward Tomic
Republican candidate in the 2024 primary race in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District Rep. Austin Theriault (R-Fort Kent) has accused his opponent, Rep. Mike Soboleski (R-Phillips), of conducting a “fake poll” over the weekend. In a post to his campaign Facebook page Tuesday, Theriault accused “Team Soboleski and/or their allies” of conducting a push poll over [...]
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Iowa Follows Texas With Law Allowing State Law Enforcement to Arrest and Deport Illegal AliensBy Seamus Othot
Iowa’s Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law Wednesday allowing Iowa law enforcement to arrest individuals present in the country illegally, and requiring judges to order deportations for people convicted of illegal entry. “Those who come into our country illegally have broken the law, yet Biden refuses to deport them. This bill gives [...]
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Former Cornell Student Pleads Guilty to Posting Violent Threats Against Jewish Students on CampusBy Edward Tomic
A former undergraduate student at Cornell University faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to making a series of violent threats against Jewish students on campus. Patrick Dai, 21, a former junior at Cornell originally from Pittsford, N.Y., pleaded guilty in a Syracuse federal court Wednesday to one count of posting threats [...]
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Former Teacher Fights Back Against ‘Chilling Effect’ of Maine School District’s Trans Pronoun MandateBy Edward Tomic
A former educator in Maine School Administrative District 75 (MSAD 75), who resigned following the district’s adoption of a “transgender and gender-expansive” student policy, launched a petition drive in defense of students’ right to free speech that was rejected last week by the district’s Board of Directors. MSAD 75 covers schools in Topsham, Bowdoin, Bowdoinham, [...]
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South Portland Man Found Guilty of Possessing Firearm After Domestic Violence Conviction in Third Federal TrialBy Edward Tomic
A South Portland man has been found guilty of possessing a firearm after being convicted of a domestic violence misdemeanor after three federal trials spanning over nearly six years. Willie Richard Minor, 63, formerly of Auburn, was found guilty Tuesday of the firearm possession charge in U.S. District in Portland. Minor was prohibited under federal [...]
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By The Maine Wire
Residents of New England are paying some of the highest taxes in the United States, according to a comprehensive study analyzing the lifetime tax burdens across all fifty states. The report, recently published by financial services firm Self Financial, provides an eye-opening glimpse into the financial futures of Americans based on current tax policies. On [...]
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Gov. Mills Calls, House Speaker Ask Budget Committee to Reconvene Following Extremely Controversial MeetingBy Seamus Othot
Gov. Janet Mills (D) and House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland) issued a joint statement on Thursday requesting that the Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs (AFA) reconvene to reconsider a supplemental budget. “The Legislature has less than a week to finish its business before statutory adjournment, and there is broad agreement among lawmakers that [...]
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ME-CD2: Theriault Says “Fake Poll” Is Lying About Trump EndorsementBy Edward Tomic
Republican candidate in the 2024 primary race in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District Rep. Austin Theriault (R-Fort Kent) has accused his opponent, Rep. Mike Soboleski (R-Phillips), of conducting a “fake poll” over the weekend. In a post to his campaign Facebook page Tuesday, Theriault accused “Team Soboleski and/or their allies” of conducting a push poll over [...]
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Iowa Follows Texas With Law Allowing State Law Enforcement to Arrest and Deport Illegal AliensBy Seamus Othot
Iowa’s Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law Wednesday allowing Iowa law enforcement to arrest individuals present in the country illegally, and requiring judges to order deportations for people convicted of illegal entry. “Those who come into our country illegally have broken the law, yet Biden refuses to deport them. This bill gives [...]
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Former Cornell Student Pleads Guilty to Posting Violent Threats Against Jewish Students on CampusBy Edward Tomic
A former undergraduate student at Cornell University faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to making a series of violent threats against Jewish students on campus. Patrick Dai, 21, a former junior at Cornell originally from Pittsford, N.Y., pleaded guilty in a Syracuse federal court Wednesday to one count of posting threats [...]
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Former Teacher Fights Back Against ‘Chilling Effect’ of Maine School District’s Trans Pronoun MandateBy Edward Tomic
A former educator in Maine School Administrative District 75 (MSAD 75), who resigned following the district’s adoption of a “transgender and gender-expansive” student policy, launched a petition drive in defense of students’ right to free speech that was rejected last week by the district’s Board of Directors. MSAD 75 covers schools in Topsham, Bowdoin, Bowdoinham, [...]
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South Portland Man Found Guilty of Possessing Firearm After Domestic Violence Conviction in Third Federal TrialBy Edward Tomic
A South Portland man has been found guilty of possessing a firearm after being convicted of a domestic violence misdemeanor after three federal trials spanning over nearly six years. Willie Richard Minor, 63, formerly of Auburn, was found guilty Tuesday of the firearm possession charge in U.S. District in Portland. Minor was prohibited under federal [...]
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Maine Politicians Hand Lucrative Victory to Chinese Mafia, Eliot Cutler’s Lawyer, and Gov. Mills’ Brother:
Editorial
By Steve Robinson
Given the Maine Wire’s role as the fastest growing media outlet in Maine and the preeminent investigative reporting team focused of transnational organized crime — specifically Chinese mafia growing ganja in rural Maine — more than a few readers have asked for my thoughts on yesterday’s vote on LD 2204. In particular, readers have asked [...]
The post Portland Nearly Triples Social Services Staff Within Three Years, Outpacing Police, Publics Works, Parks Divisions appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Plan to Legalize Possession of Illicit Drugs Scrapped in Favor of Task Force Studying DecriminalizationBy Libby Palanza
Lawmakers in Augusta have scrapped a bill that would have legalized the possession of illicit drugs, including opioids, swapping it out in favor of a plan to study whether decriminalizing hard drugs is a good idea. The amended legislation establishes a task force responsible for reviewing decriminalization efforts elsewhere in the country and investigating their [...]
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Maine High School: ‘Gender Expansive’ Boys Can Compete in Girls Sports and Sleep in Girls Rooms on Overnight Field TripsBy Edward Tomic
The Falmouth High School Civil Rights Team on Tuesday gave a presentation on the Falmouth Public Schools’ recently adopted “Transgender and Gender Expansive Students” policy, that directs school staff to assist students in changing their “gender identity,” to use a student’s chosen pronouns and name, and to allow students to use restrooms and locker rooms [...]
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MS-13 Gang Member Who Reentered US Illegally after Deportation Arrested by ICE in MassachusettsBy Edward Tomic
A Salvadoran national who is a documented member of the notorious MS-13 transnational criminal street gang, and who was previously deported from the U.S., has been arrested by federal immigration authorities in Massachusetts after being charged with multiple counts of assault and battery. [RELATED: From Texas to Maine, Biden’s Lawless Border Fuels Illegal Alien Crime Wave…] [...]
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Farm Workers Wage Bill Plows Ahead Despite Concerns It May Harm Farms — and WorkersBy Seamus Othot
Maine’s House of Representatives voted Tuesday to require that farmworkers be paid the state minimum wage despite concerns that artificially setting the price of labor will lead to farmers no longer being able to hire young, elderly, or disabled workers. The bill, if it becomes law, would effectively prohibit Mainers from agreeing to work at [...]
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3AM: Democrats Draw Bipartisan Condemnation After Forcing Controversial Spending Package “Under Cover of Darkness”By Seamus Othot
Early Saturday morning, when most Mainers were asleep or recovering from a blizzard which knocked out power across the state, Democrats on the Committee of Appropriations and Financial Affairs (AFA) were voting to take millions out of the transportation budget meant to keep Maine’s roads and bridges drivable. The scheme led House Minority Leader Billy [...]
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Caribou Man Sentenced to Over 13 Years for Role in Northern Maine Drug Trafficking RingBy Edward Tomic
A Caribou man has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for his role in a large drug trafficking ring that was active in Penobscot and Aroostook counties. James King, 54, of Caribou, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Bangor Tuesday to 165 months in prison followed by five years of supervised [...]
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Waterville Man Arrested in Buckfield StabbingBy Seamus Othot
The Oxford County Sheriff’s Department responded Monday night to reports of a stabbing in Buckfield. Deputies, along with officers of the Maine State Police and the Oxford Police Department, responded to the house on Sodom Rd. after reports that a man had been stabbed following a fight. When deputies arrived, they found the victim, Michael [...]
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Abortion Amendment Fails to Gain Support in Maine House of RepresentativesBy Libby Palanza
A proposed amendment enshrining abortion in Maine’s state constitution failed Wednesday to gain enough support for final passage in the House of Representatives. In Maine, resolutions proposing amendments to the state constitution must be backed by at least two-thirds of the members present in each chamber in order to be placed on the ballot for [...]
The post Abortion Amendment Fails to Gain Support in Maine House of Representatives appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Editorial
By Steve Robinson
Given the Maine Wire’s role as the fastest growing media outlet in Maine and the preeminent investigative reporting team focused of transnational organized crime — specifically Chinese mafia growing ganja in rural Maine — more than a few readers have asked for my thoughts on yesterday’s vote on LD 2204. In particular, readers have asked [...]
The post Portland Nearly Triples Social Services Staff Within Three Years, Outpacing Police, Publics Works, Parks Divisions appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Plan to Legalize Possession of Illicit Drugs Scrapped in Favor of Task Force Studying DecriminalizationBy Libby Palanza
Lawmakers in Augusta have scrapped a bill that would have legalized the possession of illicit drugs, including opioids, swapping it out in favor of a plan to study whether decriminalizing hard drugs is a good idea. The amended legislation establishes a task force responsible for reviewing decriminalization efforts elsewhere in the country and investigating their [...]
The post Plan to Legalize Possession of Illicit Drugs Scrapped in Favor of Task Force Studying Decriminalization appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Maine High School: ‘Gender Expansive’ Boys Can Compete in Girls Sports and Sleep in Girls Rooms on Overnight Field TripsBy Edward Tomic
The Falmouth High School Civil Rights Team on Tuesday gave a presentation on the Falmouth Public Schools’ recently adopted “Transgender and Gender Expansive Students” policy, that directs school staff to assist students in changing their “gender identity,” to use a student’s chosen pronouns and name, and to allow students to use restrooms and locker rooms [...]
The post Maine High School: ‘Gender Expansive’ Boys Can Compete in Girls Sports and Sleep in Girls Rooms on Overnight Field Trips appeared first on The Maine Wire.
MS-13 Gang Member Who Reentered US Illegally after Deportation Arrested by ICE in MassachusettsBy Edward Tomic
A Salvadoran national who is a documented member of the notorious MS-13 transnational criminal street gang, and who was previously deported from the U.S., has been arrested by federal immigration authorities in Massachusetts after being charged with multiple counts of assault and battery. [RELATED: From Texas to Maine, Biden’s Lawless Border Fuels Illegal Alien Crime Wave…] [...]
