The Lisbon Reporter

WELCOME TO THE LISBON REPORTER. In an effort to keep our community informed of what is going on at local and Federal levels of government, we decided to create this on-line newspaper. It is our hope that this on-line newspaper will help you stay informed so that you can get involved and take action for the benefit of our ENTIRE community. Thank you for visiting and please check back frequently for information about what is happening in LISBON/LISBON FALLS, MAINE USA

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

GOPDD: VIDEO: Actor Gary Sinise Aids Wounded Veteran Who Endured Over 240 Surgeries

By Jen - Mar 23, 2016

(CNSNews) News station KUSI in San Diego is reporting that actor Gary Sinise has come to the aid of a wounded war veteran who has endured more than 240 surgeries.
Marine Staff Sgt. Jason Ross was injured by an IED during his second deployment in Afghanistan in March, 2011. Both of his legs were amputated, along with part of his pelvic bone.

EAGLE RISING: As Brussels Burns, Obama Is Doing THIS- Embarrassment To America!

Chandra MedinaWednesday, March 23, 2016

This is yet another slap in the face for Americans. Obama recently addressed the people of Cuba, something no President has done in over 50 years, saying he had no option but to go to Cuba. He says he has come “to bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas.” This is an interesting time to be cozy-ing up to Communists.

EAGLE RISING: Shock Report: The FBI Seems Sure that Hillary Clinton Broke the Law!

By Onan Coca / 23 March 2016

A shocking new report broke in the New York Post on Sunday when it was reported that the FBI seems to be preparing to move against Hillary Clinton over her handling of a private email server.
"FBI chief James Comey and his investigators are increasingly certain presidential nominee Hillary Clinton violated laws in handling classified government information through her private e-mail server," the New York Post’s Charles Gasparino reported on Monday. He also quoted another former official as saying that, "You don't start granting people close to Clinton immunity unless you are seriously looking at charges against your target.”

GOPDD: ‘Warfare Is About Death and Destruction’: Peters Says We Can’t Fight a PC War on ISIS

By Jen - Mar 23, 2016

(FoxNews) Winning the battle against ISIS has been made more difficult by the U.S. military being overtaken by political correctness, Lt. Col. Ralph Peters (Ret.) said on “America’s Newsroom” today.
“Warfare is about death and destruction,” Peters said. “It’s not about good table manners.”

GOPDD: Giuliani: Hillary Clinton Could Be Considered ‘Founding Member of ISIS’

By Jen - Mar 23, 2016

(Mediaite) In an effort to attack Hillary Clinton on foreign policy tonight, Rudy Giuliani told Bill O’Reilly that “Hillary Clinton could be considered a founding member of ISIS.”
He said that Clinton hasn’t shown leadership in the war on terror, saying she had her chance when she was Secretary of State, when she was “part of an administration that withdrew from Iraq.”

GOPDD: Speaker Ryan: Obama’s Cuba Trip ‘Legitimizes a Tyrannical Dictatorship’

By Jen - March 22, 2016

(CNSNews) During a press conference today about the terrorist attacks in Brussels, Belgium, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) said he did not think much of President Barack Obama’s trip to Communist Cuba, which, he added, only “legitimizes a tyrannical dictatorship.”
At the Capitol Hill press conference, a reporter asked Ryan, “What do you think of the president’s trip to Cuba?”

FREEDOM FORCE: What Dems are Doing to Block Benghazi Investigation, and Did THIS!

Cassy FianoTuesday, March 22, 2016

Ever since Benghazi, Democrats have done all they can to bury the investigation. And Trey Gowdy just exposed their tactics.

Gowdy sought an assurance from Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., that Democrats would agree not to leak important information from the hearings. He did not get it.
“As recently as this afternoon, I offered Mr. Cummings total, unfettered access to, and control of, transcripts if he simply agreed he would not selectively leak them. He would not give me that assurance,” Gowdy said in a statement.

