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08-27-18 Sen. John McCain

John McCain, Charlie Crafts (a Maine Vietnam War POW), and Lee Humiston at the old little museum. Photo from Maine Military Museum Website.

Part 1: Ray continues reflecting on McCain. Ray remembers one of his visits to Maine and the Maine Military Museum. Ray describes watching John McCain tour the museum and the life-size replica of a cell like the one McCain was held in. Ray takes a call.
Part 2: Arizona Governor will be appointing Sen. McCain’s replacement. How will that affect the Supreme Court confirmations?
Part 3: Ray starts off with an article in the Portland Press Herald, the media attacked golfer Tiger Woods about all kinds of things that didn’t have anything to do with him (NFL, Trump). He gets to the constitution and Washington.
Part 4: Ray concludes the morning with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

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08-27-18 We Didn’t Start The Fire

Part 1: Ray welcomes Fox News Radio’s Jessica Rosenthal to discuss the complicated Senator John McCain on his passing. McCain died at 81 years old on Saturday after a yearlong battle with brain cancer. Jessica explains the difference between lying in state and lying in honor.
Part 2: Ray continues his reflections on Sen. McCain and emphasis the difference in disagreeing with him as a Senator all the while continuing his respect and appreciation for McCain’s service to our Country.
Part 3: Ray plays Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start The Fire” song. He played it so that we could hear the lyrics and points out that we have the same issues today that were stated in the song from 1989.
Part 4: Ray is joined by Derek Volk of Volk Packaging and host of The Derek Volk Show as he and Ray discuss the over-boarding issues of the airline industries. Derek calls into the show from the airplane.

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08-27-18 Lotta Shaken’ goin’ on….

Part 1: Ray touches on the lineup for this morning’s Fox News reporters, Rachel Sutherland, Simon Owen and Jessica Rosenthal will be joining us to discuss some of the headlines. Rachel joins us first to talk about Jeff Sessions and President Trump. Pres. Trump has renewed pressure on Jeff Sessions to investigate the actions of his adversaries – what he called “corruption” on the “other side” – after the attorney general warned the president that his department would not be “improperly influenced” by politics. Sends his prayers out to Gov. LePage for a speedy recovery.
Part 2: Ray and Simon talk about new U.S. sanctions against Russia for last spring’s nerve agent attack in Britain that go into effect today, but their impact will be limited among a raft of other punitive measures already in place.
Part 3: Ray gives a short commentary on the obsession with Pres. Trump.

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08-24-18 Crystal Canney

Part 1: Ray is joined by Crystal Canney in studio, along with Rep. Jeff Timberlake and Joe Bruno. She is running for Senate District 27 in Portland. She and the boys talk about referendums. Crystal feels that the Legislature needs to work together. She is running as an Independent because she believes that it is important to be able to cross party lines with her vote. She and Jeff had quite a discussion.
Part 2: Ray describes the position of the candidates running for this seat. Crystal is an independent and open to discussion on the issues.
Part 3: Ray state that she is running against Democratic incumbent Benjamin Chipman. Ray states that her position is center to left and her opponent is a far leaning left. Ray brings back up the “leftover” bills that they have to come back into session and Jeff points out that they are all referendum questions.
Part 4: Ray, Crystal, Jeff and Joe all agree that elected folks are in Augusta for the People of Maine. They also all agree that they need to represent their constituents and not necessarily vote the way they would personally. Great discussion this morning.
For more information on Crystal’s campaign or positions, visit http://www.votecanney.com.

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