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Final Segment · Newsradio WGAN

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And we're back on the WGAN Morning News.
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I'm Aaron Chad, born in format on this Memorial Day.
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Hope you're staying dry out there as we wait for the rain to
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finish up, move out so we can hopefully have a decent
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afternoon. Try to attend that parade in
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Portland on Stevens Ave. It should be a nice way to do
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it. From now to the end of the show,
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we want to talk to you, get your takes, get your thoughts.
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879-9426 is the number. It's also the number for the
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text line. You can text into 207-879-9426.
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Next up on the phone line is Bruce from Auburn.
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Go ahead, Bruce. Good morning, Aaron.
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Thank you for taking my call. First of all, I, I want to
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commend WGN to be doing so well financially that they're able to
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bring in a big name star like you.
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I think what's the seventh time this month they have to be doing
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really well financially to be able to do that.
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I, I called though about Graham Plattner and the insight that
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that this man has. Have you been able to see the
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the campaign commercial that he has where he talks about the
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charade, the the end of the Susan Collins charade?
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And then he goes off about how she allowed this war to happen
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and how she's responsible for the greatest transfer of wealth
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from the oligarchs, from the working class that's ever
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happened. Have you seen that commercial?
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I believe I've seen the one you're talking about.
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I have to say I, I saw Senator Collins recently at an event and
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you know what bothers her the most?
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She said, you know, the thing that she goes, he can take issue
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with my policy positions, my votes, things like that.
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But she gets really upset when they, they allege that she's
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corrupt. She's like, here's someone that
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has not personally enriched herself.
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She's actually been the same person taking the same votes and
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she's been pretty consistent. And that's the one thing that
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gets to her because she knows that it's Chuck Schumer and all
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these people that want power. But to allege the corruption
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charge against her I think is unfair to her.
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And I can understand why I should be upset by it.
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Well, I, I, so help me understand this grandfather
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who's running for U.S. Senate wants my vote.
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He, he's alleging that that she allowed the, the current war
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with Iran. So if she allowed the war to
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happen, is it because of her influence with Donald Trump that
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she could have controlled him from not doing the war?
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Or is he alleging that she had so much influence?
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She could have. She's preventing the Iranians
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from making a deal because of her influence.
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I mean, she's just one of 100 US senators.
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And why aren't the other senators able to prevent the
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war? She's a He's alleging that she
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could have prevented the war. I think in this particular case,
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Susan Collins voted against the resolution on the.
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It was called the War Powers Resolution, which could have
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forced the president to stop spending money on the conflict.
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And so she joined with the Republicans to vote against
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that. I think there were reasons that
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she decided at the time. I think that's what he's using
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as a substantiation for his claim, saying she could have
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voted to curtail the president's authority.
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She did believe that under the War Powers Act that he did have
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the authority for 60 days to be able to do it.
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Now, since that time, who knows? There hasn't been a similar War
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Powers resolution come forward yet.
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And Trump has been arguing that the ceasefire kind of told the
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counting of days. So I think that's what he's
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saying. But no, you're absolutely right
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that the president has executive powers.
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And Susan Collins, how is she going to be the one person?
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But that's what they do. They have to make her into the
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boogeyman. You know, this Bruce, the the
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argument against Susan Collins has to be that she's
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establishment out of touch career politician, that she's
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very old, that she is a rubber stamp for Donald Trump.
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She's just Trump, Trump, Trump enablist Trump, Trump, Trump
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derangement syndrome. And then they make it about
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abortion. And I think This is why I've
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said that Graham Platner is a more formidable candidate
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against Susan Collins than Janet Mills would have been because
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Janet Mills couldn't have talked about Susan Collins age, because
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Janet Mills is older. She couldn't have called Susan
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Collins a career politician because Janet Mills is a career
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politician. She couldn't say that Susan
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Collins in the tank for special interest because Janet Mills in
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the tank for special interest. So that would have been a much
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more, you know, basic race Platner, he can get around
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everything and and he can get all away with it.
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The only thing he can't take the moral high ground on is but
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whatever posting she's done on the Internet.
