David and Ray discuss the City Council vote in Portland against Mayor Ethan Strimling. There is a definite power struggle going on between the progressive Mayor and progressive City Council members. Caller calls in and compliments Ray on his afternoon broadcast from last month. They have a really nice chat.
12-20-17 Trump’s Tax Plan
Fox News Radio’s Jon Decker is in Washington and is anticipating President Trump to give a speech this afternoon, congratulating Republicans and hopefully signing the bill. Not sure if he will sign today or after the new year, but this is the first step in his plan of Making America Great Again.
12-20-17 Ethan Strimling
Back Row Left to Right: Councilor Kimberly Cook, Councilor Brian Batson, Councilor Spencer Thibodeau, Councilor Nicholas Mavodones,Jr., and Councilor Belinda Ray
Front Row Left to Right Councilor Pious Ali, Councilor Jill Duson, Mayor Strimling, and Councilor Justin Costa.
Joining Ray and David this morning is Portland Mayor Ethan Strimling. There is a power struggle in Portland. The City Council vetoed the whole full slate of appointments. Council members wouldn’t even allow the Mayor to speak on why this wasn’t even legal. The power struggle is still going on, he says that the council is under-minding the office of the Mayor, again and overstepping their authority.
12-20-17 Martin Grohman
Part 1: Representative Martin Grohman join David Jones and Ray in studio. They discuss the new National Tax Plan that was just passed and what it means to the us. Then they start talking about new Health Care Plan. Martin supports ObamaCare and is interested to see what the new individual mandates will be in the new plan. Gov. LePage talked about but never imposed the end of individual tax returns.
Part 2: Ray believes that the sunset provision in this tax plan will just cause issues.