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Update on letter to Government Oversight Committee: To date none will address the issues I raised -  not even from my own Senator Chris Johnson. This does not surprise me when our state is run by a hegemony of power. Its been ions since the Maine state legislature granted onto themselves the authority to centrally manage the economy and have been decreeing for years that the transference of taxpayer money to private interests is for the public good. How could anyone think otherwise? The legislature is incapable of dealing with views outside of their own hegemony and they have stopped governing by the consent of the governed decades ago. I know there are many among the governed who do not agree that the redistribution of wealth currently implemented by our legislature serves the "public benefit"- but we are not among the "targeted sector" served by our legislature. I know there are many that do not like the direction that the University of Maine is g

Supoort this Blog Here Today I learned  that there is a limited OPEGA report in the works, focusing on economic development funds going to the University of M. It isn't clear from this description if the cost of operating The states Advanced Manufacturing System at the University of M is covered but I have a number of questions I would like to have answered . emily.cain@gmail.com<emily.cain@gmail.com>; SenMargaret.Craven@legislature.maine.gov; senchris.johnson@legislature.maine.gov; SenRoger.Katz@legislature.maine.gov; edmyoungblood@gmail.com; SenDavid.Burns@legislature.maine.gov; cbkruger@myfairpoint.net; sixwings@metrocast.net; petersonhouse08@gmail.com; RepDavis@midmaine.com; cotta@fairpoint.net; lanceharvell@hotmail.com; Dear Senator Cain and members of the Government Oversight Commitee, I am writing to you in your capacity as the Chair of the Government Oversight Committee regarding the Opega Report of the Maine Economic Improvement Fund. I

I've been blogging about the Maine economy since around 2007 when my blog was called Main Street Economy . Day One starting at 1:26 PM Goal Reached  _   Dollars out of $1000.00 In 2008 I attended a Juice Conference at the encouragement of someone at Maine Arts Commission, who was promoting, what I took to be, a modest grant but which later turned out to be an investment. The investment opportunity was promoted as coming from an "anonymous donor ( or perhaps it might have said "investor"). As it turned out this was The Small Enterprise Growth Fund , which I had seen in passing but had not spent time on as it was promoted as a "high growth Investors group" which to my understanding means the type of investor that wants to make a large profit in a relatively short time for which the investor takes a larger risk that usual. This sort of investor does not suit the profile that interests a small ceramic design and manufacturing company like Andersen Stud

Recently in the news , The University of Maine is considering cutting American and New England Studies, a course offered at the University of Southern, Maine. According to testimony of former student: Dr. Pease's Hamilton and Jefferson course at UMO and it was one of the most important American history courses I've ever taken. He had a passion for the topic The course was a course on the Federalists Papers . Today when I searched for the phrase " federalist papers " on the University of Maine curriculum, it came up blank and there appears (to my limited knowledge and research efforts)  to be only one course offered in American and New England Studies and that is currently under consideration for the cutting board. And yet the University of Maine was recently able to Install the Confucius Institute on Campus- why because money is provided by China and that is all it takes in Maine where our government is always looking for sources of outside capital

In an article in todays PPH,  Republicans charge House Speaker with conflict of interest.   , there is a discussion of legislative conflicts of interests.  The article is centered around House Speaker, Mark Eves allegated conflict of interest in the expansion of Medicaid (Maine Care) Last week, 26 House Republicans signed a letter requesting that House Speaker Mark Eves, D-North Berwick, recuse himself from voting on a bill that would expand Medicaid, the publicly funded health insurance program for the poor. The freedom to legislate in areas in which conflicts of interests exists is openly defended by Rep. Lance Harvell, R-Farmington, who said he refused to sign the letter.  "If we start down that road, there isn’t going to be anybody in this damn place who can vote,” The article then cites various instance of conflict of interest covering a range of situations. But if the legislature itself abides by the laws written by that body - it should be standard protoc

The viability and constitutionality of Maine's centrally managed economy, which I have called Maine State Inc- is perpetually kept out of the political dialogue by politicians and the Maine media alike, but these programs serve the interests of the few at the expense of the many. All of the candidates in the gubernatorial race are co-conspirators in "targeted sector economics". The last accountability on Maine's "economic development" programs was in 2006 which concluded that there was no evidence that these programs create jobs and that they do invite corruption. See Pine Tree Watch Dog article http://pinetreewatchdog.org/tax-break-deals-studied-and-studied-but-questions-remain-unresolved . If Independent candidates emerge taking on the issue of Maine State Inc, all of their opposition will be part of the singular force of the political oligarchy, which has intentionally excluded discussion and awareness of these programs from public dia

TWEET THIS !! http://goo.gl/VZf9Kf There is currently  a chilling story in the national news about the targeting of C atherine Engelbrecht, who started two Tea Party organizations in Texas, It is not a story  we would have expected to hear in the United States of America, a few short years ago.  Ms Englebrecht started an organization called True The Vote, after volunteering at the ballot box and becoming dismayed at the voter fraud that she witnessed .When C atherine Engelbrecht applied for non-profit status she became the target of four federal government agencies- not merely the IRS and was also attacked by members of the United States Congress. You can read C atherine Engelbrecht's story HERE - It is very reccommended. This is the kind of story that the left attempts to dismiss with the phrase "conspiracy theory" as if conspiracies could not actually exist and so the phrase is expected to be taken as a synomyn of "nut job"- but in fact conspiracies do