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Cell Block She: How Maine Lost Its Correctional Funding 248
Maine's transgender policies have cast the state into an unwelcome national spotlight, creating ripple effects that reach from schoolyards to prison cells and ultimately into living rooms of everyday families like mine. The federal government recently pulled $1.5 million in funding from Maine's Department of Corrections over its policy allowing transgender inmates to be housed according to their gender identity rather than biological sex.
At the center of this controversy is a biological male who murdered his parents, now identifying as female and housed in a women's prison. Attorney General Pam Bondi made the federal government's position clear: "We will protect women in prison. We will protect women in sports. We will protect women throughout this country." Meanwhile, Maine's governor – ironically, the state's first female governor – continues implementing policies that fail to protect women and girls.
What makes this policy debate personal for me is how it directly impacts my family. My brother, who has spent over ten years incarcerated and is nearing release, was set to receive four months in a halfway house to help him transition back to society. Due to these funding cuts, his prison sentence has been extended, and his rehabilitation program cut in half. The harsh reality: political decisions about gender identity are having real-world consequences for rehabilitation programs designed to help people rebuild their lives.
The situation mirrors broader concerns throughout the state, including reports that dozens of Maine schools are hiding students' gender plans from parents. When policies prioritize ideology over practical considerations about safety, security, and family involvement, vulnerable populations often pay the price – whether they're women in prisons, girls in sports, or inmates seeking rehabilitation. I firmly support protecting women's safety and opportunities.
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My home state, the state of Maine, continues to be in the national spotlight, and for all the wrong reasons. At this point, I really shouldn't be surprised. But today on Share the Struggle Podcast, we are going to discuss a transgender murderous incarceration and how it has cost the Maine Department of Corrections $1.5 million in funding, and I share with you the close and personal impact it has on my family. Let me tell you something Everybody struggles. The difference is some people choose to go through it and some choose to grow through it. The choice is completely yours. Which one you choose will have a very profound effect on the way you live your life. If you find strength in the struggle, then this podcast is for you. Do you have a relationship that is comfortable with uncomfortable conversations? Uncomfortable conversations challenge you, humble you and they build you. When you sprinkle a little time and distance on it, it all makes sense. Most disagreements, they stem from our own insecurities. You are right where you need to be what it do, what it has did it do. Good Lord, almighty, am I so excited to be back with you? Oh, it's true, it is damn true. How do you do boys and girls, chipmunks and squirrels, how do you do? Welcome back to this beautiful podcast, proudly sponsored by Loud Proud American, perfectly precisely accurately named Share the Struggle. Because we said time and time again, everybody struggles. And the truth is, boys and girls, if you are courageous enough, if you are transparent enough, if you are vulnerable enough to share the shit that you go through, then together we shall grow through those challenges. Because there is strength in everybody's story, in everybody's struggle. We just need to be bold and beautiful enough to share it. And today we are together yet again, sharing another fabulous struggle. Okay, this one's going to get personal, it's going to get wild, it's going to go national. That's what we have on tap today For episode 248, that means for 248 consecutive weeks we've been gathering together as friends and community Community. I like that word y'all. I like breaking down the word community To me. When I hear community and it's used in the right sense, I like to break it down, cut it in half, chop it up and consider it common unity, community, common unity. When we have a common ground and we are gathered together with common sense and common beliefs, all things are possible and anything shall be achieved. We are building a beautiful community, a positive tribe with a positive vibe.
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Speaker 1:Unity that was an old Rick James bit, wasn't it? Dave Chappelle show. I want to say Unity. I think it was. Maybe it was Prince, I don't know. I don't remember man, but for some reason that one was in the back of my Prince, I don't know, I don't remember man, but for some reason that one was in the back of my head. I apologize. Things just come to me, okay. Noises, impersonations, random twitches they just happen. They just come to me, it just happens, okay. Just like episodes of the podcast just come to me. And it's crazy to me how the dots always tend to connect the sentences just finish each other. All right, we finish each other's sentences. That's what happens when we're so close and together and share the same menstrual cycle. That was awkward, I will admit that was awkward. Okay, I started the show off the little B-roll, the intro, the credits of the show by saying Maine, my home, state, me home, okay is continuing to have the national spotlight shed upon thee for all the wrong reasons.
