UPDATE: Kevin Kelley, spokesman for the Independent Commission, has provided a statement to the Maine Wire clarifying that the Commission will be subject to FOAA upon the conclusion of their work and the release of their final report. Kelley’s statement is below:
While the order does exempt the work of the commission during the course of the ongoing investigation, the FOAA law would apply upon conclusion of the commission’s work. In addition, Chairman Wathen has pledged that, so far as practical, the commission intends to be as public as possible so long as it does not hinder its fact finding mission. The final report would also be public.
It is Chairman Wathen’s intent to organize a meeting of commission members as soon as possible, not only to establish a timeline for its work but, most important, to begin its assignment to investigate the facts of the tragedy.
The commission is committed to conducting as much work as possible in an open setting, while also being sensitive to privacy concerns, so that the people of Maine can see for themselves that each member is dedicated to pursuing the facts regardless of where they lead.
The Independent Commission to investigate the Oct. 25 mass shooting in Lewiston established by Gov. Janet Mills Thursday will not be subject to public records requests under Maine’s Freedom of Access Act (FOAA).
Under section three of Gov. Mills’ Nov. 9 Executive Order establishing the Commission, “Records, proceedings and deliberations of the Independent Commission are not subject to the requirements of 1 M.R.S. c. 13, in accordance with sections 402(2)(F), (3)(J) and § 403(6) of that Chapter.”
“To the extent practical, and to the extent that its fact-finding mission is not hindered, the Independent Commission should conduct its work in a manner that is open and accessible to the public,” the Executive Order reads.
Section 402(2)(F) of Maine’s FOAA determines that the definition of “public proceedings” apply to committees established by Executive Order by the Governor — unless the order “specifically exempts the organization” — which Mills’ Nov. 9 order does.
Under section 403(6), advisory bodies that make recommendations but have no decision-making authority are not required to publicly release recordings of their proceedings.
“As we have said, the complete facts and circumstances – including any failures or omissions – must be brought to light and known by all. The families of the victims, those who were injured, and the people of Maine and the nation deserve nothing less,” Gov. Mills and Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey wrote in a Nov. 8 letter to the Independent Commission members.
Despite writing that the people of Maine deserve the “complete facts and circumstances” of the Lewiston shooting, Gov. Mills has specifically exempted her Independent Commission from being subject to public records requests.
Mills and Frey — without approval from the State Legislature — appointed seven experts to the Independent Commission, five of whom are or were judges and attorneys, one is the former Chief Forensic Psychologist for the State of Maine, and one is a psychiatrist and medical director at the Northern Light Acadia psychiatric hospital.
[RELATED: Janet Mills’ Panel on Lewiston Shooting to Include Mental Health Experts…]
Five out of the seven members are also registered Democrats.
The members of the Commission and their backgrounds are listed below:
- The Honorable Daniel E. Wathen, Chair: Former Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court;
- Dr. Debra Baeder, Ph.D: Former Chief Forensic Psychologist for the State of Maine;
- George (Toby) Dilworth: Former Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Maine and current Managing Director, Drummond Woodsum;
- The Honorable Ellen Gorman: Former Associate Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court;
- The Honorable Geoffrey Rushlau: Former Maine District Court Judge and former District Attorney for Sagadahoc, Lincoln, Knox, and Waldo Counties;
- Dr. Anthony Ng, MD: Board-certified psychiatrist and medical director of Community Services for Northern Light Acadia Hospital
- Paula Silsby: Former United States Attorney for the District of Maine.
The Commission will be funded in its fact-finding mission by the Maine Attorney General’s Office, though Mills wrote that her and Frey’s offices “stand ready to seek any appropriate authorization from the Legislature” for additional funding.
Maine Republican lawmakers and Sen. Susan Collins have questioned how the state’s “yellow flag” law failed to restrict the Lewiston shooter, Robert R. Card, Jr., from possessing weapons.
Card, who was a U.S. Army reservist, was committed to a psychiatric hospital for 14 days over the summer after assaulting his fellow soldiers and threatening to shoot up a National Guard drill facility in Saco.
[RELATED: Lewiston Shooter Robert Card’s Army Reserve Unit Was Filled with Cops…]
Maine law enforcement were made aware of Card’s deteriorating mental health and his threats several months before the Oct. 25 shooting.
The Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Office unsuccessfully attempted to conduct a welfare check on Card in mid-September, and canceled a file six missing person’s report on Card without making contact with him just weeks before he went on his shooting spree.
Following the failed welfare check, law enforcement was in contact with Card’s brother, Ryan Card, in an effort to keep the family’s guns away from him.
The Maine Wire has reached out to every member of the commission by phone and email to inquire about the commission’s FOAA exemption. This story will be updated if they respond.
Seamus Othot contributed to this story.
