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Nov 18 2011

Is your vote for sale?

Is your vote for sale?

 

This past election has brought some truths to light that the people of Maine must study in order to better understand the political motivations of those who wish to influence elections.  The Republicans suffered a defeat in their quest to bring security and accountability to the Maine election process.  Those who wished to keep our voting system vulnerable and easily manipulated, have reason to rejoice as the seedy cloak of deceit will, for now, remain to shroud the clear function of the most sacred rite of Maine’s Democratic process.  It is telling that in the State of Mississippi a measure to require voter ID was overwhelmingly passed by the people with a two-thirds majority.

The true test of a group’s character and integrity is how well they can handle defeat.  The people of Maine will wait and watch to see if the GOP can learn from their mistakes.  Their opponents will revel in the defeat and watch expectantly for Republicans to implode and cannibalize each other.  This will be a true test of the maturation to leadership for a party that has not been in power for over forty years.

Donald Sussman, a billionaire hedge fund manager, gave over $250,000 to the Yes on 1 campaign in order to try and influence the vote.  He succeeded.  There was no way the Republicans would spend that kind of money on a vote.  Republicans refuse to buy votes.  Mr. Sussman is the husband of U.S. Representative Chellie Pingree.  This reveals to the people of Maine a systemic problem with the Democrat Party and their supporters.  The Democrats view voters as commodities that can be bought and sold, bartered in the mercantile of ideas in exchange for freedoms.

Much can be learned about a belief system by looking at the groups that propagate it.  The Yes on 1 campaign was funded by a hedge fund, Wall Street manipulator.  It was also supported with thousands of dollars and ground troops from MPA, SEIU, and Equality Maine -all of which have checkered pasts, to put it nicely, with regards to their handling of the voting process.  Maine people will have to decide whether they appreciate having individuals buy the vote and whether they are ready to put their voting rights out to bid for whoever has the deepest pockets.  I, for one, am uncomfortable with the defense that there is no voter fraud in Maine because you couldn’t prove it.  It seems eerily reminiscent of the standard defense that every criminal at every level uses to beat the rap….you can’t prove it.  For me it is not the burden of proof, it is the burden of possibility.  We can’t leave Democracy to chance.

Congratulations to Ray Wallace for his great victory in District 24.  There is a lesson for the Republican Party to take out of this election also.  While Question 1 was utter defeat for the GOP, the Republican candidate was able to win.  This flies in the face of the Democrats assertion that Mainers are rejecting the Governor’s policies.  The Democrat campaigned on an Anti-LePage platform.  The Green Party candidate, ironically, campaigned on a Pro-LePage/social conservative platform and was able to pull nearly 8% of the vote away from Ray Wallace.  Mr. Wallace still won.

Mainers are still very loyal to the Governor.  Some polls have him at over 50% popularity.  One poll has his job approval rating higher than his likeability rating.  This speaks to what commonsense people have always known: I don’t have to like you to want you to do the job.  I just have to know you will get the job done and done right.  Those in the Republican Party, which have played the obstructionist to the Governor, would do well to take heed.

During the Question 1 referendum, an out of state group came to do some ads for the No on 1 campaign.  They refused to allow input from the Maine Republicans.  Consequently, Mainers were confused and put off by the image these ads portrayed.  Another lesson learned.  The Maine Republican Party needs to speak directly to the people, like any good team learn from their mistakes and come back stronger, and join with their popular Governor to present to the people of Maine one strong coherent message.  The Maine Conservative Voice is confident that they will.  For the sake of Maine, they have to.

Oct 31 2011

What is important?

What is important?

 

The Democrat Party has been making it increasingly easier for commonsense Mainers to make correct decisions in the voting booths come November.  After the Republican Party passed legislation to safeguard the integrity of our voting system in Maine, the opposition cried foul.  They waited for the throngs to join them.  To their disappointment, the numbers were not as large as they had hoped.  Mainers are far too endowed with powers of perception to fall for the same old Democrat lies.  After all, they have heard them for forty years and have gotten use to the pattern.  So how to create a throng?

Well, you can’t just go out and work up Maine people because they might ask tough questions like, “What’s wrong with protecting our votes?” or “Don’t you want to help out overworked town clerks on election day?” and the very embarrassing and awkward “You don’t want to stop voter fraud…why?”  That just wouldn’t work.  So, the Democrats have run to their old standby, the far-left fringe groups such as Maine People’s Alliance.  These groups are great at creating calamity out of tranquility, confusion out of clarity, and joblessness out of prosperity.  Ah yes, the wonderful “community organizers”.

