Posted on 10/03/2005 9:33:03 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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DEFEAT BALDACCI! - SUPPORT A REPUBLICAN IN ONLINE POLL
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/051003menext.shtml
must visit website to vote
2006 Governor's Race Who would you support for governor? John Baldacci, Dem. Peter Cianchette, Rep. Peter Mills, Rep. None of the above
It looks as though the Portland Press Herald will be offering this question regularly through the 2006 election. John Baldacci hasn’t won one yet, let’s keep it that way.
Two percent rated Baldacci's job performance as excellent, 48 percent rated it as good, 32 percent said it was not so good, and 17 percent rated it poor.
The quarterly poll, which has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points, was based on telephone interviews with 400 randomly selected adults from July 23 to July 30.
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/051003menext.shtml
BUMP
You have the list of "bumpahs" in Maine.
John Baldacci, Dem.: 43.40%
Peter Cianchette, Rep.: 37.64%
None of the above: 9.76%
Peter Mills, Rep.: 9.20%
There are still idiots in this state that would vote for Baldy AGAIN? I can't believe it!
Oh yes! The idiots are still going to vote for him. I still can't believe it!
Sorry gang but Maine will elect her next Republican governor right after New Jersey elects her's, which will be roughly around the start of the next ice age.
Certainly if Baldacci loses, that would be a stinging rebuke. Could not happen unless his own party abandoned him.
The funny thing about the article is that it says he plans to brag about his health care program. I had the impression that the health care program turned out to be a bust. He might be shooting himself in the foot.
AUGUSTA — Gov. John E. Baldacci’s job approval rating plunged over the cliff this week, according to a New Jersey-based polling organization’s state-by-state comparison of chief executives.
Baldacci reaffirms no tax hike stance
He talks out of both sides of his mouth. Now, in 2005 he is purposing tax hikes!
If San Francisco is the Sodom of the nation, than Maine is trying to be the Gomorrah.
Christian-news-in-maine.com staff report
In order for an area of the country to be one that encourages homosexual activity at the expense of the traditional values of that area, it can not be that this encouragement be only on the part of local businesses such as the Hannaford grocery chain. But this encouragement must include those who have the power to have you arrested, fined, have your property confiscated and even put you in jail for failing to accept and even encourage the act of sodomy and other homosexual defiant behavior.
The State of Maine had a bumper month in June of 2004 under the John Elias Baldacci administration and the Hannaford Grocery chain.
First the Hannaford Food store chain decided to side with the infamous United Way against the Boy Scouts of America for not allowing homosexuals to be Scoutmasters. And posted this poster on their property:
Apparently, Hannaford grocery chain is no longer either family friendly or for that fact, interested in doing business with those in the Christian community and/or those who hold dear the traditional values of marriage being between one man and one woman, and no longer interested in doing business with those who know that a family consist of a dad, a mom and their kids.
Fortunately there are many alternatives to shopping at a Hannaford store. We in Maine are blessed with local grocers: Shaws, Wal-Mart, independently owned IGA's and now the Save-A-Lot chain which is opening stores in Maine. While Wal-Marts have been by far the most family friendly stores, the new Save-A-Lot chain does not sell magazines, booze or cigarettes.
Then on June 21st, Maine's notoriously anti-traditional family/pro-homosexual Governor, John Elias Baldacci, signed and Executive order including "sexual orientation" in their policies regarding non discrimination. Baldacci while in the US Congress, roll call votes
WHEREAS, the Baldacci Administration endorsed the State of Maine Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Policy Statement and the Policy Statement Against Harassment of employees in June 2003, each of which affirmed and demonstrated the Administration's commitment to ensuring the rights and protections of the men and women who serve the citizens of the State; and
WHEREAS, Maine law currently provides that contractors providing goods for the State must comply with laws that, among other things, prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation (see 5 M.R.S.A. § 1825-L(2)(A)); and
WHEREAS, the State of Maine may contract freely with private entities for services to be provided to the People of the State of Maine; and
WHEREAS, Maine law currently requires that contractors performing work for the State "will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, [or] physical handicap or mental handicap," and, further, that such contractors "will, in all solicitations or advertisements for employees placed by or on behalf of the contractor, state that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, or physical or mental handicap":
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOHN E. BALDACCI, Governor of the State of Maine, do hereby order that agencies entering into contracts for services to be provided to or on behalf of the State of Maine must, in addition to the classes of citizens protected under current law, provide in such contracts that contractors must not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of that employee's or applicant's sexual orientation.
