Category Politics

Feb 24 2012

Dale’s Favorite Things (To the tune “My Favorite Things)

Gift cards with DJs and warm back massages

Funtown and Splashtown for those who like splashes

We’ll drive to the moon if the taxpayer springs

These are a few of Dale’s favorite things

 

Abracadabra!  We paid for magicians

With money for homes and warm little kitchens

Who cares about LHeap? Just bring on the bling!

These are a few of Dale’s favorite things

 

Karate, we party with slides and bounce houses

Sandcastles, aren’t they affordable houses?

Let’s go to Dan’s Barbeque and have us a fling

These are few of Dale’s favorite things

 

When there’s questions

When the noose tugs

Dale is feeling sad

The Portland Press Herald will lie like a rug

And then she won’t feel so bad

Yes, just give a call in to Maine’s BDN

And then Dale won’t feel so bad

Oh, McCormick won’t feel so bad

 

So the moral of this exercise in parody is to show the lack of morals at The Maine Housing Authority.  After the self-righteous monologue by Dale McCormick, the director of Maine State Housing, claiming that people would freeze this winter because of a lack of funds for LHeap, it now comes to light that, while Federal cuts to heating assistance have put Maine’s vulnerable in danger, Maine State Housing under McCormick’s direction has been diverting much needed funds into frivolous and lavish expenditures within the bureaucracy.  While 6,500 families wait in line for affordable housing, McCormick has heaped on Maine taxpayers exorbitant expense tabs that have her living a very posh lifestyle.

The Democrats decry the LePage administration’s investigation into this as a “witch-hunt”.  The Democrats are now obstructing the attempts to balance the DHHS budget by claiming they need more to spend.  They even believe they can regain the majority next November because they are confident Mainers want more of this corruption.  I think not!  Taxpayers of Maine need to read the ongoing investigation “The Maine Wire” is doing on this issue at TheMaineWire.com.  The revelations are troubling but, if we want to clean up the smelly onions in Maine, we need to see and smell the stench to know what to clean up.  Let’s Set Maine Free!

Feb 22 2012

The McCormick Files: Carbon Credits

New evidence emerges that Dale McCormick has entered in to a multi-million dollar deal with Chevrolet to sell Maine carbon-credits to the car maker.  Carbon credits, green energy and Dale McCormick, the perfect storm of ideological lunacy at the expense of the taxpayer.

Developing: McCormick Refuses to Disclose Details of Carbon Trading Scheme

Feb 20 2012

Down The River

 

The excuse machine for the Maine Democrat Party is on full spin cycle. They tumble through the revolving objection drum, searching daily for a new reason to obstruct a balanced budget.  First, the Governor presented his proposal to address the DHHS budget shortfall to the Appropriations Committee.  The Democrats and their moderate Republican allies on the committee chose instead to produce a bill that did not address the looming fiscal crises but rather preferred to push the problem to a later date.  After overwhelming outrage from the people, the House correctly amended the bill to deal with the issue more directly.

Amazingly, this bill had bi-partisan support, at least, for a time.  Several Democrats have now realized that throwing messy obstructionist tantrums is far more effective in garnering headlines than to simply do the work of the people.  So now, we have the juvenile revolving reason to pout.

To start, these Democrats said they could not support the bill because it did not have the approval of the Appropriations Committee. Then the committee gave the bill its approval.  Now, the Democrats can’t support it because it doesn’t have enough …spending?  And we all know that the reason Maine is grossly over budget is because we haven’t spent enough, right?  Really?

This should come as no surprise to the people of Maine.  As the high levels of corruption in government bureaucracies are now coming to light, we can see clearly why Cynthia Dill and others want to spend more.  They just need a few more perks for being public servants.

The smelly onion of the Turnpike Commission keeps unraveling with pungent and rank clarity.  The investigative works of Peter Mills and his staff have shone a light on the many get rich schemes hidden beneath the veils of this tax-funded organization.  Indictments have come down with more on the way.  But it pales in comparison to what has been unearthed within the corridors of Maine State Housing.

In the past five years, under the leadership of Dale McCormick, Maine State Housing Authority (MSHA) has increased travel expenses by 157%.  Training expenses have increased by 287%.  Gift cards, catering, massage therapy, and martial arts training, to name a few, all spent with lavish exuberance on the taxpayer dime.

Some of the training facilities itemized under “education/training” were such heralded institutions as Ground Round, Pushard’s Okinawan Karate, Abracadabra Productions, and Dan’s BBQ.  Expenses marked “office supplies” included Funtown/Splashtown USA, Are You Ready To Party, Inc., Healing Hands Therapeutic massage, and Sandcastle Entertainment, which rents bounce houses and slides.  These abuses continue to be uncovered by watchdog groups, such as Maine Heritage Policy Center.

Perhaps, as Democrats continue to obstruct the arduous task of balancing Maine’s budget with cries to spend more money and, instead, demand to spend us down the river, we the people should ask why?  Was it because you didn’t have enough for your expenditures in the first place?  Or do you just want to play?