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Shawn Moody- Segment 4 · Newsradio WGAN

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  So give a call 879-9426. Yeah, two weeks from Tuesday,
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  folks. Two weeks from Tuesday.
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  We're going to decide who's going to get the Republican and
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  We're going to decide who's going to get the second district
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  nomination for Congress. I think the Democrats have 3
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  candidates running against Governor LePage, former Governor
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  LePage, and I'm not sure who else is on the primary.
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  I guess we get Senate race going.
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  Really just two candidates I think shaping up for that.
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  So give a call 879-9426 and give us some of the predictions or
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  you're who you, who you, who you backing.
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  At this point, we're pretty late in the race.
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  I've honestly been agnostic right from the get go.
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  I said I just knew instinctively the the lineup of candidates had
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  some really comprehensive political teams and strategist
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  behind them and with them and the pretty much the construction
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  of the packs that were going on. I just knew it was going to be
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  dirty, dirty politics down the stretch.
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  And it's see, you've seen it emerging with attack ads on TV
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  and mailers and things like that going out, going to get nasty in
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  the next couple of weeks. You see it, I don't think any of
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  us like it, but if it didn't work, they wouldn't do it.
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  It's awful to say. So I, I just stayed to say I'm
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  going to wait until voting day to make my final decision, which
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  is pretty unusual, but I just want to see what does get
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  emerged. You know what, what you can look
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  at is truth, truthful opposition research or not, you know, it'll
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  be up to us to determine that. But I I want to wait until and
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  see who the last person standing is.
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  We got Mike calling from hops. Well, Mike, welcome to inside
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  Main. Well, you.
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  Better shape up today the company commanders in there.
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  She just took off it. Yeah, it's always sit up.
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  Straight sit up. Straight you.
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  Understand. She's always a pleasure.
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  I I'm I'm lucky we've been I'm married, Donald, 38 years, I
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  think or more. But just like, again, we're
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  going to jump, jump in the cockpit of that Cessna and, you
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  know, take off the Rangeley. And we just we've had, we've had
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  a pretty extraordinary run together.
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  And couple of just ordinary. I should speak for myself.
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  She's she's not just ordinary, but I am and raised their four
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  children in her hometown. And hey, Mike, I tell people, I
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  say, hey, we didn't, we didn't go far in life.
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  We're like 2 miles from where we grew up, but we're happy.
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  The girls got the patience of a St., simple as that.
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  Yeah, she's pretty. Speaking of that, I wanted, I
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  wanted to, I wanted to thank you and Chrissy and everybody at
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  Moody's Collision for the donations, the Veterans Forward
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  fundraiser the other day. Yeah, thanks, Mike.
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  You know, I'm glad to you you're the one that reached out because
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  you can't keep track of everything going on.
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  And you've always been that stalwart, you know, you know
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  where to. You know who buttons the push
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  when you need to. You're you're that guy.
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  Well, you know, I knew you were busy with the scholarship thing,
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  so I figured I'd give you a little boot in the butt, that's
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  all. What did I say?
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  I I got to listen to my agent. Yeah, there you go.
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  So let's not all forget what this holiday is really all
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  about. It's about the people who gave
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  the ultimate sacrifice, you know?
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  And there was plenty of them, you know, So, you know, this
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  touches the families usually deeply in a holiday.
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  And my phone lights up like crazy.
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  You know, they all just want to. They just want to talk, you
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  know. And so, you know, if you have a
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  friend out there who's, you know, relative was killed in
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  action in any conflict, you know, reach out to him and say
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  thank you. Yeah.
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  Go visit, go visit a cemetery, even just walking around a
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  cemetery. If you don't have a loved one
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  that was in service or, or lost their life in service, you can,
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  you can, they do a great job of, of marking the, you know, the
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  graves and it's I, I, my mum, mum and dad both are buried
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  right on our on New Bolton Rd. where we live.
