User talk:Mackenzie Andersen

Maine team

Hello, Mackenzie! Welcome to Wikipedia! I moved your comment over to my talk page. Talk pages (prefixed with "Talk:" or in the case of user profiles, "User talk:") are where conversations typically happen on Wikipedia. In any case, I am not sure which "Maine team" you are referring to. There is a WikiProject Maine, which is a loose group of editors who are interested in Maine. You can sign up by signing your name in the members section. However, you do not need to be a member of a WikiProject to edit articles. Just hit the edit button! If you have any questions, just let me know on my talk page. Thank you for reaching out to me, and I hope you enjoy Wikipedia! Harej (talk) 23:37, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

I am interested in the project on the Maine Constitution, which I believe should be extended (or made into a new project) to include the Maine Statutes since the statutes have superseded the Maine Constitution over and over an over again. I say this because I have been researching the Maine economic development statutes since 2009. I record what I have researched and my opinions on my own blog, Preserving The American Political Philosophy. I created a time line called A Maine Citizen's Journey through The Statutes of Transformation, which is well documented with internal and external links

At this moment I am reading the report which was used to create The Maine Economic Development Corporation- which I received from the Maine Law Library. I have researched the Maine Development Foundation Corporation through the statutes but the report brings to light new information about The Maine Capital Corporation- a private investment corporation chartered by the Maine legislature which had the use of tax payer money in the form of offering tax credits for stock. It was chartered along side and contingent to The Maine Development Foundation Corporation.

All of the above being repugnant to the Maine Constitution, which prohibits the chartering of corporations by special acts of legislation with an exception for municipal purposes and if the objects of the corporation cannot be otherwise achieved. (Article Iv Part Third Sections 13 & 14)

The record that I am reading shows that when originally chartered by special acts of legislation, both the Maine Capital Fund and The Maine Development Foundation had "sunset laws" meaning they would be phased out at a specified date. The Maine Capital Corporation was phased out to become the FAME corporation (Financial Authority of Maine). The Maine Development Foundation Corporation still exists today and has spawned a massive network of state corporations which collectively functions as a channel for redistributing wealth. 5 out of six of the recently passed bonds will be channeled through the system I call Maine State Inc which is intentionally designed, in my opinion, to be non-transparent to the public through the camouflage of fragmentation used to hide the whole system which is designed so that all the parts work together. This is evident in the fact that all the subsidiary corporations of Maine State Inc have names but Maine State Inc has no official name- it poses as the State of Maine but a state is governed by its constitution and the consent of the governed and on that score- one of the recommendations found in the report used to formulate the Maine Development Foundation is "2, eliminate the requirement for a local referendum on municipal bond issues" which is to say- in essence- to eliminate the requirement for the consent of the governed. This all came about just eight years after the Home Rule Amendment was added to the Maine constitution - an amendment which authorizes municipalities to be agents of their own economic development.

The Report- Governor's Task Force For Economic Redevelopment, Recommended Legislation For An Economic Development Program -110th Congress, 1976 - reads like a design for a new system of government. I also have a second report dated two years later.

I joined the Maine Project but I am still trying to find my way around.

How Does One Challenge the Verification of Facts on a Wikipedia Page?

I was recently reading the Wikipedia page on Benefit Corporations. I found New York State on the list of pages that had passed a benefit corporation act but when I clicked on the verification link, I found only a white paper about benefit corporations and no reference for a bill that was actually passed in New York State. If it has been passed the reference link should connect to the bill that has been passed.

I could not find a location where in one can request of challenge verification

Mackenzie Andersen (talk) 14:15, 17 May 2015 (UTC) Mackenzie Andersen

I would go to the article's talk page and leave a message. In this case, Talk:Benefit corporation. Let me know if you have any other questions. Cheers, Harej (talk) 19:18, 17 May 2015 (UTC)

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December 2019

Hello, I'm 331dot. I noticed that you added or changed content in an article, James B. Longley, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so. You can have a look at the tutorial on citing sources, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. 331dot (talk) 21:16, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

I would also add that the passage seems to be your personal commentary or research; original research is not permitted on Wikipedia. If your research is published in a peer reviewed scholarly journal, or reported on in independent reliable sources, please bring up these sources on the article talk page. 331dot (talk) 21:17, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

Yes it is my personal research. No one else reports this history, not then or in the present when major acts such as the Major Business Headquarters Expansion Act are passed with NO media coverage. I became involved in personal research because I could see that there was no media coverage of the truth. I ran into the corrupt system because my business is in the dwindling free enterprise sector in Maine. I wanted to understand what was going on. The only way to do so is by reading the statutes and history for ones self. No I am not an institution- just someone affected by Maine's institutional policies.

I do not believe it is possible to do this research in an institutional context. I have not found the history that I uncovered, by reading the statutes and related documents from the Maine Legislative Library, in any sort of institutional coverage.

If Wikipedia does not accept verified information because they only work with institutional sources then it would be a waste of my time to add the sources, which Looked like they had been added when I looked at the review page, but I cannot verify that since my comments have been removed. I saw reference numbers and at the links at the bottom of the page.

In my opinion to omit the most impactful policy of the Longley administration is to lie by omission. What I wrote is true.

It can be verified by

Legislative Recommendations of the Governor's Task Force on Economic Development 1976. You will have to request this from the Maine Legislative Library since it is not online. In this report, you will find the two specific objectives, which I reported.

The other two sources are [[ http://lldc.mainelegislature.org/Open/Rpts/kf1080_z99m2_1984.pdf%7CLegislature report of a study by the Joint Standing Committee on Taxation to the 111th Maine Legislature]]]

MAINE SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FINANCE... ~ .Final ReportJanuary 1983 by Beldon Hull Daniels