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  So we've gone over quite a bit of stuff today, and I really
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  want to get your take on all of this.
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  Texas, of course, and what happened last night there.
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  I think Eric is right, by the way, when you're talking about
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  James Talarico and when you're talking about all of the things
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  in Texas, having Paxton on the ballot for the Republicans
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  certainly is something that at least conventional wisdom would
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  tell you makes it a little bit slightly less likely the
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  Republicans win. But, you know, is that going
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  from 55 or 58% likelihood to win 252 to 55 or something like
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  that? You know, like how much of a hit
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  really is? It is the first question.
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  And the second question is when you have somebody like Teller
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  Rico on the other side, what does that do to things?
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  Because, you know, it, it's overplayed in my mind, the
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  degree to which people hit and attack and criticize the
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  Republican candidate who is not the best foot forward and ignore
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  the the Democratic candidate that's not the best foot forward
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  too. I mean, Teller Rico has some
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  certain has certain gifts that make him compelling or
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  charismatic or interesting, but he's also got so much baggage,
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  just so much baggage. And I would find it difficult
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  for me to believe that that's not going to have a major effect
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  on this race too. So 879-9426, if you'd like to
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  weigh in on on this, I think it certainly would be nice to hear
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  from you. Let's go to the phones right now
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  and talk to Brian. Brian, how are you?
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  Well, I'm. I'm fine.
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  But I'm also very frustrated and disappointed that Shanna Bellis
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  has taken the referendum. Off the ballot.
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  And that, of course, that of course, is story B or actually
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  A, depending on where your perspective is.
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  So that's the other big one we've talked about today, yeah.
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  So, but she's following the law, fine.
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  She's got to do that. And I understand that.
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  What frustrates me is that the Democrats in this House and
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  Senate in the state of Maine have declined to act on the
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  wishes of the of the people of the state.
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  I, you know, I don't trust polls all that much, but the numbers
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  say 70 to 80% of the people want girls protected in sports.
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  And the legislature did not act on that.
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  And that's the real. Problem.
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  And that's typical of the, you know, I don't understand it, but
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  that's typical. Well, sure you understand it
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  though. I think you do, Brian.
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  They don't want to. I mean it really.
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  They have the power to do whatever it is that they're
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  doing or to not do what they're doing, and they have chosen to
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  exercise it. It doesn't matter if the people
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  you know support or don't support something.
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  That's never mattered to politicians.
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  They care about achieving what they want to achieve, and if 5%
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  of the population wants them to succeed at it, it doesn't
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  particularly matter If the population who votes is not
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  going to punish them for doing things like that, they will
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  continue to do things like that. The only reason that public
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  opinion ever matters is because these people end up becoming
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  afraid they're going to lose because they're on the wrong
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  side of public opinion. But the people of Maine have
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  demonstrated repeatedly in the last, say, 5 to 8 years, that
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  they will allow the Democrats to do things that are in direct
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  violation of what public opinion wants, says or otherwise cares
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  about. And they won't say, well, you
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  need to be thrown out of office because you did that.
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  They'll say no thanks, Actually, here, have another.
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  And that's the problem. That's the real problem.
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  So that's an US problem, Brian, don't you think?
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  That's a nice problem I am. I am miserably corrected by
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  your. Analysis Well, you're not,
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  you're not corrected. You're right.
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  You're right. They should care about it.
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  They should. In a, in a, in a Republic such
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  as ours, that should be the most important thing to these people.
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  It's just sad that it's not. I know, I know.
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  I don't know how to change it either.
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  How do we change it? A wonderful question.
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  I think the answer is to actually punish them.
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  I mean, there is no question about the fact.
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  And thanks for the call, Brian. There's no question about the
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  fact that the Democrats deserve to lose.
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  I think that any objective observer would say that they
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  have, they have rather arrogantly run the state with no
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  respect for any kind of minority opinion.