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  And I, I go in and walk around on occasion, Mike, and it's
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  just, man, I just get like, I get in a little goosebumps right
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  now talking about just seeing the, the, and I know a lot of
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  the people that are there, like, you know, I've lived in Gorman,
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  my wife and the generational families that have been there
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  have been buried there. And it's, it's, it just brings
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  back a lot of wonderful memories and makes you appreciate, like
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  you said, Mike, the, the people that, that went and serve, not
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  having any idea what they were signing on for when they did,
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  you know, but they, they stuck with it and, and they, they had
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  that band of brothers that you experienced, Mike, that there's
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  no, nobody left behind. Well, you know, everybody should
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  try, if possible, to make it down to DC, not to see the
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  politician, right, but to go but go over to the National Mall.
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  They should have their own graveyard.
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  They should watch in a while. They shouldn't be mixed in
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  there. In the old days they used to
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  you. Know in the new yard.
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  The bone yard is right, but yeah, this you could have see
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  the national monuments, you know, the World War 2 memorial,
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  Vietnam Veterans Memorial. You know, when you get down
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  there and you walk around the mall, it's, you know, it's
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  amazing when you look at the sacrifice that's going on to
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  make sure we remain free, you know?
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  Yeah, I you know Mike and I know you know Derek, but Derek Volk.
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  Volk Packaging you know obviously not comparing that to
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  talent, but you know, he he did a beautiful memorial wall down
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  there at boat packaging in Biddeford.
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  I'd encourage anybody to go and and there's the names of the
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  main fallen and grave. They, I had actually people that
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  had served son-in-law house Danielle's husband's of, of
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  combat veteran Mike. He he did a tour in Afghanistan
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  and yeah, I had his name. He, he's a humble just like you.
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  He doesn't want no recognition. He doesn't want to talk about
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  what he did of, you know, anything but he I had, I had
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  Derek engrave his name on there. I just felt like that
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  obligation. So like you're saying, veterans
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  are amongst the most humble, unassuming.
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  Leave me alone. I, you know, I did my thing
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  because like people in the so you, like you said, you have to
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  reach out, you have to connect and you have to be the, you
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  know, it's kind of be that friend, you know that that's
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  there for him. Yeah, 3/4 of the time it's just
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  listening, you know, it's not just giving advice, it's
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  listening because you can. You know, when they're having
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  real problems, they have to reach out.
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  A lot of times they can't reach out to the family, you know,
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  they just don't know how to. They don't want the family to
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  think they have an issue, you know?
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  But usually when they have someone they can reach out to
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  makes a world of difference. I know there's a felt Roger
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  Moore sat down the Sanford Spring Vale areas is a is a just
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  a just a really wonderful friend.
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  I think Roger's got to be close to 90 and, and his family's long
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  time in that area. And he called, that was a few
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  years ago now. And he was having a hard time
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  getting through to the Collins office.
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  And they had cut funding or there was some, I don't think
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  they cut the funding, but there was a change in who was running
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  the program. So they, they weren't receiving
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  jackets and coats and blankets and things like that.
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  It dried right up. And, and, you know, we got in
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  touch with the Collins office and they, they pretty quickly
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  get that back in place. So yeah, like yourself, Mike,
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  there are other ambassadors like Mike Hall in other communities.
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  Thank goodness. This is what Veterans Forward is
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  all about. See, they don't, they don't buy
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  you cars, they don't do things like that.
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  But if your car needs to be fixed, they fix your car.
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  If you need to get oil, they get you know that it's what we call
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  the small things. That's right.
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  You know, that's that's what can trip the switch with somebody.
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  You're right, it's. The immediate that the the
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  government programs can't they're just not constructed to
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  to no, I mean, it goes without saying, right, the bureaucratic
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  who are here to help you. But no, that's right, Mike, I'm
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  glad you mentioned that veterans forward because they they were
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  on on the end and talking about how they can just write the
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  check, you know, is for a crisis, an immediate crisis,
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  small amounts, you know that. But that's what that's what they
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  need it when they need it. They can't wait six weeks.
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  They go down into the homeless encampments and look for
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  veterans they can help. And, and not only that, they've
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  helped quite a few civilians too, you know, So I, they're a
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  great organization. So they might go to people now.
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  You know, when we got issues, you know, I'm semi retired.
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  Yeah, you. Know more than most people full
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  time. When I signed on for this
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  mission, they didn't tell me it was a long.
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  Time Mission. So all right.
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  Mike, thanks. Thank you.