The post MS-13 Gang Member Who Reentered US Illegally after Deportation Arrested by ICE in Massachusetts appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Farm Workers Wage Bill Plows Ahead Despite Concerns It May Harm Farms — and WorkersBy Seamus Othot
Maine’s House of Representatives voted Tuesday to require that farmworkers be paid the state minimum wage despite concerns that artificially setting the price of labor will lead to farmers no longer being able to hire young, elderly, or disabled workers. The bill, if it becomes law, would effectively prohibit Mainers from agreeing to work at [...]
The post Farm Workers Wage Bill Plows Ahead Despite Concerns It May Harm Farms — and Workers appeared first on The Maine Wire.
3AM: Democrats Draw Bipartisan Condemnation After Forcing Controversial Spending Package “Under Cover of Darkness”By Seamus Othot
Early Saturday morning, when most Mainers were asleep or recovering from a blizzard which knocked out power across the state, Democrats on the Committee of Appropriations and Financial Affairs (AFA) were voting to take millions out of the transportation budget meant to keep Maine’s roads and bridges drivable. The scheme led House Minority Leader Billy [...]
The post 3AM: Democrats Draw Bipartisan Condemnation After Forcing Controversial Spending Package “Under Cover of Darkness” appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Caribou Man Sentenced to Over 13 Years for Role in Northern Maine Drug Trafficking RingBy Edward Tomic
A Caribou man has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for his role in a large drug trafficking ring that was active in Penobscot and Aroostook counties. James King, 54, of Caribou, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Bangor Tuesday to 165 months in prison followed by five years of supervised [...]
The post Caribou Man Sentenced to Over 13 Years for Role in Northern Maine Drug Trafficking Ring appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Waterville Man Arrested in Buckfield StabbingBy Seamus Othot
The Oxford County Sheriff’s Department responded Monday night to reports of a stabbing in Buckfield. Deputies, along with officers of the Maine State Police and the Oxford Police Department, responded to the house on Sodom Rd. after reports that a man had been stabbed following a fight. When deputies arrived, they found the victim, Michael [...]
The post Waterville Man Arrested in Buckfield Stabbing appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Abortion Amendment Fails to Gain Support in Maine House of RepresentativesBy Libby Palanza
A proposed amendment enshrining abortion in Maine’s state constitution failed Wednesday to gain enough support for final passage in the House of Representatives. In Maine, resolutions proposing amendments to the state constitution must be backed by at least two-thirds of the members present in each chamber in order to be placed on the ballot for [...]
The post Abortion Amendment Fails to Gain Support in Maine House of Representatives appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Triad Weed: Maine House Votes Down Bill Aimed at Fighting Transnational Organized Crime
By Steve Robinson
Transnational criminal organizations scored a major victory Tuesday in their ongoing effort to exploit rural Maine through the illicit cultivation and trafficking of vast amounts of illegal cannabis. The only bill that would have led to a more aggressive crackdown on the illegal operations failed to secure support in the Maine House of Representatives voted, [...]
The post Triad Weed: Maine House Votes Down Bill Aimed at Fighting Transnational Organized Crime appeared first on The Maine Wire.
New Regulations on Fees Charged by Landlords Signed into Law by Gov. Janet Mills
By Libby Palanza
Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed into law this past Wednesday a bill that implements new regulations on the fees that landlords can impose upon their current and potential tenants. LD 1490 puts in place a number of provisions pertaining to the types of fees landlords may charge current and future tenants, as well as those [...]
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Foreign-Born Population in US Grew 15 Percent in 12 Years: Census Bureau
By Edward Tomic
The foreign-born population in the United States grew by 15.6 percent from 2010 to 2022, according to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau released Tuesday. Native-born is defined by the Census Bureau as anyone who is born in the U.S. or its territories to a U.S. citizen parent or parents, while foreign-born is [...]
The post Foreign-Born Population in US Grew 15 Percent in 12 Years: Census Bureau appeared first on The Maine Wire.
State DEI Commission’s Finance Committee Prohibits Public Comment After Question About Conflict of Interest
By Edward Tomic
Maine’s taxpayer-funded racial equity commission has revised their public comment policy to disallow input from the public during meetings of their Finance and Operations Committee. The move to revise the policy came directly after the Maine Wire asked the Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous & Tribal Populations (PCRITP) about a potential conflict [...]
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NH Senate Passes Bills to Keep Biological Males Out of Women’s Sports, Give Parents a Say in the Books Available in School Libraries
By Seamus Othot
New Hampshire’s Republican-led Senate on Friday passed two bills that aim to protect young female athletes and provide parents with greater oversight of sexually explicit books in public school libraries. [RELATED: Maine’s Far Left Media Censor MASSIVE Turnout Opposed to Transgender Trafficking, Abortion Tourism Bill…] The two bills, SB 523-FN and SB 375 sparked intense [...]
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3Maine’s Largest City Looks to Hire New Planning and Urban Development Director
By Edward Tomic
The City of Portland has announced that it is looking to hire a new director for their Department of Planning and Urban Development, an executive post overseeing the city’s activities related to housing, land use, zoning, historic preservation, and other development matters. [RELATED: City of Portland Looks to Hire Two Full-Time Migrant Resettlement Case Managers…] [...]
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Expanded Property Tax Relief for Maine Veterans Approved by Augusta Lawmakers
By Libby Palanza
Lawmakers in Augusta have approved a bill providing property tax relief to a broader group of Maine veterans and their families, while also extending a greater measure of relief to veterans with qualifying disabilities. The version of the bill supported by legislators in the House and Senate looks markedly different, however, from the original draft [...]
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Court Records Show Maine State Police Inspected Illegal TCO Drug Hub in July 2023, Waited Nearly Six Months to Shut It Down
By Seamus Othot
The Maine State Police were welcomed inside an illegal drug trafficking operation in Belgrade, confirmed that the owner had no license to grow such massive amounts of marijuana, and then waited nearly six months before raiding the property. The timeline of the operation is detailed in court records obtained by the Maine Wire as part [...]
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Editorial: History Shows Gun Control Inevitably Becomes a Political Weapon
By Steve Robinson
Amid the snow-covered debate on Friday over a bill that would allow the state to seize firearms from Maine residents under certain conditions, an exchange between Sen. Eric Brakey (R-Androscoggin) and the bill’s sponsor, House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland), flew under the radar. However, the substance of Sen. Brakey’s question deserves fulsome consideration in [...]
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By Steve Robinson
Transnational criminal organizations scored a major victory Tuesday in their ongoing effort to exploit rural Maine through the illicit cultivation and trafficking of vast amounts of illegal cannabis. The only bill that would have led to a more aggressive crackdown on the illegal operations failed to secure support in the Maine House of Representatives voted, [...]
The post Triad Weed: Maine House Votes Down Bill Aimed at Fighting Transnational Organized Crime appeared first on The Maine Wire.
New Regulations on Fees Charged by Landlords Signed into Law by Gov. Janet Mills
By Libby Palanza
Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed into law this past Wednesday a bill that implements new regulations on the fees that landlords can impose upon their current and potential tenants. LD 1490 puts in place a number of provisions pertaining to the types of fees landlords may charge current and future tenants, as well as those [...]
The post New Regulations on Fees Charged by Landlords Signed into Law by Gov. Janet Mills appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Foreign-Born Population in US Grew 15 Percent in 12 Years: Census Bureau
By Edward Tomic
The foreign-born population in the United States grew by 15.6 percent from 2010 to 2022, according to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau released Tuesday. Native-born is defined by the Census Bureau as anyone who is born in the U.S. or its territories to a U.S. citizen parent or parents, while foreign-born is [...]
The post Foreign-Born Population in US Grew 15 Percent in 12 Years: Census Bureau appeared first on The Maine Wire.
State DEI Commission’s Finance Committee Prohibits Public Comment After Question About Conflict of Interest
By Edward Tomic
Maine’s taxpayer-funded racial equity commission has revised their public comment policy to disallow input from the public during meetings of their Finance and Operations Committee. The move to revise the policy came directly after the Maine Wire asked the Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous & Tribal Populations (PCRITP) about a potential conflict [...]
The post State DEI Commission’s Finance Committee Prohibits Public Comment After Question About Conflict of Interest appeared first on The Maine Wire.
NH Senate Passes Bills to Keep Biological Males Out of Women’s Sports, Give Parents a Say in the Books Available in School Libraries
By Seamus Othot
New Hampshire’s Republican-led Senate on Friday passed two bills that aim to protect young female athletes and provide parents with greater oversight of sexually explicit books in public school libraries. [RELATED: Maine’s Far Left Media Censor MASSIVE Turnout Opposed to Transgender Trafficking, Abortion Tourism Bill…] The two bills, SB 523-FN and SB 375 sparked intense [...]
The post NH Senate Passes Bills to Keep Biological Males Out of Women’s Sports, Give Parents a Say in the Books Available in School Libraries appeared first on The Maine Wire.
3Maine’s Largest City Looks to Hire New Planning and Urban Development Director
By Edward Tomic
The City of Portland has announced that it is looking to hire a new director for their Department of Planning and Urban Development, an executive post overseeing the city’s activities related to housing, land use, zoning, historic preservation, and other development matters. [RELATED: City of Portland Looks to Hire Two Full-Time Migrant Resettlement Case Managers…] [...]
The post Maine’s Largest City Looks to Hire New Planning and Urban Development Director appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Expanded Property Tax Relief for Maine Veterans Approved by Augusta Lawmakers
By Libby Palanza
Lawmakers in Augusta have approved a bill providing property tax relief to a broader group of Maine veterans and their families, while also extending a greater measure of relief to veterans with qualifying disabilities. The version of the bill supported by legislators in the House and Senate looks markedly different, however, from the original draft [...]
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Court Records Show Maine State Police Inspected Illegal TCO Drug Hub in July 2023, Waited Nearly Six Months to Shut It Down
By Seamus Othot
The Maine State Police were welcomed inside an illegal drug trafficking operation in Belgrade, confirmed that the owner had no license to grow such massive amounts of marijuana, and then waited nearly six months before raiding the property. The timeline of the operation is detailed in court records obtained by the Maine Wire as part [...]
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Editorial: History Shows Gun Control Inevitably Becomes a Political Weapon
By Steve Robinson
Amid the snow-covered debate on Friday over a bill that would allow the state to seize firearms from Maine residents under certain conditions, an exchange between Sen. Eric Brakey (R-Androscoggin) and the bill’s sponsor, House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross (D-Portland), flew under the radar. However, the substance of Sen. Brakey’s question deserves fulsome consideration in [...]
