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You've counted on Inside Maine for over 20 years for smart
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leaders on 98.5 FM, AM 560 and wgan.com.
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Thank you, Jeremy, and welcome to INSIDE Maine.
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I'm your host today, Sean Moody, supported here with Jeremy
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Mixer. Good morning.
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As the producer and Tony Randazzo in the in The Newsroom
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and we have Walter. The weekend Walter has returned.
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Walter is here, yes. We reconnected.
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I appreciate that, Tony. Well, thanks everyone and thanks
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for joining A beautiful day today in Maine.
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And I, I really have to compliment Governor Mills for
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that. Heartfelt condolences on behalf
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of us to honor Josh Tibbets and Andrew Cross.
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She did, she did a great job. So I'm not going to add to that.
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She she did a great job. And that is, yeah, I was going
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to make mention of it. You know, I'm a pilot, but a
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pilot for, I don't know, since I think 1989 was my first solo
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flight. And Christine, I actually going
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to fly to Rangeley after the show and be looking at a lot of
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a lot of Maine at 3500 feet. So no, it is, it is as Governor
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Mills said, it is. It could be addictive.
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You know, the passion of aviation.
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You just, you know, once you experience it, guess it's like
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any any hobby or any in Josh's cases, a profession.
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He made it a profession and pilots have it's kind of a
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fraternity. I guess we we stick together
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anyway. If you'd like to join the
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program 879-9426 we're going to have actually my wife Christy's
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It's pretty exciting that all the work this is this is the the
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All goes to the students in the form of scholarships.
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We're excited to to showcase that at 11 And Kenny Chinkat,
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who's running for the Senate and Wyndham, I'm not sure the Senate
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seat number, but he'll be joining us at noontime to talk
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about his campaign and how he's doing.
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And he's also the the owner of Eric's Church restaurant there
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on three O 2 well known establishment business owners.
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So we'll be listening to to Kenny at a little afternoon.
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And I would I just want to kind of open this up because WGAN and
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And so I want to open it up. Any candidate out there that's
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So call in 879-9426 and we're going to take those calls
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throughout the program. 879-9426.
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Yeah, we've got Steve calling from Westbrook.
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Steve, welcome to Inside Main. Hey Sean, always enjoy it when
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you're hosting the show. I appreciate that.
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Yeah, I've got some advice instead of rehashing the old
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left versus right culture war, you know, which is a run around.
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A run around that we can't ever resolve.
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Yeah. They call it an endless argument
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I think. It's like a dog chasing its own.
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Yeah, we need to stop Donald Trump's disastrous policy that
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hyperinflation due to oil shortages is OK, and that mass
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starvation due to 50% fertilizer shortages is OK.
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If Trump can stop Iran from having a nuclear weapon that it
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could never ever use and it could never ever use it because
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it faces 5200 American nuclear weapons, if Iran launched even 1
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ballistic missile, Sean, at the US, you know, whether nuclear or
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not, Iran will be vaporized in about 18 minutes.
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So this phony weapons of mass destruction lie is a mega, mega
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version of the boy who's been caught, caught crying wolf over
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and over again. But in this case, it's war for
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profit billionaires crying up a non existent threat to pay for
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their 300 foot yachts and their and their six vacation mansions.
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You know, at the bottom of this foreign policy fraud that we're
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in right now and it's a disaster in terms of inflation and and
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fertilizer shortages. At the bottom of this fraud are
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two big lies that are even bigger than Trump's 2020 big,
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big steel lie. 1 is that Trump has been. 1 is that Iran has
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been attacking us for 47 years, but that's what all the
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Republicans are saying, while it's America that's been
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attacking Iran for 72 years since 1953.
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And 2nd Sean, and that I'm done that Iran poses A strategic
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threat to the US while it poses 0 strategic threat to us.
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And if you want to put this as a practical legal, legal case,
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imagine a man who starts getting paranoid about his neighbor next
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door that his neighbor, he keeps thinking that his neighbor is
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going to kill him. So he goes over to the
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neighbor's house and kills the neighbor and everyone in his
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family. And then when he goes to court,
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his defense is, you know, when they asked him, why did you do
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it? Because.
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I had to get him for he got me. Yeah, I had to and and and and
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the judge would say to this poor paranoid, no, that doesn't wash
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in this court. You you can't, you can't go kill
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your neighbor because you, you, you, you have, you know, a crazy
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idea that your neighbor is going to try and kill you.