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  Guys, have a great Memorial Day. You too, Mike, and thank you.
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  Yep. We got Bob calling from
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  Portland. Bob, welcome to Inside Main.
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  How you doing, Bob? Great.
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  Sean, how are you? It's good to hear your voice,
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  it's been a while. Well, it's always good to hear
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  yours. And of course, everybody loves
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  Mike. Kidding me, I love listening to
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  that man, he informs us every weekend.
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  God bless our troops, past and present and their families.
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  Look what they did for us, for our freedom.
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  And here we have a two party system where one party is in
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  complete betrayal of our constitution, and that's the
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  Democratic Party. They should be renamed the
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  Progressive Party because that's what they are.
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  And you know what a progressive is?
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  It's a socialist aspiring to become a communist.
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  And surprise, surprise, we have a candidate running for office
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  who said when he got older he became a communist.
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  I believe him. He proclaimed himself an Antifa
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  super soldier and you want to elect him and send him to
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  Washington to serve you and I? I don't think so.
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  He has no respect. None.
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  My outrageous, I'm sorry, my Bob.
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  How does like, I'm not a psychologist.
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  I'm not, but I, I, these are the things that I really, you know,
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  go through my mind. It's like, OK, you take someone
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  like Graham Plattner and you look, if you just look at him
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  for who he is, right, and how we grew up and how he's his
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  opinions and his, his values were shaped as a young man and,
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  and now as an adult or whatever. Now he's running for office.
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  I, I just and, and what the appeal and the attraction.
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  Everybody's flocking to the sky and I and I'm looking at it and
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  I'm really trying hard to figure out, OK, how did these
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  individuals become so desperate, you know, to, to to support
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  someone That's so, you know, how did I, I haven't figured that.
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  Out rule supreme. In this state, ignorance rule
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  supreme. We have a mainstream media that
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  refuses to inform. We have the main wire.
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  That's it. The main wire is out there
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  actually informing citizens with pertinent truth.
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  Hello and and to have a man like this.
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  Bob, how's this going to shake out?
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  Give it give us your prognosis there on, you know, head to head
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  against Collins. What's I know it's a long ways
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  away falls an eternity, but what do you think?
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  How are Maine people going to come down on this election?
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  Well, if you've got a brain and common sense, you're going to
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  vote for Susan Collins because she has respect for the
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  Constitution. She has respect for the citizens
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  of Maine. She has proven that over and
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  over again. She knows policy.
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  She knows how to write laws. This guy is a clown.
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  He's a complete clown. Look Pete headset.
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  They, they censured him because he had a Christian symbol on his
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  chest. Yet this guy has a Nazi symbol,
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  an s s symbol on his chest and he knew it was an s s symbol.
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  The artist that drew it on his chest told himself, and he knew
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  it. He said for 17 years no one said
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  a thing. Well, guess what this man does?
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  He is full of hate. He's full of hate.
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  And this progressive Democratic Party is full of hate.
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  Look what they have done to this state.
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  Look what Mills has done. She's more than doubled, doubled
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  our taxes in this state. She's raised every fee, every
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  fine, every 4-4 but she can. And it's just she's not giving
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  anything back to the people. The greatest threat to America
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  today, we have $39 trillion of debt, soon to be 40.
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  Are you kidding me? We have got to cut spending.
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  That's the only solution. You have to cut spending.
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  You have to cut your debt. And guess what?
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  This country will survive. But if you don't.
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  Do that. I appreciate you calling in.
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  It's always good to hear your voice and your passion.
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  And you don't you know, you've been we've been we've been we've
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  known each other for a long time.
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  And it does. It hasn't diminished a bit.
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  Bob, you just fired fired up. But sure, when I first met you,
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  I love it. Really appreciate you calling in
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  and and I know I listen to love it as well.
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  We got Kelly calling from Gorham.
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  Kelly, welcome to Inside Main. Hi, good morning.
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  Now if, if, if you're running for office, I think as you are,
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  I, I put that offer out to any of the candidates that want to
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  call in. So if you could just let our
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  listeners know, Kelly, what office you're running for and a
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  little bit about you. District One O 8 Gorham House of
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  Representatives Oh and a little bit about myself.
