The Maine Wire: “Media Watch: Liberal Group Pretends To Be Small Biz Coalition, Media Falls For It” plus 4 more

(Click on the titles to read the rest of the story) Media Watch: Liberal Group Pretends To Be Small Biz Coalition, Media Falls For It Posted: 28 Mar 2013 03:37 PM PDT A front group of the Portland-based Maine People’s Alliance (MPA) is back in the news over a report it released on Thursday urging Congress against cutting unsustainable entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare. The so-called “Maine Small Business Coalition” (MSBC) released a study prepared by the national Main Street Alliance at a press [...]

Media Watch: Newspaper Reporters Threaten to Stalk, Expose State Workers Posted: 28 Mar 2013 02:14 PM PDT Maine’s Freedom of Access Act (FOAA) provides enterprising journalists a way to dig up dirt on matters of great interest to the public, but state officials say some newspaper reporters have taken their pursuit of public records a little too far. The MAINE WIRE has obtained emails  that show how newspaper reporters have threatened to [...]

LePage to Portland Mayor: Charter School Attacks Unfounded, Inappropriate Posted: 28 Mar 2013 01:53 PM PDT AUGUSTA – Republican Gov. Paul R. LePage on Thursday slammed Portland’s Democratic Mayor Michael Brennan for his “innappropriate” attack on a Portland-based public charter school. “Governor Paul R. LePage condemned today inappropriate activities that Portland’s Mayor has requested of Maine Attorney General, Janet Mills,” the Governor’s Office wrote in a statement. Brennan sent a letter [...]

“Obama Phones” Pushed in Maine Posted: 28 Mar 2013 01:04 PM PDT During the 2012 election, much ado was made over Cleveland resident Michelle Dowery’s rant in a viral YouTube video about her “Obama phone.” Now, a telecommunications giant Virgin Mobile USA has begun an ad campaign designed to encourage Mainers to get Obama phones of their own. “Keep Obama in president… He gave us a phone,” [...]

NRA Targets Angus King Posted: 28 Mar 2013 11:25 AM PDT The National Rifle Association (NRA), the foremost defender of Second Amendment rights in the country, is running ads targeting Maine’s  junior senator. The NRA’s Facebook ad asks Mainers to call Sen. Angus S. King, Jr., the un-enrolled Democrat of Brunswick who replaced former Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) last November, and urge him to oppose the “anti-Second Amendment agenda” [...]