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Mainers Bear Nation’s Highest Property Tax Burden, 4th Highest Tax Burden Overall: WalletHub Study
By Libby Palanza
Mainers are some of the most heavily taxed citizens in the United States. According to a recent study conducted by personal finance website WalletHub, Mainers currently bear the nation’s highest property tax burden and are responsible for the country’s fourth highest total tax burden. Only residents of New York, Hawaii, and Vermont were calculated as [...]
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Maine House Narrowly Approves National Popular Vote After Dem Lawmakers Leave Chamber Before Roll CallBy Edward Tomic
After a nearly two-week delay, the Maine House of Representatives on Tuesday once again took up consideration of a proposed bill that would sign the state onto the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. [RELATED: House Delays Vote on Joining the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact…] If Maine were to join the National Popular Vote Interstate [...]
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By Libby Palanza
Mainers are some of the most heavily taxed citizens in the United States. According to a recent study conducted by personal finance website WalletHub, Mainers currently bear the nation’s highest property tax burden and are responsible for the country’s fourth highest total tax burden. Only residents of New York, Hawaii, and Vermont were calculated as [...]
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Maine House Narrowly Approves National Popular Vote After Dem Lawmakers Leave Chamber Before Roll CallBy Edward Tomic
After a nearly two-week delay, the Maine House of Representatives on Tuesday once again took up consideration of a proposed bill that would sign the state onto the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. [RELATED: House Delays Vote on Joining the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact…] If Maine were to join the National Popular Vote Interstate [...]
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Maine’s Republican Senator COLLINS ‘Cannot Support’ Trump in the General Election
By Seamus Othot
Maine’s Republican Senator, Susan Collins (R-Maine) said that she cannot support former President Donald Trump’s bid for a second term, but she couldn’t say who she will support on Election Day. [RELATED: Susan Collins One of Four Republican Senators to Vote in Favor of Failed Border Security and Foreign Aid Package…] “I cannot support former [...]
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By Seamus Othot
Maine’s Republican Senator, Susan Collins (R-Maine) said that she cannot support former President Donald Trump’s bid for a second term, but she couldn’t say who she will support on Election Day. [RELATED: Susan Collins One of Four Republican Senators to Vote in Favor of Failed Border Security and Foreign Aid Package…] “I cannot support former [...]
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2024 Maine GOP Draft Platform
Two hundred years ago, the people of Maine adopted a Constitution “to establish justice, ensure tranquility, provide for our mutual defense, promote our common welfare, and secure to ourselves and our posterity the blessings of liberty.” Thirty-four years later, the Maine Republican Party was formed in order to protect these principles. It remains committed to preserving the blessings of liberty today, that our great State may fulfill its potential as a place of abundant opportunity and thriving communities. We therefore adopt this platform, which we dedicate to our military veterans, active and reserve service members, first responders, fire fighters, and law enforcement, to whom we are forever grateful.
I. This platform embraces principles and identifies actions to implement them.
1. We support and defend the Constitutions of the United States and of the State of Maine; they are the framework to which all legislation must adhere.
2. We support policies designed to help Maine workers, families, and businesses thrive by lowering tax burdens, reducing government regulations and mandates, promoting a vibrant private sector, and encouraging individual initiative. In order to define the specific policies encompassed by said constitutional principles, be it resolved:
II. The government of Maine exists to preserve and protect certain natural, inherent, and inalienable rights endowed by our Creator for the benefit, protection, and security of all citizens and future generations. To maintain these rights, we therefore pledge to:
1. Defend every citizen’s right, as defined by the Maine and United States Constitutions, to freely exercise their religious beliefs, freely speak and associate, and to petition their government, without governmental infringement;
2. Defend the individual’s right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the Maine and United States Constitutions; and
3. Defend the powers reserved to the State of Maine by the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
III. Because capitalism and the free market system encourage individual initiative and a prosperous economy, thereby benefiting Maine workers and families, we support:
1. Promoting a welcoming business climate;
2. Enacting “Right to Work” laws to better stimulate economic growth;
3. Protecting ownership of private property, which is fundamental to liberty and a strong economy;
4. Implementing a comprehensive and thoughtful energy policy that minimizes adverse environmental and fiscal impacts, including the elimination of the 100 MW cap on hydropower;
5. Reducing the tax burden on Maine’s people;
6. Protecting the interests of American workers by requiring that employers in the State of Maine verify the identity of prospective employees and their eligibility to work in the United States;
7. Reducing burdensome occupational licensing requirements and regulations that place undue burdens on private enterprise;
8. Adopting comprehensive welfare reform, offering a pathway to self-sufficiency while maintaining the safety net for Maine’s most vulnerable; and
9. Preventing discrimination against any individual, association, or business through the use of social credit or environmental, social, and governance score, or the like.
IV. The physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, and sexual health of our pre-teen, teenage, and young adult children are paramount to societal well-being; therefore, we support and encourage policies which:
1. Prohibit public school curriculum in pre-K through 12 from promoting the subject matter of hormone replacement therapy or surgical gender reassignment practices;
2. Prohibit the teaching or promotion of biological genders other than those of male and female, while accepting those who exhibit physical intersex traits from birth;
3. Prohibit school district personnel from withholding, or encouraging a student to withhold, from a parent or legal guardian, any information regarding school-provided or sanctioned healthcare services, identity changes, or group activities involving a student; and
4. Require school districts to make their curricula easily accessible to the public and to allow parents or guardians to opt their children out of any content or activity that violates their ethical or religious beliefs.
V. The most effective government is closest to the people and the least intrusive, therefore:
1. We oppose the federalization of Maine lands;
2. Municipal Home Rule is to be honored and respected;
3. We support local food rights; and
4. We support limiting executive orders to the administration of executive functions and requiring legislative approval for extension of such orders.
VI. Education is the cornerstone to building a prosperous future, therefore:
1. We support the restoration of local control in education as specified in the Maine Constitution;
2. Parents have the right and responsibility to direct their children’s education;
3. The best academic opportunities are made possible through school choice;
4. Maine’s colleges and universities should be marketplaces of ideas where any individual’s political and religious beliefs may be expressed, and that Constitutional right shall be respected; and
5. Participation on athletic teams of publicly-funded schools designated for one biological sex should be limited to students of that biological sex.
VII. Because the family is the foundation and strength of a stable society, the government must not interfere, but rather support and protect the integrity and rights of the family; therefore, we:
1. Recognize the definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman;
2. Support the family by encouraging the birth and adoption of children, their care and support;
3. Believe parents or legal guardians – not government- are most capable and responsible to make decisions in the best interest of their minor children, including medical, disciplinary, and educational decisions;
4. Believe in the sanctity of human life – from conception to natural death;
5. Oppose the use of taxpayer funds for abortions or activities that run counter to the sanctity of human life; and 6. Support faith-based family resources, including adoption and unexpected pregnancy services.
VIII. Fiscal restraint and accountability for all levels of government is paramount and should be promoted by:
1. Working to reduce spending at all levels of government in order to ensure fiscal stability and to minimize debt;
2. Encouraging sound fiscal management to reduce the Maine tax burden, including regulatory fees; and
3. Instituting zero based budgeting in all programs, and requiring the government and all agencies to adhere to the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
IX. The State of Maine should protect the integrity of the election process by:
1. Requiring an individual to prove that he or she is a United States citizen when registering to vote, and to produce a State of Maine photo identification proving legal residency in their voting district when voting;
2. Repealing taxpayer funding for political campaigns;
3. Repealing ranked choice voting;
4. Rejecting efforts to abolish or undermine the Electoral College; and
5. Requiring regular maintenance and updating of voter rolls to be done securely in-house, i.e., not through the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC).
X. Maine Republicans promote the following:
1. Ensuring that environmental regulations are based upon sound science and recognize the value of Maine’s heritage, especially in farming, fishing, forestry, and recreation;
2. Ensuring that all non-elected state authorities and agencies are subordinate and accountable to the state legislature;
3. Securing all U.S. borders;
4. Supporting the enforcement of all federal immigration laws by state and local government entities and expediting the expulsion of illegal aliens;
5. Rejecting blanket amnesty for illegal aliens;
6. Supporting English as the official language of the State of Maine and the United States;
7. Opposing any policy that promotes agendas which undermine individual accountability in favor of a focus on any class, gender, or race (e.g., Critical Race Theory);
8. Addressing Maine’s drug crisis through a combination of law enforcement efforts and partnerships with private sector organizations to address addiction and promote effective rehabilitation for the individual; and
9. Ensuring that the State’s child welfare services protect vulnerable Maine children in their care, including cooperating with faith-based foster care organizations, while promoting family preservation when appropriate. Because the blessings of liberty can only be preserved by an eternally vigilant people, it is incumbent upon all of us to remain involved in the American experience of self-governance. Those of us who have united behind the Republican banner invite you to join us in this task and support Republican candidates.
May God Bless America and may God Bless the Great State of Maine.
Two hundred years ago, the people of Maine adopted a Constitution “to establish justice, ensure tranquility, provide for our mutual defense, promote our common welfare, and secure to ourselves and our posterity the blessings of liberty.” Thirty-four years later, the Maine Republican Party was formed in order to protect these principles. It remains committed to preserving the blessings of liberty today, that our great State may fulfill its potential as a place of abundant opportunity and thriving communities. We therefore adopt this platform, which we dedicate to our military veterans, active and reserve service members, first responders, fire fighters, and law enforcement, to whom we are forever grateful.
I. This platform embraces principles and identifies actions to implement them.
1. We support and defend the Constitutions of the United States and of the State of Maine; they are the framework to which all legislation must adhere.
2. We support policies designed to help Maine workers, families, and businesses thrive by lowering tax burdens, reducing government regulations and mandates, promoting a vibrant private sector, and encouraging individual initiative. In order to define the specific policies encompassed by said constitutional principles, be it resolved:
II. The government of Maine exists to preserve and protect certain natural, inherent, and inalienable rights endowed by our Creator for the benefit, protection, and security of all citizens and future generations. To maintain these rights, we therefore pledge to:
1. Defend every citizen’s right, as defined by the Maine and United States Constitutions, to freely exercise their religious beliefs, freely speak and associate, and to petition their government, without governmental infringement;
2. Defend the individual’s right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the Maine and United States Constitutions; and
3. Defend the powers reserved to the State of Maine by the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
III. Because capitalism and the free market system encourage individual initiative and a prosperous economy, thereby benefiting Maine workers and families, we support:
1. Promoting a welcoming business climate;
2. Enacting “Right to Work” laws to better stimulate economic growth;
3. Protecting ownership of private property, which is fundamental to liberty and a strong economy;
4. Implementing a comprehensive and thoughtful energy policy that minimizes adverse environmental and fiscal impacts, including the elimination of the 100 MW cap on hydropower;
5. Reducing the tax burden on Maine’s people;
6. Protecting the interests of American workers by requiring that employers in the State of Maine verify the identity of prospective employees and their eligibility to work in the United States;
7. Reducing burdensome occupational licensing requirements and regulations that place undue burdens on private enterprise;
8. Adopting comprehensive welfare reform, offering a pathway to self-sufficiency while maintaining the safety net for Maine’s most vulnerable; and
9. Preventing discrimination against any individual, association, or business through the use of social credit or environmental, social, and governance score, or the like.