Your humble columnist has had opportunity to engage in battle with the MPA on a few occasions.  It is a shame to see the lengths these groups will go to create instability, specifically economic instability, throughout the communities of Maine.  One such time, a large company, HoltraChem, had made some mistakes in its handling of chemicals and was required by the State to follow stringent regulations to clean it up.  They did and the expense of which was the demise of their company.  They sold out to another company, which finished the cleanup and maintained the landfills of contaminated soil to State standards.  This was not good enough for the MPA.  They saw an opportunity to bankrupt another big company.  They demanded this company and the town dig up the inert mercury soil now safely contained, reactivate the soil, drag it through Maine towns in rail cars and trucks to Canada, expose the environment, the townspeople of Maine and Canada to reactivated mercury, and burden another business with insurmountable operational expenses.  Why?  Was it to protect the environment or the townspeople?  Certainly not!  Their goal was to destroy another business.

These are the extremists that the Democrats have aligned themselves with to obstruct the people of Maine from securing protection of the sacred trust of Democracy.  Yes, the Democrats seem to think the process to purchase a bottle of whisky or a pack of cigarettes takes precedence over the process to insure the integrity of basic liberties.

They cry that there is no voter fraud; yet, a quick google of the words “voter fraud” will immediately grant you 20,000 entries having to do with voter fraud in the nation.  The most recent has an imminent arrest of Democrat leaders in Buffalo, New York.  Another reaches all the way to the Oval Office questioning whether Barack Obama should have ever been on the ballot in Indiana.

Fellow Mainers, we know better.  This is not about identifying voter fraud.  It is about preventing voter fraud.  Prevention is worth a pound of cure unless you don’t want to be cured.  So perhaps we should ask the Democrats that uncomfortable question again. “Why don’t you want to prevent voter fraud…again?”  The Maine Conservative Voice urges all its readers to vote “No” on 1.  It’s commonsense.  All of our readers in Dexter area make sure you go out and vote for Ray Wallace.  Let’s Set Maine Free!

Jul 18 2011

A Fine Mess

        Recently, the State Chairman of the Democrat Party published an article belittling the accomplishments of the new Governor of the State of Maine.  With the usual arrogant smug detachment from reality that generally accompanies any discourse from the deep yawning cavern of a liberal mind, this man fairly gloated over the what he characterized as a lack of improvement from the forty years of fiscal catastrophes that he and his Democrat friends have worked so hard to compile.  After all, the Governor has had all of 180 days.  Shouldn’t Governor LePage have corrected the litany of Democrat mismanagements by now?  The good Chairman, that’s sarcasm by the way, chose to ignore the fact the Governor LePage did one thing in six months that the Democrats didn’t do in forty years.  Enact welfare reform.  Oh, there is that.

But the Democrats are so proud.  They are so proud of this mountain of debt they have worked so hard to build.  It’s not everyone that can plan so perfectly how to make promises that you never intend to keep.  Then keep layering more lies upon broken promises upon false hopes until the bloated cancer is so entrenched it is virtually immovable.  Only Democrats could create such a scheme and get away with it and no Governor is going to turn this fiasco around in six months.  The Democrats are crowing with glee because no one, and they mean no one, can create a mess like a Democrat can.  “See,” they say, “this Governor can’t clean up our mess.  It’s… too….messy.”  Well, he did institute healthcare reform, just a trifle.  And he did make good on some promises that Governor Baldacci made and neglected to keep.

Which really burns the Democrats biscuits, doesn’t it?  Can’t Governor LePage understand that you just make the promises?  You don’t keep them?  The liberals had a good thing going.  Just promise “pie in the sky”, keep the entitlements flowing and keep raising those taxes.  Who cares if you can’t pay for it?!  We’re politicians.  We don’t have to pay for it.  We just vote our own salaries.  Raise the taxes!!!  What?!  Governor LePage just instituted one of the biggest tax cuts in Maine history and he plans to do more?  Ehh, Gaaddss!!!!  What does he think he’s doing?  Putting money back in people’s wallets?  This is unsettling to a Democrat’s delicate constitution.  Weelll, I can’t say that word either because it has negative implications to a Democrat, perhaps a Democrats delicate persona.

They comfort themselves with the knowledge that they have created such a gargantuan forty year mess that it will take much longer than six months to turn things around.  And with the help of their moderate Republican allies they just might be able to stall the cure long enough for the folks to get impatient.  Then they can have their power back and keep that big slimy stinking mess they’ve worked so hard over forty years to pile up.

