Finishing up my prep to fly down to DC this week. Once I'm back there will be Campaign Events:
Housing/Safety Net and Drug Policy on the 17th https://t.co/O6MdIKSwA6
Education on the 21st https://t.co/d9rVlL2lCh
Human Rights on the 22nd https://t.co/FF0p8rHAJC
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If you ever wonder why working families can't afford rent or find a place to live, this is the reason right here. This is what "the market" wants to produce. Properties that earn 2-3x median income, not affordable housing. Maybe we should act like it.
#mepolitics#HousingCrisis
Whelp. Sidelined w my 3rd brush w Covid this year. Waiting to see if we pass it around the house again. It's done a number on campaigning. However, I happen to have the best Campaign Manager working with an awesome community that's going to get it done while I'm out.
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@MainelyLiberal@realMGHein@GOPGovs@GovJanetMills@mdoenews The egregious part to me is that the official response is that it must have been somehow inappropriate. That's just legitimizing the already extreme position of the GOP that literally anyone who is LGBTQ must be a groomer and that being LGBTQ is explicitly sexual when it is not.
@MainelyLiberal@realMGHein@GOPGovs@GovJanetMills@mdoenews That ad isn't going to move anybody that isn't already on the road to Q land. Their big thing was that it mentions Trans folks but conveniently skipped the portion where it was being explained why we have things like Pride Month and how LGBTQ folks had to fight for their rights.
Going to Green Street today at 330 with the kids and to talk to some folks about the community. Sounds like a good first full day back home. Link to the event below.
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https://t.co/myiPXd3uR2
We're marching tomorrow for a better Early Childhood system, Immigration reform and expanding community engagement programs related to Education. And we're going to Livestream it.
#parentled#uplangathering2022
https://t.co/1foH9HwNOU
Wow. At the @UPLAN_US national conference and TIL@UPLAN_USA national conference and TIL:
38% of tribal elders have died during the pandemic. How is this the first I heard of it? You'd think there would be way more attention paid to that.
Alternative Headline:
Maine expected to lead world in inflated rents due to a continued lack of residential rental properties and profiteering.
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@ASFried @scrimmins53 @JamesxMyall And organized criminal activity for profit (to include murder and interstate trafficking of controlled substances) allows the government to charge every single member of the org with every potential criminal charge even if not directly involved. Receptionist? Nope murderer.
@ASFried @scrimmins53 @JamesxMyall Felony charges for things like murder if I'm not mistaken. I would also assume that if you went across state lines that could potentially trigger other interstate criminal charges
...And omg I just realized if the Republicans get control of govt they will hit PP w a RICO Charge
@scrimmins53 @ASFried @JamesxMyall Was going to say that you can deny extradition but I'm not sure whether that's up to the prosecutor or AG to fight. If AG less likely. But if it's a prosecutor, it only takes one willing to do it somewhere in Maine and it'll happen at some point.
Nobody is saltier than small children.
6yo: You leave tomorrow right?
Me: Yes
6yo: Then I'm going to wake you up early
Me: (thinking he must want to spend some time w me) You're going to wake me up early? ☺️
6yo: Yes! Super early😈
There was no love in that voice. Only spite.
@JamesxMyall @ASFried I mean they did just overturn 50 years of precedence with one justice was quoting a witch hunter from the 1600s as proof it wasn't a longstanding enough right. I honestly wouldn't put it past them at this point.
@JamesxMyall @ASFried Every time I read a proposal like this all I can think of is the return of the Fugitive Slave act. Which is also the answer to how you give MO jurisdiction over ME.