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The danger with Graham Platiner is out of central casting and we
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have too many voters that have a mindset that they think that
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wrestling is real. If they probe Platiner and they
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look for the truth behind what he's saying, he doesn't have any
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substance and much of it is distorted and not accurate.
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But a lot of that Bruce and I appreciate the point.
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I don't think you're wrong. However, that was the same
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criticism of Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.
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And yet, what have we seen? She's gone on to be one of the
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most prominent political figures on the left.
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She is kind of driving the narrative.
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She really in many ways this, the showdown between Mills and
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Plattner was really a showdown between AOC, Bernie Mamdani and
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the Chuck Schumer establishment wing.
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And so if you look at a OCA lot of the criticisms you just said
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about Graham Plattner would apply to AOC, would apply to
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Zoran Mamdani. And yet they are the ascendant
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figures and the left in the Democrat Party.
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And so you're right to point out that that's what we we could
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have coming. Yeah.
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I, I, I don't know where this stops.
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I don't know where this distortion stops.
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Is it it, it just it, it's, it's killing us.
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It's literally killing the country.
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Yeah, well, thanks for the call Bruce, good to talk to you.
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Thanks for listening. Hope you have a safe and and dry
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Memorial Day 8799426879 WGAN the number if you want to join the
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conversation. And I'll say that you know, this
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election is going to make a big difference.
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I think we're going to see a lot of different factors play out
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between now and Election Day between I mean the the primary
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hasn't even happened yet. We're two weeks away from the
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primary, but we've seen the ad spending right now is insane.
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There's insanity. And as we move closer and closer
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to the general election, it's going to continue.
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And by the way, once we get past the primary and, and, and this
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speaks to Bruce's first point on how the radio station has enough
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money to pay me, ad rates drop again right after the primary
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and then they go back up when you get within the window.
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So it's going to be cheaper for Susan Collins and Graham Platner
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and their super PACs to put more ads on, on on air.
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And so I think we're we're just ramping up.
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We're just getting started. We'll see what happens.
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I yeah, it's, it's going to be, it's going to be crazy once we
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get into, you know, September, October.
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Yeah. Those those ads are going to be
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insane. They already are.
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I mean, it's hard to imagine them getting any more insane
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than they already are, but. I Oh, they will.
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They will. It's kind of, we're going to get
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a little bit of a break too from these gubernatorial ads for
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having all of the candidates, the Jonathan Bush and Garrett
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Mason and Bobby Charles and you know, all of them, or Shanna and
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Hannah and Nirav and who else, I guess King.
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Does Troy have any commercials? I don't know if he has enough
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money for it, but the. I feel like I've heard some I I
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do see an Owen McCarthy 1 coming up in the.
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Next break. But he does have some Owen is is
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gotten on the air. His commercials are out there
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too. But so you got all proliferation
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that'll kind of narrow down because you have one candidate
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on each side and then the independence of course.
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But I think the amount of Platner Collins ads you're
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starting to see, we've only scratched the surface.
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Let's take our final news break right now so that we can come
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back and finish strong with your calls. 879-9426 On this Memorial
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Day version of the WJN Morning News, I'm Aaron Chadbourne,
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joined by the inside main team of our producer, Jeremy Mixer
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and our our talented newscaster, Tony Rendez.
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Tony, you are staying on top of all things news in The Newsroom
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today. Yes, do have some breaking news
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out of Naples, where police say a federal halfway house escape
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AP caused A3 car crash last night and LED police on an hours
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long standoff at the end of a dock before finally
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surrendering. More on that and we'll try to
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clear up some confusion on Janet Mills in the US Senate race, as
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she has not officially withdrawn from the race after all.
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For now, though, let's check the weather.
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For today, Memorial Day, we'll see periods of rain through
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midday, then clouds will break for some late day sunshine.
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It'll turn warmer today with a high of 68.
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Partly cloudy tonight, though 50.
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A nice day tomorrow with sunshine and some clouds.
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It'll become breezy in the afternoon.
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The high 82. I'm AccuWeather meteorologist
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Joe Lundberg on Southern Maine's official weather station, News
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Radio 98.5 FM and AM 560 WGAN.