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We have a crazy paranoid idea, you know, parroted over and over
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again in in the media that Iran. I got to take some more calls,
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but you just, well, I just, I'm going to let you go, but Steve
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from Westbrook just validated that WGAN Inside Maine is a
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nonpartisan hotline call in that anybody can call in and Steve
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just validated that with any of any opinion that they may have
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and share it with us here. We have a lot of great listeners
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and a lot of great callers. In fact, we've got Al Cohen from
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Portland. Al, welcome to Inside Maine.
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Good morning, John. How are you?
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I'm. Doing great it was beautiful
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day. I, I think I mentioned there
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Christy and I are going to fly up to Rangeley after the show.
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Our daughter Danielle and her husband Kyle built built in our
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building a place up there. They got 33 granddaughters that
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they're going to take up there and so we're excited to go up
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there and check it out and. That flying must be real cool.
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I've. Never I've.
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Never flown in an airplane, period.
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It's like the last bastion of freedom.
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You know what I mean? You take off and you can go
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where you want, outside of controlled airspace.
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You can go no stop signs. No.
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No traffic. No.
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Yeah, you just. It's it's liberating, put it
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that way. I called about Elliot Kotler
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being released on bail again. I mean how many times do we
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release him? You know what I was hoping for
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after I heard this news yesterday?
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I wish the feds would charge him.
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If he was charged federally, maybe the catch and release
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would stop. Yeah, it's.
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It's unbelievable. I I watched that this morning.
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My heart sank and and I think on taught add insult to injury of
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$10,000 bail. It's like seriously, I mean, I
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know I know, I know, I know. So I showed you that they talk
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about, you know, the swamp and the the corruption everything in
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in the federal level with all these courts and judges and
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everything else. You can't tell me that they are
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given this guy such a pass. I, I'm like you, I'm outraged.
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I really am. I obviously campaign, you know,
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against Elliott Callaway back in 2010 and got to know him.
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His wife was a sweetheart, Melanie.
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I had her on the program. She she was on inside me.
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She was just a wonderful wife lady, respectful and and classy.
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And and now he's they showed him in the court saying he's had
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this, you know, trauma or addiction, whatever you want to
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call it for, I don't know, 30 or 40 years.
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I mean, it's scary. It's scary.
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And to just let him walk out of that courtroom.
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I just, hell, I don't know. I didn't.
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I just don't even know how to react.
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Well, I, I really think that, you know, a lot of you know, a
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lot of charges you can, you can be charged right or federal if
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the feds would scoop this up and stop the catch and release God,
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don't we care anything about our children?
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I agree with you. And I'm glad to call.
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It just watching porn and wasn't actually doing the molesting.
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That doesn't cut it with me. If he wasn't consuming this
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garbage they wouldn't be doing it.
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He needs to be locked up and everyone that has any amount of
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sense knows that. These judges.
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I think it's disgusting. You have a good day, Sean.
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Al, thanks for calling. I'm sorry you have such a kind
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of a, a dark topic that you had to talk about, but I'm glad,
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glad you got it out there because that is actually exactly
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what happened. I think this is the fourth
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probation violation. I mean.
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I just something like that. The most recent one was at a
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hotel actually, right around the corner from our studios, I
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forget which one. Long Main Mall Rd.
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And that was a police officer saw him and recognized him and
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saw that he had a bag full of DVD's.
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And. And he's like, oh, Elliot, how
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you doing? He's like, oh, oh, good.
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And instantly he has his bag of DVDs, and he put it behind his
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back like he was trying to hide it.
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Now, that honestly was probably one of the worst things he could
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have done. Yeah.
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And obviously the DVDs had things on them that should not
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have been there, I guess. Jeremy, I, you know, I, I went
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from where originally that all whole thing broke.
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I went from really feeling sorry for the family and him and, you
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know, this whole, that whole thing.
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But as this is emerged and more information has become
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available, I couldn't agree with Al Moore you.
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Know. Yeah, I mean, I, you know, this
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is this is not a political statement.
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He's somebody that is a sick man and he cannot be cured.
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The predator, you. Know.
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Predatory and I I completely agree 100% with what Al was
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saying that no, he's, he's somebody that, you know, he, he
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needs to spend the rest of his life.
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You know what little of it is left at his age behind bars.
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If you want. To and I and I voted for the
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guy. I I will admit that, and I'm
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ashamed to say that, but I did. But if I knew what I knew about
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him, that never would have happened.