Hey Mills…..RESIGN!!!!!!
Typical Mills B.S.
This sham investigation screams of cover-up and partiality with that move. No government investigation should be exempt from FOAA!
This is EXACTLY what tyrants do!
Mills is a tyrant. Democrats are tyrants.
The definition of a hypocrite:
1: a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings.
2: politicians, the majority of who label themselves as belonging to the Democrat party of the United States.
3: Governor Mills.
W T F
Tyrant Mills has truly “progressed” beyond the pale
May God have mercy upon our lazy arse souls
(not that we deserve it)
Everyone involved int this failure to protect the public should be relieved of command. The MSP was and is a corrupt organization covering up so much crap they fail to investigate and have prosecuted crime happening right under their noses. (Next dissertation will be on Maine useless Fire Marshalls’ Office, go ahead burn down your failing restaurant.)The SECRECY alone is a punishable offense. The lack of communication between agencies; MSP, Maine Wardens, County Sheriff’s Offices (all 16 counties), local police departments is mind boggling in this day and age of technology. Hire a teenager, they can easily solve the problem of getting agencies an emergency channel for everyone in the state to communicate. Hell, even I alerted people to the massive police presence in Augusta on the day it happened. The MSP hosted a weapons of Mass Destruction Drill in an unoccupiedn million dollar rehab of the AMHI Campus Ray Building in Augusta, Maine then went to the Augusta Civic Center to celebrate their brilliance.(?). The newly minted “Mikey Chitwood” show aka Commissioner Sauschuck and never seen, highly unqualified Shannon Moss was a disaster in it self. I could not watch what I had warned the FB crowd at 9 am was going to happen. It was obvious the shit was about to hit the fan and they should have been doing a real manhunt and not playing war and running up huge food and beverage tab…
Listen, I do not criticize lightly, I personally have trained with the best in the world. These are not those people, The MCJA is an all male club with little or no new direction,,they are focused on keeping power to themselves and not TEAMWORK within the 16 counties. LOOK UP Pro·pri·e·tar·y in the dictionary and you will find Maine LEO’s and the VERY broken Court system in Maine(Saturday NIght Live does it best). That being said, I do want to shout out to the brave officers in Lewiston and Androscoggin County who ran into a war like situation with no ability to communicate with each other, blindly facing danger and risking their own lives. The Medical community,EMS and those that cleaned up the massacre site. Non-existent collaboration is ridiculous within our state, we know each other, we would help in a second if we only knew…
The search from the suspects car in the river lot should have bee done by the best in the world K-9 teams that work in the Maine Warden Service and local communities. They train so hard to be the best and have proven their skills time after time in our communities. Why didn’t you,Release the Hounds new “Mike Chitwood”.? WHY???
We need to clean up law enforcement, the lack of judicial system and cronyism, DAMMIT JANET! I am HERE and I could help with all of these problems but have been deemed “too” smart to help, Really?
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My name’s John T Wright, That Bowling Allen Morton Washington I built that with my dad and two other men and I found out that the money was stolen from the hijacking of 1971 the DB Cooper hijacking 11 24 1971 A boy was murdered on my bed Terry Lance Short Ridge On 10 27 1975, And I did not know what was going on.
George Farhart stood in front of me jumping up and down telling me my dad was their slave, now they have a little white rose on their house you smell the roses, my brother Jerry L Wright is also involved in it and he’s The Dirty Boy Scout.
The law enforcement communities involved in it because I was held in handcuffs in front of that in front of my dad inside that bowling alley when it opened after the short ridge murder.
they have a saw on the front of that Bowling Alley . It’s a direct threat to the community it’s next to the mortuary and in turn that what says to me is if you tell anybody we’ll saw you in half.
And that’s a direct threat to me and my family I was held hostage I was held in a cage prior to that bowling alley being built and it was the law enforcement community that was holding me in Port Angeles Washington We just showed up in Morton WA and built that bowling alley one day.
Me and my dad was running that little bowling alley that’s underneath the tavern right there on Main St Morton 208 and that equals 10 Perfect it’s the zodiac way.
like I said I didn’t know what was going on but now I do.
Bowling alley in Maine The town’s name is Lewiston? that’s recently been shot up and I would imagine that the law enforcement community is involved in that considering The way that it was shot up its different places and considering they took headshots that is murder shots the guy wasn’t doing just a random thing he was out to kill people.
I warned the governor of Washington state this very thing I sent him about 500-page documents that put him right onto that bowling alley The law enforcement community in Lewis County Washington and everything that I know.
The Department of L and I has been contacted in this manner too I serve them up with that same 500 page document and by the way I did it after the Bowling Alley was shot up over there in Maine But the governor Of Washington state was notified before the incident ever happened and before they ever moved battleships into the theater in Israel Middle East war right now.
