Vice President JD Vance, welcome to Maine.
Thank you for coming!
Thank you for acknowledging what too many elected officials, bureaucrats, and legacy media outlets have tried to ignore: Maine has a fraud problem, and it is not small.
For years, taxpayers have been forced to fund a broken system while politically protected operators, questionable providers, and paper-thin oversight have allowed abuse to grow in plain sight.
Gateway Community Services. Paradise Residential. Luna Home Care. Legit Home Care. Autism services overbilling.
These are not just names on paperwork. They are warnings. They are symptoms of a system that has failed taxpayers and, more importantly, failed the vulnerable Mainers these programs were supposed to serve.
That is the greatest tragedy in all of this.
Every dollar lost to fraud is a dollar not going to a child with autism, a disabled adult, a struggling family, a senior citizen, or a person who truly needs care. While insiders cash checks and bureaucrats look the other way, Maine’s most vulnerable people are left wondering whether anyone in power is actually fighting for them.
Vice President Vance is here because the problem can no longer be swept under the rug.
Hundreds of concerned Mainers reached out to WhiteHouse.gov after it was suggested at the Sword of Truth luncheon at the Maine GOP convention, because they know something is wrong. They see the zombie offices. They hear the stories. They watch the bills pile up. They see elected officials pretend this is someone else’s problem.
It is not.
This is a Maine problem. A leadership problem. An accountability problem.
And now every elected official, Republican, Democrat and Independent, in this state should be asked one simple question:
What are you doing about it?
Not what committee are you forming. Not what talking points are you repeating. Not how quickly you can blame Washington, Augusta, or the other party.
What are you doing right now to stop fraud, protect taxpayers, and ensure Maine’s most vulnerable residents are receiving real care?
The silence from too many leaders has been disgraceful.
The silence from legacy media has been just as revealing.
Why are Democratic candidates for governor not being forced to answer detailed questions about MaineCare fraud, home care oversight, autism services billing, and failed state supervision? Why are they getting a free pass while taxpayers are left holding the bag?
If this issue is not serious, then why is the Vice President of the United States in Maine talking about it?
That is the question every voter should be asking.
The fix is not complicated. It requires political courage. It requires audits. It requires subpoenas. It requires prosecutions where warranted. It requires clawing back taxpayer money when fraud is proven. It requires shutting down bad actors and protecting legitimate providers who are actually serving Mainers.
Most of all, it requires elected leaders to stop hiding.
Republicans and Democrats alike should be held accountable. This is not about party. It is about whether Maine will tolerate a system where fraud flourishes while vulnerable people suffer.
Mr. Vice President, thank you for coming to Maine.
Now it is up to Mainers to decide whether we are serious about fixing this.
Because if we know fraud is happening, if we know vulnerable people are being failed, and if we still refuse to demand answers, then the blame no longer belongs only to the people gaming the system.
It belongs to all of us.
Maine is supposed to be “the way life should be.”
It is time to prove it.
This is garbage journalism. We have spent 29 billion on the Iran war and Jon does not have a word about that.
We left 65 billion behind in Afghanistan, @ jon saysnothing about it. Lets discuss Ukraine, how much has been stolen by the dictator Zelinsky and his merry band of thieves?
The VP is here about fraud, not answer some questions about Iran. Why aren’t democrats concerned about fraud?
This is excellent journalism. We have spent $188 billion on the Ukrainian war and some useless Trolls have nothing to say about that.
The fraud in Maine is out of control like too much of America. It needs to STOP. I am delighted Vance is coming here and I hope he brings handcuffs for janet Mills and all the THIEF democrats too.
You want real garbage journalism? Look at any of the MSM in Maine,they do not even mention fraud, never ask democrat candidates about it why?
Is Janet rolling out the Red Carpet to welcome him? She is a disgrace to the State of Maine.
Very nicely worded! As an autistic/ADHD person who tried to get SSDI and was denied repeatedly I can say that the ambiguous wording in the denial process needs to be fixed, illegals need to be kicked out, and we sorely need accountability. I know I’m not the only one the system has screwed!
For all the people trying to argue about the Iran war in the comments, that’s a national problem and not really a Maine problem so go and find the articles that address that specifically!
Make Maine Great Again.
Thanks to the Maine Wire for employing and empowering Mr. Fetherston. He writes well, accurately and compactly. Now that most of the historical Maine press is owned by George Soros and his fellow travelling socialists, the Maine Wire appears to be the only daily publication in the whole State of Maine that can be bothered to do real investigative journalism. I suggest that other Maine Wire readers join me at the Bangor Airport tomorrow to welcome VP Vance and to encourage him to shake out some of the fraud that Augusta is only to happy to ignore.
Thank you Jon and the MW for the rah-rah speech. Now let’s see if there are any consequences of substance.
Hey commenter Jon ….
You are on a site called Maine Wire…
Maine stuff…get it?
Bless you for commenting, but choose the right forum.
I have a suggestion for Jon the commenter:
You can spend 29 Billion to stop the crazy musloids, put up with a temporary price hike for groceries and energy, or permanently dismember a nuclear armed state sponsor of Islamic terrorism. Your choice.
The original money laundering scheme was civil servant labor organizers dues revenue skimming. The manipulated Covid scam brought boat loads of printed and tax payer funded money. How do you skim that? NGO’s and “non profits” baby.
It’s time to audit civil servant labor organizers annually. Excess money not spent on “representation” gets returned to the general fund.
Not only should Mills be acountable but also Candidate Matthue Dunlap for lying to Maine taxpayers.
He said as State Auitor he found inconsistancies in his audit of Maine government spending but not bags of money going out the back door.
Matt. Millions went out the back door and you know it.
Your part is corrupt as the perps!
We have too many 501(c) entities that are fake and should never have been allowed that designation.
Maybe “ Jon” will take the hint and go leave his ahole comments on “ blue sky “ .
He ( she ) certainly isn’t listened to here .