Heil Mike Hurley
10/31/15 additions below for Jay Davis as President of the Restorative Justice supporting Belfast City Hall corruption packed into Point Look Out. They need to restore themselves at their ROUND TABLES at our expense!! Stop feeding poverty corruption with their bones. Poverty breeds desperation, keep us in poverty and buy yourself another ego want. They have everything to lose and keep going for more. Idiots. Thank you for making me want nothing but honesty.
3/28/15 I did not realize the tainting of news until local corruption came pouring into my little life. Sink or swim, I've been swimming, sinking and popping back up for air for 5 years now. Since I moved to this undisclosed forced flooding City hell in 6/2010.
It is shocking to compare true reporting to corporate reporting. See true reporting of global news on Democracy Now http://www.democracynow.org/ ,the Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/us The Intercept https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/10/welcome-intercept/
As for Maine reporting, grassroots blogs give local corruption with first person trauma. Facebook groups are a drain of hope as is posting on corruption sympathizer online media. The thugs are trolling. Belfast City Council Heil Hurley is an avid troll and proud of it. He is from NJ. I am from NJ.
Let it be known that this hypocrite, Jay Davis, approached me in 2011 and I did not know who he was. I was protesting in front of the real estate agency (BH&G Masiello Group then Town & Country on High Street, Belfast) with my sign "City Hall & Realtor Corrupt" He came swaggering over in his leather hat. I thought, here comes Mr. Cat's Pajama's. I was right. He asked me what this was about? I asked him his name and if he really wanted to know? He said Jay Davis and yes. I gave him a quick run down of the real estate agents selling undisclosed hell of City Hall slaughter forced flooding. Jay told me that this is not how "we" do things around here. Jay asked me if I went to talk to Mike Hurley? I said Hurley couldn't run away fast enough. Jay smirked, tipped his leather hat and told me to have a Good Day. He is a disgrace to democracy.
Thug vs. Mom. Local players vs. Mom. Region vs. Mom. State vs. Mom.
I mention Jay Davis because he oozes into media through out the State. He oozes through out the 1% in Belfast. On many " Ego Chairs of Belfast". He is best buddy to Heil Hurley and that speaks for itself. They are in deep to tainting and implicating the community. A community with so many volunteering onto City committee's thinking it is all good will. Until they realize they have been had. Embarrassment and fear turn them into a player. Belfast City Hall is a cultural committee commune of hypocrites.
Everything I have exposed affects every tax payer in Belfast. They continue to spend, the schools are broken, they build new ones on top of swamps, the City gets sued left and right, they bury everything and bully along. Build corruptly with our money, deny basic services, rights and infrastructure to those in the path of their "visions", any private property, new or old is subject to corruption. The undisclosed in the land of the lawless. I have cited enormous City Hall law and ordinance violations. Magnitudes of documented with holding of public information and documents. Manipulation, alienation, intimidation, City Council takes the 5th against residents rights... it is in the public's face yet they allow it to grow. The few that stand up eventually give up. Not me. I am sure I was sold this hell because I am the one who can. I don't want to be the one, but I know I have to be the one.
Maine received an F for transparency. Top to bottom- courts, attorneys, Judges, governments, businesses, charities... my story covers it all. Where are all those that preach compassion and commitment to good? All over. My boots can't take anymore of their sewage.
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/5/25/sds_leader_tom_hayden_on_vietnam
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/5/25/i_never_wanted_to_hurt_any
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/5/25/former_rep_pat_schroeder_the_peace
JD below is Jay Davis. His corrupt butt sits on many power chairs in Belfast. President of Restorative Justice is the real disgrace.
http://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/mitchelloralhistory/154/
JD: No, not, well I grew up in a really good Republican family, and when I went to Williams I got involved with demonstrations in Washington for Civil Rights and peace, and so I became a not good conservative Republican, [indeed a progressive activist]. I think the interest in labor is not just focused on unions, but on the larger issues of justice and fairness in our society, and those have remained big principles in my life.
MH: Get me from Harvard, taking a masters degree in education to coming to Belfast.