Speaker 1:A few weeks ago, maybe a month ago, we had an episode on here where we talked about our governor going to the White House and embarrassing our state. We had an in-depth conversation on how, mind you, our first female governor for the state of Maine refuses to protect females in the state that she represents Because our mind you, first female governor emphasis placed here again on female governor is allowing transgender athletes to compete against girls, allowing transgender athletes to share locker rooms with girls, to make our young, beautiful girls in this state vulnerable, to take away their safety, to rob them of their securities and to take away many opportunities. On that episode we discussed how a transgender athlete so this boy who was competing I think it was in cross country or high jump or I don't know what the hell it was, I can't remember now I'm too fired up about it A year previous finished fifth competing against fellow boys in high school, but this year decides I'm a girl and I shall compete against the girls, wins first place, sets records and literally just dominates the competition, as we would expect. Now this whole platform has really taken off, let's say it seems to be something that is getting the microscope of mainstream media to really dig on it, because our president signed an executive order which months ago, I discussed on the podcast by saying with great excitement how happy I was, how pleased I was being a new father of a baby girl. Yes, being one of those girl dads, I was on here expressing how proud I was to watch our president sign an executive order protecting women's rights, protecting women's sports, surrounded by young women in their jerseys, their soccer uniforms, their softball uniforms, their track and field uniforms, cheerleading outfits, all of these girls surrounding the president as he signs in an executive order protecting women athletes. He did that. I relished in that. We celebrated that. We acknowledged that.
Speaker 1:Very quickly after that, a Maine representative notifies Fox News that Maine has a transgender athlete destroying the record books for women's sports here in our state. President Trump asked our governor about it and it turns into a pissing match, or shall we say a dick measuring competition at the White House, which results in our excuse of a governor challenging the president and saying I'll see you in court, threatening to sue the president, which results in we are going to remove your funding if you do not fall in line with federal law and protect the women and girls of your state. Just do the right thing an opportunity before you to stand up and say I, as the first female governor of the state of Maine, will stand on the side of women, on girls, and protect them. Women of all ages. We're talking little girls in sports. We're talking young women in high school. We're talking professional women, whether it's college professional sports. Whatever you have the opportunity to unite, it's college, professional sports. Whatever you have the opportunity to unite to be the one that says, as the first female governor, I am going to stand up and protect women. Period in my state period. Instead, let's defy federal order, let's forego the protections, the securities of women in this state, of girls in this state. Let's leave them vulnerable and unprotected and often scared. I am going to allow transgender athletes to compete and to rob these women of their opportunities. Full disclosure I'm going to bring you into the Liberty Kitchen and share a discussion that I was having with my lovely wife Allie about future me.
Speaker 1:When little Paisley is a blossoming young athlete and she's competing in sports, how would I feel and how would I react? If a little transgender boy is competing against my daughter in sports and the conclusion that we arrived at is I am going to approach it like this If a boy can compete against my daughter in a sport, then I am going to wrestle that boy's mother in a steel cage. It's only fair. This is what you would call an 80-20-90-10 scenario, meaning 80-90% of the population believes that transgenders do not belong in women's sports. I am going to again, as I always do, throw the cautionary statement.
Speaker 1:I will give the full frontal confessional I have nothing against transgenders, I have nothing invested. I do not care what your sexual preference and beliefs and how you're looking at things. How you feel it's okay. You do you. If you feel like you need to transition and you are a full-grown adult, that's making the able-bodied mind decision that you want to transition, you do you. I'm not holding you back. It has no impact on me in my life. The only impact on me in my life is when you decide that it's right to compete against my daughter, when you decide that it's right for you to have a level playing field with another female in a competitive sport. That is no longer right in my opinion.
