u/Otherwise_Structure2

The Maine Policy Institute co-leads a program called the "Can We? Project" with the Waynfleet School in Portland to engage high school students across Maine in civil discourse with the goal of bridging political divides.

It also runs the state’s most notorious, tax-exempt cyber bullying operation, The Maine Wire, which is solely focused on demonizing Somali immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ kids, teachers and anyone who isn’t a white Christian conservative.

It gets its funding to terrorize vulnerable communities from part-time MDI resident Leonard Leo and NYC billionaire and part-time Belgrade resident Tom Klingenstein.

Its Board of Directors includes representatives from several Maine businesses including the P.D.Q. Door Company, the Portland-based law firm PretiFlaherty, Lewiston printer Dingley Press, Cambridge Insurance Advisors, Akamai Technologies, the Muddy Dog and beverage distributor National Distributors. I believe it's time to hold them accountable for all of the pain and suffering The Maine Wire has caused in our state.

Here’s an analysis of the primary election results, the corporate media’s obsession with Graham Platner & why Maine Republicans are freaking out.

The NY Times story quoted Tony Buxton, a corporate lobbyist with the Portland firm Preti Flaherty, accusing Platner of lying about his business. But for some reason it didn’t mention what Buxton does for work. The Times simply described him as “a former chairman of the Maine Democratic Party who had supported Ms. Mills.”

“This is not a salt-of-the-earth guy coming up from a hardscrabble existence,” Buxton told the NY Times. “If he’s an oysterman, I’m a florist, OK? Because I raise roses and give them to my wife.”

The Times also failed to mention that Buxton represents the company seeking to build a controversial data center in Sanford and successfully lobbied to get Governor Mills to veto a data center moratorium last month. He also donated over $2,000 to Mills’ Senate campaign, according to Federal Election Commission records.

This pieces covers how Susan Collins & the Bangor Daily News used lies, smears & dirty tricks to defeat her Democratic opponent in her first Senate campaign in 1996.

The BDN was later sued for libel and defamation by Bob Norris, the DSCC opposition researcher it defamed as part of its manufactured scandal. After a hung jury, the paper settled with Norris for an undisclosed sum and an apology. It also granted Norris space in the newspaper to write a column about the whole affair. As he wrote,

“In central Maine, the Bangor Daily News is the only newspaper that reaches thousands of readers and voters in this region. With only one daily newspaper that cannot be trusted, where are these citizens to turn for the truth about candidates seeking to represent them?… Who you vote for depends on information available to you. If you can’t rely on the press to give you this information accurately and completely, it may be impossible for you to have the information you need to vote intelligently.”