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All rights reserved. • StarMotorcycles.com (207) 772-8274 THE PHoENIX NEWSPAPERS | PHoENIX MEdIA VENTuRES | MASS WEB PRINTINg 4 May 17, 2013 | the portland phoenix | portland.t hephoenix.coM ‘UFCW wants a dignified, controlled, taxed, regulated, compliant, and this Just in unionized medical cannabis industry.’ poll numbers organized labor Watch your backs, useless people Union battles continUe The Maine People Before Politics Here’s how the poll asked 500 people Maine’s state employees union is engaged in (yet fpoll released Tuesday is filled about Mainers’ confidence in political fanother) public disagreement with Governor Paul with problems, many of which parties: LePage, who has accused the union’s general counsel have already been dissected by “Which political party, Republican or Demo- of lying about a potential government shutdown that UMaine political science profes- crat, do you trust more to solve the problem or issue would come if the guv and the legislature fail to enact a sor Amy Fried on her Bangor that you believe should be their highest priority?” two-year budget by July 1. Daily News blog — and some of “Let me be clear,” LePage wrote in a May 13 letter to Rod- which have also been parodied Apart from its obvious omission of ney Hiltz, chief negotiator for the Maine State Employees by Maine People’s Alliance the Green Independent Party and any Association (MSEA). “I deny that a directive has been issued activist Mike Tipping on his sense of the relative prominence of non- to any executive branch departments or agencies to ‘prepare Twitter feed (@miketipping). party-affiliated politicians in Maine, plans for an inevitable shut down of all non-essential func- The questions are lead- this is a pretty fair question. And here tions of state government for the month of July.’ Your accusa- ing, and misleading, result- are the answers, with a margin of er- tion . is unfounded and, quite frankly, absurd . I can on- ing in skewed and unreli- ror of plus-or-minus 4.5 percent: ly conclude that MSEA is spreading gossip about a shutdown able results. That’s not too as a ploy to seek political leverage.” surprising for a group so Republican 139 people, 28 percent Hiltz refused to disclose the source of the MSEA’s informa- closely aligned with Repub- DemocRat 139 people, 28 percent tion, but insisted said source was “credible.” Regardless, the lican Governor Paul LePage both equally 42 people, 8 percent union wants its questions answered. — it is exactly the same neitheR 151 people, 30 percent “I reiterate this Union’s demand that the Administration organization as managed not suRe 29 people, 6 percent negotiate over the impact of any shutdown on bargaining LePage’s transition and in- unit members,” Hiltz wrote, to discuss questions like “Who auguration into the Blaine So while we’re arguing about the will be retained as ‘essential’ employees?” and “Once funding House, and just changed methodology of an obviously partisan authority is restored, will laid off employees be paid for the its name to keep using the group’s obviously inept poll, let’s be time they were unable to work?” same funds. sure to remember that more people The governor met with MSEA representatives on Monday But there’s one question that trust neither party than trust either the morning, but the MSEA’s report suggests it wasn’t a very pro- is neither skewed nor misleading Republicans or the Democrats to actu- ductive pow-wow. — and its results are the most il- ally achieve anything important. Inef- “Our members told the truth in requesting a meeting with luminating of the bunch, showing fectiveness: At last, something all par- management to discuss the impact a shutdown would have the continuing breakdown of our ties can agree on. on them,” according to a statement at mseaseiu.org.