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  They've railroaded the Republicans the entire time,
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  even when you have like a House of Representatives, which is
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  very closely divided, like 76 Democrats, 73 Republicans right
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  now. I mean, it's a three seat
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  majority guy. That's that's a that's a
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  narrowly divided House. You would think in that kind of
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  situation that it would inspire some level of collaboration
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  because you would almost be afraid of the 73 becoming a 76
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  or 79 or 82 or something like that.
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  So you would try to stave that off by, you know, by working
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  with them and giving some of those voters something to see in
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  you. That's like, OK, I guess they're
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  not that bad, right? But that's the opposite of what
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  they've done. They've gone hardcore left.
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  They've gone hardcore disrespect, you know, and all
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  those promises from Janet Mills and her compatriots that they
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  were going to be collaborative governor, a collaborative
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  governor and collaborative legislature where they worked
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  with the other side and come together for solutions for Maine
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  and all that stuff, right? It just wasn't true.
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  And the opposite was true. And it began.
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  It started the same way that I think that Obama got screwed up.
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  You know, there was a moment. There was a moment.
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  There was a moment in the very beginning of the Obama
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  administration when he just got elected where we weren't sure
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  who he was yet. He said a lot of stuff in the
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  campaign. It was very moderate.
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  It was very reasonable. And if you remember Barack
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  Obama's, you know, rocketing to sky to to fame, sky rocketing to
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  fame, where did that come from? It came from the 2004 Democratic
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  National Convention when he was the keynote speaker of that
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  convention. And what was his speech that
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  year? His speech was about how America
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  is not a collection of red States and blue states.
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  We are the United States of America, and we are.
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  There's far more that binds us together than sets us apart,
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  right? If you listened to that, if you
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  took it seriously, if you watch that campaign, you could have
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  been forgiven for thinking maybe this guy's not going to be, he's
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  so bad. Maybe he'll actually work with
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  people on the other side. And we actually might be able to
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  heal some of these divisions. And, you know, maybe maybe
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  something's cooking, I don't know.
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  That's kind of interesting. And he very quickly, and he was
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  actually given a, a, a great, he was a great disservice by being
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  as successful as he was in the in that election because he got
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  60 Democratic votes, which after Ted Kennedy died, went to 59,
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  which was a problem for him. But, you know, he got to such a
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  majority that I know exactly what happened.
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  He was in those White House meetings, and he was talking to
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  his chief of staff. He was talking to legislative
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  leaders who were emboldened and hated having lost to Bush.
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  And they thought it was their turn and everything else.
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  And they said, look, we don't have to care what they think.
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  We have the votes. We can do anything we want.
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  We're going to do everything we want.
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  And so when it came to things like Obamacare, when it came to
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  things like the stimulus, when it came to when it came to most
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  major initiatives in his first two years in office, Barack
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  Obama said to himself, I won the argument.
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  I won. I get to govern however I want
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  to, and I don't have to care about these people.
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  And so they directly and intentionally shut out people
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  like Olympia Snowe who were trying to work with them on the
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  healthcare bill. Susan Collins also one of those
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  people. There was about a dozen
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  Republicans that were attempting to work with the administration
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  to try to come together on something.
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  Because no major piece of legislation like that that's
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  going to wholesale reshape everything about society and its
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  economy should be done by one party.
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  It just shouldn't. It should be something that
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  everybody gets together on. So that there's, I mean, you
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  don't want to have this multi decade long food fight about its
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  existence and how it's created and have it be this bitter,
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  divisive thing. You don't want that to happen,
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  so you really should want to get together on it.
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  But he's like, I don't have to screw you people.
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  And that set him on a pathway of going it alone by himself with
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  his party for two years, which is something that ultimately
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  doomed him politically. And that's what really gave rise
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  to the Tea Party. That's what gave rise to the
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  remaining six years of his like, of his presidency afterwards,
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  which were extraordinarily divisive, very bitter.
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  And it was the tone set by him that did it all.
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  And that's the same thing with Janet Mills.
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  She got in the same way. I'm your rural Farmington
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  Democrat. I'm not like those other
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  progressives from Portland. I'm a governor for the whole
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  state, and I'm not going to be disrespecting a lot of the
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  things that LePage did that were good for the state's finances
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  and all that. We're going to work together and
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  we're going to create a better place, right?
