There are 294,501 Republican voters in Maine.
One woman, an unelected bureaucrat, created a constitutional crisis by trying to stop them from casting a ballot for Donald J. Trump.
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows unilaterally decided that President Trump engaged in an insurrection on January 6th, and must be blocked from the ballot due to the 14th amendment. The spirit of the 14th amendment was to prevent Confederate officers from serving in federal office following the Civil War.
Bellows claimed a fair process took place to remove Trump.
“There was in fact a hearing, under the administrative procedure act of Maine,” Bellows told News Nation.
Was it fair? Is she a biased, hyper partisan hack looking to score political points?
Fifty years ago two Texas reporters, Sam Kinch and Stuart Long, wrote a book about politics in the Lone Star state and inspired these words of wisdom on the importance of journalists holding government officials accountable:
“If one person says it is raining and another person says it is not raining then a journalist should not simply quote them both. Instead, a journalist should look outside to ascertain the truth and relay it to the public.”
With this in mind the South Shore Press decided to take a deeper dive into Bellows and her process of removing Trump from the Maine ballot.
Concerning her “hearing” it consisted of showing YouTube videos, sharing news stories, and speaking to one law professor. This process was blasted by left leaning CNN.
“Were these hearings fair? Did they comply with due process? If you look at the hearing, they heard from one law professor and based the ruling on YouTube clips and news reports, things that would never pass the bar in normal court,” said CNN Senior Legal Analyst Elie Honig.
It appears as though national media did not engage in a deep dive into old speeches from Bellows to determine whether or not she blasted President Trump in the past. The South Shore Press did.
In a speech at Maine’s Lincoln County Democratic Meeting “Defending Our Democracy” forum featuring Bellows, she hammered President Trump and January 6th protestors.
“Never before in American history had an American president refused to accept the peaceful transfer of power, and denied the results, and attempted to thwart the will of people in our democracy. And never before January 6th, had Americans stormed the United States Capitol to try to thwart the will of the people, to overturn the election results, and upend our democracy,” bellowed Bellows.
At a League of Women Voters Maine convention in May of 2021, Bellows again expressed outrage at what transpired on January 6th.
“All of us experienced grief and consternation in 2020 at the unprecedented assault on institutions and the rule of law,” said Bellows during the virtual conference.
Does this sound like someone who can make an unbiased decision on President Trump?
But wait, there’s more.
Bellows was highly critical of the 45th President and his efforts to audit election results in Arizona, something that most definitely could not be construed as engaging in an insurrection.
It was an “absurd, ridiculous, review of the ballots, with an intention of casting doubt on results of the 2020 election,” added Bellows, who then doubled down on her disdain for Trump:
“After January 6th we saw in Arizona, ‘Cyber Ninja,’ a shadowy, partisan, Trump affiliated organization came in, it was a grift operation, it was a ‘fraudit.’ It was an alleged post election audit,” said Bellows, who boasted that in her home state of Maine taxpayers do not have to show ID to vote.
It also did not take the South Shore Press long to find this left leaning thought from self avowed democratic socialist Bernie Sanders, who posted this in a press release on September 28th, 2022:
“The very rich are getting much, much richer while the middle class is falling further and further behind.”
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People standing in long lines to vote in 2020 presidential
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“The rich are getting richer. The poor are getting poorer. The middle class is disappearing. That is a consequence of old policies that are benefiting folks at the top at the expense of everyone else,” said Bellows to WMTW-TV.
Bernie Sanders. Shenna Bellows. Cut from the same cloth.
In the government, sunshine is the best disinfectant. It’s our job to tell you the unvarnished truth.
Using the barometer of those Texas reporters, Bellows claims it’s raining. A crystal clear analysis of her own words by the South Shore Press shows it’s sunny out. President Trump should remain on the Maine ballot for President.