JD: Okay, so in 1971 I was married and I moved to Monroe, Maine, which is just up here, and we bought a small farm and wanted to be self-sufficient. And that was at the time the cities were burning, and Martin Luther King had been killed. It was like that was my whole – I had worked as a community organizer in black communities, and the Black Power was [] kind of morphing into the Civil Rights movement. So I figured that maybe the best thing that I should do is come to a very rural place and live an honest and self-sufficient life, if I could.
So we came up here in the winter of 1970-71 when it was friggin’ cold. There was a big blizzard at Christmas time and there was [deep] snow, and I remember the first night we stayed in a friend of a friend’s place in Etna, and we walked in there and snow was up to our waists, and walked into his cabin that he said we could stay in. And if that didn’t scare me off, you know. So we looked around and we bought this farm in Monroe and moved up that spring, and for ten years I lived in Monroe, was a selectman for six years.
The first two years I taught school at the Oak Grove-Coburn School in Vassalboro, and then I left that because I had a little tiff with the management and – it’s a common theme – and so then I was elected a selectman, and I didn’t have a job. And I went to the editor of the Republican Journal, Steve Curtis, who’s now a really good friend of mine, and I asked him if he’d hire me. I’d worked for the Globe, and the Providence Journal and Hartford Times, and the Berkshire Eagle, and he said, “No, I can’t, I don’t have any, I’ve got all the people I need.”
So I talked him into letting me write a whole page in the paper every week, and I’d sell ads along the bottom to pay for it – which I’ve never heard of anybody else ever doing that in a local weekly newspaper – and I did that for four years. Eighty bucks a week selling four ads on the bottom of the page. Actually, they started selling the ads after a couple years. But I could write about anything I wanted. And what I wanted to do was learn what this community was all about, so I would go talk to farmers and crafts people, and every week I’d write like three thousand words on something and take some horrible pictures to go with it. But that was just a terrific introduction to Waldo County.
MH: Now, who ran the Republican Journal at that time?
JD: Rusty Brace.
MH: Russell Brace was still here?
JD: Diversified Communications.
I just made the connection with Rusty Brace as he is in the news, disgustingly corrupt, robbing the poor. Just like the Belfast players. http://www.penbaypilot.com/article/federal-investigations-rusty-brace-inch-closer-closure-lawyers-anticipate-movement-civil
Jay is also on various "charities, ego chairs" the Waterfall Arts- big spending underway, the Restorative Justice- oozing into the blue wall... he is all over, a swooping vulture. Smooth Jay and Maniacal Mike. Take down.
Found this article on ANOTHER mental health facility coming to Belfast. We already have MidCoast Mental Health, SeaCoast, Sweetser and quite a few other behavior centers. This one may be my next door neighbor- 20 ft away in the vacant lot. The article says they are coming in spring. This has not been made public in Belfast. http://www.freepressonline.com/main.asp?ArticleID=37758&SectionID=57&SubSectionID=84
Or the lot next to me slated for a Meth Clinic? Or are we the parking lot for a McLean facility? Sweeping ocean views after they wipe out the homes. They stated doing exactly that in the Comprehensive Plan for the Healthcare and Housing zone!!! Rehab for the rich and famous that is "not for profit" right. They don't take insurance either. They just opened up a rehab B&B in Camden. Healthcare is induced Drugcare. Those clueless to the mental health vortex of hell are spun into providers with issues themselves. Finding out too late, you have been hooked into the system and the children are on the platter. They have full access to your children. If you don't follow along, they can take them. There are true therapists and Dr.'s. The mental health system is not regulated and rated like the health system. The Mom that is new to the mental health system with crashing children find that out the long, hard way. It took me a year to realize the psychiatrist we were relying on was off her rocker. We had been through a slew of exhausting in network therapists. The poor children forced through interview after interview, ordered by the courts. We needed safety, peace, stability and privacy. Instead were thrown into the system and keep getting dragged back in.