IV. The physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, and sexual health of our pre-teen, teenage, and young adult children are paramount to societal well-being; therefore, we support and encourage policies which:
1. Prohibit public school curriculum in pre-K through 12 from promoting the subject matter of hormone replacement therapy or surgical gender reassignment practices;
2. Prohibit the teaching or promotion of biological genders other than those of male and female, while accepting those who exhibit physical intersex traits from birth;
3. Prohibit school district personnel from withholding, or encouraging a student to withhold, from a parent or legal guardian, any information regarding school-provided or sanctioned healthcare services, identity changes, or group activities involving a student; and
4. Require school districts to make their curricula easily accessible to the public and to allow parents or guardians to opt their children out of any content or activity that violates their ethical or religious beliefs.
V. The most effective government is closest to the people and the least intrusive, therefore:
1. We oppose the federalization of Maine lands;
2. Municipal Home Rule is to be honored and respected;
3. We support local food rights; and
4. We support limiting executive orders to the administration of executive functions and requiring legislative approval for extension of such orders.
VI. Education is the cornerstone to building a prosperous future, therefore:
1. We support the restoration of local control in education as specified in the Maine Constitution;
2. Parents have the right and responsibility to direct their children’s education;
3. The best academic opportunities are made possible through school choice;
4. Maine’s colleges and universities should be marketplaces of ideas where any individual’s political and religious beliefs may be expressed, and that Constitutional right shall be respected; and
5. Participation on athletic teams of publicly-funded schools designated for one biological sex should be limited to students of that biological sex.
VII. Because the family is the foundation and strength of a stable society, the government must not interfere, but rather support and protect the integrity and rights of the family; therefore, we:
1. Recognize the definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman;
2. Support the family by encouraging the birth and adoption of children, their care and support;
3. Believe parents or legal guardians – not government- are most capable and responsible to make decisions in the best interest of their minor children, including medical, disciplinary, and educational decisions;
4. Believe in the sanctity of human life – from conception to natural death;
5. Oppose the use of taxpayer funds for abortions or activities that run counter to the sanctity of human life; and 6. Support faith-based family resources, including adoption and unexpected pregnancy services.
VIII. Fiscal restraint and accountability for all levels of government is paramount and should be promoted by:
1. Working to reduce spending at all levels of government in order to ensure fiscal stability and to minimize debt;
2. Encouraging sound fiscal management to reduce the Maine tax burden, including regulatory fees; and
3. Instituting zero based budgeting in all programs, and requiring the government and all agencies to adhere to the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
IX. The State of Maine should protect the integrity of the election process by:
1. Requiring an individual to prove that he or she is a United States citizen when registering to vote, and to produce a State of Maine photo identification proving legal residency in their voting district when voting;
2. Repealing taxpayer funding for political campaigns;
3. Repealing ranked choice voting;
4. Rejecting efforts to abolish or undermine the Electoral College; and
5. Requiring regular maintenance and updating of voter rolls to be done securely in-house, i.e., not through the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC).
X. Maine Republicans promote the following:
1. Ensuring that environmental regulations are based upon sound science and recognize the value of Maine’s heritage, especially in farming, fishing, forestry, and recreation;
2. Ensuring that all non-elected state authorities and agencies are subordinate and accountable to the state legislature;
3. Securing all U.S. borders;
4. Supporting the enforcement of all federal immigration laws by state and local government entities and expediting the expulsion of illegal aliens;
5. Rejecting blanket amnesty for illegal aliens;
6. Supporting English as the official language of the State of Maine and the United States;
7. Opposing any policy that promotes agendas which undermine individual accountability in favor of a focus on any class, gender, or race (e.g., Critical Race Theory);
8. Addressing Maine’s drug crisis through a combination of law enforcement efforts and partnerships with private sector organizations to address addiction and promote effective rehabilitation for the individual; and
9. Ensuring that the State’s child welfare services protect vulnerable Maine children in their care, including cooperating with faith-based foster care organizations, while promoting family preservation when appropriate. Because the blessings of liberty can only be preserved by an eternally vigilant people, it is incumbent upon all of us to remain involved in the American experience of self-governance. Those of us who have united behind the Republican banner invite you to join us in this task and support Republican candidates.
May God Bless America and may God Bless the Great State of Maine.
Maine Dems Hold Closed-Door Meeting with ATF Official Amid Push for Stricter Gun Control Measures
By Edward Tomic
Amid a push for stricter gun control legislation, Democratic lawmakers on the Maine Legislature’s Judiciary Committee had a closed-door meeting Wednesday with a top official from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), prompting indignation among Republicans and gun rights advocates over the lack of transparency. [RELATED: Left-Wing Activists Leverage Lewiston Tragedy [...]
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EPA Announces “Strongest-Ever” Vehicle Pollution Standards, Expected to Dramatically Increase Sale of New EVs and Plug-In Hybrids by 2032
By Libby Palanza
The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Wednesday that it has adopted the “strongest-ever pollution standards for cars” which are expected to require as much as 56 percent of new car sales to be comprised of electric vehicles (EVs) by 2032. In order to meet the EPA’s new standards, an additional 13 percent of new [...]
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Legislative Committee Recommends Lawmakers Reject Plan to Develop Right to Housing Amendment
By Libby Palanza
The Maine Legislature’s Housing Committee has recommended that lawmakers reject a bill requiring the government to convene a stakeholder group tasked with developing an amendment to the state constitution establishing a right to housing. Originally, this legislation was intended to directly propose a right to housing amendment, sending it to voters for approval this November. [...]
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Apple Sued by State of Maine, U.S. DOJ, and Others for Alleged iPhone Monopoly
By Libby Palanza
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), alongside 16 states — including Maine — have filed a civil anti-trust lawsuit against Apple, accusing the tech company of illegally monopolizing the smartphone market by implementing restrictions that stifle innovation and make it unfeasible for many users to move outside of the Apple ecosystem. Also joining the lawsuit [...]
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Maine Governor Introduces Legislation to Establish Minimum Wage for Farm Workers
By Edward Tomic
Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced Wednesday that she has introduced legislation that would establish a minimum hourly wage for Maine agricultural workers. [RELATED: California Raised the Minimum Wage for Fast-Food Workers to $20 An Hour — So Chipotle and McDonald’s Are Hiking Prices…] The governor’s bill, LD 2273, was presented by House Speaker Rachel Talbot [...]
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Two NYC-Area Men Charged With Burglarizing Maine Post Offices, Robbing Letter Carriers at Knife Point
By Edward Tomic
Two men from the New York City metro area were charged Wednesday with burglarizing two Maine post offices and robbing two U.S. Postal Service (USPS) letter carriers at knife point. A federal grand jury charged Winston McLeod, 30, of Orange, N.J., and Lance Funderburk, 30, of Brooklyn, N.Y. in a five count indictment Wednesday, charging [...]
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By Edward Tomic
Amid a push for stricter gun control legislation, Democratic lawmakers on the Maine Legislature’s Judiciary Committee had a closed-door meeting Wednesday with a top official from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), prompting indignation among Republicans and gun rights advocates over the lack of transparency. [RELATED: Left-Wing Activists Leverage Lewiston Tragedy [...]
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EPA Announces “Strongest-Ever” Vehicle Pollution Standards, Expected to Dramatically Increase Sale of New EVs and Plug-In Hybrids by 2032
By Libby Palanza
The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Wednesday that it has adopted the “strongest-ever pollution standards for cars” which are expected to require as much as 56 percent of new car sales to be comprised of electric vehicles (EVs) by 2032. In order to meet the EPA’s new standards, an additional 13 percent of new [...]
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Legislative Committee Recommends Lawmakers Reject Plan to Develop Right to Housing Amendment
By Libby Palanza
The Maine Legislature’s Housing Committee has recommended that lawmakers reject a bill requiring the government to convene a stakeholder group tasked with developing an amendment to the state constitution establishing a right to housing. Originally, this legislation was intended to directly propose a right to housing amendment, sending it to voters for approval this November. [...]
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Apple Sued by State of Maine, U.S. DOJ, and Others for Alleged iPhone Monopoly
By Libby Palanza
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), alongside 16 states — including Maine — have filed a civil anti-trust lawsuit against Apple, accusing the tech company of illegally monopolizing the smartphone market by implementing restrictions that stifle innovation and make it unfeasible for many users to move outside of the Apple ecosystem. Also joining the lawsuit [...]
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Maine Governor Introduces Legislation to Establish Minimum Wage for Farm Workers
By Edward Tomic
Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced Wednesday that she has introduced legislation that would establish a minimum hourly wage for Maine agricultural workers. [RELATED: California Raised the Minimum Wage for Fast-Food Workers to $20 An Hour — So Chipotle and McDonald’s Are Hiking Prices…] The governor’s bill, LD 2273, was presented by House Speaker Rachel Talbot [...]
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Two NYC-Area Men Charged With Burglarizing Maine Post Offices, Robbing Letter Carriers at Knife Point
By Edward Tomic
Two men from the New York City metro area were charged Wednesday with burglarizing two Maine post offices and robbing two U.S. Postal Service (USPS) letter carriers at knife point. A federal grand jury charged Winston McLeod, 30, of Orange, N.J., and Lance Funderburk, 30, of Brooklyn, N.Y. in a five count indictment Wednesday, charging [...]
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If this isn't rich.................election time is in the air for Jared Golden (CD-2)!
Golden Votes to Condemn Biden’s Border Policies, Urge Reining in Taxpayer-Funded Benefits for Illegal Aliens
By Edward Tomic
Democratic Maine Congressman Jared Golden (CD-2) voted in favor of a House Resolution Wednesday condemning the Biden administration’s immigration policies and calling for stricter border security measures. [RELATED: Golden Pitches Compromise Border Security and $66 Billion Foreign Aid Package on CBS’ Face the Nation…] The resolution, H. Res. 1065, passed by 226-193, with Golden one of [...]