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  You hear that all the time. And Janet Mills then decided
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  that because she could, she would game the system of the
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  budget to completely shut out the Republicans from
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  participating in it at all. Go with only Democratic votes,
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  Go through a ridiculous process that is entirely fake and phony
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  and not at all with the construction of the Constitution
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  wants them to do as a legislature to pass a budget and
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  just did it themselves. And because of that, they
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  poisoned the well. They made the very bitter
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  divisiveness that they now decry.
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  And then they arrogantly, for another six or seven years
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  afterwards, decided that they didn't have to care about
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  anybody's opinion, that they didn't have to care about public
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  opinion. All they had to care about was
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  what they wanted. And every time they did it, they
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  looked at the people of Maine and they said, you guys going to
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  keep us around? Are we cool to still do this
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  guys, 'cause we're doing a lot of stuff here and we're pretty
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  aggressive about it, and you guys don't seem to be yelling at
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  us yet. So I think we're going to keep
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  doing it. And then they had another
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  election and they still maintained their power.
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  It does not change. And this is a long answer,
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  obviously, but it does not change until you make a change.
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  As voters, they deserve to lose. They have they have governed in
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  a way that makes them frankly need correction.
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  It's like a child that's that's completely gone out of control
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  because their parents have been permissive.
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  It is time for the child to be spanked hard and aggressively.
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  And that's what should happen in this election.
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  The only reason it won't, by the way, or if it doesn't, if it
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  doesn't, the only reason that it won't is because of the midterm
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  election Trump year. If this was a midterm Kamala
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  Harris year, you are going to 100% see with no debate a
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  Republican win the governor's race.
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  You will absolutely see them take both houses of the
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  legislature. There is no question in my mind
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  that would happen if this was President Harris, but it's not,
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  it's President Trump. Let's go to the phones, Dave and
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  Biddeford. Dave, how are you?
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  Good morning, Matt. How are you?
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  Good, good, good. So it just seems like any time
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  the Democrat Party in this state seems like they're going to lose
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  an argument or a ballot initiative or a voting, you
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  know, race and, you know, on questions, they always find a
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  way to make it so the people can't vote on it themselves.
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  They take it off the ballot or they whatever they, you know,
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  Shanna Bells did the same thing. She tried to take our choice of
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  the presidential election away from the people by trying to get
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  Donald Trump taken off the ballot.
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  So it's just when they know they're going to lose because
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  she knows and everybody knows in this state that most of the
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  people in this state are not for boys playing against girls in
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  sports. I think there was a poll a
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  little back that was said like 85% of the people in Maine don't
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  agree with boys playing and girls sports, which that's not
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  just a Democrat, Republican thing that you know, that that's
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  both parties saying that this isn't right.
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  And they knew they were going to lose that, that, you know, that
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  question. So they had to do anything and
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  everything they could to take the power away from the people
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  to be able to vote on it. And that's exactly what she did.
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  And she did it with the president, tried to do it with
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  the presidential elections. Well.
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  I mean, let me save some time here.
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  She will do anything she possibly can to try to win.
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  It's a game to these people. That's why she couldn't, you
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  know, she couldn't toss it off the referendum ballot when the
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  voter ID thing happened, but she could screw with the question to
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  make sure that the people who are considering it don't really
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  get a fair approximation of what the question actually
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  represents. It's just what she could do.
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  So she did it. And that's another thing she
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  does. She she worded that question
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  like you were going to be taking civil rights away from
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  transgender people. When girls playing, boys playing
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  against girls in sports isn't a civil right.
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  It's, you know what I mean? It's not like she's, she's not,
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  you're not taking the civil rights away from somebody.
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  But that's the way she worded it, because she wanted the
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  question to be slanted to make it sound like it was some sort
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  of discrimination or something. Agreed.
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  I mean, it's literally. Thanks a lot for the call, Dave.
