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Segments 1-2:\u00a0<\/strong> Ray Richardson starts off with the events in Congress starting with exchange between Sen. Josh Hawley and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison about fraud during an immigration oversight hearing, which ended with Hawley telling Ellison he \u201cought to be in jail.\u201d
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\nSegments 3-4:\u00a0<\/strong> Ray starts with more of the government not looking out for our most vulnerable and uses the work that the late Bill Diamond did in his last 30 years. He takes calls.
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\nSegments 5-6:\u00a0<\/strong> Ray explains the rules for calling in and why he takes some of them. \u00a0Mike Shepherd<\/a>\u00a0(Political Editor for the\u00a0Bangor Daily News<\/a>) calls in and they start with the candidates running for office and the name recognition, the money in the different campaigns and how they are running their races.
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\nSegments 7-8:\u00a0<\/strong> Ray welcomes Steve DiMillo (DiMillo\u2019s Floating Restaurant<\/a> in Portland Maine) and they talk about heading down to Len Libby’s<\/a> for the fresh chocolate covered strawberries. The boys get into some of the same discussion brought on by the previous segment. Steve shares this Chef Melissa’s Valentine’s weekend special which\u00a0 sounds like she has outdone herself.
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\nSegments 9-10:\u00a0<\/strong> Ray welcomes Ben Midgley (Candidate for Governor) and they talk about his platform, the problems that Maine is facing, his plans to bring down the tax burden. Great conversation on what Ben has in mind for Maine when he is elected Governor of Maine. For more information or how to get involved with his campaign, visit https:\/\/www.benforgovernor.com<\/a>.
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\nSegment 11-12:\u00a0<\/strong> Ray starts off with the misinformation that is being spread by the left that information on your birth Certificate would be changed. Steve Robinson (The Maine Wire<\/a> segment sponsored by Jeff Preble) calls in and they talk about some of the illegal immigrant problems that are being swept under the rug, the regular media not covering anything worth knowing, and then they get into Elliot Cutler, the Epstein Files fallout including George Mitchell, the Maine absentee ballot mystery, and more.
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\nSegments 13-14:\u00a0<\/strong> Ray welcomes Delanie Bomar (Regional Director of Communications for the RNC) to chat about Sen. Susan Collins. She is and always has been working for the people of Maine, they discuss some of her opponents and their platforms, and more.
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\nSegment 15:\u00a0<\/strong> Ray welcomes Jason Faller (Executive Producer and writer for the Angel Studios series The Wayfinders). Jason explains a little about the young adult genre and how if works with Faith content for this and other projects he has worked on.
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\nSegment 16:\u00a0<\/strong> Ray talks about chocolate covered strawberries from Len Libby. He takes a couple of calls.
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