Now, they’ve created a website called the “61% ers” or something.  Which is appropriate because Democrats have always viewed voters as merely numbers anyway.  It’s a “seeourmessissobadtheGovernorwillnevergetreelectedcausehecan’tfixourmesscauseitisreallybad” website.  I guess…if you like that kind hypocrisy…..

Oh, the Democrats are so proud.  So proud of the mess they’ve made.  Can’t you hear it in their voices?  They don’t think anyone can fix it.  We’ll see….  By the way, if you would like to ask the Governor and his commissioners about the mess the Democrats are so proud of, he will be holding a “Capital for a day” town hall meeting at Center Theatre in Dover-Foxcroft, Thursday at 6 PM.  Doors open at 5:15 PM.  See you there!!!!

Aug 12 2010

John Martin Politics

As promised, we will delve a little deeper into the viral hatred the Democratic Party has for small independent businesses a little later in this column.  Evidence seems to point towards the trigger for the animosity as being the word independent.  As you know, the Democrats derive their power from those who are dependent upon government, rather than those who are independent of it; but for the next few paragraphs, let’s finish the third wave of taxation from the Supreme leader of the Democratic Party.

Yes, taxes will be raised on all businesses, but the attack will be more coordinated and pointed to the effect and detriment of small businesses.  Small independent businesses can usually expense up to $250,000 for equipment purchases.  This will be crushed to $25,000.  The rest must be slowly deducted or “depreciated”.  Large businesses must “depreciate” all of their equipment purchases, rather then the 50% they enjoyed in the past.  There are scores of more taxes that the President will use to bludgeon small businesses in 2011, such as, the loss of the “Research and Experimentation Tax Credit.”  So much for encouraging new ideas.  This loss of tax relief combined with the high marginal tax hikes will cost us even more jobs.  This in the light of the new job loss numbers set at another 100,000.  So, what are a few 100,000 jobs between Democrats?

The Education jobs will be attacked also.  Deductions for tuition and fees will no longer be available.  Teachers in 2011 will not be able to deduct classroom expenses.  Coverdell Education Savings Accounts will be cut.  The student loan interest deduction will be disallowed.  Finally, the crown jewel of all Democratic Taxation Pursuits, charitable contributions will not be allowed.  Yes, those with IRA’s will not be able to make charitable donations, and it’s because… Obama cares.  My opinion of the Democratic Party continues to “depreciate” by the minute.

Now back to the Liberals fixation with the destruction of small independent business.  Remember at the beginning of the President’s administration, he put a restriction on the stimulus funds so that the monies could only go to Union Contractors and Union Businesses?  This, as you might imagine, created quite a fuss.  The White House quickly covered it up and the din slowly subsided.  We thought that perhaps this President had learned his lesson and would honor the will of the people, to leave independent contractors alone.  Has he or his Party ever listened to the will of the people?

So, quietly and insidiously, the Democrats have begun, all across the United States, to audit independent contractors.  We need to address the irreparable damage the Democrats wish to inflict upon the working men and women of this country and, more specifically, here in the Great State of Maine.  To do this, I will use the example of one Representative John Martin.

The “Honorable” John Martin represents the St. John Valley.  He resides in Eagle Lake.  Every election, strangely enough, he usually runs unopposed.  Those who do, do so at their own peril.  You see, its common knowledge in Aroostook County that the “Honorable” John Martin will crush all those who oppose him.  He does so by taking away your ability to make a living.  Yes, really.  Those who run against him, end up losing their jobs and, yes, even relatives of those candidates lose their jobs.

It’s called thug politics.  It is now the marching orders for Democratic Party straight from its Commander and Chief.  This audit of independent contractors is a prime example.  John Martin, I’m sure, is beaming with pride.  The Democratic Party has been manipulating the accounts and paperwork of independent contractors in order to attack other independent contractors.  The field operatives of the State have been pressuring contractors to turn in their fellow contractors.  How do I know this is true?  I will tell you.

I am an independent contractor.  I am a carpenter and mason.  The Democratic Party has attacked my business and manipulated my accounts in order to attack my associates.  In next week’s column, I will reveal the truth about the Democrats tactics from a first hand perspective.  I will show you the heinous plan to destroy our economy.  I will show how they are trying to force contractors to knuckle under to the Unions.  I will name names.  I will not go down without a fight.  I echo the cry of my fellow independent contractors in saying, “We’d rather die than to be Union!”