07-02-20 Thursday
Part 1: Ray had some technical difficulty. He plays God Bless the USA by Home Free & Lee Greenwood. Takes a call and goes back to music. Still with difficulty.
Part 2: Ray thanks everyone for the thoughtful cards that he has received, then gives a preview of the today’s show and guests and talks about Maine School Resource Officers (SRO), Governor Mills new Executive Orders, “Woke” white people, contact tracing, protesting, Columbine, school shootings.
Part 3: Ray is still trying to get the lines to work with Bob Witkowski and News Center Maine‘s Pat Callaghan, but alas it didn’t work. He calls his IT guy, Devin to help him with his board. He talks about his reaction on hearing about the Columbine tragedy and brings it back to Portland and their decision on the School Resource Officers. Ray talks about some of the remarks of the Superintendent Xavier Botana in his comment to the School Board on the removal of SRO from schools. He talks about Former Portland Mayor’s comments on Ray’s Facebook post and expands on the “woke” white people that are just fanning the flames of racism and he expands on his thoughts.
Part 4: Ray tries again and is still having technical difficulties. He continues his thought on the remarks of the Superintendent Xavier Botana and his comment to the School Board on the removal of SRO from schools. Ray and Devin fix the problem on air….
Part 5: Ray after having some technical difficulty (power surge) welcome Former State Trooper and Former President of Maine Association of Police (MAP) Mike Edes and Former South Portland Detective Steve Webster and they discuss the job that they did before they retired and the lunacy that is happening with the charges of racism against the Portland Police. Mike says that the school board doesn’t have a clue about the problems that they will have on their hands because a SRO isn’t just a cop.
Part 6: Ray continues his discussion with Mike and Steve. They give their experiences with racism complaints, police morale, schools, school resource officers’ influence they have on kids.
Part 8: Ray welcomes Detroit Police Chief James Craig. He’s a Former Portland Maine Police Chief. They discuss his current position, the great people that serve Detroit and the how proud he is of his time in Portland. They talk about the quick judgment from the media, public and politicians of a situation involving police, the “peaceful” protestors verses the mob that they ended up taking over. He tells a story from when a moose was loose in Portland and he talks about the hired agitators and how the city administration has let their police down. He says that these attacks on the police is an organized affront from out of town. He says that it is shameful what happened in Seattle. Chief Craig talks about how the Rodney King incident was a pivotal for him personally.