Speaker 1:I wholeheartedly struggle with an adolescent. I struggle with a child or an adolescent making the final decision that they want to transition. I don't think that anybody shy of being an adult should have the ability to make that decision. And, to be honest, how many adults should be making final decisions? Let's look around the room a little bit here to analyze this. But what I believed wholeheartedly, convictions I had as a child, as a high school student, as an 18-year-old, a 35-year-old and a 40-year-old they're different, right, they're vastly different If I had made final decisions as a middle schooler or as a high school student on my sexual gender and preference. If I made those decisions, I can't stand here today and tell you that I would feel the same way, right's? Let's be honest, how many decisions did you make as a child, as a youth, as an adolescent, that you are 1000 percent behind today? I don't think it's safe for young people adolescents, children to have final say in those things. Some things just take time and all of us struggle with our bodies and our beliefs, and I'm no professional. So I'm not here throwing stones and casting doubts. I'm just telling you that I think some things need to take a little time to work out. That's a whole different subject, a whole different story. I'm just here to say I support your beliefs and how you feel, but I hope you can support that we all truly feel.
Speaker 1:80 to 90% of the population feel it's not fair for you to be a male, biological male with male chromosomes, competing against little girls or fellow female athletes. You're putting them at a disadvantage, you're robbing them of opportunities, you're taking away goals, hopes, dreams and aspirations, and that's not right. We're seeing on a day-to-day basis, new stories come up. There's going to be trials, starting about a young girl. I believe it was in volleyball or basketball who now has life-altering injuries because of facing a transgender athlete. These things I just don't know how we continue to fight about them. It was an absolute embarrassment for me to see that my state was taking the low road on this and defending this scenario and robbing women, little girls, of their opportunities. It disgusts me. It absolutely disgusts me. I was proud to see President Trump take a stand and say well, we will rob your state of federal funding because you do not deserve it, because you're not protecting females. Again, let's put the emphasis on the first female governor not protecting females. None of this makes sense to me. This does not add up to me. This is an absolute disgrace. If you ask me Now, I do believe the latest update is that my state has until Friday. So when this episode drops, I'll have a couple of days to buck up and follow suit or this is going to court. Now I've also learned that the US Department of Education has also launched a separate probe digging into allegations that dozens of school districts are hiding students' gender plans from their parents. So if we roll back the onion a little bit, push the snowball back uphill.
Speaker 1:A few minutes ago we were talking about a child making life-altering decisions. If you were responsible at age eight to make a decision that impacted the rest of your life, how would you feel about it? If you had the ability to change your sexual identity at age 10, would you regret it now? Any of those things, those thoughts, those conversations? Do you at all feel that your parents have the right to know that you are questioning those things? Do they have the right to know? Do you think that parents would want to know, would want to have those things? Do they have the right to know? Do you think that parents would want to know, would want to have those conversations? I do believe the answer would be yes. You would think that your parents are entitled to know you would hope they're good enough parents that they would want to know and they would be there to help their child the fact that schools in Maine dozens of them, are under investigation from the US Department of Education that they are hiding students' gender plans from parents.
Speaker 1:So you can have a student. Let's just say you have a, I don't know. Let's make something up here, folks. Let's get creative. Going to a guidance counselor and expressing that they've been watching on TV, whatever this certain program is, and they're now interested in exploring being a little girl. They feel like they should be a little girl. This guidance counselor is going to help them, is going to counsel them and support them in their decision, because they made the decision that they want to be a little girl. We're going to help them and we're going to encourage them. Let's think about another example for you. Let's say a 12-year-old girl goes to the guidance counselor and says I want to be a boy. There's a boy trapped inside of me. I need to be a boy. That guidance counselor is going to support them, instruct them and in many cases we're hearing in Maine, they're going to provide them with these advanced athletic supporter type bras to hide and suppress and compress their whatever developed breast at this point to make them appear more like a boy.