10/31/2015 Media Web
Corruption to City Hall and RJP
Restorative Justice Project Gala at Point Lookout—
Thursday,
October 29, 2015 11:30 AM
The
Restorative Justice Project celebrated its 10th anniversary in high
style before a packed house at Point Lookout on Saturday evening,
October 17. Under the title “When We Cry for Justice, What Do We
Really Mean?,” the midcoast-based organization presented speakers
Tess Gerritsen of Camden, retired Canadian prosecutor and author
Rupert Ross, and author and peace activist Michael Patrick
MacDonald, supplemented by music from Noel Paul Stookey and a
vibrant, heartfelt rap from Gifford Campbell.
RJP, whose offices are in Belfast and Damariscotta, seeks fundamental change in the way society responds to crime and wrongdoing in three distinct arenas — schools, courts and the prison system.
RJP Executive Director Larraine Brown said the evening’s program was designed to inspire members of the audience and to inform them about the proven potential of restorative practices to bring new approaches and positive change to our community groups and institutions.
Gerritsen kicked off the program with an acknowledgment of the ways in which crime affects everyone in a community, including her own family. The best-selling crime writer had praise for both the concept of restorative justice and the people involved in the process.
Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up poor in South Boston during the 1970s and ’80s, when gangster Whitey Bulger was terrorizing the neighborhood. In two books, including the best-seller “All Souls: A Family Story from Southie,” MacDonald has described the violence, aimlessness and silence that twisted his childhood, yet gave birth to a new calling as an anti-violence and restorative justice activist.
A participant in the peace process in Northern Ireland and a globe-trotting teacher and activist, MacDonald described the violent deaths of four brothers during the “troubles” in Southie and the courage he gained from others, particularly the mothers leading the peace effort, who had lost loved ones. The tipping point in his recovery was saying his brothers’ names out loud during a public vigil, honoring his love and ending the silence.
Ross, who spent years working in remote Indian villages reachable only by plane, spoke movingly of his gradual acceptance of the tribal ways that turned his own beliefs on their head. Real justice is personal and emotional, talked out and considered by all those affected, victims, offenders, family and community members, he said.
He offered numerous stories, both moving and humorous, about his experiences among the tribes and his commitment to restorative justice that began there. His book, “Returning to the Teachings,” is a must-read description of a path to justice that is centuries old and as fresh as today.
Stookey, who recently played a concert in Portland with Peter Yarrow, his longtime bandmate, sang a number of songs that were both familiar and spoke to the theme of justice, including the iconic “Blowing in the Wind” and “If I Had a Hammer.” He chatted easily with the audience, which softly sang along. His ability to enthrall a large audience was clearly illustrated.
RJP’s board and staff were honored and pleased by the reception of the almost 300 people that attended the celebration, the enthusiasm of the audience, and the wisdom of the presenters. Special thanks are due for the creativity and hard work of the RJP Friends Committee members Kathryn Matlack, Joanne Boynton, Beth Whitman, Molly Mulhern, Kathleen Oliver, Larrain Slaymaker and Al Dickey, Board Members Juliane Dow, Penny Linn and Dottie Odell, and staff members Tim O’Donnell and Denise Pendleton. Thanks too are due to Gerry Hill and the Point Lookout staff who attended, with courtesy and professionalism, to all wants and needs.
Those who want to join RJP for additional anniversary celebration events are invited to attend theater performances presented in collaboration with Maine Inside Out in Portland on November 16 at 7 p.m., and in Newcastle on November 17 at 6 p.m. In addition, a wine-tasting fundraiser will be held at the Good Kettle on November 19, from 5 to 7 p.m.
For more information about these events or about how to get involved in other Restorative Justice Project activities, go to www.rjpmidcoast.org or call 338-2742.
Larraine Brown and Denise Pendleton, Restorative Justice Project of the Midcoast
RJP, whose offices are in Belfast and Damariscotta, seeks fundamental change in the way society responds to crime and wrongdoing in three distinct arenas — schools, courts and the prison system.
RJP Executive Director Larraine Brown said the evening’s program was designed to inspire members of the audience and to inform them about the proven potential of restorative practices to bring new approaches and positive change to our community groups and institutions.
