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Look into almost any antidemocratic push and you can follow the money back to Leonard Leo affiliated or administered entities. Having captured the judiciary and on the way to capturing the executive branch with project 2025, Leo is spending to capture legislatures. Maine, and particularly MDI, look to be Leo's laboratory for experimenting with what corporate-clerical fascism might look like on the ground.

There are many aspects of Leo's efforts and achievements which are repugnant to people of good will, good conscience, and respect for the Constitution. And one must wonder at someone who has personally benefitted from the liberalization of American society and United States law, but is hell bent on denying others the opportunities and protections he's had thanks to the progressives he seems to despise. That indeed, is the defining characteristic of all those Leo put on the Supreme Court.

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Mega thanks to Phil Worden, and to Lincoln Millstein for putting up a mega neon sign that the current Town Manager and Town Council have opted to put the Town of Bar Harbor into legal hand and foot restraints in the darkest dungeon of the mega cruise ship industry. Ocean Properties, APPL, and the Chamber are swashbuckling in delight on the foredecks of their ships, the disembarkation piers, and on their way to

the banks with their bags of gold in anticipation they will win a Yes vote on Article 4.

The democratic voice and vote of the citizens of Bar Harbor will be rendered powerless and gone unless they vote NO on Article 4.

Phil Worden has clearly raised the mega storm warning on the legally

treacherous waters of Article 4 for the people of Bar Harbor. Please reread this column and the excellent citizen flyer on Vote No on Article 4 before voting, and share, share with your neighbors and friends.

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