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Fascist America: Maine’s Secretary of State Shenna Bellows Unilaterally Pulls Donald Trump Off Ballot
Liberty Daily ^ | December 29, 2023 | J.D. Rucker

Posted on 12/29/2023 6:03:35 AM PST by Red Badger

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To: bigbob

I’d like someone in Maine to sue her for disenfranchising their right to vote for Trump, maybe a class action could be formed. She should be sued personally and held accountable individually for whatever damages, costs, etc. a judge awards.

After Trump is elected again (AGAIN), he should open a casino next door to her home or prison celll.

She’s abusing her power.


41 posted on 12/29/2023 7:00:37 AM PST by Made In The USA (Ellen Ate Dynamite Good Bye Ellen)
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To: fwdude

Yes it is sad to see how places have changed.

It’s hard to believe now that California gave us Ronald Reagan. Some places have just gone downhill politically. Sad to see.


42 posted on 12/29/2023 7:04:23 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: 1Old Pro

He could be. NH has become a destination now for people looking for low tax in the northeast. Yet, you are still within a 2-3 hour drive of Boston or Montreal. Four to five hours from NYC.

There are smaller towns that have very low tax burden in comparison to almost every other place in the USA. An example would be a town like Tuftonboro, NH. This town does not have a school system in town. Most of the residents are seasonal or retirees. The few kids in town go to a neighboring town school system. The houses that pay the bulk of the real estate taxes are on the lake shore of Winny.

IF you buy a house not on the lake your taxes are less than $3K/year. When you factor in that NH has ZERO income or sales tax it makes towns like this the lowest tax burden in the lower 48.


43 posted on 12/29/2023 7:05:34 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: woodbutcher1963

[[Another factor that has really affected Maine, NH and VT since covid is the amount of people from other states that have moved to rural areas of New England]]

Good point- they moved here or vacationed there when their onerous states locked them all down- they ook off for other states where they weren’t so oppressed... it happened tO our town too. Back dur8ng the rush on stores for toilet paper of all things, people were driving up from the cities and cleaning out local stores- then thins quieted down, and now we see a lot of out of towers have moved here or have summer homes here now, and their liberal policies are beginning to take over-

and they won’t be happy until they turn our co servative areas liberal- then when their own policies start affecting them, they will complain and move to other great small communities and start all over again

They leave a wake of destruction behind everywhere they go! Trump was right... everything liberals touch turns to $&>÷ !


44 posted on 12/29/2023 7:06:49 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Made In The USA

They, the left, will just claim that it was Trump that disqualified himself by “inciting an insurrection”, and she “had no choice”. He left are scumbags


45 posted on 12/29/2023 7:08:41 AM PST by Bob434
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To: woodbutcher1963

Mark Stein Enterprises
35 S Court St
Haverhill, Town of, NH 03785

CRTV financed the construction of a television studio in Williston, Vermont, near Steyn’s home in New Hampshire, that crew members described as expensive and sophisticated. “It is absolutely beautiful. Imagine walking into The Tonight Show,” said Paul Kullman, who ran camera operations on the set.


46 posted on 12/29/2023 7:09:35 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Red Badger

So pull Biden off Red State ballots. Then we won’t have a President who can claim national legitimacy

Its like 1859 and some issues just can’t be avoided any longer.

We will see the death of “progressivism” and its communist off-spring


47 posted on 12/29/2023 7:10:23 AM PST by PGR88
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Bellows on the road to nowhere


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Born Shenna Lee Bellows
March 23, 1975 (age 48)
Greenfield, Massachusetts,
U.S.Political party Democratic
Spouse Brandon Baldwin ​(m. 2012)​
Education Middlebury College (BA)

Shenna Lee Bellows (born March 23, 1975) is an American politician and a non-profit executive director. On December 2, 2020, the Maine Legislature elected her to serve as the 50th Maine secretary of state.[1] She is executive director of the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine, and the former executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Maine.[2]

Bellows was the Democratic nominee for the United States Senate in Maine in the 2014 election, and was defeated by incumbent Republican Susan Collins. In 2016 she won election to the Maine Senate, and she served until resigning in 2020 when she became a candidate in the legislative election for secretary of state.

Early life and education
Shenna Bellows was born on March 23, 1975, in Greenfield, Massachusetts, the eldest daughter of Dexter Bellows, a carpenter, and Janice Colson, a nurse. She grew up in Hancock, Maine, where she attended Hancock Grammar School. Bellows grew up in a struggling family; she claims her family did not have running water or electricity, which the family could not afford, until she was in the fifth grade.[3][4]

When Bellows was 15, she was an AFS-USA foreign exchange student in Campos, Brazil. Bellows graduated from Ellsworth High School in 1993. During high school and college, Bellows worked as a research assistant at Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory.[5] She then attended Middlebury College, graduating magna cum laude in 1997 with highest honors for her thesis on economic and environmental sustainability.[6] During her junior year, she studied for a semester as an exchange student in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Early career
Bellows served as executive director of the ACLU of Maine for eight years. In that role, she built coalitions with both Republicans and Democrats to pass privacy and civil rights laws.[7] She was a leader of Mainers United for Marriage, working for seven years to pass same-sex marriage in Maine.[8] She was a leader on voting rights and co-chaired the 2011 Protect Maine Votes campaign to restore same day voter registration.[9][10] Most recently, she organized a successful privacy campaign to require warrants for access to private cell phone communications, and she led the opposition to warrantless drone surveillance.[11]

During her time at the ACLU, Bellows was a leader in the Maine Choice Coalition and the Coalition for Maine Women.[12] She was recognized for her work to advance women’s health and reproductive choice by awards from the University of Maine Women’s Studies Department,[13] Mabel Wadsworth Women’s Health Center,[14] the American Association of University Women,[15] the Frances Perkins Center[16] and the Maine Democratic Party.