Gerritsen kicked off the program with an acknowledgment of the ways in which crime affects everyone in a community, including her own family. The best-selling crime writer had praise for both the concept of restorative justice and the people involved in the process.
Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up poor in South Boston during the 1970s and ’80s, when gangster Whitey Bulger was terrorizing the neighborhood. In two books, including the best-seller “All Souls: A Family Story from Southie,” MacDonald has described the violence, aimlessness and silence that twisted his childhood, yet gave birth to a new calling as an anti-violence and restorative justice activist.
A participant in the peace process in Northern Ireland and a globe-trotting teacher and activist, MacDonald described the violent deaths of four brothers during the “troubles” in Southie and the courage he gained from others, particularly the mothers leading the peace effort, who had lost loved ones. The tipping point in his recovery was saying his brothers’ names out loud during a public vigil, honoring his love and ending the silence.
Ross, who spent years working in remote Indian villages reachable only by plane, spoke movingly of his gradual acceptance of the tribal ways that turned his own beliefs on their head. Real justice is personal and emotional, talked out and considered by all those affected, victims, offenders, family and community members, he said.
He offered numerous stories, both moving and humorous, about his experiences among the tribes and his commitment to restorative justice that began there. His book, “Returning to the Teachings,” is a must-read description of a path to justice that is centuries old and as fresh as today.
Stookey, who recently played a concert in Portland with Peter Yarrow, his longtime bandmate, sang a number of songs that were both familiar and spoke to the theme of justice, including the iconic “Blowing in the Wind” and “If I Had a Hammer.” He chatted easily with the audience, which softly sang along. His ability to enthrall a large audience was clearly illustrated.
RJP’s board and staff were honored and pleased by the reception of the almost 300 people that attended the celebration, the enthusiasm of the audience, and the wisdom of the presenters. Special thanks are due for the creativity and hard work of the RJP Friends Committee members Kathryn Matlack, Joanne Boynton, Beth Whitman, Molly Mulhern, Kathleen Oliver, Larrain Slaymaker and Al Dickey, Board Members Juliane Dow, Penny Linn and Dottie Odell, and staff members Tim O’Donnell and Denise Pendleton. Thanks too are due to Gerry Hill and the Point Lookout staff who attended, with courtesy and professionalism, to all wants and needs.
Those who want to join RJP for additional anniversary celebration events are invited to attend theater performances presented in collaboration with Maine Inside Out in Portland on November 16 at 7 p.m., and in Newcastle on November 17 at 6 p.m. In addition, a wine-tasting fundraiser will be held at the Good Kettle on November 19, from 5 to 7 p.m.
For more information about these events or about how to get involved in other Restorative Justice Project activities, go to www.rjpmidcoast.org or call 338-2742.
Larraine Brown and Denise Pendleton, Restorative Justice Project of the Midcoast
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Whoa — Step Off, City Hall
| by Alice McFadden, Publisher, The Free Press |
Thursday,
October 29, 2015 10:44 AM
On
Tuesday afternoon, Rockland’s City Manager sent off a “news
release” to media outlets. Titled “City Council Has a Positive
Vision,” the communique began by claiming that Dan Dunkle’s
reporting for the Courier-Gazette on the council’s goal-setting
workshop, held on October 22, demonstrated a lack of understanding
of the content and structure of the workshop, took comments out of
context, and was “highly disappointing and counterproductive.”
It went on to describe his “brief attendance” at the meeting,
which resulted in statements being taken “out of context.”
OK, all well and good, a city manager has free-speech whining rights just like the next guy. This is not the first time that City Manager Chaousis has felt it his duty to instruct the press in their proper duties, as have other Rockland city councilors, on occasion. This latest missive, however, does rank right at the top of nominations for The Most Arrogant to emanate from City Hall. It, of course, doesn’t even begin to measure up to the ones that flow almost daily from Governor LePage’s office in Augusta. Those are unmatched in attacking the press and, well, pretty much everyone and everything, while planting another flag on the moral high ground and declaring bold public rectitude.