Further, I order the following:
That State contracts for services must require contractors to state, in all solicitations or advertisements for employment, that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sexual orientation;
That State contracts for services must require the contractor to notify each labor union or workers' representative of the contractor's obligations under this Executive Order and post such notice in conspicuous places available to employees and applicants for employment; and
That State contracts for services must require contractors to cause the requirements of this Executive Order to be inserted into all contracts for work covered by a State contract for services such that those requirements will be binding on any and all subcontractors.
Developing, look for weekly updates on Maine's efforts under the Baldacci administration and the Hannaford corporation to make Maine the Gomorrah of the United States.
Christian-news-in-maine.com is a weekly paper with daily updates
It's Against Federal Law to be a Sanctuary State for Illegal Aliens (Maine)
Immigration lawyers supporting illegal aliens are pushing Governor Baldacci to sign an executive order that will stop state agencies from questioning a person's immigration status.
Even more unsettling is the title of the order: AN ORDER REGARDING INQUIRIES INTO IMMIGRATION STATUS. It reads, "I, John E. Baldacci, Governor of the State of Maine, do hereby order that no State agencies question any person about his or her immigration status and engage in any activities for the purpose of ascertaining the immigration status of any person."
Marching Lock-Step with Bill Clinton!
Liquor deal may cost state $100M/Lawmakers say losses not disclosed
Jan 19,2004
"They fooled the Legislature" about the liquor proposal, Bruno said. "They ramrodded that budget through, false assumptions were made, and we didn't have a proper amount of time to review it.
Maine: Search for illegal aliens alienates city
Ahmed said some patrons eating lunch in the Somali market bolted out the back door - not because they were undocumented, but because they were scared to death.
1-20-03- Tape airs of Baldacci flip-flop on liquor
Future Governor Baldacci's parish takes action against abortion protesters
20 November 2002
The demonstrators have been showing up to St. John's since June, saying Baldacci and other politicians who support abortion rights should be barred from using church facilities for fund-raisers and other political events.
Roll Call
Just 2 days after 9-11!
Several Democratic Members, meanwhile, are furious about the magazine's portrayal of a private dinner they had at the Capital Grille on Sept. 13, which was crashed by Davis and two female friends.
The mag describes a "rowdy" get-together, during which, "one by one, cigars in hand, the men stand to give toasts before drinking deep into the red wine and breaking into fits of loud laughter."
There are even photos of the ladies posing with jovial-looking Democratic Reps. Mike Doyle (Pa.), Robert Brady (Pa.), John Larson (Conn.), John Baldacci (Maine) and Bill Pascrell (N.J.).
BALDACCI AND ALLEN SEEK FEDERAL ASSISTANCE TO ADDRESS INFLUX OF SOMALI IMMIGRANTS
June 6, 2002
Representatives Baldacci and Allen called for $100,000 in funding to enable Catholic Charities of Maine to provide needed services to Somali immigrants in Lewiston and other communities. Catholic Charities provides outreach and assistance to refugees and immigrants.
Maine has a hard time finding work and feeding their own. Yet Baldacci and Allen want an INFLUX of immigrants! What's up with this!
The Baldacci (D-ME) Psalm or The future of Maine
Governor Baldacci is my shepherd. I shall not want.
He leadeth me beside still factories.
He showeth me empty stores.
He restoreth my doubt in government budgets.
He guideth me to the path of unemployment.
He annointeth the legislative budgetmakers, so that my tax burden runnethover my income.
He giveth in to the MEA agenda for schools which teach not the three Rs.
He giveth in to the enviros who maketh a National Park of my home.
He giveth me jobs waiting table on people From Away who can afford vacations.
Surely, poverty and hard living shall follow the Baldacci Administration and
I shall liveth in a trailer forever.
Baldacci and Tom Allen) are big spenders of taxpayer dollars.
You know, I have found that just downloading and distributing their immigration voting records is effective in converting most Democrats I know to the Republican side.