GOPDD: Krauthammer: ‘Obama Does His Ideological Holiday Trip While the World Burns’

By Jen - Mar 22, 2016

(Foxnews) Charles Krauthammer said President Obama’s trip to Cuba shows that the president is living in a “fantasy land” where the Caribbean nation has geopolitical significance and ISIS is not a serious threat.
“If Cuba disappeared in a volcanic eruption like Santorini, nobody would notice, geopolitically,” Krauthammer said. “But Obama had to go ’cause this is legacy. This is settling Cold War arguments of the academic left of Obama’s Columbia University days.”
TO READ MORE - VIDEO DID NOT WORK: http://gopthedailydose.com/2016/03/22/krauthammer-obama-ideological-holiday-trip-world-burns/

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

GOPDD: James Woods: ‘Terrorists Murder Innocents…While Obama Dines with Cuban Communist Leader’

By Jen - Mar 22, 2016

(CNSNews) Actor James Woods has criticized President Obama for meeting with Cuba’s communist leader Raul Castro.
In a series of tweets sent on March 22, Woods wrote the following:

GOPDD: Hillary Clinton: ‘No Evidence’ to Suggest Raising the Minimum Wage Kills Jobs

By Jen - Mar 22, 2016

(FreeBeacon) Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton claimed Tuesday there is “no evidence” to prove raising the minimum wage costs jobs.
“I also want to raise the minimum wage, and I support the effort here in Washington state to do that,” Clinton said at a rally in Everett, Washington. “There is no evidence that the minimum wage being increased costs jobs, so I’m supporting what you’re trying to do here, and I want to raise it across the country.”

GOPDD: Byrne Blasts Carter For No ISIS Strategy

By Jen - Mar 22, 2016

Rep. Bradley Byrne (R., Ala.) blasted Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter for not saying what America’s strategy is for defeating ISIS.
At the House Armed Services Committee hearing, Byrne addressed the bombing in Brussels, which ISIS has claimed responsibility for, before asking him for a plan to defeat ISIS as there is concern the Obama administration is not taking enough action to counter the threat posed by the terrorist group.

TO READ AND WATCH VIDEO: http://gopthedailydose.com/2016/03/22/byrne-blasts-carter-no-isis-strategy/

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GOPDD: Obama Welcomes Castro Criticism Of The United States

By Jen - Mar 22, 2016

President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro stand together in front of members of the media before a bilateral meeting, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015, at the United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
(Breitbart) President Obama welcomed criticism from President Raul Castro on issues in the United State, particularly on race relations and economic inequality.
“President Castro has also addressed what he views as shortcomings in the United States around basic needs for people in poverty and inequality and race relations and we welcome that constructive dialogue as well,” Obama says. “Because we believe that when we share our deepest beliefs and ideas with an attitude of mutual respect that we can both learn and make the lives of our people better.”

GOPDD: ‘Put America First For Once’: Sheriff Babeu Responds to Mexico’s Anti-Trump ‘Citizenship Clinics’

By Jen - Mar 22, 2016

(FoxNews) Mexico is mounting a big effort to allow its permanent residents in the U.S. to become citizens – and it’s all so they can stop Donald Trump, critics say.
According to reports, Mexican consulates here are now hosting “citizenship clinics” to make sure its people are able to vote, which will be “a Herculean task,” said Neil Cavuto.

2017 Budget idea # 2

The following budget increases are from the 2017 budget draft.

Department                           Increase              % change

115 --- Insurance $ 4,431.00 + 3.6 %
Police insurance still in general gov.

120 --- Legal 0 0
We are now spending $50,000 dollars a year in legal.

135 --- Technology    $55,173.00 + 35.18 %

200 --- Police    $ 61,023.00   + 4.40 %

202 --- Dispatchers    $ 22,026.00                 +6.46 %

210 --- Total Public Saf.    $96,913.00   +4.3 %

305 --- Public Works is up significantly but almost all of it is
"Paving", MDOT matching funds and Culverts. This increase is misleading.

405 --- Recreation Dep. $43,487.00 +11.13 %

410 --- Library    $19,838.00 +8.38 %

700 --- Economic Dev.    $11,327.00 +11.96 %

The largest increase is in the public safety dept. that wants
$96,913.00 dollars more this year. Of that huge increase the
Police and Dispatchers account for $83,049.00 dollars.