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‘The last thing we need is a raise’: Jared Golden Urges Against Pay Raise for Members of Congress
By Edward Tomic
Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Golden (ME-02) sent a letter Wednesday requesting that congressional appropriations leaders not include a pay raise for members of Congress in fiscal year 2024 (FY24). [RELATED: Golden Votes to Condemn Biden’s Border Policies, Urge Reining in Taxpayer-Funded Benefits for Illegal Aliens…] Golden’s letter comes as the House and Senate Appropriations Committees [...]
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Wholesale Inflation Surges “Unexpectedly” in February 2024
By The Maine Wire
In an unexpected development that could spell ongoing challenges for the U.S. economy, the U.S. Labor Department reported Thursday that inflation at the wholesale level rose significantly in February 2024. The department’s Producer Price Index (PPI), which measures inflation at the wholesaler level, i.e. before it impacts consumers, jumped 0.6 percent from January to February. [...]
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Residents of Crime-Ridden San Francisco Neighborhood Sue City Over Open Drug Markets, Homeless Encampments
By Edward Tomic
A group of residents in a crime-ridden San Francisco neighborhood have filed a federal lawsuit accusing the city of not doing enough to combat open-air drug markets and large homeless encampments, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The lawsuit, filed Thursday on behalf of a group of residents and businesses in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, [..]
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Drug Markets, Homeless Encampments appeared first on The Maine Wire.
Collins Probes U.S. National Security Heads Over Biden’s Failed Afghanistan Withdrawal, Terrorism, and Foreign Criminal Operations in Maine
By Steve Robinson
Washington, D.C. – Key U.S. intelligence officials have faced a series of probing questions from lawmakers this week, including Maine Sen. Susan Collins (R), concerning pressing national security threats related to foreign terrorism, the use of new and emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), illegal immigration and drug trafficking. Sen. Collins, a member of the [...]
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Maine Pols Urge Biden VA Sec to Secure Funding for Maine Veterans’ Homes
By Libby Palanza
All four members of Maine’s Congressional delegation have reached out to the federal government for an update regarding a proposed rule allowing the Department of Veterans’ Affairs (VA) to reimburse Maine Veterans’ Homes (MVH) for care provided to veterans with dementia. Sen. Susan Collins (R), Sen. Angus King (I), Rep. Jared Golden (D), and Rep. [...]
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Bangor Man Sentenced to 14 Years After Being Caught with Fentanyl, Cocaine, Firearm While Out on Bail
By Edward Tomic
A Bangor man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after he was caught by police in possession of multiple illegal drugs and a firearm while out on bail. Allen Henry, 49, was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District court in Bangor to 168 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for [...]
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Wholesale Inflation Surges “Unexpectedly” in February 2024
By The Maine Wire
In an unexpected development that could spell ongoing challenges for the U.S. economy, the U.S. Labor Department reported Thursday that inflation at the wholesale level rose significantly in February 2024. The department’s Producer Price Index (PPI), which measures inflation at the wholesaler level, i.e. before it impacts consumers, jumped 0.6 percent from January to February. [...]
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‘Please carry Narcan, do not use alone’: Sanford PD Responds to Three Overdoses in 24 Hours
By Edward Tomic
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Wholesale Inflation Surges “Unexpectedly” in February 2024
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In an unexpected development that could spell ongoing challenges for the U.S. economy, the U.S. Labor Department reported Thursday that inflation at the wholesale level rose significantly in February 2024. The department’s Producer Price Index (PPI), which measures inflation at the wholesaler level, i.e. before it impacts consumers, jumped 0.6 percent from January to February. [...]
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Wholesale Inflation Surges “Unexpectedly” in February 2024
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In an unexpected development that could spell ongoing challenges for the U.S. economy, the U.S. Labor Department reported Thursday that inflation at the wholesale level rose significantly in February 2024. The department’s Producer Price Index (PPI), which measures inflation at the wholesaler level, i.e. before it impacts consumers, jumped 0.6 percent from January to February. [...]
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STATE HOUSE – Legislative Republicans held a press conference today to deliver shocking new numbers on state spending related to thousands of asylum seekers coming to Maine for free housing. The migration is part of Governor Mills’ pledge to bring in 75,000 new Mainers by 2029.
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‘Cash in Envelopes’: How the US and UN Are Funding the Border CrisisThe Biden administration gave the UN migration agency nearly $1.3 billion in 2023, which it uses to help migrants on their journey to enter the US illegally.By Darlene McCormick Sanchez
February 13, 2024 Updated: February 14, 2024
The United States is bankrolling its own “invasion” by funding the United Nations and its partners, which, in turn, give hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and aid to migrants who eventually cross the U.S. southern border illegally.
While the U.N. has aided migrants for decades, the scope of its operation has dramatically expanded as the number of illegal immigrants—from at least 160 countries—into the United States has surged.
That expansion has been fueled by more than $1 billion in funding from the U.S. government to the U.N. and other agencies assisting migrants, according to a government spending database.
“We’re actually funding our own border crisis,” Todd Bensman, senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, a “pro-immigrant, low-immigration” think tank, told The Epoch Times.
“And it’s provided by, ultimately, the United States taxpayer.”
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Until President Joe Biden took office, the United States had obligated about a half-billion dollars per year to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the U.N.’s migration arm.
But that funding has skyrocketed under the Biden administration to nearly $1.3 billion in 2023—more than double what it had been under the Trump administration,
according to USASpending.gov.The government spending database shows that most of the money comes from the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Two of the largest government giveaways were voluntary contributions to the U.N.’s IOM from the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration totaling $547 million over two years ending in 2023.The bureau’s objective was “to fund processing individuals requesting refugee status and resettlement in the United States and arrange their movement.”
Illegal immigrants cross the Rio Grande from Mexico into Eagle Pass, Texas, on Sept. 30, 2023. (John Moore/Getty Images)
‘Aiding and Abetting’The U.N. is pouring a staggering amount of money—partially stemming from U.S. taxpayers—into the illegal immigration crisis.
The U.N.-orchestrated Regional Refugee and Migrant Response Plan update for 2024 calls for distributing $1.6 billion in 17 Latin American and Caribbean countries with the help of 248 partner agencies, which are also receiving U.S. grants.
Todd Bensman, a senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, in Costa Mesa, Calif., on May 24, 2023. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Times)The plan allocated $372 million in “cash and vouchers” and “multipurpose cash assistance” during 2024 for 624,300 migrants—the population of Detroit—in Central and South America who are headed for the U.S. border.
Mr. Bensman, who has been at the forefront of investigating the causes of the migrant surge, believes that the U.N. is “aiding and abetting mass migration.”
People who might not have taken the risk to travel to the U.S. border because they were worried about food or safety now have help, he said.
That help comes in the form of prepaid debit cards, food, water, shelter, medical care, and transportation, according to the U.N.
Migrants can also directly receive cash, what the U.N. emergency manual calls “cash in envelopes.”And they know that the U.S. border is wide open.
The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security shows 6.2 million encounters at the southern border, in addition to 1.7 million known gotaways since President Biden took office.“They say, ‘Well, you know, we’re coming now because Biden’s letting us in,"Bensman said.
As illegal immigration ramped up in 2021, he went to investigate what was happening firsthand.
A Haitian migrant shows his cash card provided by the United Nations. He said his 3,500 peso payment (about $175 US) didn’t deposit this month, in Tapachula, Mexico, on Jan. 14, 2022. (Todd Bensman/Center for Immigration Studies)What he found was IOM and other nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) helping migrants make the dangerous trek from South and Central America.
Workers at an IOM migrant camp in Reynosa, Mexico, in 2021 told him that families of four were receiving about $800 per month on a debit card. His viral post on X, formerly known as Twitter, noted long lines of migrants waiting to receive the cards.An IOM Mexico spokesperson quibbled over terminology and the amount of aid but confirmed that the migrants were getting monetary assistance, according to an Agence France-Presse news agency “fact check.”
The spokesman said the maximum amount for a family is about $395 on an “e-wallet,” noting that the cards could not be exchanged for cash.
He said workers at the migrant station giving them out were from a nonprofit organization that works with the IOM, not the IOM itself.
‘A Force for Good’Documents show that IOM facilitates global migration and has strong ties to the Biden administration.IOM Director General Amy Pope served as President Biden’s senior adviser on migration. She also served as deputy Homeland Security adviser to President Barack Obama.
(L–R) Amy Pope, deputy Homeland Security advisor, Vice President Joe Biden, President Barack Obama, and other officials meet in the Oval Office on May 21, 2016.
In January, the IOM announced its first “annual appeal,” seeking a massive $7.9 billion to tackle the “migrant crisis” and “[realize] migration’s promise as a force for good throughout the world.”“The evidence is overwhelming that migration, when well-managed, is a major contributor to global prosperity and progress,” Ms. Pope said in her appeal for money to assist migration.
The U.N. agency stated that it needs money for humanitarian reasons to “save lives” and provide “regular pathways for migration.”
It also wants to use the money to deal with the “displacement” of people because of the “impacts of climate change.”
U.N. documents linked to Ms. Pope’s announcement show that in 2024, the U.N. wants to spend $70 million in Panama, Costa Rica, and Mexico—all countries on the most common migration route to the United States.Documents state that in 2023 a record 500,000 migrants had traveled through the dense jungle known as the Darien Gap from Colombia into Panama.
Michael Yon, a war correspondent appearing on Epoch TV’s American Thought Leaders in 2021, told The Epoch Times’ Jan Jekielek that he had taken other journalists and congressmen to the Darien Gap to see the mass migration firsthand.
He estimated that some 10 percent of migrants traveling through the Darien Gap are murdered or die because of the harsh environment, but even that’s not enough of a deterrent to stop the flow.
Migrants from around the world are flying into South and Central America to start their journey because countries such as Suriname and Ecuador don’t require a visa to enter, Mr. Yon said.
Many then travel by foot through the Darien Gap, through Central America, and into Mexico, where they wait for the Mexican government to clear them to travel north, where they eventually cross illegally into the United States.
Migrants walk through the jungle near Bajo Chiquito village, the first border control of the Darien Province in Panama, on Sept. 22, 2023. The journey through the Darien Gap usually takes five or six days, at the mercy of all kinds of bad weather. (Luis Acosta/AFP via Getty Images)After successfully entering the United States, they text their friends, which encourages more migration, he said. Most don’t communicate how difficult or dangerous the journey is.
“As long as those incentives are there to come to the United States, they’re going to come,” said Mr. Yon, who has interviewed a large number of migrants.
He said most come to the United States for economic reasons.
“Almost all of them have no case for asylum.” Mr. Yon said.
