Update: This story was updated to reflect a change in the location of the meeting. It will now be held in the Cross Building, room 209.
The Independent Commission charged by Maine Gov. Janet Mills to investigate the facts surrounding the Oct. 25 shootings in Lewiston will hold its first organizational meeting on Monday, Nov. 20 in Augusta, commission Chairman Daniel Wathen announced Wednesday.
The meeting will be held in room 209 in the Burton Cross State Office Building, next to the State House.
The first hour of the meeting, beginning at 9 a.m., will be held out of view from the public in executive session, and will be to discuss commission staffing.
Beginning at 10 a.m., the commission will hold a public meeting in which “members intend to discuss the path forward for their work to determine the facts that led to the tragedy and the response during and following the shootings.”
Gov. Mills established the Independent Commission via Executive Order on Nov. 9.
The order charges the commission with gathering facts regarding the Lewiston shooter Robert Card’s mental health history, his contact with state, federal, or military authorities, his access to firearms, the law enforcement response to the shooting and subsequent manhunt, and any other relevant facts surrounding the shooting.
Following their investigatory work, the Independent Commission will release a final report to the public.
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Part of Mills’ Executive Order exempts the Independent Commission from Maine’s Freedom of Access Act (FOAA), meaning the commission will not be required to conduct their work in public or comply with records requests related to their proceedings.
“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,” Mills’ order reads.
Commission spokesperson Kevin Kelley has stated that following the release of the commission’s final report, the commission will become subject to FOAA.
The commission, made up of seven experts from both legal and mental health backgrounds, will be funded by the Office of the Maine Attorney General.
In a Nov. 8 letter to the commission, Mills and Attorney General Aaron Frey wrote that “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,” they wrote.
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A Grand Jury needs to be convened rather than “Independent Commission.” This Independent Commission will muddy the evidentiary trails and make any legal case more difficult.
The Yellow Flag Statute failed, and Maine deserves to know how, and why the failure occurred.
I’m an advocate for Safer Schools & Communities and a former member of several law enforcement committees. I have valuable information that I’d like to mention:
There appears to be patterns of a suspicious nature from many state lotteries that coincides with mass shootings, allow me to elaborate. On the day, the day before, or immediate days after a mass shooting, quite often, numbers, 9-1-1 as in an emergency, 0-0-0 as in ground zero, or other conspicuous results would emerge. This highly questionable activity has been pervasive for literally decades, and the recent lottery results in Maine confirm my theory.
October 25, 2023 mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine
Maine Lottery
October 26, 2023 1-1-5-9 The day after the tragedy
October 25, 2022 1-1-6-9 Exactly one year prior to the mass shooting.
Numbers 9,1,1 are included in both results, as in an ‘emergency.’ Also, as we observe, these two results are almost identical except for the 3rd numbers in the sequence. The difference is 1, or we can say ‘one less.’ The lottery results from Maine below were the day before the mass shooting, with numbers 2-2-2 included. Was this a deliberate reference to a gun?
Maine Lottery
October 24, 2023 2-6-2-2 The day before the mass shooting
Lucky for Life Lottery
October 25. 2023 1-19–31-32-38 Lucky ball 5
25 states participate in the Lucky for Life game including Maine
I’m interested in collaborating with people to prevent another mass shooting. I will not be able to attend the first meeting of the Commission scheduled for Monday, November 20 so your positive comments will be very helpful.
Thank you,
Harold Rosen
Author
Lottery Corruption, U.S.A.
Harold Rosen Author Lottery Corruption, U.S.A. Linkedin
I’m interested in collaborating with people of Maine to share dialogue on the new evidence I presented in my previous comment. I have much more significant information that will help in this investigation as to the possible root cause of the mass shooting and to prevent other mass shootings. Please visit the Linkedin website and send me your comments. Thank you
The yellow flag law failed because the FBI and Democrat party enable and WANT these shootings to occur to push their political agendas to claim more power.
Watching the Maine media and elected Maine Democrats walk around with errections all week after there was finally a Maine shooting was disgusting to watch. And I still am not buying that no one was armed to defend themselves, I don’t anyone who doesn’t carry.