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You would have gotten my vote. Well, this is.
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This is this is how life is right, Jeremy, It is down the
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stretch, OK, because I watched and I campaigned with him and
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and you know, obvious, you got to know all that, you know,
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Governor Page, Anne Le Page, Melanie Cutler, sure, you know,
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all the candidates wives, Jim Mitchell, who was married to to
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Libby Mitchell. So we you know, we I was and
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Christian and I were were cordial all of them to get to
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know him. And and then and the longer we
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ran that, the more I was actually at a debate.
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I think it was in Bangor, the four of us on the on the
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platform, they had live debate and Elliott Kotler started.
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I thought it like a costing Senator Mitchell.
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I mean, he was, he was really being rude.
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And I thought and so anyway, it was right at the end and they
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they, it was a live televised debate.
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They shut the cameras off. And typically what would happen
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at that moment in time, you just shake the other candidate's
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hand, you know, just wrap it up. He got what I thought was right
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in Senator Mitchell's face, You know, space, I should say, and I
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saw, you know, I have a pretty high situational way in US
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being, you know, in business and dealing with people my whole
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life. I immediately step right between
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the two. I said, Elliot, it's over.
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It's over. And he looked at me and he just
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kind of shut up and he walked off.
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And by the time he took two steps, Jim Mitchell was coming
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up the steps of the stage because he was in the audience.
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He saw what was going on and he was on his way to do it.
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But I, I, you know, but, but then that was that.
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I don't know if it was we're, we're within a few, maybe 3
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weeks of, of the camp of the election, general election.
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And Elliot set up this meeting or tried to to convince me,
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right, to get on board with him. And then all you can be
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Department of Economic Development, whatever, you know,
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give you a give you a job within.
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Now, I said to Ellie, I said, Ellie, I have absolutely zero in
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common with you. OK.
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I grew up in Gorham, you know, rags, whatever.
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To Richard, you're living on the ocean.
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I mean, it's just no, I have 0 in common with you and I don't
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relate to you. That's why I'm running.
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But think about that, Jeremy. Think about if I'd have been
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some spineless whatever and say, oh, yeah, oh, yeah, cool, you're
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a smart guy. Yeah, I'll get on you.
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He would have won that election because he only lost by like
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6000 votes. And I got 5%.
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I got 27,000 votes, you know, So that I think I was always going
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to get out as a moral and ethical victory in my own mind
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to say that. Yeah, that wasn't.
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Going to happen. I'm pretty sure everybody that
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voted for Elliot Cutler back then, probably if they knew what
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they knew, would have voted for you and you would have been
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governor. That is, That is honestly what I
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believe. Is the truth.
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Glad he weren't. Well, we'll be right back if
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you'd like to call in 8799426. For over 2 decades, Inside Maine
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has been your trusted source for political analysis and candid
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conversations with Maine's most influential leaders, bringing
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you the issues that matter most, straight from the experts on
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98.5 FM, AM 560, and wgan.com. Thank you, Jeremy, and welcome
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back to Inside Maine. I'm your host today, Sean Moody.
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I want to thank Phil Harriman, the founder of Inside Maine, for
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filling in for me on May 6th. We.
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Hey, you're throwing everybody off here.
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It's not the it's May 23rd and Sean's on the air.
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Wait, what? Normally it's a first Saturday
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for any regular listeners will know that that you're on the 1st
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Saturday. That's right.
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We'll be back in back In Sync here in a couple weeks.
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I'll be back. Yeah.
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Oh, you'll be back In Sync, and then you'll be off sync again
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because you're not going to be here Labor Day weekend.
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I know I want to thank Josh Phillip for for swapping on
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that. A lot of swapping going on
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summertime swaps. It happens.
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But yes, Phil, the founder of Inside Main was gracious enough
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and he had a shoulder surgery. He probably didn't talk about it
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on the air, but he he got banged up pretty bad.
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I did not know that. Yeah, he's, he's recovering from
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that. It's very, very painful.
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He had surgery and see, you know, he's he's on the man.
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But what what for that fellow to go through?
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Absolutely. If you want to join the program,
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879-9426 and want to talk about, and I also want to just get that
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word out there, any candidates, the Democrat, independent,
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Republican, any candidates that want to call in, feel free.
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We're going to take calls 879-9426.
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It's going to state what district you're running for,
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what office, little bit about yourselves.
