Posted on 08/24/2016 12:46:27 PM PDT by Enchante
The national monument designation has faced opposition in the region.
Gov. Paul LePage released a statement Tuesday afternoon condemning the land donation.
"That's one way to get out of paying taxes to the state of Maine," he said. "It's sad that rich, out-of-state liberals can team up with Obama to force a national monument on rural Mainers who do not want it."
The governor did not stop to talk to reporters Wednesday afternoon after an event in Portland, but his office released a statement.
“President Obama is once again taking unilateral action against the will of the people, this time the citizens of rural Maine,” LePage said in a statement. “The Legislature passed a resolution opposing a National Monument in the North Woods, members of Maine’s congressional delegation opposed it and local citizens voted against it repeatedly.
“Despite this lack of support, the Quimby Family used high-paid lobbyists in Washington, D.C., to go around the people of Maine and have President Obama use his authority to designate this area a National Monument. This once again demonstrates that rich, out-of-state liberals can force their unpopular agenda on the Maine people against their will. Quimby is already well known for preventing hunting, snowmobiling, ATVs, forestry and other traditional activities on her land, and a National Monument will most likely restrict these uses even more. It is my understanding that for those few acres where hunting would be allowed, Quimby has attempted to recreate the restrictions found in the bear baiting referendum that the Maine people roundly rejected as recently as 2014. If average Mainers don’t realize by now that the political system is rigged against them by wealthy, self-serving liberals from away, this is a serious wake-up call. The fix has been in all along.”
(Excerpt) Read more at wmtw.com ...
Take away all the land and force all the people to cities then force them to work on farms if they fail to conform
He still has 149 days
We need to end the executive authority which allows a President to unilaterally designate a National Monument.
Clinton abused this very badly in Utah, and now Obozo has done so (under very different circumstances) in Maine. In the current case it was a private landowner who wanted the NM designation, so it was a different case from what happened in Utah under the Clintoons.
In any case, the country has quite enough National Monuments and National Parks, adding new ones is a budget buster (they don’t pay for themselves except maybe for a few of the very most popular ones, which this isn’t).
Gov. Paul LePage released a statement Tuesday afternoon condemning the land donation.
Quit acting like a spoiled little whiney bitch,
Issue an EXECUTIVE Order for your State Abolishing ALL Operating Agreements with ALL FEDERAL AGENCIES, Then Start ARRESTING AND JAILING THEM For Operating in your State ILLEGALLY!!!
The Federal Government needs PERMISSION from EVERY STATE TO OPERATE in that State, TAKE IT AWAY!!!
Scary to think about.
More TR-inspired marxist theft...
Look for increased wildfires in a few years due to government mismanagement.
Bastard
Can TRUMP undo a National Monument?
Actually, the article(s) in the Constitution which grant the federal government authority to establish and maintain national parks/monuments should be examined first and . . . Oh, wait . . .
There is a bill pending in the Senate for the US Congress to change the process of designating a new National Monument, but it will never get signed by Obozo:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/228
Of course. I am sure he will, including all the ones Clinton did.
Maine went for Obama, twice, and hasn’t voted for a Republican president since Bush the elder. Maybe they will learn from past mistakes, but I doubt it.
Stonewall, the homosexual bar in New York, is now a national monument.
Will school kids be taken there on field trips now, to learn history??? The liberals have decided that homosexual rights is on the same level, and equivalent, to the civil rights movement of the ‘50s and ‘60s.
I vacation there in summer. I saw a lot of Trump signs through travel up the east coast and some of the rural interior. My favorite bumper sticker was on the back of a truck owned by a lobsterman: Trump or the Bitch: Your Choice.
I’ve heard the muzzies have turned Lewiston, ME into a dump.
Just one more thing President Trump will need to reverse on Day One.
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I almost drove my car off of Route 1 I was laughing so hard.
He should save the money to help flood victims in LA
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