Insurance,Technology and Public Works increases are understandable and appear to be unavoidable.

We may want to investigate large increases in the Rec. Dep. and the Economic Dev. Departments

The inflation rate last year was only .0012% why are some of our departments asking for 4% to 12% increases

Respectfully
Joe Hill

Monday, March 21, 2016

FREEDOM FORCE: Donald Trump To Release List of Supreme Court Judges

PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump says he’s planning to release a list of judges that he would select from to fill Supreme Court vacancies if he’s elected president in an effort to ease concerns about his picks.
“I am going to give a list of either five or 10 judges that I will pick, 100 percent pick, that I will put in for nomination. Because some of the people that are against me say: ‘We don’t know if he’s going to pick the right judge. Supposing he picks a liberal judge or supposing he picks a pro-choice judge,'” Trump told a local gathering of Republicans in Palm Beach, Florida Sunday night.

GOPDD: Soros Board Member Chairs Firm Running Online Voting for Tuesday’s Utah Caucuses

By Jen - Mar 21, 2016

George Soros, Chairman Soros Fund Management answers a question during the IMF Seminar: Charting a New Growth Path for the Euro Zone on September 24, 2011 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. during the 2011 World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings The IMF/World Bank Meetings are being held in Washington, DC this week which will host Finance Ministers and Bank Governors from 187 countries. IMF Staff Photographer/Michael Spilotro
(Breitbart) Smartmatic Group, an electronic voting firm whose worldwide headquarters is located in the United Kingdom, will be running the online balloting process in the Utah Republican Open Caucuses on Tuesday.
The chairman of Smartmatic’s board, Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, currently serves on the board of George Soros’s Open Society Foundation and has close ties to the billionaire.

GOPDD: Trump: ‘No Tougher Gun Laws Than Paris, France’

By Jen - Mar 21, 2016

(CNSNews) At a rally in Fountain Hills, Ariz., today, businessman Donald Trump said that Second Amendment must be protected and noted that the terrorist attacks in Paris last November took place in a city that he said “has the toughest gun laws in the world.”
“We are going to protect our Second Amendment, our Second Amendment,” said Trump. “Remember, it is under siege like you have never seen before. And we are going to protect it.”

GOPDD: Donald Trump Conducts Impromptu Job Interview Of Military Vet And 9/11 Survivor

By Jen - Mar 21, 2016

(Youngcons) During a press conference today, Donald Trump was asked a question about whether or not he would hire veterans at one of the new hotels he is putting together.
Trump, who has been talking about veterans more than anyone else on the campaign trail, responded in a way that is surely going to make veterans and those who support the veterans very happy.

GOPDD: EXCLUSIVE – Bolton: FBI Will ‘Explode’ If Hillary Not Indicted Over Email Scandal Due to Politics

By Jen - Mar 20, 2016

(Breitbart) Speaking in a radio interview on Sunday, John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, stated he believes the FBI will “explode” if Hillary Clinton ultimately is not indicted for her email infractions due to what he described as politics triumphing over the legal system.
Bolton was being interviewed for “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio,” broadcast on New York’s AM 970 The Answer and Philadelphia’s NewsTalk 990 AM.

GOPDD: Judge Jeanine: The Establishment Wants to ‘Sabotage’ Trump and Is ‘In Bed with the Democrats’

By Jen - Mar 20, 2016

(FoxNews) “‘Donald Trump must be stopped’ is the Republican Party’s mantra,” Judge Jeanine Pirro said in her opening statement on Justice.
“Why?” she asked. “Why would Republicans try to sabotage their own front-runner and risk a Democrat winning the White House?”

GOPDD: Franklin Graham SLAMS Obama Over Christian Genocide By Muslims!!!

By Dylan - Mar 21, 2016

Rev. Franklin Graham slammed the Obama Administration for taking so long to acknowledge the mass killings of Christians in Syria and Iraq.
“The Obama Administration has finally designated the annihilation of Christians and other religious minorities by ISIS in Syria and Iraq as genocide. What took so long? The fact is, genocide has been carried out by Muslims for centuries,” said Graham.

