The County Commissioners of Piscataquis County are reversing their decision to turn over the County road, which was the access to Little Wilson Falls, to Roxanne Quimby. After an outcry from the residents, local legislators Paul Davis, Doug Thomas,Pete Johnson and Former Rep Jim Annis got involved in the fight for the people. Jim Annis is running for the Commissioners seat being vacated by retiring Commissioner Tom Lizzotte. Quimby had originally illegally gated the road until she was informed by the County commissioners that it was a county road and she could not block the access. Then in confusing series of events the commissioners voted to turn over the road to Quimby. This sparked an outcry from the residents of Piscataquis and the legislators got involved. When commissioner Fred Trask made it known that he would vote against the proposal, Quimby withdrew the proposal. When this was announced at today’s meeting, the commissioners moved to reverse their original decision. Senator Doug Thomas asked that the motion be amended to demand that Quimby remove the gate from the road completely. Commissioner Lizzotte voice his disapproval of such an amendment, but commissioner Fred Trask spoke in support of the amendment reminding Lizotte that the gate is on county property therefore must be removed. Lizzotte relented and the motion was passed with amendment to require the removal of Quimby’s gate. Little Wilson Falls is a favorite spot for local residents to visit. many elderly are able to view the falls by driving up the road. Gating the road made it impossible for many elderly and very young to enjoy its beauty. One small victory for the people of Maine. Representative Paul Davis, Senator Doug Thomas and Commissioner Fred Trask are to be commended for standing with the people of Piscataquis County.
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Hop, Skip and a Jump
“Winter is coming, but these sweatshirts are perfect for fall.” It sounds like the perfect slogan for the winter front of a department store here in the northern reaches of Maine. Those of us who are beginning to enjoy the cool bite of fall in the air can fully comprehend the message in those words. What is incomprehensible is why the Obama campaign would tweet this campaign message minutes before receiving the bodies from the Libyan consulate attack. Yes, our President had your fall and winter apparel on his mind while the rest of us was recoiling in shock from the brutality of unspeakable monsters.
But it is easy, perhaps, to understand his lack of gravitas in this situation. Three days before the attacks, security officials from these middle-eastern countries warned our Nation that these attacks from terrorists were imminent. The President chose to skip every one of these security meetings in order to keep campaigning and no Marines were sent to protect the Libyan Embassy until after the carnage. Marines at the Cairo Embassy were stripped of live ammunition.
Now his response, in the aftermath, is to blame our freedom of speech. This has prompted the world at large to begin to now openly mock America’s foreign policy. Even liberal columnist, Kirsten Powers, has implored the President to “stop blaming the victims”. This, in light of the fact that the first response from this Administration was to blame a movie for the acts of vile hate, as if someone’s expressed opinion validates a response of murder and hate.
The President and his surrogates have also tried to portray this as an random, spontaneous act, believing that Americans would appreciate rape and pillage better if they felt the terrorists just stumbled into it, forced by the opinions of American filmmaker. Unfortunately, even this silly notion is not founded on any shred of reason or fact. The President of Libya has stated emphatically that this was a coordinated and previously planned attack by Al-Qaeda, meant to coincide with the anniversary of 9/11.
While the President has tried to heap blame on the freedoms and liberties we enjoy in this Nation, Governor Mitt Romney denounced the attacks and refused to apologize for American freedoms, imperfect as the expressions thereof may be. For his show of strength, the President and his media surrogates have vilified Mitt Romney. Imagine a leader doing something so heinous as decrying evil and defending the United States! It might even be thought of as Presidential, for shame!
Sarcasm aside, the Democrat Party has a virulent strain of the blame-anybody-else-but-me virus running through its very core of function. It runs from the White House all the way down to our local Senate Races here in Maine. In Senate District 27, Herb Clark has been trying to convince voters here in the Highlands that he was duped into sponsoring the bill that called for a feasibility study of the East-West corridor. That he was somehow forced to hop in front of the cameras when he desired the publicity at the bills signing. And now that he has jumped off the train, he calls his opponent Senator Thomas a “flip-flop” for calling for a slow down of the train so that all the information can be correctly and clearly disseminated to the people affected by the corridor. Mr. Clark prefers to apologize for the dispensation of truth and knowledge, something we in the Highlands hold in high regard. Truth and knowledge has the ring of freedom to it.
How are we in District 27 supposed to trust the Honorable Herbert Clark with the sacred duty of making decisions that effect our livelihoods if the good Representative can’t even trust his own judgment? People of Maine, we are a people who pride ourselves in our discernment and common sense. If Representative Clark can be so easily “misled”, so easily confused, and can so easily advocate the shut off of information, then we should be certain that he is a poor representation of the voters of District 27. We should never apologize for the Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press and the Freedom Of Information. The Democrats seem more concerned with placating maniacal monsters and hiding from truth than defending the very Freedoms that make this nation great.
Ploys, Tones and Sentiments
Liberals have added a new hurdle to the implementation and acceptance of truth. One must use the right tone when expressing facts or those facts will be discarded as false. The arrogance of this sentiment is stunning to be kind. To exercise some sort of parental discretion over Maine residents by threatening to disallow an individual’s defined arguments in the platform of civil debate simply because their tone was not correct, is appalling at best. This is the latest diversionary tactic by the media to cover for their President.
The Kennebec Journal recently posted an article “fact checking” Jason Savage, which quickly spiraled into a hit piece rather than the truth seeking they espoused. The theme of the article centered on the issue of the billions of tax cuts that MediCare will endure as a result of ObamaCare, which is now law. While they admitted the numbers and facts are true, they proposed that argument, presented by the Director of Maine People Before Politics, should be disregarded as false, or “mostly false”, on the basis of the poor tone that Mr. Savage used. Mostly false, is this a bad sequel to The Princess Bride?
Anyway, the Journal went on to cite the AARP. Yes, the same AARP that named a strong supporter of Hugo Chavez as “Person of the Year”. They quoted a doctor, who rattled off the infamous “as long as there are no changes” line, ignoring that the costs of ObamaCare have been arcing upwards since its implementation. But my favorite line of “defense” is this little jewel of wisdom by the author, “ Still nothing is really ‘robbed’, the way almost anyone uses the word, and that money is coming largely from reduced payment to hospitals, other health providers and insurers.” So it’s really not robbery to not pay for services rendered as long as you “mostly pay”, or how about “hardly pay”, or, if ask Maine’s hospitals, “never pay”? Really? Miracle Max would be so proud. Fact: Partial payment is not full payment. Oh, did I just use the wrong tone?
In the heated East-West Highway debate, Senator Doug Thomas and the Governor have wisely called for a slowdown to the process to allow for all the facts to be presented amidst all the din and noise. Thomas’ opponent has mocked this call for caution as a political ploy. He neglects to acknowledge that he helped sponsor Doug Thomas’ bill, which was a call for a fact-finding investigation of the possibility of the Highway. So Mr. Hebert Clark of Millinocket (D) voted for the bill before he voted against it despite the fact that the bill he voted for but is now against has yet to reveal the information that he voted for and is now against. But at least his tone was right.
But herein lies the biggest quandary. How can one strike the right tone when those who stand in judgment of the tenor are tone-deaf to anything but their own sound?
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