When people think about the most radical leftist state policies, California, New York, and Minnesota, among others, naturally come to mind.
But one place people often forget about is the easternmost state on the U.S. mainland – Maine.
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“Maine doesn't get a lot of attention because the population of Maine is very small compared to other liberal states, but the policies from the Janet Mills administration in Maine are as leftist, as radical, as extreme, as anti-American as Gavin Newsom's policies in California,” says Liz Wheeler, who reacts sympathetically to a TikTok of a Maine mother (@northwoodswifey) lamenting the free immigrant housing being built in her state.
“I just read an article that said they just built 60 new apartment complexes in Maine for migrants for free housing ... in areas where there are already housing crises where people cannot find housing,” said @northwoodswifey. “Why are we not building this s*** for the people that already live here?”
Liz has an answer to the TikToker’s question, but it’s not an encouraging one.
“They are trying to radically transform the entire state by mass migration,” she explains. “They are importing migrants by the tens of thousands into Maine to the point where up to maybe 10% of the population will actually be different in the years to come according to the governor's goals.”
“They're literally using your tax money in Maine to pay for free apartments for migrants while the people of Maine have been struggling economically for quite some time.”
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A 30-year-old male used a handgun to shoot 14 rounds at teenagers playing a "ding-dong-ditch" prank over the weekend and wounded one of them, police in Maine said.
Police arrived in Harrison around 1 a.m. Saturday in the wake of numerous reports concerning gunshots and screaming, WMTW-TV reported.
'This innocent prank needs to be put on a shelf somewhere and never visited again.'
A police investigation revealed that Vincent Martin produced a 9mm handgun and shot 14 rounds at the teens after they rang the doorbell at 91 Waterford Road, the station said.
Police said as deputies arrived and found blood on the street, one victim — whose name authorities haven't released — walked into Bridgton Hospital with a gunshot wound to the right calf, which wasn't life threatening, WMTW reported.
Martin was arrested on multiple charges, the station said, including aggravated assault and reckless conduct. He was being held on $5,000 cash bail, WMTW reported, adding that a judge ordered Martin to not contact any of the teens or use or purchase firearms and ammunition. There was no inmate listing Wednesday for Martin at the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office website.
Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce told WMTV that "in my mind, the kids should not have been doing what they were doing. However, the individual bringing a firearm and shooting at kids while they’re fleeing is obviously a problem as well."
Joyce added to the station, "People are construing the fact that they can defend their residence, their family, et cetera — and maybe taking it a little over the limit in this particular case. We’re living in a world where it just seems like everybody's on edge."
But it appears the sheriff is no fan of "ding-dong-ditch” as he added, "This innocent prank needs to be put on a shelf somewhere and never visited again."
You can view a video report about the incident here.
Blaze News last week reported that Canadian police recommended charges against an 85-year-old man they said rammed his car into two of three teens who had played a doorbell prank on him in February.
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