Public corruption is here. In Maine’s race for Governor, the entire Democrat caucus – Maine’s House Speaker and all Democrat gubernatorial candidates – condemned me for calling out a Democrat legislator with obvious split loyalties between the U.S. and Somalia, hiding illegal aliens, and not focusing on Maine concerns.
The problem is bigger that what my critics dare to admit.
The existence of split loyalties – or conflicts of interest – is not just a matter of overlooking things or absence of focus on what matters, public safety, law enforcement, affordability, lower taxes, and reexamination of a failing educational system. It is a legal problem.
In Maine, unlike on the national level, Democrats have been in control for nearly 30 years. Their conflicts of interest – often with benefits flowing to Democrat-affiliated non-profits and individuals – are unchecked. When discovered, reports are quickly buried.
BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front): Democrat fury with my candidacy is not about who I am. They do not know me. They only know my record. It is about what I will do, when Governor. That terrifies them. It should.
Why? I am a lifetime pursuer of truth, seasoned congressional investigator, former federal litigator, flipper of stones, finder of bodies, one who “made his bones” in intelligence, served at the highest levels, dismantled bureaucracies, hunted public corruption, and directed criminal referrals for those gaming the system.
That is why leading Democrats are so over the top in their faux outrage. It does not take much digging to see why their fear is real and spiking. Beyond being a pursuer of public corruption and leading candidate to win the Republican nomination, I am someone who is exposing how Maine Democrats showcase “split loyalties,” “conflicts of interest” and “public corruption.”
Almost wholly undiscussed by Maine’s struggling media monopoly, the “National Trust for Local News,” a staggering number of public corruption issues rock Maine. Long hidden, a sequence of events is causing Mainers to see the legal jeopardy Democrat leaders are in.
Examples are everywhere. Maine Democrats have created a kingdom of self-dealing, protected by an untruthful governor, attorney general, and complicit legislative leadership, all of whom close ranks to shut down anyone shining light on their ideological, legal, procedural, and personal misdeeds.
Those who closed ranks on me, Democrat House Speaker Ryan Fecteau, former Mills staffer Hannah Pingree, Democrat Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, and former legislator Troy Jackson, are all Augusta swamp denizens.
They are panicked, because Mainers are catching on. This self-dealing, conflicts of interest everywhere, and dishonest leadership not only indulges ideologically out-of-step ideas, things Mainers do not want, but reflects something worse, classic public corruption.
Glaring examples, each needing deep investigation, include these.
One: The Somali-born Democrat legislator called out by me for split loyalties, conflicts of interest, and seeking to make Maine a sanctuary state – hiding illegal aliens from ICE – was part of a migrant-run “non-profit” audited by the state, under federal scrutiny back to 2022. See: Deqa Dhalac Goes Viral for Expressing Loyalty to Somalia, Has Ties to Radical Somali Who Won the Democratic Primary for Minneapolis Mayor – The Maine Wire.
That “non-profit,” as reported in The Maine Wire, was under scrutiny for overbilling –$800,000 in “improper payments” for MaineCare, a galling 36 percent error rate – when Rep. Deqa Dhalac (D-South Portland), whom Democrats now fiercely defend, was the group’s Assistant Executive Director. See, Top Republican Calls for Investigation Into Gateway Community Services for MaineCare Fraud.
In March 2025, reports surfaced of a group leader’s possible ties to Somali paramilitaries, while in 2022 even the Portland Press Hearld reported Dhalac’s group under federal scrutiny, “Four Portland home health agency managers charged with wage-fixing, anti-competition scheme.”
Dhalac listed that group as her employer in 2021, 2022, 2023, was then elected to the Maine House in 2022. Throughout, Maine’s Democrat attorney general looked away from the group’s unusual activities. Raise eyebrows? For this old investigator, it did.
Two: If all this does not spark interest, how about revelations last month that the Democrat Maine Senate leader, Mattie Daughtry (D-Cumberland) raked in a $500,000 taxpayer funded loan (forgiven) to her three-person brewing company during COVID? That, after getting thousands in federal PPP money. See, e.g., State Finance Agency Won’t Say Who Approved $500k FAME Payment to Mattie Daughtry.
In a classic case of “nothing to see here,” the Democrat-controlled Finance Authority of Maine (FAME), refuses to tell Mainers who approved the forgiven half-million-dollars to the top Senate Democrat. Smell odd to you? For this old investigator, it did.
Three: That shocking story is nowhere in Maine Trust papers. Any surprise? Democrat Governor Mills reportedly paid $117,300 to the Maine Trust papers – “to publish state-sponsored articles praising the Mills Administration …”- and in no-bid contracts, like so many in Maine.
These are the same papers critical of me calling out public corruption, conflicts of interest, and split loyalties among top Democrats in Augusta. Any surprise? The last thing they want to see is me.
Three: Consider Maine’s shocking 2024 state audit, revealing $2.1 billion dollars in non-competed, sole-source contracts, “a total lack of oversight for state spending and routine disregard for the rules,” many to Democrat friends and family, zero criminal referrals or indictments. See, Maine Audit Reveals Systemic $2.1 Billion Financial Mismanagement and Corruption Risk – The Maine Wire.
Systemic public corruption dogs Augusta, and this takes the cake, illustrates the open ocean – the Democrat web – of total disregard for law and accountability to average Mainers. So bold is the Democrat web of public corruption that, over the past six years, it has become “normalized.”
The problem bigger than any one Democrat. Maine’s public corruption is systemic. Democrats are worried, because we are onto them – and they have reason to worry. We will stay on them.
