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Opening segment with Aaron Chadbourne · Newsradio WGAN

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  Good morning. It is Memorial Day here on the
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  WJN Morning News. That means you do not double
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  check back in Yon. He is double checked out for the
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  holiday. He'll be back tomorrow but in
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  studio. I'm Aaron Chadbourne.
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  Thanks for being with us on this holiday.
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  Joined by the It's the Inside Me crew.
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  It is Jeremy Mixer and Tony Randazzo.
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  Gentlemen, happy Memorial Day. Good morning.
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  Happy Memorial Day, good to be here this morning.
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  Wet weekend you say? Most of the parades are
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  cancelled. Several are Portland.
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  I did look up and they did say rain or shine for Portland's
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  Parade but that's not till 2 so we might be OK for that one.
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  Yeah, 'cause it's the the rain supposed to like clear out by it
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  was a lot of rain this weekend. It was a lot.
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  It was pouring on the way down from Auburn this morning in
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  certain parts of the highway. Dinner in Brunswick last night
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  and on the drive back there was hydroplaning.
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  It was dangerous on the Interstate.
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  It was, it was not great. I had planned to be at Sebago
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  Lake for most of the weekend, obviously being back for this
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  morning to fill in for Matt. But I, I went up Saturday, we
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  had a cookout and then I went home.
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  I, I, I didn't need to stay at the lake to have cold and rain.
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  I can be a cold and rainy at home.
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  Yeah, I know. I was home all day yesterday.
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  And do you really do much with myself?
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  It's good to have an excuse to have just a.
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  Weekend. It was good to have that idea.
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  I was it was good to have an excuse to just kind of do
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  nothing. It it's hard though, like on a
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  three day weekend where you have like a plan and then it doesn't
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  come together and then, you know, I guess there are movies
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  out, the new Star Wars movies out.
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  I think people could like rear to that.
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  I bet it was a big box office weekend for yeah.
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  Probably. DeLorean and Grogu.
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  That could have been something I could have done yesterday.
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  Now you tell. Now you tell me.
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  Hey, it's going to rain all day today.
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  That's true. I could go to that.
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  You got time once the the more news comes over.
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  And so, yeah, here it is. We're back.
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  We're we're on a lot happening over the weekend.
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  We'll get to the top stories. Of course, the most in focus
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  news item is the status of the war in Iran.
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  Donald Trump announcing over the weekend.
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  I don't know. I've kind of grown tired of the
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  way that Trump has managed the updates on this war.
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  He's like, hey, we're going to bomb you.
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  Never mind, we're not going to bomb you.
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  Oh, we have a ceasefire. Do you remember when they first
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  announced the ceasefire? The ceasefire said in exchange
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  for. Us.
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  It was too long ago for me to remember.
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  I think that's what he counts on to, He said in exchange for us
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  having a ceasefire, they're going to reopen the Strait of
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  Hormuz completely. And then Trump imposed A
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  blockade. And so then they closed the
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  Strait of Hormuz. So the Strait of Hormuz, which
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  was the condition for the ceasefire, has been closed this
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  whole time. And so I don't understand why we
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  still have a ceasefire. I do think that the other
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  countries in the Middle East have asked the United States not
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  to re engage with bombing because they believe, and
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  rightfully so, based on what we've seen happened, that Iran
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  is going to attack them. And so they've said to the
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  United States, hey, maybe don't keep bombing Iran.
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  But I just don't, I don't get the strategy here.
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  Like the strategy doesn't make any sense to me.
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  It sounds like there's a new deal on the table that would
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  reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for us saying that we
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  have a deal and that the war is like winding down and not
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  achieving the goals. Which I think is going to be a
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  major embarrassment for President Trump if what we do is
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  we come out of this conflict with everything returned to the
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  way that it was in terms of Iran being led by people that do not
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  have their people's best interest in mind by having a
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  rogue state actor with nuclear materials.
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  Yeah, Yeah. We need to get the Strait of
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  Hormuz back reopened. But it was open before the war.
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  And I do think it was short sighted at the US not to have a
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  strategy for what to do. You know, they came up with the
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  blockade strategy later, but just like I don't know, I'm sick
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  of these announcements of oh, tomorrow, if nothing happens,
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  we're going to bomb you to, you know, the more than you've ever
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  seen before in your life. And then oh, no, no, I'm just
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  kidding. It was we we got a deal and the
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  deal is to nothing. I just, I don't know.
