2016 election. 2nd district went Trump. Hillary won 3 electoral votes, Trump got one. Statewide Clinton 357,735 Trump 335,593 Johnson 38,105 (0 EV)
Posted on 05/02/2020 7:20:19 AM PDT by raccoonradio
NEWRY, Maine — The co-owner of Sunday River Brewing Co. in Newry who defied state orders by opening his doors to diners on Friday afternoon has lost his state health and liquor licenses, he said.
Restaurants must obtain state heath licenses to legally serve food.
More than 150 people came to Sunday River Brewing Co. in Newry on Friday afternoon after co-owner Rick Savage announced Thursday night that he would reopen in defiance of state orders meant to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
After learning that he’d lost the licenses around 4:30 p.m., Savage initially said he planned to keep operating the restaurant and just pay the daily fines that he would face. However, later in the evening, Sunday River Brewing Co. posted a Facebook post stating that the restaurant would be closed until further notice.
Frustration with the state’s coronavirus-related business restrictions has been growing in some circles, but the restaurant’s deliberate act of disobedience appeared to be the clearest example yet of those tensions boiling over in Maine.
Although the restaurant initially said it would open at 4 p.m., it started serving food after people showed up around noon in defiance of a March order from Gov. Janet Mills that barred dine-in restaurant service.
By 4:30 p.m., the crowd of diners lined up around the building on Route 2 had grown to a peak of around 150. By 6 p.m., the restaurant had served roughly 250 people, according to an employee.
Savage, who announced the restaurant’s opening on Fox News on Thursday night while criticizing the Democratic governor and reading her cellphone number on the air, said that he was not worried some of the diners coming from areas with more documented coronavirus cases would spread it in his restaurant.
That was partly because he was enforcing distancing guidelines that other businesses have adopted during the pandemic. If Home Depot, Lowes and Walmart “can do 6-foot spacing and be open,” then his restaurant could as well, he said.
“I really don’t believe it. I don’t believe it at this point,” he said, when asked if it might be dangerous to let those diners into the restaurant. “I’m not a medical expert. I serve food, you know.”
As for the many diners standing less than 6 feet from each other while waiting for a seat, he said, “I can’t tell them where to stand and what to do. We’re America. If they want to isolate, they can isolate.”
Violating orders made under the governor’s emergency powers are punishable as a misdemeanor crime and the deputy director of the state’s liquor regulator said Savage could face a penalty if he opened to dine-in customers.
Mills is a Commie monster, a pink.
Savage was on Howie Carr yesterday. He has lawyers hired and will go to court. This guy is a real Hero!
He lost is licenses because he went on Tucker’s show and announced the Governor’s cell phone number. The issue isn’t the issue, the issue is ALWAYS The Revolution.
I am fed up.
Mills is a Commie monster, a punk.
Disobedience to your Dem master overlords will not be tolerated, comrade. Next offence will be punished by 6 months re-education!
Things like this will continue until the state’s rulers start worrying whether or not they’ll be given permission by the citizens to operate the day following some stupid order. (Operate....or breathe....)
The Dems are winning this. All Trump offers is more stimulus.
The gov of Maine serves a four year term, “renewable once consecutively”. Former ME gov Paul LePage (R) has expressed interest in running again—but next election isn’t till 2022.
>>The current Governor of Maine is Janet Mills, a Democrat, who took office January 2, 2019.
The governor of Maine receives a salary of $70,000, which as of 2016 is the lowest by $20,000 of the 50 state governors—Wikipedia
>>Former Maine Gov. Paul LePage teased a run against his successor in the strongest terms yet so far on Wednesday, telling a radio host he will return to Maine from Florida and “challenge Janet Mills or the Democratic Party in 2022.” In a Wednesday interview with conservative radio host Howie Carr, he said he would return to Maine from Florida next month and declare residency in the state “not to leave anymore.” He registered to vote in the Sunshine State on the day Mills was inaugurated early last year. (Bangor Daily News, April 29 2020)
Slimey lowlife scummy beurocrats are still getting paid.
Licenses are for two purposes, revenue and control. Take a guess which is more important.
Another tyrant dictator, General Mills and her band of fruit loops. Waiting for tax increases for the children 1... 2... 3... 4. Maine has a lot of washed up hippies from the worst genetation, Baby Boomers.
I smell a lawsuit for punitive revocation of license, outside the terms of the license.
Oh ye of little faith.......
a certain Never Trumper, you are trashing the President to enhance your own sanctimonious self esteem.
2016 election. 2nd district went Trump. Hillary won 3 electoral votes, Trump got one. Statewide Clinton 357,735 Trump 335,593 Johnson 38,105 (0 EV)
“Restaurants must obtain state heath licenses to legally serve food.” So, why is it he lost them again...seems to me that is what he was doing.
Nazis
18 U.S. Code §242
Are they winning? I doubt it. The more draconian they have to get the more defiance they will face. The only thing they are winning is the start of a violent conflict at worst and an electoral landslide against them at best.
This won’t end well for them. Not at all. They are taking the conditions that lead to Trump’s 2016 victory and putting them on steroids.
As for Maine, that state is dependent, dependent on summer tourism. Every democrat and Republican knows that. Every lobstah and other fisherman knows that. Every shop owner knows that. This governor will have her far left supporters to be sure. But the ones just to the middle of left and to the right thereof? I doubt that she is winning any support there.
Under tyranny the citizens are afraid of their rulers, while in a free society the rulers are afraid of their citizens. It’s not surprising that Democrats are so obsessed with gun control.
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