GOPDD: Obama Told Veterans ‘I Have Your Back’ but VA Problems Persist

By Jen - Mar 21, 2016

(Breitbart) In March 2015, President Barack Obama said, “It’s important that veterans know that somebody’s got their backs, and that, if there are problems, that we’re not being defensive about it, not hiding it.” In March 2016, veterans are still having to wait for medical care, and some are dying in the process.

Scandoulous revelations of extended wait times, improper scheduling practices for U.S. veterans, budget mismanagement, insufficient oversight, lack of accountability, and cover-ups, were revealed in 2014 and again in 2015. New reports show that veterans in the country and in Texas are still victims of these practices.

GOPDD: Obama Wants 18% Pay Hike for Him, Ex-Presidents

By Jen - Mar 21, 2016

(Newsmax) President Barack Obama has requested a raise in the amount of money allotted to former presidents of 18 percent, according to a report by Congressional Research Service.
“The President’s FY2017 budget request seeks $3,865,000 in appropriations for expenditures for former Presidents, an increase of $588,000 (17.9%) from the FY2016 appropriation level,” the report says.

GOPDD: Pope Francis: Rejecting Refugees Is Like Crucifying Jesus

By Jen - Mar 21, 2016

(Daily Caller) Pope Francis went off script and turned political during his Palm Sunday homily, comparing nations who won’t accept refugees to the leaders who allowed the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Francis spoke for the Christian holiday in St. Peter’s Square Sunday, where he compared leaders indifferent to the fate of the flood of refugees migrating to Europe to the leaders who did not intervene to save Jesus, Reuters reports.

EAGLE RISING: Nancy Pelosi Wants Illegal Immigrants who Leave to be Allowed Back In!

By Onan Coca / 21 March 2016

The Democrats are once again proving conservatives right, and establishment Republicans wrong.
The Establishment is always telling us that if we’ll just compromise with the Democrats over certain issues (illegal immigration, abortion, taxes, spending, etc.) that it will put us in a better position for future debates. The only problem with this line of thinking is that it never works. For the most recent example of why conservatives are so angry with the establishment compromising and pandering, look no further than the Democrat Party’s leader in the House.

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Sunday, March 20, 2016

FREEDOM FORCE: Herman Cain & Megyn Kelly Rip ‘Black Lives Matter’ To Shreds In Defense Of Trump

On “Kelly File” tonight, former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain forcefully disputed two activists who accused Donald Trump of saying racist things about blacks and other minorities. Cain said that fellow guests Ja’mal Green, who helped lead the protests that shut down a Trump rally in Chicago last week, and Trahern Crews, an organizer of Black Lives Matter in St. Paul, were “part of the political noise machine” and needed to look up the definition of racism. “They pick on the sound bites that some people are trying to project as the perception of Donald Trump, and it’s totally inaccurate and unfair,” he said.

http://conservativevideos.com/herman-cain-megyn-kelly-rip-black-lives-matter-to-shreds-in-defense-of-trump/

GOPDD: Ralph Peters: Obama Administration ‘Romanticizes Islam,’ ‘Finds Christians Somehow Distasteful’

By Jen - Mar 20, 2016

(Breitbart) Thursday on the Fox News Channel, network contributor retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters reacted to Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledgment that ISIS is indeed committing genocide against other sects of Islam and other religions.
Peters said the reluctance up until now exposed how the Obama administration as a whole views Islam and Christianity.

GOPDD: Thug Tries To Run From Police…He Didn’t Know The Cop Knew Jiu-Jitsu…BOOM!!!

By Dylan - Mar 19, 2016

A Las Vegas police officer had to go into a jiu-jitsu match with a suspect who tried to flee on foot.
Watch the scary and epic battle.

GOPDD: Sheriff Clarke: Pro-Immigration Protesters Against Trump Are ‘A Conglomeration of Misfits’

By Jen - Mar 19, 2016

(Fox News) Pro-immigration protesters are planning to rally today against Donald Trump in Phoenix and New York, just one week after violent brawls with liberal activists shut down the presidential candidate’s rally in Chicago.
For those coming out today, Sheriff David Clarke says he knows what their intentions really are.