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  I, I, the more I listen to the way that this is being portrayed
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  by, by the US, right, by Marco Rubio, by Pete Hegseth, by
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  Donald Trump, it just doesn't seem like there's, there's much
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  new news there. So we'll continue to follow that
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  today. Donald Trump is going to make an
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  appearance later today when he lays the wreath at the Tomb of
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  the Unknown Soldier. It is, of course, Memorial Day,
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  and it's important to take a moment to remember what's
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  different about Memorial Day versus veteran's day.
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  I think a lot of people confuse the two on veteran's day, you
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  know, people sometimes, no, no, veteran's day is about the
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  living. It's about the people that are
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  alive who have served. And yeah, people have given past
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  sacrifice. But Memorial Day really
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  commemorates those who lost their lives in the line of duty
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  serving the United States in uniform.
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  And this is a day that we appreciate that sacrifice.
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  We realize what our country was built on.
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  And I think that's really important.
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  And yeah, we can have the cookouts and the boating and all
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  of the other things that go with having the time off.
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  But it's most important to realize that there is an
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  ultimate sacrifice that's paid. It's being paid right now by
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  people in the Middle East. We do want to recognize that
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  when people die in line of duty, it's not just them who are
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  affected. It's their entire family.
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  It's their entire community. It's a big sacrifice borne by
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  more than just the service member that gave their life.
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  So if you have any remembrances that you want to share today,
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  feel free to call in 879-9426. You can also text to the same
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  number, 207-879-9426. We'll be checking and reading
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  your text messages. We'll be taking your phone
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  calls. And then we're going to be
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  focusing, I guess, on politics. So that's what we generally talk
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  about. And so I've I've not, we've had
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  so many guests recently. Matt had all the Democrat
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  candidates. I had them on inside Maine.
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  We've had the Republicans today. We'll just do some analysis.
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  And so each segment will try to pick a different race.
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  We'll take the Republicans running for governor.
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  We'll do the Democrats running for governor.
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  We'll talk about Graham Plattner.
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  We'll talk about every different race and every different aspect.
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  And we'll take your calls throughout the show, which I
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  think you know, it's a good day to make get a phone call and you
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  won't get entered in for caller of the week.
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  So this is a good day to get your practice in 879-9426.
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  Only two more weeks till the primary.
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  I'm very excited for this to be over.
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  I don't know about you, Jeremy. Are you, are you tired yet of
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  the primary? I'm as much as it's job
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  security, I am tired of the. Ads, I know.
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  That's that's what drive but but it is, it is job security for
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  all of us that work in radio and television, at least on the
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  local level. So, you know, it's, yeah, I
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  mean, I, I kind of look forward to Election Day too with our
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  Election Day coverage and and of course you'll be in on Election
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  Day evening and it's. Going to be interesting because
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  we're going to have results that start to come in, but you know
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  the result, Jeremy, is going to be that there are front runners
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  and it's going to run off. I don't think anyone's clearing
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  50% in the gubernatorial primaries, right?
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  And that's the one that people are watching because, you know,
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  there there was the reporting that Tony did over the break
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  that mentioned that Janet Mills name will still appear on the
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  ballot. She's still technically a
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  candidate. So her votes will get counted,
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  right? But so, no, we're not watching
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  that in the LePage race up in CD 2, I think there is some
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  interest to see who the Democrat nominee is going to be.
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  There you have Joe Baldacci, who's currently in the state
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  Senate, brother of former Governor John Baldacci in what
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  many of us are deeming the nepotism primary on the Democrat
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  side, where you got the brother of the former governor, former
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  congressman, the son of the current Congress.
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  I mean, the son of the current senator, the daughter of the
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  current congresswoman. Like, I mean, for a country and
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  a party that says we've moved on from dynasties and that we don't
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  inherit your power, that it's elected, like all these families
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  in politics, it's it's quite something.
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  But so like Paul Doche, I think he's been endorsed by the
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  Democrat Campaign Committee. He's running against Matt Dunlap
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  and that other kid that tried to run for something but couldn't,
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  couldn't cut it against Susan Collins and then swapped over to
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  run into the 2 Jordan Woods. I think that one, I don't know
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  if Joe Baldaggi hits 50%, but I think he'll come pretty close
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  and he'll probably have a commanding lead that can't be
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  made-up very easily through ranked choice voting.
