D) link big 3 private colleges Bowdoin, Bates, & Colby which import $+pop, & social network basis of drastic % of Maine’s new investment for generations,
E) link Amtrak passenger rail to Waterville ME for brutal clarity of where passenger rail transfer to buses is to forbid confusion for all north.
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linking A) as many people as possible on a single short Amtrak corridor, to build strongest demand & finances,
B) while minimizing flooding risks, & if Brunswick ME & airport floods, grow Lewiston/Auburn-Portland ME legacy direct rail corridors as well,
C) link as many medical facilities as possible
to Winthrop on Pan Am track, build new rail corridor from Winthrop ME to Maine State Capital Augusta ME & use legacy Pan Am track to Waterville ME, for Amtrak passenger rail through service Boston-Portland ME-Brunswick ME-Lewiston/Auburn-Winthrop-Augusta (near Togus VAMed)-Waterville ME, for
Once year-round likely near break-even 1 daily Amtrak is built Boston-Portland ME-Brunswick ME-linked to L/A & Bethel ME-StJohnsbury-NewHavenCT-NYC-DC, (maybe called Amtrak Mainer?)
Maine needs to extend Amtrak Downeaster (Boston-BrunswickME) & my proposed Lewiston/Auburn extension, extend again,
The two Maine airports for year round international airports for Air Cargo on High Speed Rail #ACHSR are Brunswick ME & Bangor ME.
Year round Amtrak from NYC to Maine likely requires extending Brunswick ME Amtrak to Lewiston/Auburn ME to Bethel ME to StJohnsbury VT to link to NewHaven CT-NYC-DC.
Bangor ME airport for year round air cargo trade & Acadia National Park seasonal & shared rail & I-95 interstate road corridor make it an easy pick for investment, growing pressure to fix Portland ME-Waterville ME corridors.
4th priority is cleaning up Amtrak rail on Portland ME-Waterville Corridor
Conclusion: Maine has many development priorities, putting Boston-Brunswick ME at highest.
Idea of future Amtrak from NYC to Maine puts Brunswick ME-Bethel ME-StJohnsbury VT the next highest priority for Maine Amtrak trains to/from NYC.
Waterville-Bangor ME is likely 3rd highest priority.
Acadia National Park has premium prices as a (seasonal) destination, while I-95 corridor exits compete on economical prices. Making the Newport ME & Pittsfield ME region a destination for mode switching to access forests & rivers, so canoeing, rafting, kayaking, hiking, allows premium prices.
7) beyond economical summer full car meals & overnights between Acadia National Park & the US states,
this Amtrak & I-95 region (including Newport ME) is a crucial area for developing intermodal Amtrak, Bus, Car, Pittsfield ME municipal Airport (~4000ft runway, 197ft alt) for premium forest access.
6) Waterville ME-Bangor ME corridor’s Newport ME area has crucial high ground on I-95, so faster drainage, reducing risk of flooding from global warming’s drastically higher rain falls,
& reduced risk of sea level rise,
so key for future hubs A) bottled water, B) medical care, C) archives+libraries
4) Newport ME is on I-95 interstate so a crucial link for trucks, such as live lobster from north east coast of Maine, especially Washington Co ME, to big US markets.
5) Newport ME is on I-95 interstate so a crucial link for summer full car tourism from US to Acadia National Park Maine.
Acadia NP gates) using existing Pan Am key rail tracks Waterville-Bangor ME,
3) Waterville-Bangor ME where rail corridor needs to be (PPP?) funded to become double stacked to AAR Plate H (from Bangor double stack to Waterville ME), for year round economic expansion such as Costco & grocery stores,
(Acadia National Park, so extend Boston MA & Portland ME Amtrak to Bangor ME, rebuild defunct rail to Ellsworth, new rail corridor from scratch to Hancock County airport & building cruise ship docks directly at the airport on Frenchmen’s Bay, & maybe new rail from scratch on to Bar Harbor docks &
I-95 towns from Waterville ME to Bangor, such as Newport ME, are the highest priority for northern Maine economic development because
1) they are on existing Pan Am rail,
2) where existing Maine Amtrak Downeaster rail from Boston Massachusetts needs to be extended from Portland ME to Acadia NP
I knew she was a Maine Rep & Maine House of Representatives Speaker, her political career before
1) being a mom for ~2 decades,
2) working various jobs eg for PBS @mainepublic.org “Maine Event” & then for Mills.
