06-19-18 Political Panel
Part 1: Rich, Debi and Ray are joined by David Jones. They talk about Ranked Choice Voting and the process of collecting them.
Part 2: The boys are joined by Portland Mayor Ethan Strimling and our intern Jack Cianchette. They discuss the Election from last Tuesday and the voter turnout. Also discussed are the different possible ways it could turn out. The Mayor predicts Janet Mills as the winner. Ray asks him about the ballot collection. The Mayor also predicts that it will take all six round to get a winner.
Part 3: The boys discuss the different rounds and how/what if the nominee doesn’t get to 51%.
Part 4: Secretary of State Matt Dunlap joins us to explain the process and how it is going. He says that there are some things that have worked well and some things that haven’t. He hopes that they will have an answer today. Everything has been delivered as of now. The Secretary explains that they don’t have to get to 51% as long as they get to the end of the rounds, the majority winner is the winner. They talk about the General Courier handling the ballots.
Part 5: The panel discuss what the Secretary of State told us about the election.
Part 6: The panel discuss the minimum wage in Maine and how it is going to ruin our state. Ray mentions how hiking taxes worked for Seattle. The people that came up with the idea and drafted the proposal, based it on Seattle. Ray is frustrated because Republicans can’t seem to get to the polls to vote.
Part 7: The panel takes a call about the GOP forming a group to rival the Maine’s People’s Alliance. Ray suggests that Garrett Mason would be an awesome candidate to lead such an organization, but there needs to be a way to finance such an endeavor.