People just didn't know--and they are often shocked. No one wants more of the same, not to mention more budget problems.
They have voted in every way possible for:
1. annual net immigration of 1.3 million poor, illiterate people from third world countries, who are overcrowding American schools, depressing wages for American workers, contributing to one-half of all sprawl, overwhelming American hospitals, and reproducing babies at rates 3 to 45 times the rate of Americans, not to mention fiscally breaking the backs of American state and local governments and the American taxpayers.
2. They have repeatedly voted to extend amnesty to illegal aliens (8 to 11 million of them in the country now).
3. They have repeatedly voted in support of H1B visas, displacing 1 million American technical workers and resulting in no job opportunities for recent American college grads. And they continue to support an increase in the number of h1B visas.
4. They have each played a major role in preventing any efforts brought about by members of Congress who, in accordance with the wishes of 70% of the American people, sought to bring about even the slightest immigration reform in terms of lower refugee and immigrant numbers.
5. They have repeatedly voted in favor of chain migration, where the elderly, social-security-collecting parents, husbands, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, married children and so on, are guaranteed entry into America consequent to one migrant. (the young working chinese have turned social security into a commodity industry for their elderly parents)
6.They have voted for automatic citizenship for any child born to illegal immigrants on American soil. This has resulted in foreign businesses where pregnant women from poor countries like China and Africa pay to be flown here just when they're about to deliver.
And then there is the Somali situation in Lewiston.
What a coward is Mr. Baldacci.
Baldacci absence at debate irks candidates
22 May 2002 - Bangor Daily News
“He considers himself the front-runner and he just wants to hide,” Carter said. “He won’t be able to hide forever and when he comes out of hiding, we will expose the fact that he has a very limited understanding of the problems here in Maine and doesn’t really articulate a serious program for improving the economic well-being of the state.”
Maine firms pan N.H. poll, Baldacci lead
Bangor Daily News 15 May 02
But in unusually harsh criticism Tuesday, three of Maine’s major pollsters challenged the veracity of the survey’s findings and dismissed its methodology as “flawed,” “unreliable” and “unsound.”
Not if you believe in smoker's rights! He, like Governor King, hates smokers. In his latest article, he states:
“Four out of five of the leading killers in Maine are attributable at least in part to behavior,” Baldacci said Monday. “ Maine can save tremendously if we smoked and drank less , exercised more, ate healthier and worked and played more safely. Leading a healthy lifestyle is a responsibility of each and every one of us, but it can be difficult to achieve.” (Be careful here: since the Surgeon General came out with a report that Obesity is worse then tobacco usage, is Baldacci going to go after our over-weight people in Maine, also?)
Bangor Daily News Article - February 27, 2002
Smoked less? Drank less? He sounds like he was cut out of the same cookie cutter that King came from. King closed the Liquor Stores in Maine "For MORAL REASONS!" I have wondered, since when did our Governor become the Head Clergy for the State of Maine? Baldacci is following in these same footsteps.
He states that "Maine can save tremendously........." I do not think Maine did so bad collecting all the billions from the Tobacco Settlement money. Do you? What if all Mainers DID quit smoking? I think Maine would be in big trouble if those Tobacco Settlement monies disappeared. Especially, since under the current administration, most of their "pet programs" are being paid for from the MSA!
Email I received from John Baldacci when I wrote to him not to raise cigarette taxes:
Thank you for contacting me regarding proposals to raise the tobacco
tax. I appreciate hearing from you. Although I appreciate your
concerns, I generally believe that raising taxes on cigarettes to
discourage youth use of these products is good public policy.
Preventing children from smoking must be our first goal in enacting any (click here for debunk)
tobacco-related legislation. I have supported efforts to limit
advertising of tobacco products and to increase education efforts to
prevent children from smoking, as well as to raise the costs of
purchasing tobacco products. I have gathered a number of health
officials in the state to serve on my Tobacco Advisory Committee , and I
held a town meeting in Bangor on the issue. Although Congress has not
passed legislation to further curtail the ability of tobacco companies
to sell their products to minors, I welcome the opportunity to support
any future efforts to do so.