So as Speaker, Hannah pounded gavels to the point of breaking? How often? Video?
Why? How? Context?
Low IQ “no n****rs voting” internet troll Cat McFeline rants that DSA “no n****rs voting” candidate already primaried pro #DCstatehood miracle worker US Rep Jared Golden D-ME in 2026, to assure “no n****rs voting” GOP Paul LePage is elected,
so Low IQ troll demand no accountability again for DSA.
Feel free to block me over my rejecting & contextualizing your pro GOP JimCrow/KKK Paul LePage R-ME 2026 rants.
Screen grabs of your pro GOP nonsense.
#MEpolitics
Publicly own your “no n****rs voting” agenda & tell us which “no n****rs voting” politician you demand get elected.
Are you Maine DSA so “GOP lite” “no n****rs voting” so pro DSA primarying pro #DCstatehood Dem Jared Golden D-ME to assure GOP “no n****rs voting” anti DC Paul LePage R-ME wins #ME02?
So claim being a Mainer allows you to support prejudice?
Which “no n****rs, nor c***s, fag***s, young, k***s, Asians, papists, mil/fed/vet families, voting in the US Senate” anti #DCstatehood candidate do support for #ME02 US Rep in 2026?
Context: #ME02 is an R+9 2024 GOP Trump district.
#ME02 is the most pro GOP Trump Dem US Rep district nationwide in 2024.
Miracle worker Dem US Rep Jared Golden D-ME D+1 (so earned 10% swing 2024) votes pro #DCstatehood, when 100% of GOP pols anti #DCstatehood.
No #ME02 pols pledges #DCstatehood!
Context: #ME02 is an R+9 2024 GOP Trump district.
#ME02 is the most pro GOP Trump Dem US Rep district nationwide in 2024.
Miracle worker Dem US Rep Jared Golden D-ME D+1 (so earned 10% swing 2024) votes pro #DCstatehood, when 100% of GOP pols anti #DCstatehood.
No #ME02 pols pledges #DCstatehood!
Sadly, Platner is going to win the Maine Dem US Senate primary & run until November 2026,
so zero chance he will GTFA until basically Thanksgiving 2026,
a sizable chance he will be Maine’s US Senator until 2032.
Context: US Rep Jared Golden D-ME just voted against it. This is a really messy problem on if Dems should pull the plug on GOP Trump’s unconstitutional war with forces deployed. Dems may have engineered losing by 1 vote as deliberate Dem good govt strategy here.
#MEpolitics
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LOL!
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Shannon Watts, founder of Mom’s Demand, lambasts “GOP Lite” DSA Graham Platner, front runner for Dem US Senate nomination to then take on GOP Collins R-ME.
#MEpolitics
The Dem votes needed for any modification of US tax law are being destroyed by DSA hardliners.
DSA hardliners in Pennsylvania tanked pro #DCstatehood Dem US Sen Bob Casey D-PA just like they tanked Hillary 2016 & Harris 2020.
DSA prejudiced anger in northern & western Maine primaried pro #DCstatehood US Rep Jared Golden D-ME #ME02 (dropped out) & will elect anti #DCstatehood GOP LePage R-ME.
misogynisticly tanked liberal Dem elections, Hillary 2016 & Harris 2024, while electing Joe Biden 2020.
That DSA hard liners (JimCrow/KKK prejudiced DSA, aka Reagan DSA, & Bolshevik “murder your brother to bang his wife” DSA) boycotting Dems &/ flipping to GOP elected GOP Trump twice.
There is much more to discuss on the tax policy ideas of Platner, such as how DSA hard liners in Pennsylvania Michigan & Wisconsin,
(DSA hardliners? Maine 50% of Bernie votes 2016 fled by 2020, & are called #ProChoice progressives, while the hardliners are inside the 50% voting Bernie again 2020)