To stop illegal immigration, countries need to have a border barrier, such as a wall, enforcement, and political will, he said.
Ian Mehlman is a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), an immigration reform nonprofit group that has been studying U.S. immigration since 1979.
Like Mr. Bensman, he believes that the U.N. is instrumental in the surge at U.S. borders.
“This is a way for the U.N. to get money from the donor countries to carry out their programs,” Mr. Mehlman told The Epoch Times.
Researchers at FAIR noted in a recent article that “cash-based intervention” programs at the U.N. increased by 77 percent between 2019 and 2020, although some of that was attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic.Mr. Mehlman said migration is big business under the Biden administration.
“There’s no question that we saw a vast increase in migration to the United States, starting from the day that Joe Biden took office,” he said.
President Biden rescinded former President Donald Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, under which would-be asylum seekers stayed in Mexico while awaiting adjudication on their immigration court case. The vast majority of illegal immigrants don’t qualify for asylum because they’re entering the United States for economic reasons and not fleeing political persecution.
Migrants walk toward Canaan Membrillo village, in the Darien Province in Panama, on Oct. 13, 2022. (Luis Acosta/AFP via Getty Images)President Biden also halted border wall construction on his first day, halted deportations for 100 days, and rescinded the travel ban on terror-prone countries.
“People respond to the signals that are being sent,” Mr. Mehlman said.
“If they believe that there is a good chance that they’re going to be able to get to the United States and be allowed to remain here, then they will go through all the things that they have to go through.”
“Failing state” economies benefit from illegal immigrants working in the United States or other wealthy Western countries and sending money back to their families.
Smuggling people across multiple countries is coordinated, Mr. Mehlman said.
“It’s happening because people are allowing it to happen,” he said. “It is being facilitated every step along the way.”
The U.N. appears to have taken the position that people should be able to move to any country that they desire, which is problematic, not only to countries such as the United States but also to the countries migrants are fleeing, according to Mr. Mehlman.
“If the incentive is to leave rather than to reform and change things where you are, then those failed societies continue,” he said.Migration NationSome on the left favor immigration as a way for the United States to bolster declining birth rates with noncitizens and provide cheap labor.
“We need immigrants in this country,” Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) said in January during a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on immigration.
He said vegetables “would rot in the ground if they weren’t being picked by immigrants, illegal immigrants.”
“The fact is the birth rate in this country is way below replacement level,” Mr. Nadler said.
But some conservative pundits say mass immigration is part of the Great Replacement Theory, which speculates that immigrants are replacing citizens of countries with mainly white European ancestry.
Others believe that Democrats want open borders because if illegal immigrants become citizens, they would likely vote to keep Democrats in power for generations.
Members of CHIRLA Action Fund, an immigrant advocacy organization, gather near the entrance to the Ronald Reagan Library prior to a GOP presidential debate in Simi Valley, Calif., on Sept. 27, 2023. (Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images)But Mr. Bensman has a more straightforward explanation for what’s fueling the border crisis: a cash bonanza.
Migrant advocates from the left are now becoming political appointees, leading him to believe that the migrant crisis is “engineered.”
In Mr. Bensman’s 2023 book “Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History,” he contended that mass migration has become a cottage industry, with many migrant-centered NGOs getting fat off taxpayer dollars.
He pointed to one group called HIAS, a migration assistance group initially founded to help Jews fleeing Eastern Europe. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas once served on the group’s board.
It’s one of several groups that has received millions of dollars in federal grants, according to Mr. Bensman.
HIAS has received most of the $11 million from two recent grants awarded by the U.S. government and earmarked for Latin American migrants, according to USASpending.gov.
The group, working in concert with the U.N., has pledged $17 million to help immigrants in 2024, according to Refugee and Migrant Response Plan documents.“Their organizations are the ones that are just getting filthy rich, building their endowment, and paying their executives and just getting federal contracts,” Mr. Bensman said.
The United Nations office in Geneva, Switzerland, in this file photo. The Biden administration gave the U.N.'s migration agency nearly $1.3 billion in 2023. (Johannes Simon/Getty Images)Defunding the UNWith the border crisis becoming the No. 1 issue in the 2024 presidential race, Republicans on Capitol Hill have already blocked a bipartisan border bill that many see as doing more harm than good in stopping illegal immigration.They argue that President Biden already has the power to stop the border crisis that he created.
With attention squarely on the border, House Republicans used the opportunity to reintroduce a bill that would eliminate U.N. migrant funding.
H.R. 6166, the Tax Dollars for the U.N.’s Immigration Invasion Act, would prohibit contributions to the IOM and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, as well as the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
The bill also requires the Government Accountability Office to conduct an audit of all federal funding previously appropriated to U.N. agencies that have financed the migrant crisis to force repayment of that funding to the U.S. Treasury.
U.N. agencies are “financing the ongoing U.S. border crisis,” Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Texas) said in a Jan. 26 statement.
“The United Nations is using our own tax dollars against us, and U.S. policymakers can no longer stand by while elites in the U.N. and Davos actively finance an invasion of our sovereign territory.
“It’s time to say enough and cut off funding to these corrupt globalist institutions until respect for our territorial integrity and appreciation for our generosity is restored.”
The IOM didn’t respond to an email seeking comment from The Epoch Times
February 13, 2024 Updated: February 14, 2024
The United States is bankrolling its own “invasion” by funding the United Nations and its partners, which, in turn, give hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and aid to migrants who eventually cross the U.S. southern border illegally.
While the U.N. has aided migrants for decades, the scope of its operation has dramatically expanded as the number of illegal immigrants—from at least 160 countries—into the United States has surged.
That expansion has been fueled by more than $1 billion in funding from the U.S. government to the U.N. and other agencies assisting migrants, according to a government spending database.
“We’re actually funding our own border crisis,” Todd Bensman, senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, a “pro-immigrant, low-immigration” think tank, told The Epoch Times.
“And it’s provided by, ultimately, the United States taxpayer.”
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Until President Joe Biden took office, the United States had obligated about a half-billion dollars per year to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the U.N.’s migration arm.
But that funding has skyrocketed under the Biden administration to nearly $1.3 billion in 2023—more than double what it had been under the Trump administration,
according to USASpending.gov.The government spending database shows that most of the money comes from the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Two of the largest government giveaways were voluntary contributions to the U.N.’s IOM from the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration totaling $547 million over two years ending in 2023.The bureau’s objective was “to fund processing individuals requesting refugee status and resettlement in the United States and arrange their movement.”
Illegal immigrants cross the Rio Grande from Mexico into Eagle Pass, Texas, on Sept. 30, 2023. (John Moore/Getty Images)
‘Aiding and Abetting’The U.N. is pouring a staggering amount of money—partially stemming from U.S. taxpayers—into the illegal immigration crisis.
The U.N.-orchestrated Regional Refugee and Migrant Response Plan update for 2024 calls for distributing $1.6 billion in 17 Latin American and Caribbean countries with the help of 248 partner agencies, which are also receiving U.S. grants.
Todd Bensman, a senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, in Costa Mesa, Calif., on May 24, 2023. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Times)The plan allocated $372 million in “cash and vouchers” and “multipurpose cash assistance” during 2024 for 624,300 migrants—the population of Detroit—in Central and South America who are headed for the U.S. border.
Mr. Bensman, who has been at the forefront of investigating the causes of the migrant surge, believes that the U.N. is “aiding and abetting mass migration.”
People who might not have taken the risk to travel to the U.S. border because they were worried about food or safety now have help, he said.
That help comes in the form of prepaid debit cards, food, water, shelter, medical care, and transportation, according to the U.N.
Migrants can also directly receive cash, what the U.N. emergency manual calls “cash in envelopes.”And they know that the U.S. border is wide open.
The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security shows 6.2 million encounters at the southern border, in addition to 1.7 million known gotaways since President Biden took office.“They say, ‘Well, you know, we’re coming now because Biden’s letting us in,"Bensman said.
As illegal immigration ramped up in 2021, he went to investigate what was happening firsthand.
A Haitian migrant shows his cash card provided by the United Nations. He said his 3,500 peso payment (about $175 US) didn’t deposit this month, in Tapachula, Mexico, on Jan. 14, 2022. (Todd Bensman/Center for Immigration Studies)What he found was IOM and other nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) helping migrants make the dangerous trek from South and Central America.
Workers at an IOM migrant camp in Reynosa, Mexico, in 2021 told him that families of four were receiving about $800 per month on a debit card. His viral post on X, formerly known as Twitter, noted long lines of migrants waiting to receive the cards.An IOM Mexico spokesperson quibbled over terminology and the amount of aid but confirmed that the migrants were getting monetary assistance, according to an Agence France-Presse news agency “fact check.”
The spokesman said the maximum amount for a family is about $395 on an “e-wallet,” noting that the cards could not be exchanged for cash.
He said workers at the migrant station giving them out were from a nonprofit organization that works with the IOM, not the IOM itself.
‘A Force for Good’Documents show that IOM facilitates global migration and has strong ties to the Biden administration.IOM Director General Amy Pope served as President Biden’s senior adviser on migration. She also served as deputy Homeland Security adviser to President Barack Obama.
(L–R) Amy Pope, deputy Homeland Security advisor, Vice President Joe Biden, President Barack Obama, and other officials meet in the Oval Office on May 21, 2016.
In January, the IOM announced its first “annual appeal,” seeking a massive $7.9 billion to tackle the “migrant crisis” and “[realize] migration’s promise as a force for good throughout the world.”“The evidence is overwhelming that migration, when well-managed, is a major contributor to global prosperity and progress,” Ms. Pope said in her appeal for money to assist migration.
The U.N. agency stated that it needs money for humanitarian reasons to “save lives” and provide “regular pathways for migration.”
It also wants to use the money to deal with the “displacement” of people because of the “impacts of climate change.”
U.N. documents linked to Ms. Pope’s announcement show that in 2024, the U.N. wants to spend $70 million in Panama, Costa Rica, and Mexico—all countries on the most common migration route to the United States.Documents state that in 2023 a record 500,000 migrants had traveled through the dense jungle known as the Darien Gap from Colombia into Panama.
Michael Yon, a war correspondent appearing on Epoch TV’s American Thought Leaders in 2021, told The Epoch Times’ Jan Jekielek that he had taken other journalists and congressmen to the Darien Gap to see the mass migration firsthand.
He estimated that some 10 percent of migrants traveling through the Darien Gap are murdered or die because of the harsh environment, but even that’s not enough of a deterrent to stop the flow.
Migrants from around the world are flying into South and Central America to start their journey because countries such as Suriname and Ecuador don’t require a visa to enter, Mr. Yon said.
