After reviewing the 2020 "election" in both states with my Obama 2008 Vote Fraud Luminol
tool, I conclude that both states are actually red states - the Demoscats just cheat harder where it counts.
Posted on 01/19/2022 3:01:00 PM PST by Steven Scharf
City of Portland Maine
Health & Human Services Department Kristen Dow, Director MEMORANDUM
To: Mayor Snyder and Members of the Portland City Council cc: Danielle West, Interim City Manager From: Kristen Dow, Director of Health & Human Services Date: January 14, 2022 Re: HHS Homelessness and Emergency Shelter Update
Over the past several months we have continued to see a steady increase in the number of asylum seeking families arriving from the southern border. As of the date of this memo, we are providing shelter to 225 families for 735 individuals, and we have seen a total of 30 new families arrive since January 3, 2022.
In addition to newly arriving families, as other temporary shelters around the state close, we have also continued to see new intakes coming to the Oxford Street Shelter (OSS) from outside of Portland. In the first thirteen days of January, OSS has had 29 new intakes. Of those intakes, 17 were from outside of Portland, accounting for 59% of our intakes.
These increasing numbers have pushed us to the highest nightly average of those in emergency shelters that we have seen to date. With these growing numbers, we continue to have to utilize a combination of shelter beds and hotel placements to shelter both individuals and families. We are now using ten different hotels in five municipalities in addition to our two 24-hour shelters.
City management and HHS leadership continue to notify State officials of the increasing numbers that we are experiencing and urge for assistance with a state and/or regional approach for both resettlement and emergency sheltering. With the continued support of our community partners, we are actively working to ensure the needs of all those in emergency shelters are met.
However, as we have stated multiple times over the past several months, the resources of our community are being stretched to the point where the families and individuals we serve will not have access to the resources they need to be successful.
We wanted to make the City Council aware of the current situation and hereby request continued support and advocacy with local, county, state and federal appointed and elected officials for the following: a regional approach to emergency homlessness; the state to take the lead on resettlement efforts; and for uniform General Assistance administration across the state.
The Portland City Council received a Communication* from the Kristen Dow, the city's Director of Health & Human Services about a crisis that the city is facing. As you can see from the memo, an ongoing issue happening here in Portland is that we are being inundated with asylum seekers flooding into Portland Maine. Portland Maine has been designated a "Tier 1" city by the Feds (city staff has no idea why or how this designation was made and the city's input was not obtained in making it). The Tier 1** designation allows people who are on the southern border to advised border control staff that they want to come to Portland Maine and they are then passed on to an NGO who provides them with the resources to get to Portland. They arrive in Maine and present themselves to city social services who then have to provide them housing. We have no ability to keep them from coming here and state law requires local communities to house anyone who present themselves as needing housing. They are arriving without the means to live in our winter winter conditions.
The City is having to utilize hotels across the city and four area towns, including Old Orchard Beach and Freeport Maine. This is putting a significant strain on the area towns that are not set up to deal with housing the un-housed in this way. The city has already spent over $9 million on housing these folks with the possibility of costs rising to $30 million by the end of the fiscal years. At the moment the state is picking up 70% of the cost and FEMA funds are covering the other 30% (the FEMA funds could go away at anytime). On the city level, cost is not the major issue, but rather the capacity of the city to handle the influx of people. Portland is not a cheap place to live with housing costs being significant so funneling 1,000s of additional people into the housing market is quite illogical.
The city has prided itself its support of the un-housed, etc. It is probably why we got the Tier 1 designation. The problem is we don't have unlimited funds to support this type of work. I have always been an advocate that we need to turn off the spigot. Hopefully, this "crisis" will move the city policy leaders to consider that we cannot be all things to all people. Unfortunately, the last election elected three people who are far more progressive than the ones they replaced.
* Communication in this context is a formal memo or report from staff about a specific matter. The council can discuss such a communication, but does not take public comment of the item.
** The city has been advised that it is the only Tier 1 city not on the southern border.
It must be the wormhole from the southern border to Maine.
*Tier 1 = the Democrats are tired of fighting for just one Maine electoral vote, and they want both of them.
And they want Susan Collins gone, gone, gone.
Poor suffering taxpayers take it in the wallet one more time!
Unhouse the FReeloaders and make them get a job so they can support themselves!
Have any been sent to Socialist Vermont, Bernie Sanders land?
Being from rural Oregon and having known a few people from rural Maine, it seems that the two cities are remarkably alike in casting a political pall over what would be otherwise two very nice states.
Your city became proud of helping the homeless? Be careful what you wish for - you got it.
They should just turn them out.
After reviewing the 2020 "election" in both states with my Obama 2008 Vote Fraud Luminol tool, I conclude that both states are actually red states - the Demoscats just cheat harder where it counts.
The other 99 out of 100 are seeking “free stuff” - some for a time, some for life.
*Tier 1 = the Democrats are tired of fighting for just one Maine electoral vote, and they want both of them.
Portland is in the congressional district that they already have. Although Portland and South Portland provide significant portion of the dems election margin in Southern Maine, the asylum seeker invasion could back fire on them and turn all of Maine outside these two red.
Cheating certainly counts for something, but Oregon has been weird from the beginning, and like New England and Illinois, long held onto the original “progressive” Republican take of things, however with a strong blend of Southern Democratic stock added to make things even more interesting.
Joseph Lane, the VP on the Southern Democratic ticket, was a native son (Lane County, home of Eugene and the University of Oregon is named after him) and while Lincoln carried the state, it was only by 270 votes—a little bit closer and it would have gone for Breckenridge. Douglas was a very distant third, and Bell didn’t have enough votes to be even a spoiler (about 14,600 votes cast).
All states are probaby red by majority of citizens. Thats why your replacements are being caravanned in. All states are examples of pure democracy. The major cities run/ruin everyone else. They are the best 50 examples of why we require the EC.
The invasion force is in temporary housing...
A shame. I like Portland. Too bad these imported parasites can’t be ground into chum....
update: homeless uh yes
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