Rockland’s recent efforts to manage the flow of information — “speaking with one voice” — is, however, beginning to ape the LePage administration’s unprecedented efforts in that regard. The state’s departments are now fronted with highly paid media relations people, whose job, currently, is to block the media from direct access to public information, while the governor leads the charge to denigrate, insult, punish and get fired those who don’t march along to the tune of his singular brainwaves.
And sorry to say that Tuesday’s press release and many parts of the goal-setting SWOT analysis (including that name, which stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunties, Threats) did conjure up visions of George Orwell’s ghost. “Newspeak,” the fictional language created by Orwell’s fictional state, Oceania, to control the message, bears an uneasy resemblance to some of the communication improvement themes now emanating from City Hall.
And, the three-paragraph summary of the City’s Positive Vision of what Rockland will be as of June 2018, well it, too, smacks of Orwell’s Oceania: for example, “a place where public officials, private citizens and the press work together, with optimism, trust and collaboration … we have a strong legislative voice and are succeeding in our advocacy at the State level … we have increased tourism … there is an in-town housing renaissance for all socioeconomic levels, and young families are choosing to live in the City of Rockland due to the availability of middle-class housing and the quality of our education.…”
In Tuesday’s news release, the city manager chastised Dunkle for not conveying the Positive Vision. City Hall might want to step back for a moment and assess whether its recent efforts to, for example, subsume the duties of the school board, and now editorship of a local paper, might not actually be best described as bold visionary leadership, but rather as a tad too much top-down overdirecting.
OK, all well and good, a city manager has free-speech whining rights just like the next guy. This is not the first time that City Manager Chaousis has felt it his duty to instruct the press in their proper duties, as have other Rockland city councilors, on occasion. This latest missive, however, does rank right at the top of nominations for The Most Arrogant to emanate from City Hall. It, of course, doesn’t even begin to measure up to the ones that flow almost daily from Governor LePage’s office in Augusta. Those are unmatched in attacking the press and, well, pretty much everyone and everything, while planting another flag on the moral high ground and declaring bold public rectitude.
Rockland’s recent efforts to manage the flow of information — “speaking with one voice” — is, however, beginning to ape the LePage administration’s unprecedented efforts in that regard. The state’s departments are now fronted with highly paid media relations people, whose job, currently, is to block the media from direct access to public information, while the governor leads the charge to denigrate, insult, punish and get fired those who don’t march along to the tune of his singular brainwaves.
And sorry to say that Tuesday’s press release and many parts of the goal-setting SWOT analysis (including that name, which stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunties, Threats) did conjure up visions of George Orwell’s ghost. “Newspeak,” the fictional language created by Orwell’s fictional state, Oceania, to control the message, bears an uneasy resemblance to some of the communication improvement themes now emanating from City Hall.
And, the three-paragraph summary of the City’s Positive Vision of what Rockland will be as of June 2018, well it, too, smacks of Orwell’s Oceania: for example, “a place where public officials, private citizens and the press work together, with optimism, trust and collaboration … we have a strong legislative voice and are succeeding in our advocacy at the State level … we have increased tourism … there is an in-town housing renaissance for all socioeconomic levels, and young families are choosing to live in the City of Rockland due to the availability of middle-class housing and the quality of our education.…”
In Tuesday’s news release, the city manager chastised Dunkle for not conveying the Positive Vision. City Hall might want to step back for a moment and assess whether its recent efforts to, for example, subsume the duties of the school board, and now editorship of a local paper, might not actually be best described as bold visionary leadership, but rather as a tad too much top-down overdirecting.
And not to be
outdone, yesterday Fank Isganitis went where no former City Mayor
has gone before . . . Ordered to cut-off the microphone and direct
all the cameras away from the speaker. All the speaker was doing was
listing the recent "achievements" of the present city
manager. We The People can begin to take back City Hall by VOTING
NOVEMBER 3!
Kaiso-Boy
10/29/2015 3:31:00 PM
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