And prior to the governor being notified Every governor and senator in the United States has caught with this in Morton Washington hey if I’m wrong, I’m wrong but if I’m correct and I know I am correct by the way.
Pretty brazen there in Morton WA with all the photos and stuff they’ve taken of that Bowling Alley Threaten people and what are they doing selling smoke pork Pulled pork pulled pork what the cops pulled the job And they’re telling everybody in the community you can’t do nothing about it.
And also, I want to tell you that a lot of things came to my attention such as the Morton Jane Doe woman that her name is Lisa, I reported what I know about this woman, and you know what They’re not interested in it that has everything to do with that bowling alley in Morton WA.
And there’s another thing if you look up photos I think it’s on heritage of Bill Fairhart’s tombstone over there at the cemetery in Morton somebody’s gone and cleaned off the letters and you can tell that there’s a message there and in the background of it you can also see the bowling alley and I also added a couple pictures myself.
That’s it that is what it is and that’s what I know, and everything says you can go over to the tube sock killers in mineral Washington, and you can see all the notes that I placed there just do a search you’ll find it.
The more people know the better off everyone is by the way and they also have antennas in Morton WA the Farhart’s own the TV and the radio towers that was up there around Morton Washington and you know I’m sure that they could probably send signals out from radio station to radio station and just so if anybody’s looking at this email they must know that I have a backup and I actually forward these to the places where people that can do something about it can look at this because look Here’s another person that’s contacted me we cannot be silenced any more.
I contacted many members of the community in Morton WA I contacted people throughout the whole Washington state that could shut down the DOT public transportation system that goes right through Morton WA A And it was shut down at 10:00 o’clock on the logger’s jubilee there was also the 508 rd. was shut down South they had to come up 12 and 7 to get to Morton, And that’s from what I’ve seen and that’s actually from what I have watched on the Internet over August I don’t come to Morton WA.
I’m glad to see that chief of police gone out of Morton now because he’s dirty I made a phone call to the Morton Hospital and talked to a woman seeing if she could track down the medical records on Lisa The Jane Doe of Morton WA.
And after I hung up the phone the chief of police of Morton contacted me Mr. morning glory Roger morning Whatever his name was but he’s a dirty person he wanted to know what I what I said to that person at the hospital and it didn’t have nothing to do with him and I asked him who he was and he told me that he was the chief of police up there in Morton WA he wanted to know what I knew And then he wandered then he invited me to come up there to get killed.
He called me I never called him and you can’t do nothing about a cop because the cops are dirty cops cover up for cops cops want to take people’s guns cops want to ticket people and harass people that won’t comply and if you don’t do what they say hey they’ll make sure that you don’t have a job I’ve been blackballed out of the work community.
And I have had hits put on me in the jobs that I’ve worked in, 1 bullet through the window at the Chehalis Bowl in center right next to the open sign where I flip it over every morning, And Rhonda Reynolds she came to my house On a road rage incidence that happened from my attorney’s office James L Roland, that probably led to Mrs. Reynolds death she was a Washington state patrol and they don’t care as long as they silence the community of what’s really happening.
13 letters for the zodiac killer George L Wright My dad That was forced to do the jobs throughout California and then he did the DB Cooper job and he was forced to work at that bowling center and he made little or no money there for all the years that he was there And he admitted to me About his past And gave me his knives He told me that the bowling alleys money That it was built on was stolen, And you can see the beauty in the name he says alpine Bowl airplanes in the name.
Mitzi Fairhart larger than life Amelia Earhart oh she’s ran that bowling alley and flown all over the world they don’t even want to claim that George L Wright ever worked at that bowling alley Let alone built that bowl of an alley the Farhart’s would rather build shrines up to their museum to show their struggle making it they’re the Morton WA they have a name of it it’s on there it’s their saga from the river to the sea they’ve opened up an invasion and they have the twin star credit unions throughout the Pacific Northwest That’s been finagling money to Hezbollah In the Middle East.
There’s a twin star credit union in Morton WA That’s the Ying and the Yang away from the bowling alley Isn’t that interesting how that works There’s been bodies found in Lewis County Washington the Yang and Yang away from my brother Jerry’s house the Ying and Yang away from the bowling alley and out there by PL Near a cemetery or at a cemetery What are the odds, the body that was found just off the Leonard Road that’s right behind my brother Jim’s house, my brother Jerry lives up on the middle Fork Road he’s got barbed wire around his fence around his house like he’s entrapped himself into his little Prison Hogan’s heroes fans he was collecting pigeons in Morton and Port Angeles Washington And he continues to hide things that he’s stolen from his own family members Like me.