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  So I think that one can probably be called, but for the
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  gubernatorial races, what we're going to have at the end of the
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  night. And so we're going to get a lot
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  of people commenting. We'll talk to the campaigns and
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  see how they're reacting as the results come in, but for most of
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  them, we're just going to know who's in the lead and how big
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  the lead is. And we'll be able to handicap
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  whether it becomes likely that ranked choice voting could
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  change the outcome. Now, what I think is most
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  important to watch for is if a ranked choice, remember when,
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  when Jared Golden trailed Bruce Poliquin and came back to
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  overtake him to become congressman for the Second
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  District congressional seat, that was only by a couple
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  points. And it's not hard to make up a
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  couple points in ranked choice voting, but it's really hard to
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  make up 10 or more percentage points when you're trailing by
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  that. Because in order to redistribute
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  right, about half of Republicans in particular are going to rank
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  and half of them aren't. So now you're already cutting it
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  down. So let's say that you what you
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  started with 100%. Well, if if you eliminate the
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  lowest vote getter who gets 4% of the vote, only half of those
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  are going to get redistributed and same thing for 8 or 10 or 14
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  or 20. And so not all of them are going
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  to have ranked. And then the ones that do rank,
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  they're actually going to be pretty spread out.
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  So I think it becomes very, very difficult for anyone to overtake
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  the front runner and win 879-9426 the number.
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  If you want to join us on the WJN Morning News, let's take a
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  call before we head into break and talk to Greg and Sabattus.
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  What's up, Greg? Oh, good morning.
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  Good morning, Aaron. About politics.
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  This is about politics. Let's talk about Elliott Cutler
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  and the man who paid for things to be done to children for his
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  amusement violates his bail. I don't know how many times he's
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  caught coming out of a hotel where those actions are going
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  on. And on Friday of a holiday
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  weekend, the judge charges him an enormous $10,000.
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  I mean, I don't know how he comes up with that money, but
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  somehow he comes up with $10,000 to stay out of jail.
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  The man was financing children being abused.
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  Where is the justice? Yeah, I know.
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  Thanks for the call, Greg. Appreciate it.
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  I think, you know, you point out and rightfully so that the
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  Elliott Cutler case with him and for those who haven't followed,
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  he was once the, I mean he wasn't the Democrat nominee, but
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  he kind of was in that Libby Mitchell race against LePage.
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  He came very close to being governor of the state of Maine
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  in that first election versus LePage.
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  Second time, not so much with Mike me showing.
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  The yeah, that first one was a four way race.
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  It was Elliott Cutler, Libby Mitchell, Governor LePage and
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  Sean Moody. And.
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  Both Sean, both Sean and Elliot were running as independence in
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  that one, yeah. And it got nasty between them,
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  too. Oh, it did.
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  Real Elliot. Sean, Sean was talking about
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  that on Inside Main on Saturday, actually, yeah.
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  It was quite the election, but so I like color came very close
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  to winning and being governor of the state.
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  I mean, and now come to find out he's been caught as a purveyor
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  of child pornography and in the the incident in the hotel, the
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  most recent one, I don't think anything was going on in the
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  hotel, but he was there and he had with him a DVD player.
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  I don't even know where you get. It, well, a bag of DVD.
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  'S with him, yeah. And I think he had a DVD player,
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  he had a portable DVD player that he was using at the hotel
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  to with a bag of. I mean, this is clearly a guy
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  who. Is and he tried to hide it
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  behind his back, which is what what cracks me up and the.
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  Just happened to be there for something else and like.
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  He's hello, Mr. Cutler. And then he just kind of puts
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  the bag behind his back like he didn't.
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  That makes it more obvious. I agree though, I think Greg has
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  a great point that at some point your chances run out.
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  Yes, we have to follow the law. Yes, we have to follow due
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  process. But what does it say when it's
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  so easy for someone who is convicted of such heinous
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  behavior and heinous crime? And maybe he wasn't convicted,
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  maybe he pled guilty to it. But for them to have such a
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  light sentence for him and for him to keep getting out and keep
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  having problems, I think at some point we need to keep the public
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  and our children safe. 879-9426 is the number here on the WJN
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  Morning News.