05-14-19 Political Roundtable
Part 1: Ray and Debi talk about the comments of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the presidential candidates. They talk about how the Presidency has now become production. They talk about how it changed with Bill Clinton.
Part 2: Ray takes aim at Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich her comments about thinking about the Holocaust gave her “kind of a calming feeling” in part because in its aftermath, the Palestinians helped create “a safe haven for Jews.”
Part 3: Debi asks Ray about the tariff war that is happening between the US and China. Ray isn’t worried about it because this is strategy. Intellectual property should be protected.
Part 4: Rep. Nate Wadsworth and from the Constitution Awareness Pact, Caleb Ness and Isaac Hadam. They start off discussing the amount of bills in Augusta. Ray asks about the status of LD 820. Ray reminds the audience that this is the abortion bill that makes it so that our tax dollars will pay for them. This continues with Dee Dee looking up whether it is against state law. She reads what she finds. (2005 Me. Laws, Chap. 408, LD 262)
Part 5: The boys take a call about the abortion segment. Ray catches him up when he tells him that they are now also trying to be able to “help” the elderly die as well.
Part 6: Ray and Nate discuss the some of the things in the special appropriation committee. They take Gordon Draper calls in with a question about fish ladders and the removal of dams and the hydro-power that will be lost. This prompts a discussion about the cost of energy. Caleb talks about how having it more local would make outages not be as long and less frequent. Isaac poses the rhetorical question about Nate’s comment about Washington not allowing us to put in new dams. Ray agrees that it wouldn’t be constitutional, but nobody will challenge it.
Part 7: Isaac makes a point about State’s rights vs Congress’ rights. Ray makes a point of how Rome fell….and asks them do they foresee a life much different in their lifetime. Caleb states that is why they founded their Constitutional Awareness PAC.
Part 8: The panel welcomes Republican Party Chair Dr. Demi Kouzounas. Demi announces an event coming up on June 27 featuring Tom Hicks, Former Gov. LePage, Former US Rep. Bruce Poliquin, Sen. Susan Collins. They talk about who would be a good candidate for District 1. Former Cumberland County District Attorney Stephanie Anderson would be a great candidate. The panel ends up talking about State Rep. Brownie Carson and how he is anti-business. Isaac brings up that we are electing people to represent the people, but he isn’t listening to the people that elected him. They continue to discuss Brownie Carson with the awful hit piece that he wrote against Mary Mayhew in a Florida paper and used his Title Rep. which according to Ray, is probably why they published something from Maine.
Part 9: Ray talks to Demi about her love for animals and God’s gift. They tease Demi about moving the worms out of the driveway and Ray talks about snakes.
Part 10: Ray and the panel discuss diversity. It started with the differences between President Reagan and President Trump. This leads to the diversity between Congressional Districts 1 & 2. They talk about Sen. President Troy Jackson and the some of the other crazy ideas that are bringing forth. We won’t see the damage that they have inflicted until it is way to late. Ray poses the question about how are we better with all of the taxes we have already and they want to add more here in Maine. Where are the results? The panel talks about the Democrat’s plan to have nothing here in Maine and return it to the “way it used to be”.
Part 11: Caleb tells us about an event the Constitutional Awareness Convention on September 13th in New Hampshire. There will be more information to follow. Ray and Demi chat about some of the candidates that might be running for office, Bruce Poliquin, Susan Collins and hopefully Stephanie Anderson in CD1.