09-17-20 Thursday
Part 1: Ray Richardson talks about Maine’s leadership. Governor Mills disbursements of the Federal money that came in to assist people hurt by the Coronavirus shutdowns. He moves on to Maine Speaker Sara Gideon, her work since she has been in office, her commercials, her ability to work with others, her dictatorship, PAC money, and more.
Part 2: Ray talks about an article in the Press Herald and gives a preview of today’s show.
Part 3: Ray is joined by Bob Witkowski and briefly JJ Jeffrey. Bob and Ray talk about beautiful Rangeley.
Part 4: Ray is welcomed by Westbrook Fire Chief Andy Turcotte to discuss the landslide that happened directly behind Les Wilson & Sons and completely blocked the Presumpscot River in Westbrook. He gives a great description and possible cause. The Chief says that Greg Hamilton, Westbrook Public Safety Communications Director and Lindsay Spigel, senior geologist at the Maine Geological Survey, have been coordinating efforts and says this is a natural event and has occurred before. There have been a lot of different agencies helping in the solving this issue.
Part 5: Ray and Westbrook Fire Chief Turcotte talk about the covid testing that is available in Westbrook.
Part 6: Ray welcomes David Ciullo of Career Management Associates, and hosts The H.R. PowerHour on WLOB Radio on Saturdays at 10am, joins Ray to discuss HR issues. Today’s topic is about some of the new regulations that are starting, Paid Time Off days, Dave will be holding another webinar on the 9/23 regarding some of these crazy new laws for businesses. He gives another regulation that just came out. Ray comments on the new inflictions that the Maine Government is putting on already hurting businesses.
Part 7: Ray talks about Bill Barr’s comments regarding the state shutdowns and the shenanigans of the Democrats to sway the voters.
Part 8: Ray talks about the how the state operates and budget. He points out some of the inconsistencies in Gideon’s ads and plays a clip of Rep. Wayne Parry asking a question about the lodging tax and the budget that have been passed. Ray wants to know when enough is enough, then plays another clip.
Part 9: Ray comments on some texts he received on the Dirigo Partners Text Line about the previous segment about the Maine’s lodging tax that isn’t necessary to balance the budget. He plays the clip again. Ray explains is detail about what happens in this clip. He urges people to do the work and find out the truth.
Part 10: Ray talks about a note that he got about Sen. Susan Collins vote for Judge Kavanaugh. Ray says that if he could achieve one thing, it would be to end Roe v Wade and why, innocent victims, violence, Silent Sara Gideon, Kamala Harris, Jakob Blake, Sexual Assault, Police Shooting, Maine’s shutdown, Gov. “Draconian” Mills, Rep. Drew Gattine’s comments to CNN, mask Nazis, Dr. Fauci’s mask comments, and more.
Part 11: Ray previews the rest of today’s and tomorrow’s show.
Part 12: Ray welcomes Maine Rep. Nate Wadsworth to discuss Maine’s government and the campaign promise of not raising taxes, yet she did right out of the gate. They talk about Cornish and the comments from Rep. Drew Gattine about businesses are operated at 93%.
Part 13: Ray and Nate continue their discussion on Maine’s budget and the rainy day fund. The boys talk about the Draconian measures that Governor Mills’ has taken and her Emergency orders that she has taken full advantage, Former Governor Paul LePage, one person government (dictatorship), Governor shutdowns, Federal Judge Lance Walker’s ruling, 1st Amendment, and more.
Part 14: Ray and Representative Nate Wadsworth continue with their discussion, what is important to Nate, why he is running for another two years. Ray talks about Sue Salsbury and hopes that there will be more Democrats that have business experience and will stand up to the wacky liberal ideas of people that don’t have any business experience. They also talk about the increases in regulations and taxes that can really hurt the small businesses and the questions on the Federal relief money application that the Governor is dispersing, and more.