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1977 The Maine Capital Corporation - Seeding The Hegemony

TWEET THIS ! http://goo.gl/bRCfF9 At this moment I am reading a report I received from the Maine Law Library- a report which was used to create The Maine Economic Development Corporation  and T he Maine Capital Corporation - a private investment corporation chartered by the Maine legislature which offered tax credits for stock. It was chartered contingent to The Maine Development Foundation Corporation. The Maine Constitution , prohibits the legislature from chartering of corporations by special acts of legislation with an exception for municipal purposes and if the objects of the corporation cannot be otherwise achieved. (Article Iv Part Third Sections 13 & 14) Article X. Additional Provisions. Section 3.  Laws now in force continue until repealed.   All laws now in force in this State, and not repugnant to this Constitution, shall remain, and be in force, until altered or repealed by the Legislature, or shall expire by their own limitation. When originally chartere

Whose Been Filtering the #mepolitics Twitter Stream?

TWEET THIS POST ! http://goo.gl/fguFuY Yesterday, I noticed that my posts were either not displaying or went missing after a while on the #mepolitics twitter stream, which streams live on As Maine Goes. I also noticed that there were other independent political voices missing from that same stream and the stream took on an eerie appearance of the eternal brotherhood of the Maine government & the Maine press, useful, to my perspective, only in keeping up to date on news stories such as the story published by the Bangor Daily News about Question #3- yet another bond promoted as being in support of Maine's economy. http://goo.gl/FJenQu Credit goes to the Bangor Daily News for still, at this date, so close to elections allowing the people's voice to be heard in the comments section, which is in stark contrast to the Maine media coverage of last years Expanded and Improved Seed Capital Tax Credit.  The people's response in the comments section is a resound