Speaker 1:The school's providing these things, they're assisting in these things and they feel that it is not the parents' right to know these conversations are happening. They feel it is not the parents' right to know that their little girl is getting dropped off at school and being acknowledged and recognized and acting as a boy the entire time they're at school. It's not their right to know that it's not their right to know, that they're dropping little boys off and they are making the decision at school to be girls and they're allowed in the girls' locker room, they're allowed to change with girls and compete against girls. Does any of this stuff sound normal to you? Because this just seems asinine. This just seems like this is made up. This is science fiction. Nothing about this seems real. Who in their right freaking mind makes the decision that a school decides they have the rights to deny the parents of a child the ability to know that their child is questioning their own sexual preference, that a child is questioning their own gender, their identity? These are things that need to be discussed. This is absolutely absurd. To number one, hide these conversations. To number two, encourage their transition. To number three support them and provide things to them to do so.
Speaker 1:This is mind-blowing. This is a massive problem in our state. So not only by Friday, there's our governor who is going to take this to court. The deadline is going to slip past. Maine's going to lose funding over this. She's also hiding these schools in Maine that are denying parents the right to know about their child's gender plans. This is out of control to me. This doesn't make any sense to me and, if you're asking me, maine deserves to have all funding for its schools to be removed and regardless of the consequences that are going to fall on the innocent. It needs to happen because without the sacrifices, none of this gets worked out, and girls' safety deserves to be worked out. Sacrifice is worth the safety. It needs to happen and I'm here and saying it's okay if my state has to be sacrificed for the betterment of young girls, their safety, their hopes, dreams, aspirations and opportunities. This whole thing is absolutely insane to me.
Speaker 1:It takes another turn yet again today. This morning, old Papa Bear right here hanging out with the beautiful little Paisley Rain. I'm giving her her morning. Bubba, she's getting ready for a nice nap. We started off watching cartoons. Dad switched it over to Fox News, little baby girl starting to fall asleep. I'm enjoying a coffee and just getting ready for whatever the day is about to bring, and during that time I watch an interview with Attorney General Pam Bondi as she makes the statement that the United States government is withholding $1.5 million from the main correctional facilities. Tweet, tweet, tweet.
Speaker 1:I'm going to blow the podcast whistle here for one memento. If you please, I'm going to pause where we're at and I'm going to interject and draw the parallels between this story and a personal connection. I need to share some important information with you. If I wanted to draw this episode out and do things for pause and dramatic effect, I would save this tidbit for the end. But I want you to understand the personal connection, the parallels in this conversation so that you understand and process them. As we move through the details, I'm going to set the scene, paint the picture and pave the road for the story that's about to be told.
Speaker 1:If you're a day one, if you've been listening, if you've been following along, understanding my story, my life, my struggle, my journey, you would know that my family comes from a Brady Bunch scenario. My father had five children before meeting my mother. My mother had one child before meeting my dad. My mother had one child before meeting my dad. Now, to sprinkle layers of disappointment on my life, one of my dad's sons the oldest sibling to me, who was one of the closest to me he passed away to cancer. Another one of my dad's boys passed away with Alzheimer's, dementia and some brain trauma. My parents and I were taking care of him in the last years of his life. That leaves one boy and two girls who have since disowned me and my mother and we have no association with each other.
Speaker 1:My mother's only child, a boy, who was the youngest one closest to me that's a really horrible way of me explaining that. He was the next closest in age to me. He was 10 years older than me. He was an idol and a role model to me as a child and he, very young in life, made decisions to choose and prioritize drugs over family, drugs over opportunity, drugs over all things in his life, and it has cost him a great deal of his life. I've seen more of his kids growing up than he has. There's been a lot of really piss, poor choices in his life that he's had to pay for and he's missed on a lot of highs and lows in life. He's missed his kids growing up. He's missed their high school graduations. He's missed so many firsts in their lives. He's also missed a lot of lasts in people's lives. He was not here with me to say goodbye to our grandparents as they passed. He wasn't here to say goodbye to siblings as they passed or to be here with us as we say goodbye to my father as he passed. He's missed out on so so many things.
Speaker 1:My brother has been in prison so long. He's never met my wife. They've had conversations. They've never met in person. He's never seen my little girl. My brother has been incarcerated longer than my wife and I have been together. We have been an item for over 10 years now and they've never met. So my brother's actually getting close to his release date. His sentence is coming up this year and he is going to transition to a halfway house like rehab facility after prison. So he would get out of prison and then he would be brought to this halfway house. That would help him to adjust to normal life. That would help him adjust to society, give him some of the tools he needs. It's a four month long program to help him get on his feet.
