A private plane crashed onto the frozen Thompson Lake in Otisfield on Friday, prompting an investigation from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
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Showhorse Maine Democrat Gubernatorial Hopeful Nirav Shah Claims We Need To Be Protected From Trump?
A member of the broadening field of Democrats who think they can be the state’s next governor actually thinks Donald Trump is our problem?
Nirav Shah issued a campaign primer on what an alleged problem the president is, according to the website BiddefordBuzz.com.
Shah apparently missed the part of the movie where he is the one we need protection from.
“There has never been a candidate for Maine governor who has proven by their actions to be more utterly unqualified for the job more than Nirav Shah,” historian and former Maine Department of Education Commissioner Tom Desjardin said.
Desjardin analyzed Shag’s candidacy in a piece for The Maine Wire late last year, writing that Shah has a history of utter administrative failure – not only in Maine but in his previous jobs.
Shah is best known for leading the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention through the COVID-19 pandemic.
He also held a role with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the failed Biden administration before returning to his home state.
“Shah’s background demonstrates a staggering inability to effectively manage or communicate in the field of public health,” Desjardin also wrote in a column three years ago.
Shah was director of the Illinois Department of Public Health in 2015 when an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease resulted in 13 deaths and 74 infections at the Illinois Veterans Home.
Shah was among several Illinois officials heavily criticized for their response to the outbreak, and a 2019 state audit report of the incident indicated that the Illinois CDC did not visit the facility until nearly two weeks into the outbreak.
Shah insisted that the agency followed all federal guidelines and moved quickly.
Illinois U.S. senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth called for Shah’s resignation, but he remained in his position until the governor who appointed him lost his re-election bid in 2018.
The state of Illinois six years ago reached a $6.4 million settlement agreement with several families of veterans who died in the outbreak.
After Democrat Gov. Janet Mills appointed Shah as disease-control director in 2019, he became a media darling of the legacy press because of his unending series of “news conferences.”
“Shah received fawning praise from local left-wing media outlets for quoting popular music while promoting cooperation with draconian and invasive pandemic-era restrictions and mandates, many of which, such as masking and social distancing, have now been shown to be ineffective or arbitrary,” Seamus Othot of The Maine Wire wrote last August when Shaw first started threatening a bid for governor.
The dog-and-pony shows staged by Shah frequently included song lyrics and Dad jokes in an attempt to bring levity to his pandemic reports.
And he’s the same guy who now says Trump is a danger?
“Trump is a threat to our country, our state, our democracy, and our values,” Shah warned in his new campaign commercial. “I’ve stood up to Trump to protect our state before, and I’m ready to do so again.”
The question really is whether Shah is able to protect Maine from himself.
When U.S. Democrat Rep. Chellie Pingree needed to finger ICE, she apparently couldn’t do it in Maine.
Funny how a congresswoman supposedly representing a Maine district has to leave the state to do her job.
Maybe she thinks Maine is still a part of Massachusetts.
Gotta be. But then again it’s been 206 years since Maine broke away from Massachusetts to become the 23rd U.S. state.
Chellie held a “news conference” Friday to publicize her investigation of federal-immigration holding centers.
Unfortunately the Democrat paper that she relies on for her publicity never asked her why she couldn’t do her work in Maine instead of going to Massachusetts.
But coming from the Portland Press Herald that’s really no surprise.
Chellie said she just had to go to Burlington, Massachusetts because she had heard horror stories about the detention center.
The congresswoman had to admit at her press gaggle Friday that she really found the center to be pretty much up to snuff.
So much for a wasted out-of-state junket.
A Maine man reportedly smashed his pickup truck through a Dunkin’ Donuts and Burger King on Thursday before fleeing the scene while allegedly high and was ultimately arrested following a second crash.
The United States Supreme Court has ruled 6-3 against President Donald Trump (R) in a long-awaited decision concerning the tariffs he imposed on numerous countries last year.
Dissenting from this ruling were Justices Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, and Samuel Alito. Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy coney Barrett each issued concurring opinions.
A pugged-up sewer that virtually destroyed an elderly Saco woman’s home wasn’t her fault.
But city officials stuck her with a bill of nearly $30,000 to clean up the mess in the wake of the sewer backup.
The sad story of Elsie Boudreau’s heartache at the hands of city government was unearthed by CBS News 13 investigative team.
Boudreau told the news outlet she’s still trying to comprehend the mess she walked into late last year.
Raw sewage had backed up into the basement of her home.
Everything in her finished basement, from carpeting and paneling to furniture and family keepsakes, had to be torn out and thrown away.
“It was many things that bring back memories that are now gone,” Boudreau said. “It’s heartbreaking.”
In total, Boudreau says the cleanup alone cost more than $28,000. Her homeowners insurance covered part of the damage, but not all of it.
“It wasn’t caused by me,” Boudreau said. “The only thing it caused me was heartaches and sadness.”
Boudreau says she was later told a bath towel had blocked part of the sewer system on Franklin Street, a road near her home. Several surrounding houses were affected, though she says her damage was the worst.
City officials denied liability, claiming they had “no prior knowledge of the hazard.”
Their viewpoint apparently is ‘sounds like a personal problem – she’s got hers, we’ve got ours.’
The day before the one-year anniversary of the shootings, I learned of Ben Dyer and his story of survival and resilience. As President of the Lewiston Firefighters, the year following the shooting was occupied with ensuring all of our members who were present that evening were able to access whatever services they needed. As we approached the one-year anniversary, it was time for the department and those who responded to reclaim some sense of normalcy, as much as could be expected in light of the tragedy that unfolded for these 17 firefighters.
The Brewer Police Department arrested the same man three times in less than a week, beginning on Saturday when he allegedly tried to fight customers leaving a Wilson Street business.
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