John Baldacci
If your like me, your "tired" of hearing "It's For The Kids!" This is just an excuse to go after tobacco, smoking and the adults in Maine who are paying more then their fair share to balance the state government. Also, he is apart of Maine's government who have many pet programs, so they want to keep lapping at that honey pot of the tobacco settlement money. BEWARE!
Baldacci has a number of "health officials" on his Tobacco Advisory Committee. If Maine government is so worried about the budget and being in a recessions, why in the world would he waste funds working against a legal commodity? He needs to project his energy in another direction.
Another inaccurate statement he makes: Tobacco companies selling products to minors. I have yet to see RJ Reynolds or Phillip Morris opening a store in town. Have you? It's up to the individual shop owners to card. Why continually blame everything on the tobacco companies?
Another site posted on the net about John Baldacci. See how he stands up. His voting record. Many of us have not known about this until now:
http://www.christianpatriot.com/baldacci_rollcalls.htm
One of many good reason why families should not have voted for Baldacci's reelection.
Think long and hard about casting a vote for Baldacci. If we think we have it hard in Maine now, just get this guy into office.
(No body listened. He's in).
How Baldacci voted on the issues:
http://www.issues2002.org/House/John_Baldacci.htm
Thanks for that link. First I have seen it.
Glad to see that Peter Mills is garnering less votes than none of the above. Not the man one wants in office.
I heard that people are expressing displeasure with Baldi at the toll booths. People are not putting in the 10 increase he ordered to balance his hi spend budget. People are still paying 50cents and not 60 cents.
Cianchette just dropped out.
http://news.mainetoday.com/midday/index.html#4
Dammit.
Peter Mills is a favorite.
The former legislator from South Portland, who lost the 2002 Blaine House election to Democrat John Baldacci in a four-way race, said he has not decided whether he will support another candidate in 2006, or to what level he will become involved in the campaign.
A declared candidate for the GOP nomination, state Sen. Peter Mills of Cornville, said Cianchette's decision "makes life a little smoother for me."
But Mills, who has been campaigning steadily for two months, said he must still continue to make appearances all over the state to build name recognition. Mills, expressing anticipation the GOP field will evolve, said he continues to believe he will have competition for his party's nomination.
"I need to continue doing what I've been doing," said Mills, who seeking to qualify for public campaign funding under Maine's Clean Election law.
This was a "Bump" in the road for the R party here in Maine.
"One Republican, Sen. Debra D. Plowman of Hampden, said she was comfortable enough with the level of dissatisfaction within the party to put her statements on the record.
In general, she said, Republicans are unhappy with what they perceive as subtle attempts by the Cianchette campaign to win over party members and lock up support long before the June 2006 primary even arrives.
In particular, Plowman and others are incensed over GOP State Chairman Randy Bumps' close association with Cianchette, a partnership that was solidified last year when both directed President Bush's campaign in Maine. Later, Cianchette hired Bumps to work in his private sector firm, The Cianchette Group.
The employment link and what Republicans describe as the chairman's staunch support of Cianchette behind the scenes has prompted some party members to question whether Bumps, a former staffer for Sen. Susan Collins, should remain in his post as state chairman, a voluntary position that does not include a salary.
While the dissent does not invoke images of a mob carrying pitchforks and torches chanting "Dump Bumps," there apparently has been enough nastiness to prompt Bumps to - at least momentarily - consider resignation.
"He told me he was going to resign last Friday," Mills said.
Plowman said she and other Republicans had heard the same rumor, but during a meeting of county Republican leaders last week, no resignation was announced.
When asked Thursday whether the party members could have misunderstood his intentions, Bumps replied, "Probably." For Plowman and others interviewed this week, it isn't a question of "whether" Bumps should resign, but "when."
"There's the appearance that he's waiting for an offer to join the (Cianchette) campaign," she said. "There are things that can't be substantiated, but the feeling is that party headquarters should be as if it were a non-partisan office of the Legislature for primary candidates. You should be able to go and share information with them without worrying about whether your information is going to be shared with another candidate. There's no feeling of confidence among those who may be favoring one candidate over another that their candidate will get the kind of impartial and, if necessary, confidential treatment that they have every reason to expect to receive."
Mills said he's too busy campaigning to worry about whether Bumps remains chairman of the party or not, adding he had not asked him to step down.
OMG! Maine is so doomed.........
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