Speaker 1:Think about some of the things in this life that he's missed. Think about some of the things in this world that have changed right. So much has changed If we look at the opioid epidemic in this world right now. If my brother has been in prison for over 10 years and he's been a lifelong drug addict, if he were to come out and attempt some of the drugs that are on the street today. It would kill him. Right? He's going to come out to a world that was free of iPhones before he went in. Think about the technology and the advancements. Think about the cost of living. He went in jail when a one-bedroom apartment in the city was $400 or $500 a month. Let's say, think about that same apartment's probably $2,000 a month right now. Think about all these things. Right? So for him to be incarcerated for over 10 years? He has also, at this point, spent more time of his life behind bars than on the other side of bars. He's experienced more life behind bars than in the sunshine. Right? He has spent most of his life incarcerated because he's been a lifelong criminal in and out of prison.
Speaker 1:I've been through the ups and downs, the letdowns of getting my hopes up that this time would be different. This time he would change. This time I would have my role model back, my big brother would be back, but ultimately, some time along the way, at some point in our lives, our paths shifted. Even though he has 10 years in age on me, he doesn't have life experience on me, unless you're counting time behind bars, life experience on me, unless you're counting time behind bars, even though age would tell you otherwise. I have become the big brother in this relationship. I have become the one that can be a father figure for his children. I have become the one that can be a voice of reason and to tell him you fucked up, these are your mistakes, nobody else's mistakes. We're not here to pick up the pieces. This is on you. These are your choices. You're not here to pick up the pieces. This is on you, these are your choices. You're not the big one in the relationship anymore.
Speaker 1:At some time in my life, reality has set in and shifted and he's no longer the big brother. He will never be the role model for me. He will never be the inspiration for me. That opportunity has come and gone, but the truth is we all want our family to be okay. We all want our family to have a new opportunity. I truly want him to get out of prison, regain his life, reform relationships with his children if they let him and live out his days in the best possible ways. I also know if he were to get out of jail and be released into society, he would be dead within a year. I can guarantee it. He needs a halfway house. I personally don't think four months is enough time to give somebody to adjust to society and to reality after spending over 10 years in prison, after multiple opportunities at regaining his life that were always resulted in being placed back in prison. He needs help, he needs guidance.
Speaker 1:Okay, setting the scene for you. This year he's getting out of prison, he's getting brought to a halfway house in the state of Maine, getting him back in his home state, helping him to reestablish connections with his family and helping him to be welcomed back into society and learning how to adjust right. The time in a halfway house was going to be four months. Apparently, last night, while I was working, my brother called and had a meltdown, heartfelt breakdown session with my mother that I heard the details to over dinner because he was telling my mother funding in Maine has been removed and I am no longer eligible for four months of a halfway house recovery program. In turn, they're going to extend my prison sentence, so I'm going to stay in jail an extra couple of months to compensate for the time I would be in the program. Then, instead of me having four months in the program to help me get adjusted, they're going to shorten that time down to two months. So in turn, he's going to shorten that time down to two months. So in turn, he's going to do two extra months in federal prison and he's going to have two less months to help him adjust to the real world.
Speaker 1:Now I'm trying to process this and understand it and not realizing what the big deal is in the moment. And my wife says I guarantee you this is about the governor. I guarantee you this is with the governor, because we are getting federal funding taken from our state. I guarantee his programs on that funding. And I said listen, I don't think that's the case. This is about school systems. Right now we are taking federal funding away from school systems and I know the essential programs in this theater are continuing. I don't know how the correctional programs in this relate. I don't really know. So my brother's kind of having a meltdown over this. He's been getting his hopes up for this scenario and it's being taken away and he's making reference to federal funding, to main correctional facilities being removed.