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  It was literally written in a way that was inaccurate because
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  there is, I mean, there's actually like a legal technical
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  angle to this, which is that if you're going to say that you're
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  changing civil rights, you have to be talking about changing
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  literally civil rights statute in the state of Maine.
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  That there are civil rights statutes in there.
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  There's many of them and this law does not touch any of them.
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  You're talking about sports categorization.
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  It's not at all a civil rights so, but she decided because the
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  political winds would blow in a better direction if she
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  ultimately said something like that to make people go, oh, I
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  don't, that's icky. I don't like that.
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  I don't like changing civil rights.
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  That's why she did that. But she did that while pursuing
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  this ability to also bounce it off the ballot, which she now
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  has done. And she'll again, they'll do
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  anything and they won't stop doing it until you make them.
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  You can say that this is their fault if you want, but it's not.
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  They are given messages from the people of Maine every time
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  there's an election. And I believe me when I tell
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  you, if the Democratic Party started losing because of doing
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  this kind of stuff and losing repeatedly, they would stop
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  doing this stuff because their goal is to win and to be in
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  power. And if it means sucking up to
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  you, doing what you want, caring about public opinion, etcetera,
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  that's what they would do. They see no evidence that they
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  need to, and that's why they don't go to the phones.
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  Geronimo in Old Orchard Beach. Yes, hello, Couple things,
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  Shanna bellows in her one of her television commercials.
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  Takes pride in saying she took Trump off of the ballot in 2024
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  because she's all about the Constitution.
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  That's Orwellian doublespeak for the fact that the Supreme Court
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  told her that she violated the Constitution and to reverse
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  herself. But here's a little inside poop
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  regarding what Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap started.
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  That Secretary of State Shanna Bellows has been continuing.
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  Some people might remember that Matt Dunlap, without
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  authorization from federal law or state law, just all by
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  himself, declared that out of state, college students can use
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  their college dormitory room as their official place of
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  residence for the purposes of registering to vote, so they can
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  vote in the college town that allows them to vote twice.
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  Juxtapose that with a far more insidious thing that yeah, if
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  you Dunlap invented, he used to go to, and this has not been
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  reported. He used to go to every main city
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  and town clerk association, conference and command without
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  any federal law or state law authorizing him to make that
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  command. That they never ask someone who
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  shows up at town hall to register to vote for the first
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  time in that town. Never, ever ask them for proof
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  of citizenship. If they check yes on the
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  questionnaire that they're a citizen, you're to believe them
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  and that's that. So there could very well be
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  foreign exchange students who are here on a student visa that
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  register to vote in their college dormitory room as an
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  address and vote. And then when they graduated,
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  drop out and their visa expires and they're a visa overstayer,
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  AKA illegal alien, could continue to vote.
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  So when Shanna Bellows takes pride in saying when the Trump
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  administration told us to send our voter rolls, I told him to
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  jump in the Gulf of Maine, well, now we know why Shanna Bellows
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  doth protest too much. Thanks a lot, Geronimo.
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  And you know, I got to tell you, I'm so freaking sick of the jump
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  in the Gulf of Maine nonsense. It's like an invented.
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  Like it's so it's so fake. And she just keeps saying it and
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  she thinks it's like this great zinger and it's just so lame.
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  Let's go to Paul and Falmouth. You got less than a minute.
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  Paul, Go. Yep.
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  So Sean, the the issue with the transgender rights, I think it's
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  far more pernicious than the than just keeping it off the
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  ballot. I think it's all about not
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  letting an issue onto the ballot that is going to be motivating
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  for conservatives and Republicans to come out in for
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  the elections and, you know, help them keep the majority, so.
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  Well, that's very true. That's what I.
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  Think I think you're right. I think that I didn't touch on
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  that today, but it's an incredibly important part of the
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  story, no doubt about it, Paul. That's the other reason they
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  wanted to do this. Not only was she sucking up to
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  the progressive voters in the Democratic Party on the eve of
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  the primary election, she also wants to make sure that they
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  have a better chance in the general election by having
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  depressed Republican turn out. That's it.