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Your Calls On Bellows · Newsradio WGAN

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  Dave from Hollis is with us. Dave, how are you?
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  I'm good Matt, but I just can't with that last interview.
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  You just can't tell me about your can't tell me about the
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  can't. Well, he's.
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  Sighing deeply. Ladies and gentlemen, he's
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  sighing deeply. Go ahead.
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  Let me summarize the last interview.
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  It was a softball interview, by the way.
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  You can do better, Matt. No, thank you.
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  But that aside, the translation for that interview was money,
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  money, money, money, money, money.
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  Pay. You're already paying too much,
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  but pay me more money and I'll fix everything.
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  You know? Energy rates.
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  Energy rates are not a problem because of profits.
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  Energy rates are a problem because of the geographic
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  geography of Maine and the solar subsidies.
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  I mean they add what, 6 to 8 cents per kWh for for solar
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  subsidies? They do indeed.
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  That energy billing is a huge part of it, yeah.
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  Yeah, but she didn't bring that up and that's a Democrat
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  mandate. The education sheet was talking
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  about that she got and that was probably the tail end of the
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  education that I got was significantly cheaper than the
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  one that she is asking for more money for now.
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  Yeah, and I have to say, too, like when you're talking about,
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  you know, say, teachers in poverty or not paying them well
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  or whatever, then when I was going through my educational
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  experience when Maine was #1 in Reading, actually in the late
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  90's, the, yeah, average teacher salary was basically in the
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  basement compared to what it is today.
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  And somehow the quality of education was high.
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  So it's obviously not correlated.
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  It just isn't. So yeah, no, I look, I didn't
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  hear a single thing I agreed with.
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  I did not hear a single thing I agreed with.
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  The one that actually sent me into twitches was housing.
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  It is not vacation homes. And no, it isn't unusual.
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  It's exactly the same as it's always been.
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  It has nothing to do with a bunch of rich out of Staters
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  buying stuff. It has to do with not building
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  because of restrictive policies in the major metropolitan areas
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  of the state where you need them to.
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  That is the number one biggest problem, and it's the one none
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  of them want to talk about. 100% One last thing, how can she
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  oversee the election and be part of the election?
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  Isn't that a textbook classic? Why, yes, it is, but all over
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  the country secretaries of state do that, much to my chagrin.
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  I think this should be something that is straight barred legally
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  that they can't do it, but they do and they can.
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  And to be fair, Republican secretaries of state usually do
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  as well. So it's a it, believe me, I
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  don't love it. I don't love it, Dave.
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  I really do not. Let me make sure I get time to
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  get Bill in here though. So I appreciate the call as
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  always, Dave. Bill in Portland.
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  Go ahead, Bill. Yeah, Shanna bellows to answer
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  the question of why Maine test scores are so low.
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  Her first answer basically was that the teachers aren't aren't
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  good enough. I was actually going to make
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  that point to her. Is like you're saying teacher
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  quality sucks and I don't agree. We got we need to attract better
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  teachers because the ones we have suck.
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  Is that that's what she's saying?
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  Kinda, yeah. That is actually she.
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  She didn't mean to say it, but that's the implication, yeah.
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  Oh, no, that I think she. Well, yeah, exactly.
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  That's the inference. And of course, that's she's
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  pandering to the, you know, the education association of, you
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  know, get to get all the teachers in the state to vote
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  for me. So.
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  So I'll give you more money and I'm a substitute teacher.
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  I mean, I could always use more money, but that, you know, the
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  reason the scores are now are down isn't because the teachers
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  suck. The teachers are good.
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  OK. Yeah, I did.
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  I'm not believing that. Bill, I agree.
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  I agree. Bill, I agree.
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  It is obviously not the case. And thanks to the call, as
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  usual, there's a lot of problems with education, but investment
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  is not one of them and teacher quality is not one of them.
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  The teacher pay is not one of them either.
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  By the way, as somebody who's married to a teacher tell you
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  what, the average salary of a teacher is entirely middle class
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  and and growing right now. Do you want to pay them more?
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  Certainly, I'm sure you do. But this poverty thing is a
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  little silly.