Speaker 1:And Ali comes out and says this is going to be with our governor and Trump. I guarantee it and I'm telling her I don't think that's the case. Well, if you heard me last week tell you. My wife was right when she challenged me to embrace social media. I can tell you yet again, after I just about spit my coffee across the room this morning watching Fox News. My wife was right again Because I heard Attorney General Pam Bondi say we are withholding $1.5 million from the main correctional programs because they are housing a transgender murderer in a women's prison.
Speaker 1:You heard that? Right, folks, a transgender woman, aka. This is a male who murdered his parents. Let me just let me pull up some information. 26-year-old Andrea, andrea Balasier. I don't know, I can't. I can barely read Okay, andrea, aka Andrew. Okay, I am not going to call you Andrea if you murdered your parents and then decided that you were a transgender. You're transgender, you're going to be a female. I am not going to give you the satisfaction. You already murderer. You're lucky. From this point on, I don't just refer to you as a piece of shit. So at this point, I'm going to call you Andrew. That's the name that your parents gave you. That's the name that your parents gave you. The parents that you murdered, savagely stabbed to death. So the parents that brought you into this world, that welcomed you into this world. A mere less than 18 years later, you stabbed your mother to death, you stabbed your father to death and you even stabbed the family dog to death, stabbed your father to death and you even stabbed the family dog to death, and the reason you gave for murdering your parents and savagely killing your family dog was that you did not believe your parents would accept you as a transgender. Youagely stabbed them to death.
Speaker 1:I don't want to lose sight of what we're talking about here, but if I connect the dots from a few minutes ago when I said to you that Maine is under investigation for our school systems not talking to parents, they feel it is not of a parental right to know of your child's gender identity in school. Parents in Maine are not being told if their child is going to school and expressing a desire to change their gender. I'm throwing out a freaking, just casting a line in the pond right here, but do you think if this was going on in Andrew's mind, that he was trying to transition, that he wanted to be, um, a girl, he wanted to be Andrea, that that had be going on in Andrew's mind for some time? It was probably discussed in school. Do you think maybe there would have been an opportunity to inform the parents that something here is going on and maybe maybe somehow their lives could have been saved because someone could have intervened here and figured this out. I'm not saying that's a case, but I'm saying this is an example and we can draw a parallel here, because right now maybe there's another child, maybe there's another Andrew out there somewhere in our state that is having these feelings and if they are not discussed, if their parents are not, if little Andrew's parents are not informed, they can't get in front of this and if little Andrew festers on this for 18 years and results in another crime like this, then that blood is on the education system in our state. I'm not making things up. I'm just drawing a connection between stories here. But getting back to my point, I will refuse to call you Andrea. When your parents welcomed you in as Andrew and you savagely stabbed both of them to death and also stabbed the dog to death. So Andrew has decided that he is a female. Andrew has decided my parents wouldn't accept me. The only option was to savagely stab them to death. Now Andrew is in confessing to be Andrea and Maine decides that it is their policy.
Speaker 1:Department of Corrections allows inmates to live as the gender with which they identify. Let me slow this down again. Maine Department of Corrections allows inmates to live as the gender with which they identify. This morning on the news, attorney General Pam Bondi's quote is as follows they were letting him be housed in a female prison. No longer we will pull your funding. We will protect women in prison. No longer we will pull your funding. We will protect women in prison. We will protect women in sports. We will protect women throughout this country. Bondi goes on to say no more of that Again. Let me yet again reference the fact that Janet is the first female governor of Maine. Here is Janet, aka Austin Powers, yet again, not protecting women. We have our president, we have our administration, our attorney general, stepping in protecting inmates okay, protecting women that are in prison from having a biological male housed with them. Our female governor refuses to do so. It is our Department of Corrections policy that inmates can live as the gender in which they identify.
Speaker 1:Here's a few things we're going to think about here, folks. First off, andrew savagely stabbed and murdered his mother and father and dog. Those women are not safe around a man who savagely murdered another man and another woman. They're not safe, okay. Number two this prison is now a playground. Think about this If you are a male, a biological male, housed with a bunch of women, that can become a personal playground.