Rick Rife and the Merwin case Jerry Wright looks like Rick Rife and that there are I brought to the attention of Bruce Kimsey of Lewis County he was a detective now he goes by Bruce Frederickson Bruce Frederick the dance scene real estate agent and he looks like a clown he looks like 0 my god this was the guy that was actually a detective in Lewis County, Bruce Kimsees ruined his name so much and my view in my opinion that now he goes by Bruce Frederick so nobody will know that they’re dealing with a cop When their violin real estate and guess what that puts them in a danger he’s not what he appears to be Just like the cops in Lewis County Washington there’s supposed to be there to protect and serve the people but what they’re doing is they’re pulling pork.
And thank you for your time I hope that helped you today Loretta Hoffman I think I know family members of yours by the way in the community and I hope it thus put them a danger when I just lay it on the line, and I will tell you another thing Loretta You’re very brave you should stand with your friends and you should also contact your governor’s in your senators outside of the state of Washington, and where there is a voice that speaking and things resonate to you send an email to that particular person or send them a fax Facts right to their office.
A lot of things are happening in America right now All of the senators or staff are arguing and stuff within in their point fingers And the way I look at it is if everybody has the same information and they know what’s going on in that town with those people and that bowling alley and DB Coopers money Being stolen and being listed there With the other bowling alleys that’s community in the community there’s 10 other bowling alleys possibly that’s in it I’m pretty sure because I went to daffodil bowl and I’m made out you know as hey you’re from Morton WA they knew who I was by my face how does everybody know who the hell I am it’s because my face has been planted all over shirts across America As DB Cooper and the law enforcement the one that put out the picture And I believe that’s right off my business card Are right off of my ex employers camera From the Chehalis Bowl.
Well there you go that will give you a good start Loretta you know what I like to say now now isn’t this fun we’re going to have a lot of fun now isn’t this neat you see I’ve been played for a dummy from a long time from all these people they murdered my friend right on my bed they held me up in front of my classroom at his funeral and then I was thrown over a rail Outside of the funeral forced to walk into the cemetery and face everyone And they all gone away with murder they all got away with stealing They all got away with threatening the community And using me in the process.
My brother Jerry L Wright has absolutely been behind it he was behind me being held in a cage in Port Angeles Washington and he is behind my sister’s child being taken away from her And being held in Morton WA like Hezbollah does Hezbollah holds people hostages thinking that there are no more than a bargaining chip.
And with that saw the front of the bowling alley you know what I say cut the baby in half my mom told me the story of a story of Solomon Where you two people are fighting over the baby and one of them is threatening that they’ll cut the other the baby on half and the other one says you can keep it just as long as I can see it And that’s what they did to my sister and my mother was so brave and she would tell me and her name was Marietta L Wright there’s always an L in the name just like your name matter of fact so just so you know Just because your name’s al Loretta Don’t mean you get a free pass just because you live in Morton WA.
So there you have it Morton Washington’s dirty as a whole people in the community has been forced to comply other people has forced to go along and help them comply A lot of times they have L in their name Like Orville Lee Green that was my dad’s friend That ran me out of town And told me my dad was his friend so they were in it together and I know that too There’s his name L right there he went by Lee Green Orville Lee Green anyway it’s in the center and there’s always beautiful there’s always beauty in what you see so when you see something it could be right into it and that’s exactly what they do It’s a very pathetic thing that they do to people In Lewis County Washington.
Feel free to contact me.
Hopefully the best way and the safest way.
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For more information feel free to contact me the public is more Prominent to be believed if more of us are actually experiences The same thing and people are not scared to speak out because When bullies force people into silence This is what you will have happen in your community in your government in your countries the best thing to do is Chinese products on their shelf And selling them in America with everything that’s going on it is so unamerican and also every complaint that you have seen in the public From all these misfits In the community whether they are people that’s acting out or people in politics that support Wal Mart Search is the vice president Mrs. Harris her husband Doug was actually an attorney for Walmart in the very beginning there is a conflict of interest And when Walmart sells toys Such as guns for little children to point at parents Those children have not even been into a training safety mechanism and there being taught that they could point guns and threaten people their own family members In the name of Christmas well give that little Boy a little sucker And say be happy but don’t give him a toy gun so he’ll grow up and be mean and rude he could always go to the dentist now let’s get real What’s really happening. I absolutely do not have no problem with the President of the United States and the way he’s extraditing and executing His support For Israel because of the fact that I know that Hezbollah Is in Morton WA there’s a museum in Morton WA The Farhart and their saga They passed themselves off as Lebanese But there are Syrian And Justice look at the photos and stuff that’s in the pages and you’ll find out the truth. they’ve infiltrated American they did it In the 50s and they decided what they were going to do as a group as a coupe the DB Cooper story.https://sites.psu.edu/gillianpassionblog/2020/10/09/washington-tube-sock-killings/