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Tweet This: http://goo.gl/9583iv This is the Pathway to Enactment page,  produced and distributed under the direction of the Clerk of the House and Secretary of the Senate of Maine. What you will read on the   Pathway to Enactment  page is consistent which what most of us learned in  Civics 101  - that laws are enactied by a vote of agreement in by both legislative houses. Below is the explanation from the Maine Legislative Library about how laws are enacted in post-constituional Maine- and explaining that this is a standard means that Maine State Inc has been using to enact laws. It is only under the new laws instituted in post- constitutional Maine- ie under the laws codified by Maine State Inc- that the tax payers are on the hook for what the media, long in bed with the transformation of Maine from a state to a corporation, has declared to be a "legal fraud"- all of which is based on the enactment of LD 991 into the statute- not by a vote by both houses- but b

Tweet This ! http://goo.gl/O3WkKI An article in the Bangor Daily News discusses Governor Le Page's ambition to strip the Attorney General of authority over state agency rule making processes: LePage bill would void attorney general’s authority over new rules By  Mario Moretto  Bangor Daily News AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Paul LePage has drafted a bill to strip the attorney general of authority over the rulemaking process used by state agencies to implement laws approved by the Legislature. LePage has criticized judgments by Attorney General Janet Mills that some regulations he wanted were illegal. Rather than accept his lawyer’s legal advice, the governor would eliminate the requirement that she sign off on new state agency rules. ........ The bill represents the latest salvo in  a long battle between LePage, a Republican, and Mills, a Democrat . Currently, the AG must approve the “form and legality” of any state agency’s new rule or regulation, but the bill would limit Mil

Tweet This !  http://goo.gl/ccVqRj This Sunday sees the second installment of Whit Richardsons expose on the scandal surrounding the New Markets Tax Credit Shrewd financiers exploit unsophisticated Maine legislators on taxpayers’ dime Stonehenge and its counterparts have orchestrated 10 deals in Maine totaling $195 million in investments under the Maine New Markets Capital Investment program. The arrangement requires that Maine taxpayers give the investors 39 cents for every dollar invested, for a total of $76 million to date. A five-month Maine Sunday Telegram examination shows that nearly half of what was invested in low-income communities – $91 million on paper – never made its way to the designated companies for new upgrades or expansions. Instead, the money was used to pay off old loans or stayed on the books for less than 24 hours. .............  And it’s all legal. Shrewd financiers exploit unsophisticated Maine legislators on taxpayers’ dime As is typical whenever

TWEET THIS  http://goo.gl/CxEs6H Mikkel Clair Nissen Of Denmakrk Rants About Minimum Wage Hoax By Danish Government   An Act To Adjust Maine's Minimum Wage Annually Based on Cost-of-living Changes Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: Sec. 1.  26 MRSA §664, sub-§1,   as amended by PL 2007, c. 640, §4,  is further amended to read: 1.  Minimum wage.     The minimum hourly wage is  $6.50 per hour. Starting October 1, 2006, the minimum hourly wage is $6.75 per hour. Starting October 1, 2007, the minimum hourly wage is $7.00 per hour. Starting October 1, 2008, the minimum hourly wage is $7.25 per hour. Starting October 1, 2009, the minimum hourly wage is  $7.50 per hour.  Starting October 1, 2013, the minimum hourly wage is $8.50 per hour. Starting October 1, 2014 and each October 1st thereafter, if there is an increase in the Consumer Price Index on June 30th of that year from the Consumer Price Index on June 30th of the preceding year, the minim

TWEET THIS   goo.gl/bDXMYY There is a noteworthy article in the Portland Press Herald by staff writer WHIT RICHARDSON Pay Day At the Mill tells the story of how investors from out side the state lobbied the legislature to create new program Maine New Markets Capital Investment program, written by their own lawyers to include the ubiquitous refundable tax credit found throughout economic development programs devised by the Maine legislature In the end, here’s what really happened: Two Louisiana financial firms arrived in Maine with a plan to create such a program, hired lawyers and lobbyists to get it passed in Augusta, then put together the Great Northern deal using one-day loans that made an $8 million loan look like a $40 million loan. While they claim they did this to leverage more investment, the result is that Maine’s taxpayers are going to pay $16 million to banks and investment firms that invested only half that amount. And all of it was legal. Whit Richardson Payday A

Tweet This!  http://goo.gl/RpBzkj There has been a debate of late over a bill proposed in the Maine legislature An Act To Enact the Preservation of Religious Freedom Act  . The Findings section of the bill begins by telling us that 1, Freedom of religion is protected by the US Constitution and 2. Freedom of Religion is protected by the Maine Constitution. The reason for creating a statute to also protect Freedom of Religion is found in #3 &#4 & #5   CHAPTER 337-D 4 PRESERVATION OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ACT §4802. Findings The Legislature makes the following findings: 3. Exercise of religion burdened . Laws neutral toward religion may burden exercise of religion as surely as laws intended to interfere with religious exercise;  4. Compelling government interest . Government should not burden the free exercise of religion without a compelling governmental interest;  5. Effect of Supreme Court precedent. Prior to 1990, the United States Supreme Court recognized

Tweet This: http://goo.gl/0m1HSr Beth O'Connor is a Maine State Legislator who threatened to block me from Maine Tax Payers United during election season for criticizing LePage. Eventually she had her proxy block me. But today I saw a post on Facebook by Beth promoting a bill she is sponsoring to add the town of Berwick to the special interests groups in Maine which are qualified to receive Pine Tree Zone benefits- one of the Maine Development Corporation's many  corporate welfare programs: Maine LD 93: An Act To Allow the Town of Berwick To Be Eligible for Full Pine Tree Development Zone Benefits I made the comment below and a few others before Beth caught on and blocked me once again from posting comments on her Facebook page.  In Maine it is common practice for public representatives to block the voices of those expressing views that the politician does not want to hear. The other participant in the conversation  testified that LePage blocks her comments- a sto