Speaker 1:There is no way you can convince me there's not relationships blossoming here. You cannot convince me that there's not a lot of fishy business going on here. I'm not saying that Andrew and Becky next door are getting it on, but they might be. I can tell you. I guarantee there's favors being made, there's relationships being set up, there's all this nonsense going on. You have a biological male in an all-women's prison. You cannot tell me there is not perks and benefits for the biological male. I guarantee that Andrew rolls around that prison making women feel unsafe if he's not taking advantage of them in a multitude of ways that you can use your own imagination to draw the connection to. Personally, I also can't believe that Andrew only received 40 years in prison after murdering his parents. That to me also absolutely insane. But I'm going to get back to some of the quotes we found in some news articles over this story. I switched over to looking into some main local news because me and the wife had a conversation about this where she saw the news article and I was saying, hey, I saw this on Fox News and we start making the connection here.
Speaker 1:So if I go through this, a spokesperson for giving a G in its office did not immediately respond, but the Maine DOC released a statement on Tuesday afternoon saying the department is evaluating the impacts to services from these funding terminations, while the department is aware of related public statements by the United States Attorney General. The notice is the only communication that has been received by the department. Tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet. Podcast timeout Certified bullshit. Bolshevik To all my Russian friends out there and Germans Bolshevik, I made that term up. The main DOC statement reads the department is evaluating the impacts of services from these funding terminations, while the department is aware of related public statements by the US Attorney General. The notice is the only communication that has been received by the department. Maine DOC says Listen folks. Maine DOC says Listen folks.
Speaker 1:My brother in prison, federal prison in Florida, called us last night before this news happened and said funding to Maine Correctional Facilities has been terminated, funding from the government terminated. Money has been taken from the main department of corrections. The program for me, the rehab, the halfway house, the life adjustment scenario has been terminated. It's not happening. My prison sentence in Florida is being extended. My time to adjust at home is being cut in half. Listen, folks, can you tell me how my brother, who's incarcerated in a federal prison in Florida, would know that the funding to Maine's Department of Corrections was terminated and that his program was being changed? His prison sentence was being extended? He would know all that before. The state of Maine's department would actually know, like Maine's Department of Corrections. Oh, we just got the notice. We don't really know here. Bullshit. My brother locked up in prison in Florida, freaking several states away. He already knows about it to the extent where he was having a conversation, being informed. Your dates are changed. You're here another two months. A lot of things have happened for that to be trickled down to a frigging inmate. Put it up your ass, okay? I'm tired of being lied to. We are constantly lied to. This is absolutely obnoxious.
Speaker 1:Maine Department of Corrections said the funding poll impacts the following grant programs Improving substance use disorder treatment and recovery outcomes for adults in reentry. That, right, there, folks, is my brother. Second Chance Act addressing the needs of incarcerated parents and their minor children, and smart probation innovations and supervision initiatives. So the first one was my brother. Recovery. It's improving substance use disorder treatment and recovery outcomes for adults. And re-entry. My brother is trying to re-enter into society and the funding for that program is being cut. So my wife was right. This comes down to Trump and funding and our governor. It comes down to transgender rights. We were both surprised to find out. It comes down to a transgender biological male being housed in an all-women's facility in Wyndham which isn't too far away from my house. This is an asinine, ridiculous policy that I can't even believe is possible. Okay, that's resulting in my brother doing extra time in prison and losing the opportunity at a greater length of time to adjust to society.
Speaker 1:I'm going to give you this disclaimer. Number one this absolutely wholeheartedly affects my brother. I can tell you by the tone of the conversation he is devastated, and I can also tell you they were going to give him four months of treatment and he needs way more than four months. I don't even think four months is enough. He needs way more than that. Okay. Number two I can come out and say I wholeheartedly, 1000%, agree with Pam Bondi and I agree with President Trump.
Speaker 1:The only option here to protect women is to pull funding. Regardless of the results. They pulled funding from non essential programs. As much as we might assume that program to be essential for my brother, in the grand scheme of things they're looking at it as non-essential and I can't fight it. For the good of this country, some sacrifices need to be made. My brother made piss-poor decisions his whole life. If he has to do a couple more months in prison he committed the crime he's going to do the time. I am not going to sit here and bitch and moan and complain that President Trump is robbing my brother of an opportunity, that President Trump is keeping my brother in prison. No, he is doing what is right to protect women, all women.
