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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)[reply]


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which I believe should be extended (or made into a new project) to include the Maine Statutes since the statutes have superseded the Maine Constitution over and over an over again.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.

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