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My First Day In Office | Donald Trump
TRUMP EXPLAINS WHAT HE WILL DO FIRST
Trump vows to immediately rescind Obama's executive orders, with special focus on the 2nd amendment and immigration and border control.
Meanwhile, Democrats build another border wall:
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Jun 10, 2016 at 5:18 PM
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http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Wells-Fargo-Center-Xfinity-Live-to-Be-Inside-Perimeter-Secret-Service-Says-382433501.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAkrzEqHHyA
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WnYZxhOV1w
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leCAy1v1fnI
http://www.centralmaine.com/2016/08/24/obama-creates-national-monument-in-maines-north-woods/
The president uses his executive authority to create the national monument on land donated to the federal government by entrepreneur and conservationist Roxanne Quimby.
Gov. Paul LePage declined to speak to a group of reporters at an event in Portland on Wednesday but, in a written statement, accused the president of “taking unilateral action against the will of the people.”
“The Legislature passed a resolution opposing a National Monument in the North Woods, members of Maine’s Congressional delegation opposed it and local citizens voted against it repeatedly,” LePage said in a statement. “Despite this lack of support, the Quimby family used high-paid lobbyists in Washington, D.C., to go around the people of Maine and have President Obama use his authority to designate this area a National Monument. This once again demonstrates that rich, out-of-state liberals can force their unpopular agenda on the Maine people against their will.”
http://cianchette.bangordailynews.com/2016/08/26/home/pardon-my-french-on-katahdin-woods-and-waters-monument/
C’est la vie. It is fait accompli. Seisin of thousands of acres of Maine has been signed over to the federal government. Maybe the Obama administration will rename Quimbyland something French.
Or maybe not. Within hours of the deeds becoming public, the name and mailing address of the new “monument” were announced via a canned, pre-made website: “Katahdin Woods and Waters,” care of Boston, Massachusetts.
It is an interesting name, one that takes its cue from the only iconic natural feature of the area: Mount Katahdin, which, of course, this new national monument does nothing to protect. “The mountain of the people of Maine” had already been protected by a Mainer. And he did it without help from the federal government — actively opposing their involvement — or money earned by moving businesses out of Maine.
With Roxanne Quimby and President Barack Obama’s action, the opinions of so many — whether bipartisan majorities of the Maine Legislature, or communities in Penobscot County, or Gov. Percival Baxter himself — were trampled underfoot. Why? To wrap themselves in symbolism on the National Park Service’s 100th anniversary. And because the Obama administration is in its waning days; they were forced to act, as the clock is ticking.
In the near term, we will just have to hope this “good intention” of federal control doesn’t euthanize everything that made the Maine woods unique. But it might not be over. In the longer term, Congress, with a receptive president, could undo this monument. So while Quimby, in concert with the Obama administration, has accomplished one of her long-term goals, she will need to work doubly-hard to elect Hillary Clinton or Jill Stein in order to keep it.
The stakes in November in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District — both for Congress and electoral votes — are now higher than ever. If Rep. Bruce Poliquin’s advocacy on the issue can carry him past Emily Cain and her milquetoast non-position, then the GOP stands a strong chance of holding Congress. And if the Electoral College sends a President Donald Trump or a President Gary Johnson to the White House, “Katahdin Woods and Waters” might very well be returned to the authority of the local communities or the state.
For park opponents in the 2nd District, the election could be their chance for a riposte.
http://stateandcapitol.bangordailynews.com/2016/08/26/9226/
http://www.pressherald.com/2016/07/11/push-continues-for-gulf-of-maine-monument-status/
Then they came for the rest of us and grabbed our land and homes.
Donor threat might force park service to vacate Patten space
http://bangordailynews.com/2016/08/26/outdoors/donor-threat-might-force-park-service-to-vacate-patten-space/
PATTEN, Maine — National Park Service officials might have to leave work space provided to them by a local nonprofit museum after a donor threatened to withhold funding in protest of the new Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, officials said Friday.
The donor, who represents a local forest products industry business whom Patten Lumbermen’s Museum Curator Rhonda Brophy declined to identify, told her during a telephone call on Friday that “he has spoken to many people who feel the same way,” Brophy said Friday. “They are upset.”
The threat came two days after President Barack Obama signed an executive order accepting entrepreneur Roxanne Quimby’s 87,563-acre donation to the park service. The five monument parcels are about 5 miles west of the museum, which is on Shin Pond Road. Park service officials opened a similar office in Millinocket on Thursday.
The museum’s board of directors will meet at the museum at 7 p.m. Thursday to discuss the funding threat and how park service officials came to occupy a table in the front left corner of the museum, Brophy said.
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3:11 AM - 8 Nov 2016