Many then travel by foot through the Darien Gap, through Central America, and into Mexico, where they wait for the Mexican government to clear them to travel north, where they eventually cross illegally into the United States.
Migrants walk through the jungle near Bajo Chiquito village, the first border control of the Darien Province in Panama, on Sept. 22, 2023. The journey through the Darien Gap usually takes five or six days, at the mercy of all kinds of bad weather. (Luis Acosta/AFP via Getty Images)After successfully entering the United States, they text their friends, which encourages more migration, he said. Most don’t communicate how difficult or dangerous the journey is.
“As long as those incentives are there to come to the United States, they’re going to come,” said Mr. Yon, who has interviewed a large number of migrants.
He said most come to the United States for economic reasons.
“Almost all of them have no case for asylum.” Mr. Yon said.
To stop illegal immigration, countries need to have a border barrier, such as a wall, enforcement, and political will, he said.
Ian Mehlman is a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), an immigration reform nonprofit group that has been studying U.S. immigration since 1979.
Like Mr. Bensman, he believes that the U.N. is instrumental in the surge at U.S. borders.
“This is a way for the U.N. to get money from the donor countries to carry out their programs,” Mr. Mehlman told The Epoch Times.
Researchers at FAIR noted in a recent article that “cash-based intervention” programs at the U.N. increased by 77 percent between 2019 and 2020, although some of that was attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic.Mr. Mehlman said migration is big business under the Biden administration.
“There’s no question that we saw a vast increase in migration to the United States, starting from the day that Joe Biden took office,” he said.
President Biden rescinded former President Donald Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, under which would-be asylum seekers stayed in Mexico while awaiting adjudication on their immigration court case. The vast majority of illegal immigrants don’t qualify for asylum because they’re entering the United States for economic reasons and not fleeing political persecution.
Migrants walk toward Canaan Membrillo village, in the Darien Province in Panama, on Oct. 13, 2022. (Luis Acosta/AFP via Getty Images)President Biden also halted border wall construction on his first day, halted deportations for 100 days, and rescinded the travel ban on terror-prone countries.
“People respond to the signals that are being sent,” Mr. Mehlman said.
“If they believe that there is a good chance that they’re going to be able to get to the United States and be allowed to remain here, then they will go through all the things that they have to go through.”
“Failing state” economies benefit from illegal immigrants working in the United States or other wealthy Western countries and sending money back to their families.
Smuggling people across multiple countries is coordinated, Mr. Mehlman said.
“It’s happening because people are allowing it to happen,” he said. “It is being facilitated every step along the way.”
The U.N. appears to have taken the position that people should be able to move to any country that they desire, which is problematic, not only to countries such as the United States but also to the countries migrants are fleeing, according to Mr. Mehlman.
“If the incentive is to leave rather than to reform and change things where you are, then those failed societies continue,” he said.Migration NationSome on the left favor immigration as a way for the United States to bolster declining birth rates with noncitizens and provide cheap labor.
“We need immigrants in this country,” Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) said in January during a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on immigration.
He said vegetables “would rot in the ground if they weren’t being picked by immigrants, illegal immigrants.”
“The fact is the birth rate in this country is way below replacement level,” Mr. Nadler said.
But some conservative pundits say mass immigration is part of the Great Replacement Theory, which speculates that immigrants are replacing citizens of countries with mainly white European ancestry.
Others believe that Democrats want open borders because if illegal immigrants become citizens, they would likely vote to keep Democrats in power for generations.
Members of CHIRLA Action Fund, an immigrant advocacy organization, gather near the entrance to the Ronald Reagan Library prior to a GOP presidential debate in Simi Valley, Calif., on Sept. 27, 2023. (Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images)But Mr. Bensman has a more straightforward explanation for what’s fueling the border crisis: a cash bonanza.
Migrant advocates from the left are now becoming political appointees, leading him to believe that the migrant crisis is “engineered.”
In Mr. Bensman’s 2023 book “Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History,” he contended that mass migration has become a cottage industry, with many migrant-centered NGOs getting fat off taxpayer dollars.
He pointed to one group called HIAS, a migration assistance group initially founded to help Jews fleeing Eastern Europe. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas once served on the group’s board.
It’s one of several groups that has received millions of dollars in federal grants, according to Mr. Bensman.
HIAS has received most of the $11 million from two recent grants awarded by the U.S. government and earmarked for Latin American migrants, according to USASpending.gov.
The group, working in concert with the U.N., has pledged $17 million to help immigrants in 2024, according to Refugee and Migrant Response Plan documents.“Their organizations are the ones that are just getting filthy rich, building their endowment, and paying their executives and just getting federal contracts,” Mr. Bensman said.
The United Nations office in Geneva, Switzerland, in this file photo. The Biden administration gave the U.N.'s migration agency nearly $1.3 billion in 2023. (Johannes Simon/Getty Images)Defunding the UNWith the border crisis becoming the No. 1 issue in the 2024 presidential race, Republicans on Capitol Hill have already blocked a bipartisan border bill that many see as doing more harm than good in stopping illegal immigration.They argue that President Biden already has the power to stop the border crisis that he created.
With attention squarely on the border, House Republicans used the opportunity to reintroduce a bill that would eliminate U.N. migrant funding.
H.R. 6166, the Tax Dollars for the U.N.’s Immigration Invasion Act, would prohibit contributions to the IOM and the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, as well as the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
The bill also requires the Government Accountability Office to conduct an audit of all federal funding previously appropriated to U.N. agencies that have financed the migrant crisis to force repayment of that funding to the U.S. Treasury.
U.N. agencies are “financing the ongoing U.S. border crisis,” Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Texas) said in a Jan. 26 statement.
“The United Nations is using our own tax dollars against us, and U.S. policymakers can no longer stand by while elites in the U.N. and Davos actively finance an invasion of our sovereign territory.
“It’s time to say enough and cut off funding to these corrupt globalist institutions until respect for our territorial integrity and appreciation for our generosity is restored.”
The IOM didn’t respond to an email seeking comment from The Epoch Times
Mainers List Their Concerns About the State
Today Maine House Representative Katrina J. Smith, District 62, a Republican from Palermo, asked the question, "What concerns you the most about Maine right now?"
There were over 184 responses, and here were some of the concerns raised:
According to U.S. Census Bureau facts, in 2022, per capita income in Maine was $39,718 and 10.8% of people in Maine are living in poverty.
Maine ranks in the top 10 states for the highest electricity rates, coming in at number 3 for 2024.
When it comes to affordable rent, Maine is the 5th least affordable state.
The cost of living index for Maine is 110.7.
In 2022, there were 151,212 small businesses in Maine.
Do you agree with the concerns on this list? What if any other concerns would you add to the list? Please add your concerns and suggestions in the comment section.
Please keep emailing me your local news tips, school/education news, community issues, crime concerns, issues you feel should be investigated, upcoming events, good news stories, neighbors helping neighbors, etc. to TheMaineWriter@gmail.com
Today Maine House Representative Katrina J. Smith, District 62, a Republican from Palermo, asked the question, "What concerns you the most about Maine right now?"
There were over 184 responses, and here were some of the concerns raised:
- There are too many free benefits
- Illegal marijuana grows
- Election integrity
- The Secretary of State's decision to remove former President Trump from Maine's primary ballot
- The attack on legal gun owners' rights by the anti-gun lobby
- Governor Mills policies
- The cost of living was mentioned several times
- The cost of electricity, food, heating oil, and taxes in Maine
- The number of solar panel farms plastering the state
- A lack of affordable rentals and housing for hard-working Mainers was mentioned a few times
- Immigration
- Finding medical care in a timely manner
- The state not doing enough to take care of the homeless
- Maine is turning into California more and more
- Lack of common sense in Augusta
- The removal of the religious and philosophical exemptions for the huge list of mandatory childhood vaccinations to attend public school
- Underfunded nursing homes
- Maine is not attracting new businesses
- Energy bills are too high
- Poorly maintained roads
- High property taxes
- Poor use of taxpayer money
- Cost of living
- Housing for asylum seekers
- Government overreach
- Lack of support for Maine educators
- Quality of the schools
- Ranked choice voting
- Gender ideology
- Fentanyl overdoses
- Mental health
According to U.S. Census Bureau facts, in 2022, per capita income in Maine was $39,718 and 10.8% of people in Maine are living in poverty.
Maine ranks in the top 10 states for the highest electricity rates, coming in at number 3 for 2024.
When it comes to affordable rent, Maine is the 5th least affordable state.
The cost of living index for Maine is 110.7.
In 2022, there were 151,212 small businesses in Maine.
Do you agree with the concerns on this list? What if any other concerns would you add to the list? Please add your concerns and suggestions in the comment section.
Please keep emailing me your local news tips, school/education news, community issues, crime concerns, issues you feel should be investigated, upcoming events, good news stories, neighbors helping neighbors, etc. to TheMaineWriter@gmail.com
Cape Elizabeth Democrat Pushes Bill to Hold Firearm Manufacturers and Distributors Liable for Damages Resulting From Illegal Sales
By Edward Tomic
On Tuesday the Maine Legislature’s Judiciary Committee will hold a work session on a bill sponsored by State Rep. Rebecca Millett (D-Cape Elizabeth) that would establish civil liability for firearm manufacturers and distributers who engaged in illegal sales or marketing. Rep. Millett’s bill, LD 1696, is a revision of a version she sponsored during the [...]
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Maine Wire today.
By Edward Tomic
On Tuesday the Maine Legislature’s Judiciary Committee will hold a work session on a bill sponsored by State Rep. Rebecca Millett (D-Cape Elizabeth) that would establish civil liability for firearm manufacturers and distributers who engaged in illegal sales or marketing. Rep. Millett’s bill, LD 1696, is a revision of a version she sponsored during the [...]
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Maine Wire today.
America’s Real Radicals
Posted on Tuesday, January 9, 2024
by Dr. Sebastian Gorka
|
They say “perception is reality.” Not quite.
But what someone thinks is true will shape their behavior, even if it isn’t actually true.
If that weren’t the case, billions of dollars wouldn’t be spent annually on marketing and advertising products and services you don’t actually need but which “consumers” have been convinced they can’t live without.
The same goes for the world of politics. There are perceptions, and then there is the reality. And knowing the difference between them in 2024 will be crucial.
So let’s start with that awful word: “narrative,” because the historic Presidential election this year will be driven by whether existing false representations of Left and Right can be broken.
The conventional wisdom, the DC narrative about Left v. Right has been boiled down for decades as: “the Democrats care about the little guy, for minorities and women” and “Republicans are mean, selfish, greedy and elitists who look down on the working man.” Then 2016 happened.