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You're welcome to call 879-9426. And we got up actually Bruce
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calling from Auburn. Before I get to Bruce, I just
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want to set this up because Jeremy's going to play a a tape
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here in a in a bit. And we went from the one, you
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know, the big beautiful bill that was passed by Congress and
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signed by the President that really provided tax relief for a
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critical areas of the state and the country And states can
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couple or not couple with a federal tax is call it tax
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conformity with what the federal government does.
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And Maine rejected some core tax breaks incentives for working
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Mainers. And now they're crawling about
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saying that oh, these billionaires are getting all
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these tax breaks. Well, they didn't even allow no
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tax on tips or no tax on overtime.
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And don't you think it doesn't rub us?
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We call a crowd the wrong way. There's a lot of hourly Co
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workers and people working waitress and a waiter in and
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service industry in the state of Maine that got blocked out of
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that and they're getting gouged 7.15% in taxes because the state
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of Maine can't live within its means and help the people that
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are actually running the economy.
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Bruce, welcome to INSIDE Maine. Yes.
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Good morning, Sean. Thank you for taking my call.
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I felt. I felt compelled to call because
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of what you said about what you said about doing the right thing
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with the Elliott Cutler situation, when you said, hey,
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you know, we're complete opposites.
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I shouldn't join your team. And I, it just pains me so much
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to think if we had a leader that had been elected in 2018 that
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had that type of spirit, that type of spine that I know Maine
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would not be where we are today. We would not have rampant fraud
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everywhere. We wouldn't have the problems
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with our child welfare program that we have.
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It's just mind boggling, the evaporation of the leaders.
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I know you've offered for other candidates to come on today and
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those that do take advantage of that.
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I encourage them to have a spine to stand up and be a leader and
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do what's right. That vacuum is killing the state
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of Maine. Bruce, Amen to that.
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Yeah, thanks. You know, hey, we get the best,
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best callers, we really do, and the best listeners in their
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insights and and that's what it is.
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You're right, Bruce, you know, leadership isn't about and I
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guess that's why probably I didn't win an 18.
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You know, it's if you get on the stage and you stick to values,
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you know, morals, ethics and what's worked, those things are
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all attributes for success in life, right?
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Being honest, being hard working, being humble, you know,
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being selfless, all those things are great attributes to live a
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very fulfilled and gratifying life.
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And they complete political liabilities.
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You know, if you're not willing to get up there and I hear it
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now, we're going to, you know, cut $4 billion out of the
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budget. We're going to do this, we're
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going to do that. I was like, Oh my God, you got
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to put the the hip boots on. You know, it's just throwing
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that BS out there. And, and you know, I just can't,
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I couldn't do it. I wouldn't do it.
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And that that cost you. It really does.
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People believe what they hear, and not all, but they do
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believe. And it's a matter of trying to
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convince people to vote for you because everything you got to do
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for them or give them or whatever, it's just crazy.
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We got Cindy calling from Portland.
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Cindy, welcome to INSIDE Main. And welcome to you being there
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today. Such a treat.
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Well, thank you. I I want to share when they were
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talking about, I don't believe it was Al.
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I had stepped out of the room and and came back in at the very
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end, something I heard on a radio show.
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Many, many, many years ago, this is when TV was on the radio, I
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think it was WCSH. And I forget who had a talk show
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at that time on the TV while and there was an interview with a
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man that was supposed to be getting ready to leave prison.
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And I forget what state, but he had a fear 'cause he had been a
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sex offender and he was afraid of being taken out.
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He'd been in prison for quite a while, and he was ready to go
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out, and he was afraid he'd forget his meds or something
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would happen. And he wanted to get castrated.
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And he said at the time, that was the one thing that was a
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definite cure, that you would have no desire.
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And after that, somebody else, a couple of weeks later, spoke out
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about the same thing. Now, whether that's true or not,
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but I would think somebody would have come on and said, no, that
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can't be done, but it makes kind of sense.
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But Elliott Kotla has had plenty of time to get help because if I
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recall in one of his interviews, he of being told he's had this
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affliction for a long, long, long time.
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And something that people might, might be aware of.
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I don't know what age limit on those three bills that Governor
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Mills put in about children and about being and having an
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abortion right at birth and then about kids coming in getting
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sliced and diced to change their sexes and nobody could
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interfere. Then the third bill was about
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prostitution and if she didn't stress, you had to be 21 years
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of age and an adult consenting adults.
