The Daily Mail, one of the biggest newspapers in western civilization, roasted Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) on Thursday for making false claims about warnings provided to her administration by the National Weather Service in advance of a devastating Dec. 18 wind storm.
“Maine’s Democrat Governor Janet Mills is branded a LIAR by the National Weather Service after she claimed they didn’t warn her historic storm would bring up to six inches of rain,” screamed the Mail’s headline.
“Maine‘s Democrat Governor Janet Mills has been branded a liar by the National Weather Service after claiming its forecasters didn’t warn her about a historic storm,” wrote reporter Sophie Mann.
The storm left more than half of Maine without electricity, yet Mills made no public appearance until more than 36 hours after the power outages began.
The Maine Wire has filed a public records request with the Governor’s Office seeking her official schedule for the time period surrounding the NWS forecast, the storm, and her response.
From the Mail:
The esteemed federal agency lashed Mills after she was slammed for failing to adequately warn locals that up to half a foot of rain would fall on December 18, causing huge floods and leaving 400,000 without power.
Mills put her foot in it last Wednesday while touring flood-battered Kennebec County, saying: ‘The National Weather Service did not predict five or six inches of rain in any community in Maine.’
But a NWS spokesman said the 75 year-old lawmaker was talking nonsense, insisting state and local officials had been briefed about the impending inundation on December 15.
And on Sunday the 17th – the day before the storm – the weather service met with state officials to further brief them on expected flooding, winds, and impact to the state’s coast line.
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Good job Daily Mail , though the paper does have a 5 hr advantage and does not “liberalize” all of its headlines. Followed you on Howie Carr radio for years and you and Howie were smart to get out of Boston
great reporting …thank goodness for the Maine Wire…….only news source I trust
The democrats have learned that what they hold to be their own personal truth means to them that it must be true. Is this personal dissolution or what? They have also learned that whether it true or even slightly accurate that once they present something as fact even though it’s a lie that once the thought is placed it’s held as truth within the cult.
Good luck on getting her schedule on her missing in action. You might get a better response with the owner of the local liquor purveyor. I know that If I were the one responsible for the extension of abortion of the killing of the pre-born right before their first breath that I would be drinking heavily with deep concern how my maker will judge me.
In a related story, Mills also didn’t promise to leave abortion law untouched in Maine before last year’s election.