06-29-18 Joe Bruno
Part 1: Ray and Joe offer to take calls, Joe brings up the purchase of the small online pharmacy PillPack. A deal that doesn’t make sense to Joe or Ray because the licenses are not nontransferable. The only thing they can come up with is the purchase is to squash the competition. They talk about personal connections with a local pharmacy that you don’t get online. The discussion ends up with big business vs small business.
Part 2: Ray and Joe try and take a call. Discussion gets into Rep. Trey Gowdy criticized Justice Department investigators for prolonging their investigation into Russian interference in the Presidential election during a tense House Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday.
Part 3: Ray and Joe start off talking about Maine’s OPEGA (click here to learn more about OPEGA) and Maine Sen. Roger Katz. The boys take a call and Larry asks Joe if he would go back to Augusta. Joe responds, then he and Ray expand on how the Governor’s Cabinet and Commissioners work. They talk about Ted Talbot and Transportation Commissioner David Bernhardt. Ray tells the story of Abraham Lincoln and his cabinet.
Part 4: Ray and Joe talk about speaking your opinion and the Governor. Joe believes that the Gov. was provoked quite a bit for the sound bites.