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If that wasn't put into the bill, which never has really
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been said exactly what was in the bill on the radio and that's
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all I have to listen to. That gives free range to these
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people making these films because they a lot of people
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that get a hold of children or have children access to them
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prostitute them out for money to these film makers and especially
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little. Consensual, right, Cindy?
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I mean, yeah, consensual. You got a pimp that's gonna.
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Well, that's what they do. You win and you and you're going
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to go tell an officer, yeah, that was consensual because you
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don't want to lose your life or get, you know, who knows what
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would happen? So this.
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Yeah, that's it's. But with little children,
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dangerous parents get money for sometimes it's parents,
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sometimes it's family members, sometimes they be.
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Maybe there was a case of two sisters as grown-ups had their
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children and they were prostituting these little
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children out for money because a lot of these payments become
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drug addicts. No, they did Desperate and it's
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just sickening to think about. That and so if there's not.
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Lying that policy makers up in Augusta are actually, you know,
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putting in legislation to, you know, maybe maybe promotes too
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strong a word. But to allow this type of
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behaviour to to go on, it's just, it just, I don't
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understand. I really don't.
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I'm a father of four beautiful children, now adults and three
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granddaughters. And it's just, you know, it's
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hard to understand when you're not like that.
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You don't know. We don't hang around with people
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like that or you. Know I worked in.
23:31
A It's shocking, it really. Is I worked in a crisis unit for
23:34
quite a few years of young teens.
23:36
So I came across a lot of these children that had been severely
23:41
molested and raped. And even if little babies,
23:44
little kids, and sometimes a lot of times it was family members,
23:50
you have no idea. That's why when Bill Diamond did
23:52
all that he did, I was so far behind him because those are the
23:55
kind of kids that I worked with and it was hard.
23:58
Something will never be right. Not physically, not mentally,
24:01
not spiritually. They have been abused for so
24:04
long. And just one other thing which
24:07
isn't too far from this. No, I haven't heard one thing
24:11
about this Platina and his Nazi tattoo.
24:14
He's had more than enough time to get that taken off, and I
24:20
haven't heard anybody that I know of say that on air when
24:25
they've talked about that. He could've even done that when
24:28
he was still in the military. He claims he got it when he was
24:31
drunk. Well, once you wake up and
24:33
realize, Oh my God, I don't want that on me.
24:35
I haven't had a tattoo, but I know people have it.
24:37
It's a painful very, very. Yeah.
24:40
You don't do that when. Cindy, thanks for the call and
24:43
and thanks for your, you know, heartfelt, you know, overview, I
24:47
guess, of how how we've digressed right as a society and
24:52
where I really got introduced to what Cindy was talking about and
24:56
in children was really through the late Wayne Pucci drown, who
25:00
became Gorham's first school resource officer.
25:02
And Pucci would never, you know, ethically say names or say, you
25:07
know, anything confidential about cases that he was working
25:10
on, but he would generically say what in back and support what
25:13
Cindy was talking about. And he had no idea he'd been a a
25:17
Gorham police officer involved in the day a program, you know,
25:21
for like 20 years before he became the SRO.
25:24
He was shocked. I'm he was living that close to
25:26
it. He and Cindy, his wife lived in
25:28
Ruddy Gorham, you know, hometown and until he get into that
25:32
school system and started working with those adolescents
25:34
and teenagers and young adults, he had no idea and exactly what
25:39
Cindy was talking about is going do you don't may not think so,
25:42
but it's going on right under your nose in your local
25:44
community. It's sad.
25:46
It's a sad reality. So we'll change the subject by
25:51
879-9426. Give a call and again, we're
25:55
taking calls from candidates if they wish to, to join the
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program and stump give a little stump speech or whatever.
26:02
Be happy to hear from you 8799426.
26:06
So I want to switch topics here and talk about this lack of
26:11
recognition of our current administration.
26:13
I mean, oops in the in the fourth quarter mains, mains
26:19
economic growth in the fourth quarter, the GDP they call it,
26:22
but economic growth was 0, all right, zero.
26:25
So you would think the administration that has kind of
26:27
brought it the economy to its knees, mains economy in in
26:31
addition to what's happening on the national level, would
26:34
recognize the opportunity of an economic stimulus package in, in
26:37
forms of tax relief. You think they would have
26:40
recognized that they had it right in their lap and they
26:43
chose and voted to reject it. So I'm outraged about that.
