Non-profit salaries, often quite generous, would be the most common form of personal gain in Maine. Kickbacks to politicians for those funding successes would be another, less obvious form. A lack of oversight and accountability for non-profits is another Maine Democrat fountain from which personal gain flows forth.
Attracting as many needy and troubled people as possible has other political benefits. If you make a place shitty enough, the people who tend to vote Republican have a greater likelihood of just going somewhere else where they can’t vote against you.
Every opposition party family with the means and willingness to simply move out of the district is a political success for Maine Democrats. Here in Lewiston, there have been MANY. The town’s total population has been holding steady for almost 25 years within a couple thousand people.
Somehow, in the same time period without gaining any significant population, enrollment at Lewiston Public Schools has gone from less than 1 percent Muslim to roughly 50 percent Muslim.
Many have left. I will at some point, but my boy is doing too well right now for me to pack up and leave.
Lewiston is about to open up our first low barrier homeless shelter. No ID is required, all comers are welcome. Why would a dangerous person ever want to take advantage of something like that?
Creating a housing crisis by pumping the state full of migrants also drives up property values in the short term.
Yeah, but they are honest about it.