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  Oh say I'm a business owner, mother of five, small business
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  owner in the town of Gorham and and currently on the Gorham Town
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  Council. Kelly I I'm so glad you called.
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  What do you I know you've, you're close to the action.
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  You know, there's nothing anymore political like the
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  politics is local, right? And you're on the council and
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  you you're dealing with Amazon, you're dealing with everything.
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  What are you hearing as it was applied to you like getting you
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  into at the State House level? What do you what's the biggest
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  thing that you feel that the voters, the taxpayers are really
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  talking about right now? Just the, the well, the tax is 1
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  and how everybody's being pretty much taxed to death and that
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  there's just no, there's leadership, but it's all one
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  sided, you know, just. Well, it is.
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  I mean, that's a fact, right? That the the Democrats control
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  the House, the Senate, the governorship, state, Secretary
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  of State, Attorney General PUC. Yeah.
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  Correct, correct. And it's, it's their their
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  taxes, everything and they just can't do it anymore in a local
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  level. I am also a real estate agent
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  and have had to sell 2 houses in the last year and a half for
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  people that cannot can no longer afford their taxes in Gorham and
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  I'm sure this is happening everywhere.
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  Yeah, especially just greater Poland that the southern Maine
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  and again that Maine association, they can't wait to
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  do those comparisons and, you know, compare against, you know,
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  Falmouth or Scarborough or Cape, you know, saying, oh, we're in
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  the middle of the pack. Yeah, you're comparing.
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  Yourself. We.
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  Don't have? We don't have waterfront in
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  Gora. The pond out in front of the
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  show up. I don't if that's.
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  Well sure, I've got one down back so.
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  Sure. I don't dare say it.
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  They'll be taxing us on that. I know.
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  Well, Kelly, I, I appreciate you calling in and and more
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  importantly, I appreciate you putting yourself out there.
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  I know is not easy and that we are in a toxic political
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  environment, right? I've never seen it this bad.
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  It's it's. Horrible.
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  It's mean, it's hateful. It's you got to have a backbone
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  and you got to have a clear path or they're going to they're
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  going to run all over you. So I'm here.
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  I know you well enough to know that that's not going to happen.
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  So I appreciate your call and you certainly got our
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  endorsement. Kelly Dearborn for House one O 8
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  in Gorham. Thanks for calling, Kelly.
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  Great. Thank you.
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  See ya. Bye.
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  Yeah, Kelly's on the on the town council as well.
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  We get a lot of like everybody, you get controversial projects
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  and issues that are going on. We got a school budget that's
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  coming up. We're going to vote on I think
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  Tuesday, excuse me, Tuesday of the primary couple weeks.
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  And I think that just crested 6 million, $60 million.
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  I mean, think about that I hometown Gorham, $60 million to
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  run the school department. And, and then again, you got to
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  look back and just, it's tough because everybody's doesn't
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  remember, you know, like what happened 2 weeks ago, let alone
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  a couple years ago. But you know, that was the big
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  push to bring education funding, state funding to 55%.
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  That was the big push. We're going to lower and take
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  the burden off of property tax owners.
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  That was, that was their shtick. We're going to use this
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  additional funding to fund schools at the local level,
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  which will prevent the increases and your local property taxes.
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  Well, I don't know if they if they didn't get the memo on that
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  or if I didn't. I just don't.
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  It's hard to describe being that far off on a, on a, on a
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  promise, you know, a campaign promise or a political promise,
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  because nothing could be as it turns out, nothing could be
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  further from the truth. It's just absolutely it, it's
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  almost like it, it just fanned the flames of increases and, and
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  now, you know, with the, the added family leave Act that hits
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  all, you know, that hits every municipality.
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  They're all, you know, the school teachers or whatever,
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  that's all going to get funded at the local level.
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  That half a percent that they didn't budget for.
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  So that's going to drive up property taxes.
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  It's, it's 70 or 80% of your tax school subsidy is payroll is
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  people, you know. So if you're talking 75 or 80%
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  of the budget being people, it's pretty tough to, to cut the
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  budget without looking at staff. So we'll be right back with
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  Kenny Chinkat running for Senate and Wyndham.