26:47
And I'll tell you, we had, I got on the phone, I was so wound up,
26:50
I, I called a lot of my, you know, business friends and
26:53
associates contacts or whatever and said, let's pull together a
26:57
convoy. We're going to circle the
26:58
capital and let this administration know what how
27:01
much hurt they're putting on the working people here in the state
27:04
of Maine. And we had these are these are
27:08
household name reputable companies.
27:10
OK. This isn't a tea party rally
27:12
with flags hanging out the back. These are well established and
27:15
caught motors, for example, Core auto Group, Autoworks, you know
27:20
one of the sponsors here at at WGAN Boyd Rich, you know he he
27:25
came Brent Day from day logging the Carrier family with
27:30
supported 2 truck Shaw Brothers construction, Peters
27:34
construction, Gorham sand and gravel was represented.
27:39
B&B towing. Johnny Pompeo showed up Glenn
27:43
Glenn Lewis. Bill Plante came all the way
27:45
down from Springdale, saw Sanford, drove all the way to
27:49
Augusta, Mark Bendigas, Salmon Falls, I could go on.
27:53
But we we basically got 50 trucks around that capital and
27:58
paraded around there in a convoy and did a press release, a press
28:03
conference afterwards. Steve Demilo, who was there to
28:06
represent the hospitality industry on the no tax on tips.
28:09
And we got in front of the cameras and just said this is
28:11
this is outrageous. You know, we had an opportunity
28:15
to stimulate Maine's economy by giving the people that nobody
28:20
works harder than someone's working overtime.
28:23
OK. And you're trying to spin this
28:26
around to say, you know, we're going to the rich are getting
28:30
all the tax breaks. No, I don't know too many like
28:33
rich people are working by the hour or put it that way, or
28:35
waiting tables or or taking tips at the convenience store or or
28:40
Tony's Donuts, for example. These are just salt of the earth
28:43
maintenance trying to grind out a living and this administration
28:48
just objected their responsibilities to try to
28:51
stimulate and reward the the main, the core of our economy.
28:57
So I I met this summer, got a cool up in Bangor at the Moody
29:01
shop up there. Kelly Lefler, who was the actual
29:04
secretary of the small Business Association nationally, she's
29:08
the charge of the whole country, the small Business Association.
29:10
They were promoting this big beautiful bill and these tax
29:13
incentives. So they she came to Moody's in
29:15
Bangor to represent it with our entourage.
29:18
And Jeremy's going to play the clip that we put together and I,
29:23
I want you to listen to it. It's great to be at Moody's.
29:27
Thank you for having this is incredible the hard working
29:30
Americans that make our local communities work.
29:33
I know we're out talking about the one big beautiful bill and
29:36
how important. No tax on tips.
29:38
Also no tax on overtime. Tell me what it means for your
29:42
employees. No tax on overtime.
29:45
We're a Co worker owned company, so there's actually an equity
29:49
stake for our Co workers to make sure that they're helping the
29:52
business grow. So it's like an elastic when you
29:55
have an incumbent workforce during a busy season, you've got
29:58
to be able to stretch the output, right?
30:00
So people put the overtime in to get our customers, vehicles back
30:03
out on the road. And then we can kind of shrink
30:05
up when we don't need it, but just to incentivize the people
30:09
that do the. Work.
30:10
That do the extra. I mean, it's just so I hope
30:14
Congress doesn't find a way to mess this up because no tax on
30:17
tips, no tax on overtime and no tax on Social Security.
30:21
Don't mess the rest of it up. That's the core that that's what
30:24
needs to happen. That's right.
30:25
Well, that's why it's called beautiful.
30:27
So, but look, yeah, you, you tax more of what you don't want, and
30:32
you should tax less the things that you do want.
30:36
Well, currently the the system disincentivizes work by having
30:41
high taxes. So if we can get that tax
30:43
penalty on overtime away hardworking Americans like we
30:47
have here, you've built an amazing company.
30:50
Wow. 280 Co. Worker, it's amazing.
30:53
Well, here's I want to say because this is the the
30:57
underlying, it could be like a renaissance to America's work
31:02
ethic. A work ethic is slated,
31:03
especially here in the state of Maine.
31:05
And when you start incentivizing people and rewarding people to
31:09
do the extra and they'll see that that's how they're going to
31:11
get ahead. There's no magic wand, right?