Incredibly, a billionaire reality-TV superstar real-estate mogul came out of nowhere with a message about the “forgotten men and women” who had been betrayed by both parties and about how we have to “Make America Great Again.” And Donald Trump won, the first time he ever ran.
Clearly the establishment narrative had failed the Left. So, what was to be done? Up the ante. With the violent support of astroturfed, so-called, social justice “movements” like Antifa and Black Lives Matter, the spin-doctors, talking heads, and communication “experts” decided to go all the way.
Building upon Hillary Clinton’s original dehumanizing language of the “Deplorables,” which itself was a version of Obama’s “bitter clingers” slur, the Biden regime and its lacks doubled down. Instead of deplorable hicks who loved their Bible and their guns, the language switched to something much darker.
If you were one of the 60 million-plus Americans who originally voted for the billionaire from Queens, or the 70 million-plus who voted to re-elect him 4 years later, you were a threat. From his fascistic red-lit Marine Corps propped-up speech in front of Liberty Hall, to his speech Monday at the site of a church shooting which – strangely occurred under Obama’s presidency, not Trump’s – Biden has you as a MAGA-extremist, a domestic terrorist driven by White Supremacy. President Trump is described as an authoritarian who admires Mussolini, reads Mein Kampf, and is readying himself to establish a dictatorship.
This is all very strange, given that the man in question has already been President and took none of the actions we are told he is obsessed with when he already was in office. Instead of being a fascist or a Nazi, or a White-Supremacist, he was the most philosemitic President since 1948, a man who recognized Jerusalem and moved our embassy there, after 3 previous Presidents were too afraid too. As to White-Supremacy and general bigotry? In addition to black and gay cabinet members, President Trump initiated unprecedented justice and penal reforms to help minorities, in addition to historic support to Black colleges and universities.
So, who are the fascists?
Who deployed the FBI to raid Mar a Lago, the residence of a former President? Which administration arrested former Assistants to the President for “contempt of Congress?” Whose DOJ targeted a former President’s lawyers, including the former Mayor of New York? Whose FBI surveilled Catholics for being “traditional?” Who sentenced January 6 demonstrators for 20+ years for trumped up “obstruction of an official proceedings” charges? Whose DOJ used illegal surveillance 200,000+ times against innocent Americans? Whose Federal Air Marshals tracked Trump supporters simply because they support the former President. Unelected judges of which political persuasion are trying to take President Trump off the 2024 ballot? And which side has raised indictments totaling more than 730+ years in prison against the leader of the Opposition?
Yes, America is facing the threat of fascist dictatorship. But it’s already here. The Fascists are the Democrat Party and the Biden regime.
Sebastian Gorka Ph.D. is host of SALEM Radio’s AMERICA First and The Gorka Reality Check on NEWSMAX TV. A former Strategist to President Donald Trump, he is a member of the National Security Education Board of the Pentagon. His latest book is The War for America’s Soul. Follow him on his SubStack page and website.
Posted on Tuesday, January 9, 2024
by Dr. Sebastian Gorka
|
They say “perception is reality.” Not quite.
But what someone thinks is true will shape their behavior, even if it isn’t actually true.
If that weren’t the case, billions of dollars wouldn’t be spent annually on marketing and advertising products and services you don’t actually need but which “consumers” have been convinced they can’t live without.
The same goes for the world of politics. There are perceptions, and then there is the reality. And knowing the difference between them in 2024 will be crucial.
So let’s start with that awful word: “narrative,” because the historic Presidential election this year will be driven by whether existing false representations of Left and Right can be broken.
The conventional wisdom, the DC narrative about Left v. Right has been boiled down for decades as: “the Democrats care about the little guy, for minorities and women” and “Republicans are mean, selfish, greedy and elitists who look down on the working man.” Then 2016 happened.
Incredibly, a billionaire reality-TV superstar real-estate mogul came out of nowhere with a message about the “forgotten men and women” who had been betrayed by both parties and about how we have to “Make America Great Again.” And Donald Trump won, the first time he ever ran.
Clearly the establishment narrative had failed the Left. So, what was to be done? Up the ante. With the violent support of astroturfed, so-called, social justice “movements” like Antifa and Black Lives Matter, the spin-doctors, talking heads, and communication “experts” decided to go all the way.
Building upon Hillary Clinton’s original dehumanizing language of the “Deplorables,” which itself was a version of Obama’s “bitter clingers” slur, the Biden regime and its lacks doubled down. Instead of deplorable hicks who loved their Bible and their guns, the language switched to something much darker.
If you were one of the 60 million-plus Americans who originally voted for the billionaire from Queens, or the 70 million-plus who voted to re-elect him 4 years later, you were a threat. From his fascistic red-lit Marine Corps propped-up speech in front of Liberty Hall, to his speech Monday at the site of a church shooting which – strangely occurred under Obama’s presidency, not Trump’s – Biden has you as a MAGA-extremist, a domestic terrorist driven by White Supremacy. President Trump is described as an authoritarian who admires Mussolini, reads Mein Kampf, and is readying himself to establish a dictatorship.
This is all very strange, given that the man in question has already been President and took none of the actions we are told he is obsessed with when he already was in office. Instead of being a fascist or a Nazi, or a White-Supremacist, he was the most philosemitic President since 1948, a man who recognized Jerusalem and moved our embassy there, after 3 previous Presidents were too afraid too. As to White-Supremacy and general bigotry? In addition to black and gay cabinet members, President Trump initiated unprecedented justice and penal reforms to help minorities, in addition to historic support to Black colleges and universities.
So, who are the fascists?
Who deployed the FBI to raid Mar a Lago, the residence of a former President? Which administration arrested former Assistants to the President for “contempt of Congress?” Whose DOJ targeted a former President’s lawyers, including the former Mayor of New York? Whose FBI surveilled Catholics for being “traditional?” Who sentenced January 6 demonstrators for 20+ years for trumped up “obstruction of an official proceedings” charges? Whose DOJ used illegal surveillance 200,000+ times against innocent Americans? Whose Federal Air Marshals tracked Trump supporters simply because they support the former President. Unelected judges of which political persuasion are trying to take President Trump off the 2024 ballot? And which side has raised indictments totaling more than 730+ years in prison against the leader of the Opposition?
Yes, America is facing the threat of fascist dictatorship. But it’s already here. The Fascists are the Democrat Party and the Biden regime.
Sebastian Gorka Ph.D. is host of SALEM Radio’s AMERICA First and The Gorka Reality Check on NEWSMAX TV. A former Strategist to President Donald Trump, he is a member of the National Security Education Board of the Pentagon. His latest book is The War for America’s Soul. Follow him on his SubStack page and website.
Maine Must Change the Way it Selects Constitutional Officers
In this Portland Press Herald op-ed, Director of Legislative Affairs Jacob Posik recounts the many controversies surrounding Maine's constitutional officers, including Secretary of State Shenna Bellows' recent decision to bar former President Trump from the Republican primary ballot, to make the case for why Maine must allow voters or the chief executive to select these positions instead of the Legislature. Read here.
Read: No Thanks to National Popular VoteCEO Matthew Gagnon explains how LD 1578, the bill to enact the National Popular Vote compact in Maine, is riddled with legal and logistical issues that its proponents can't solve or adequately address, and how Maine's electorate might respond if lawmakers move in this direction. Read here.
Watch: Donald Trump and Maine's BallotGagnon joined Gregg Lagerquist in studio for this Friday Focus segment on CBS13 to unpack the decisions in Maine and Colorado to bar Trump from the ballot and why courts need to weigh in to settle the issue and prevent from electoral chaos in 2024. Watch here.
Read our TestimonyThe Second Session of the 131st Legislature is underway. This week, Maine Policy submitted testimony on bills related to the National Popular Vote compact, occupational licensing regulations, and new rules that would hurt small businesses in rural Maine. Click here to stay up to date with all of Maine Policy's latest testimony.
In this Portland Press Herald op-ed, Director of Legislative Affairs Jacob Posik recounts the many controversies surrounding Maine's constitutional officers, including Secretary of State Shenna Bellows' recent decision to bar former President Trump from the Republican primary ballot, to make the case for why Maine must allow voters or the chief executive to select these positions instead of the Legislature. Read here.
Read: No Thanks to National Popular VoteCEO Matthew Gagnon explains how LD 1578, the bill to enact the National Popular Vote compact in Maine, is riddled with legal and logistical issues that its proponents can't solve or adequately address, and how Maine's electorate might respond if lawmakers move in this direction. Read here.
Watch: Donald Trump and Maine's BallotGagnon joined Gregg Lagerquist in studio for this Friday Focus segment on CBS13 to unpack the decisions in Maine and Colorado to bar Trump from the ballot and why courts need to weigh in to settle the issue and prevent from electoral chaos in 2024. Watch here.
Read our TestimonyThe Second Session of the 131st Legislature is underway. This week, Maine Policy submitted testimony on bills related to the National Popular Vote compact, occupational licensing regulations, and new rules that would hurt small businesses in rural Maine. Click here to stay up to date with all of Maine Policy's latest testimony.
JOEL STETKIS:
"Fellow Mainers:
Maine democracy is under attack.
The voice of the people, your voice, is under attack.
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, once named the most progressive Senate candidate in America, unilaterally threw Donald Trump off the ballot last night.
The Maine Republican Party has been fighting these backroom elites since they started their push to subvert democracy by tossing President Trump.
Rest assured we'll be fighting this in court -- all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary. And we reserve our right as a private organization to use a caucus system if that's what it takes to keep a Democrat Hack Secretary of State from infringing on the Rights of Maine voters.
Friends, the enemy is at the gates.
We will be fighting back. If you want to join us, we welcome you to our cause."
"Fellow Mainers:
Maine democracy is under attack.
The voice of the people, your voice, is under attack.
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, once named the most progressive Senate candidate in America, unilaterally threw Donald Trump off the ballot last night.
The Maine Republican Party has been fighting these backroom elites since they started their push to subvert democracy by tossing President Trump.
Rest assured we'll be fighting this in court -- all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary. And we reserve our right as a private organization to use a caucus system if that's what it takes to keep a Democrat Hack Secretary of State from infringing on the Rights of Maine voters.
Friends, the enemy is at the gates.
We will be fighting back. If you want to join us, we welcome you to our cause."
Lincoln Day Breakfast- Saturday 2/10/2024
Fundraiser for York County GOP
Fundraiser for York County GOP
Flag Day - June 14, 2023
County Meeting in Alfred
Kentucky Derby - May 6, 2023
Lincoln Day Breakfast - February 11, 2023
Host: York County Republican Committee
Rep. Heidi Sampson - January 18, 2023
Candidate for ME State GOP Chair
Please contact us at 207-370-7523.
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