Posted on 01/22/2006 4:20:21 AM PST by SheLion
The governor's annual salary, which is the lowest in the nation, was last increased in 1987 when it jumped from $35,000 to $70,000.
If the bill passes, the governor's pay would jump to more than $220,000, or 10 percent higher than $200,850 salary of the chancellor of University of Maine System, according to the Legislature's fiscal office.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
"But Gov. John Baldacci does not support the bill, said his spokeswoman Crystal Canney. Baldacci would not be affected by the raise, even if re-elected."
If Baldacci is re-elected why wouldn't it affect him? Why pass a bill and let it lay in limbo?
John BaldMarxist and his Minions are really trying to drive this old Train called Maine over the cliff, eh?
I believe you are right. And I heard tale that the MSM of Maine is on his side. So, not much that he does today makes it into the press. I guess the newspapers are trying to "protect" him from ridicule. ugh!
Well you live there, why not read your own state constitution? Article V, Section 6: "The Governor shall, at stated times, receive for services a compensation, which shall not be increased or diminished during the Governor's continuance in office."
Happy?
Happy?
What boggles my mind is how quick you are to defend him. Are you sure you are in the right forum?
What's worse, defending someone against unfair attack regardless of their party affiliation? Or condemning someone without reason just because of their party affiliation? If I'm going to err in your eyes then I prefer to err on the side of truth and not blind bigotry.
Next time do your homework and we won't disagree.
Next time do your homework and we won't disagree.
Listen, not to sound mean and nasty, but I checked my ping list to make sure you weren't on it!
Also, you have to LIVE under the Baldacci Regime to know how unhappy a lot of us are. Blind bigotry? LOL that's a good one. What state do YOU live in btw?
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.
May 21, 2005 Quote:"A source inside of
-She sounded pretty frosty in a soundbyte yesterday, regarding base closings...
Question: Is there even a remote chance that Maine got spanked because of our RINO's and irresponsible Governor?
I don't think so, but have heard that muttered here and there...
Base closings, Rummie snubbing Baldacci, I don't know what to make of it, but I do have this to say:
I love Maine, for the first time in 20 years I'm thinking about getting the hell out of this State because of the way it's run.
Maine needs a Governator, Baldacci -should- be getting a no confidence vote.
My opinion of him continues to plummet, as does his approval rating.
The scary thought is that he'll probably be reelected.
What a freaking mess."
"What do you mean funny, funny how?" :-)
Well then I'm sure that you have a lot of actual problems and issues that you can blame him for. Why slam him for something he has no control over? It's the GOP who submitted it, Baldacci can't profit from it. But you blame him for it.
What state do YOU live in btw?
Kansas. We have our own problems with our own governor out here. But I don't blame her for things she had nothing to do with.
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!
June 22, 2005
I just got a phone call that claims that 400 more Somalians have recently come to Maine, 200 in Portland and 200 more in L/A.
The caller also stated that they are receiving compensation in the 60K a year range.
Any one have any collaboration or corrections on this?
Thanks
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."
Baldacci and Tom Allen) are big spenders of taxpayer dollars. (Unknown Maine Source).
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.
While I know that the base closing issue was used to political advantage by Bush Senior and by Clinton, one would still hope that the base closing decision was made on what was best for our national defense and not because of Snowe and Collins and Baldacci.
The scary thought is that he'll probably be reelected.
See? Now you have something to complain about that Baldacci DOES have control over.
Apparently the phony 'conservatives' who lurk at FR aren't confined just to the smoking threads.
You noticed that too, huh?
Well then what the heck, you two are thinking much too small. If truth means nothing to you then why not blame Baldacci for the Bird Flu or the spread of AIDs? Why not say that Saddam Hussain hid all his WMDs in the governors mansion in Augusta? Just think of the mileage you can get out of those.
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