31:12
You got to grind it out, work hard, stay focused, tighten up,
31:16
and that's how you're going to live that American dream.
31:18
So for the government to recognize that and say, hey,
31:21
let's get off the backs of the people that are actually the
31:23
core strength of our economy. Yeah.
31:27
Thank you, Kelly. Well.
31:28
Thank President Trump for the helping us live the American
31:31
dream all across communities like this and in great small
31:33
businesses. Thank you son.
31:35
Appreciate. It thanks for playing that,
31:38
Jeremy. Yeah, it was quite a quite a
31:39
moment. This gal, like I said, she's
31:42
head of the whole small Business Association for the whole
31:45
country. Kelly Loeffler, shop lady.
31:48
And she'd been travelling around and they got that pass through
31:51
Congress and President Trump signed it.
31:53
And again, the, the, the state can choose to couple or conform
31:59
or not. And they can pick and choose
32:01
what they conform with or not. And so they opted to not
32:06
conform. I want to be real clear about
32:07
this because all these Democrat legislatures are running for re
32:10
election. And I got to tell you right now,
32:13
I don't even know how they should be embarrassed.
32:15
They should be ashamed of themselves.
32:17
They're going to go knock on doors and and tell people that
32:19
they're probusiness pro small business.
32:21
I guarantee it. They have no shame and I want
32:24
everyone out there. I'm putting you on alert.
32:26
Then when they start flying that around, you say, well, what's
32:28
the show on inside me? And he told me you voted to for
32:32
the budget that did not include the tax relief.
32:35
So in the fact you voted to tax the tips, you voted to tax the
32:39
overtime. So it just it just floors me
32:43
that you're like, where's where's bath iron works, right?
32:45
They got 4000 tradespeople up there, probably closer to six
32:50
that tend to lean, you know, the unions tend to lean to vote for
32:53
Democrats. Like how could they even
32:55
consider voting for a Democrat legislator that did that to
32:58
them? You know how much money that
32:59
would be a 7.15% on their overtime.
33:03
Firefighters, you heard Governor Mills, you know, paying a
33:05
tribute to to, you know, wooden Tibbets and and the firefighter
33:10
and across yeah, those guys working overtime.
33:13
That's is that's the thanks you give them tax or overtime.
33:16
Yeah, OK. You know, I'm not going to over
33:20
shadow what was really a good tribute.
33:22
I can give her credit for that. But that's the reality.
33:24
Actions speak louder than words. You know, behavior doesn't lie.
33:28
So I know we got calls coming in here.
33:30
You know my soapbox. But again, this is an important
33:34
election coming up here. I mean, in two weeks we've got
33:36
the primary if anybody wants to call in as a candidate, but
33:40
anyone wants to call too and just weigh in.
33:42
You know who you think's who you think's going to win.
33:44
You know, Democrat unenrolled, actually on the rolls, not in
33:49
the primary, but Republican, Democrat candidates.
33:51
You know who you're going to support, you're going to back.
33:54
We're going to try to catch a quick call here before the
33:57
break. Ethan, you've been waiting
33:59
patiently. I'm sorry.
34:00
I got on. I got on a roll there.
34:02
That's OK, Shawn, I you're a busy guy.
34:06
Yeah, I just. We.
34:06
Only got, we only got like a minute.
34:08
I apologize. Do that to you.
34:09
Yeah. Yeah, alright, I'll make it
34:12
short. I am a candidate by the way, but
34:15
I think I'm probably not going to make the signature thing.
34:18
I, I have one, I'm not going to be in top some.
34:20
I had advertised I was going to be in top some today.
34:22
I'm probably not going to do that.
34:23
I will be. I think I'll be in on the
34:27
Eastern Prom on Monday, but check my Ethan Alcorn.
34:31
Yeah. What can they go to?
34:32
Yeah. Ethan Alcorn for U.S.
34:34
Senate on Facebook and I'll have an update there, but I need I
34:38
need a miracle to get the to get all the signatures but but.
34:42
Say that one more time, Ethan, and I'll let you go whipping to
34:45
get a hold of. You Ethan Alcorn for U.S.
34:49
Senate on Facebook. And yeah, that's probably,
34:53
that's probably the best, the best spot, but.
34:55
Thank you, Ethan. Thanks for calling.
34:57
I'm sorry everybody got to go to break.
34:59
Thank you. Good luck, Ethan.
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Thank you. We'll be right back.