Speaker 1:Whether you are an inmate who's made mistakes, who's trying to recover, who's serving time, who's in prison. Whether you're a little girl trying to play a sport. Whether you're a high school girl trying to compete in a state championship, whether it's any age, any age female, maybe you're trying to make it to the Olympics, you're trying to set a record, you're trying to go professional. If you are a biological female, our president wants to protect you. Your safety comes first. Your opportunities should not be sacrificed. Your hopes, dreams and desires should not be destroyed and your safety should not be taken from you. Our president is standing up for you. Our governor is not protecting you. I can't believe the people in our state have not stood up and let their voices be heard. It's time to protect women.
Speaker 1:A female governor the first female governor of a state continues to defy the hopes, dreams, aspirations and safety of women in her state and it's an absolute disgrace. My brother, thousands of miles away in prison, is affected by our governor's choices. You don't know the impact that these choices are going to have and who it's going to fall on. This has certainly impacted my family because it adds months to the time it'll take to see my brother. It removes months from a program that could very well impact the rest of his life. All these decisions, all these results are from our governor protecting transgenders, transgender athletes and murderers.
Speaker 1:I don't care if you're a male, female, transgender. I don't care if you are male, female, transgender, whatever you are. When you are a murderer, I do not know why we offer you any protection whatsoever. That risks opportunities and benefits and assistance for an entire population in a state is absolutely mind-blowing to me. Our state could not be run any shittier.
Speaker 1:The state of Maine, the great state that I live in, that I never see myself moving out of, unfortunately, is an embarrassment that continues to have the lights shined on the nonsense. You have a governor that literally is defying federal orders because she does not like to be told what to do, when she has no problem telling the residents of Maine what to do. Mask mandates, vaccine mandates that resulted in countless healthcare workers losing their jobs, to several small businesses in Maine being closed because she forced these mandates upon the residents of Maine. When the President of the United States of America imposes a mandate protecting women, our governor refuses to abide by the laws. But if you didn't abide by her vaccine law, you were terminated. If you didn't abide by her mask laws and restrictions, your business was closed. It goes even deeper.
Speaker 1:There's articles out there that Janet Mills' brother pocketed $22 million into his shell company that was meant for towns in Maine into a shell company that was meant for towns in Maine. A year before Janet took office, her brother, peter, received $22 million through a shell company called Western Mountains and Rivers Corporation. This company also received 670 acres of land on the Dead River, all courtesy of a company called Central Maine Power, a company that robs the residents of Maine. We pay from $300 to $500 a month for a power bill here my frickin' residents here. When Janet assumed office a year later, she immediately approved CMP to clear-cut 145-mile corridor through western Maine without the endorsement of any of the localities affected, who were all in major disagreement with the decision. And that $22 million that was supposed to have been spent on the towns appears to have been pocketed by the shell company run by Peter Mills, rather than being used on the people it was actually supposed to. It is a clear, accurate example of political corruption in my state.
Speaker 1:Janet will make laws that benefit her family. Janet will make laws to pocket millions of dollars for herself and her family. Janet will make laws to benefit big businesses that she's in bed with. Janet will make laws to mandate you get a vaccine. Janet will make laws to mandate you to wear a mask, but Janet will defy laws that protect little girls in sports. Janet will defy laws that protect women in sports and Janet will even defy laws to protect women inmates.
Speaker 1:President Trump, regardless of the effect it has on the rest of us, I wholeheartedly understand and support you dropping the hammer on this state that I love and care so much about. That, ladies and gentlemen, is a topic I didn't think we would have today, but we needed to have today. It feels like another episode and, as the world turns, that's another day in the lives of the liberties. Ridiculous, I know, but that's me, that's who I am, that's where I'm from and I can't hide it. I'm a redneck with a fucked up family is what it is. But until the next time, thank you for supporting my American dream Now. Go wash your fucking hands, you filthy savage. That's it and that's all. Biggie Smalls.
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