08-11-25 Monday
Segment 1: Ray and Dee Dee Richardson discuss their weekend and the glorious sunrise. He get down to business by talking about the consequence of voting and uses South Portland and their State Representative as an example.
Segment 2: Ray talks a little about today’s guests and his love of music.
Segment 3: Ray starts with a reel that Maine Senate President Mattie Daughtry posted about the high taxes and hypocrisy considering she led the push on the Democrat-led tax hikes in the Maine Legislature, the premise of his new book about his ideas of how to fix the state financially, and how we need to bring Common Sense back to the Maine Legislature.
Segment 4: Ray talks more about taxation.
Segment 5: Ray talks about his detractors claiming that he is privileged and doesn’t understand the strife of life. Chuck Ellis joins Ray and they talk about Chuck’s swag promoting his podcast. They continue with a discussion about people that talk about white privilege. Rep. Josh Morris (R-Turner) joins the fun and the Democratic policies that have destroyed the beautiful State of Maine. Vern Dukes (Cafe 1055 and The Trucker of Truth) join the boys.
Segment 6: Ray asks Vern about being privileged.
Segments 7-8: Ray plays a clip of Maine Rep. Deqa Dhalac’s loyalty to her home country, Somalia, before America which gets Vern really wound up and he shares his thoughts.
Segments 9-10: Retired Col. Ron Russell (Former Army Ranger, Special Forces Green Beret and Candidate for CD1) joins the gang. Chuck shares his journey of getting his wife to America. The visa process and it has been a very long two years. Chuck had to leave and the boys get into the vacation days that the elected people take and the lack of help that they offer their services.
Segments 11-12: The group talks about the 20somethings searching and Ray reads a story about a Southern Baptist Preacher that picked up his family and moved to the Portland Area. Gaige Hamilton (Greater Portland Fire) joins with some goodies.
Segments 13-16: Gaige shares what his company does and how he learned the trade at his father’s knee. Jeff Preble stops by and they discuss the reason that the costs of living and owning a home in Maine doesn’t change the butts in the seats in government.