Prior to her work at the ACLU of Maine, Bellows was the national field organizer at the ACLU in Washington, D.C., organizing nationwide civil liberties campaigns including opposition to the Patriot Act, where she built broad coalitions that included librarians and gun owners alike.[17]

Bellows was an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer in Nashville, Tennessee. There she assisted a start up non-profit, Community IMPACT! in developing an asset building program to promote educational and economic empowerment for young people in Nashville’s largest public housing project.[18]

Bellows served as a small business development Peace Corps volunteer in La Arena de Chitré, Panama. In Panama, she launched a micro-lending program for artisans, started a Junior Achievement entrepreneurship program at a local high school, and was President of Women In Development/Gender and Development, dedicated to advancing economic and educational opportunity for women and girls.[19]

From 1997 to 1999 Bellows worked as a researcher and recruiter for Economists Incorporated, a privately held economic consulting firm specializing in microeconomic analysis in antitrust, regulatory and legal contexts in Washington.

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48 posted on 12/29/2023 7:11:31 AM PST by Liz (WRT govt: qualifications for wrecking crews are not as stringent as those for construction crews.)
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To: butlerweave

Party and power removes opposition candidates by Fiat.


49 posted on 12/29/2023 7:14:44 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie ( )
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To: Red Badger

Those EYES!


50 posted on 12/29/2023 7:15:38 AM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: Howie66

” Our Constitution was declared to be Null And Void by the Communists on the day that President Trump was sworn into office. “

I agree. Someday though the small ruling elite will turn on their supporters and they too will be in the same boat. Don’t doubt that a very small cabal is/are running the show.


51 posted on 12/29/2023 7:18:51 AM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: Red Badger

There are 2 Congress critters from the State of Maine, Both are Confederates, Why Hasn’t Speaker Johnson removed them From all committee assignments and suspended their floor privileges for Insurrection??


52 posted on 12/29/2023 7:19:34 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: Bob434

This has happened to the central part of NH lakes region over the last thirty years. NH tax burden is primarily on property taxes. So, the most expensive real estate pays the largest percentage of taxes. This directly affects the lake front towns and lake front houses.

Many of these houses are owned by retirees and out of state people. Their kids are either all grown up or go to school in MA or other locations.
Yet, they pay huge real estate taxes on their lake front properties.
These rich liberals eventually retire to their house on the big lake. Next thing they want is an income tax to lower their tax burden and shift it to working people.

This attitude has made the lakes region of NH become more liberal over the last thirty plus years. Only rich people can afford these very expensive lake front houses now. Many of them are multiple millions now. A lot of these owners come from MA, CT, even NYC. They became rich while living primarily in out of state liberal locations.


53 posted on 12/29/2023 7:22:26 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: Liz

“AFS-USA foreign exchange student in Campos Brazil and later Costa Rica”

This is where and when she was indoctrinated into the communist party. A high-school student to rural poor Maine? Something don’t add up.


54 posted on 12/29/2023 7:23:35 AM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: Red Badger

Little bimbo doesn’t realize we’re a constitutional republic.


55 posted on 12/29/2023 7:25:46 AM PST by DownInFlames (p)
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To: 1Old Pro

Haverhill, NH is a very small town in the CT river valley right on the VT border. It may be one of those low tax towns I previously spoke about.


56 posted on 12/29/2023 7:26:19 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: Red Badger

Entire Republican Party just got disnfranchised in Maine, by one unelected person.

If this stands, that will be the end of Constitutional succession in the USA.


57 posted on 12/29/2023 7:27:29 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: Red Badger

Removed ballot under the Constitution’s insurrection clause.

And when were the charge made and what was the result ZEOR.

She has to be a sock puppet for many with her IQ.


58 posted on 12/29/2023 7:27:59 AM PST by Vaduz (....)
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To: woodbutcher1963

Yep- sad to see it happening. The east coast and north east is such a beautiful area- even inland with all,th3 mountains and lakes and streams, rivers etc. Liberals have just ruined th3se great areas. Used to be people would just ,I’ve and let live, but nope, no more- liberals just gotta stick their noses into local’s business, and control what they do and say. Then blm and anTifa, and illegals start showing up in those small towns and things really start a rapid downhill slide- its happening to my town, though not in force yet as their numbers are still pretty low yet, but that is changing every year.

I grew up 20, maybe 30 years too late. this was a great place to live in the 70’s- about 2000, but no more. We used to know most everyone in town back when, now we don’t recognize many of the folks, and the politics are going hard left, and fol,s are just angry miserable and really put-offish now- used to be such a friendly town. Sad to see it deteriorating.


59 posted on 12/29/2023 7:35:23 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Vaduz

As I stated in #54 above, she was indoctrinated early.


60 posted on 12/29/2023 7:50:00 AM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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