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A4 Thursday, April 7, 2016, Bangor Daily News
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reads the lyrics of Al Wilson’s song “The Snake” during a campaign event at Grumman Studios in Bethpage, New York, on Wednesday.
Campaign Continued from Page A1 Muslims and trade, was hopeful on Wednesday of a cash infusion to fund their efforts. “Our funders are committed to nominating a principled conservative that can win in November and can help Republicans up and down the ballot,” said Katie Packer, who is leading the anti-Trump Our Principals PAC. “They understand that this is a long slog now and they are supportive of our mission and strategy. I expect that we will have the funds necessary to execute.” Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, lobbyists and congressional staffers were among those who met with Kasich advisers on Wednesday to discuss what one Republican congressional staffer present admitted was the governor’s “longshot” bid. He has won only his home state in nominating contests so far. Kasich’s campaign has “a plan going into the convention … and if the convention goes to a brokered convention, they have a legitimate chance,” the staffer said.
Shift to New York
The next big test in stop-
ping Trump will be New York, the state he calls home. A Monmouth University poll of New York Republicans released on Monday showed Trump with 52 percent of the state’s support, a huge lead over Kasich at 25 percent, and Cruz at 17 percent ahead of the state’s April 19 primary. Trump held a rally in Bethpage, New York, on Wednesday evening where he referred only obliquely to his Wisconsin loss, saying it “takes guts” to run for president and criticizing Cruz for drawing small crowds in the state. The Trump campaign also announced members of its New York-based team, including party leaders in each of the state’s 27 congressional districts. “It’s very important for Trump to bounce back strong. The sense of his inevitability is one of his strengths,” said David Yepsen, director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Center at Southern Illinois University. Cruz met with black and Hispanic religious leaders earlier in the day in the New York City borough of the Bronx. “The men and women of Wisconsin resoundingly rejected (Trump’s) campaign,” Cruz told reporters afterward. “Donald has no solutions to the problems that we’re facing.”
A Reuters/Ipsos poll on Tuesday showed Cruz statistically even with Trump among Republicans nationally. His recent gains marked the first time since November that a rival had threatened Trump’s standing at the head of the Republican pack. Trump has 743 delegates, Cruz 517, and Kasich 143, according to an Associated Press count. Trump would need to win about 55 percent of the remaining delegates to reach the 1,237 threshold. “We fully expect this to go to Cleveland,” Packer said of the anti-Trump effort.
Clinton on the attack
On the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders, a Brooklynborn senator representing Vermont, is trying to stage a come-from-behind upset of Hillary Clinton, but will struggle to overcome a large deficit in delegates. Sanders’ big win in Wisconsin, which brought his victory tally to six out of the last seven contests, added to Clinton’s frustration over her inability to knock out a rival who has attacked her from the left. That frustration was on full display on Wednesday when the former secretary of state gave two live televised interviews in which she criticized Sanders. In contrast to a Republican primary season that has been rife with personal in-
sults, the Democrats have largely avoided personal attacks and stuck to policy arguments. But Clinton attacked Sanders for his position on guns and said he lacked a depth of policy understanding. “You can’t really help people if you don’t know how to do what you say you want to do,” Clinton said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” She criticized him for an interview to New York’s Daily News in which he failed to offer specifics on how he would break up large banks — a key part of his campaign message — when he was asked how he would put to use the existing financial regulation Dodd-Frank law. “It’s not clear that he knows how Dodd-Frank works,” Clinton told CNN in an interview on Wednesday afternoon. The Democratic Party nominating race moves to Wyoming on Saturday before New York on April 19.
“This guano is unsightly, corrosive and just plain disgusting,” she said. Neighbors also have reported rats, with one of the neighbors hiring an exterminator who attributes their presence to the feed left out for the birds. There also has been an increase in squirrels because the same people are feeding them unshelled peanuts. “We have had three power outages due to squirrel suicides since January,” Rogers said about them getting on power lines while waiting to be fed. Neighbors have spoken to the two people but they only stopped for a short time before renewing the feedings. Rogers provided the select board with a copy of the ordinance adopted by the Rockland City Council in 2012 when there was a problem with a woman feeding birds from her home. That ordinance prohibits the excessive feeding of animals if it creates a nuisance. Rockland Code Enforcement Officer John Root said Wednesday that since the ordinance was enacted nearly four years ago, there have been only a few complaints of people violating the law. He said there was an elderly woman who was feeding birds at Sandy Beach and she had to be warned twice when the feedings became excessive. “They can cause a problem for a neighborhood,” Root said. He said that in the case that led to Rockland adopting its ordinance residents had to spend a lot of money to clean their homes. And these neighbors were unable to have outdoor gatherings because the amount of bird poop was so great. Rogers said she and her neighbors have gone to the town’s code office and were told there was no ordinance prohibiting such feedings in Camden. She said Maine Inland Fisheries and Wildlife officials also told the neighbors that there was nothing they could do.
Prior to Rogers speaking to the board, the selectmen also heard a presentation from Alison McKellar, a member of the town’s Conservation Commission, who said that some of the town beaches have high levels of bacteria, which is due in part to people feeding birds. At the Tuesday night Camden meeting, the select board told Rogers that it would refer the matter to municipal staff and see what they can come up with to address the problem. Select board member Martin Cates recommended the town officials discuss the matter at its next workshop. Rogers said she did not want to identify the two people who are feeding the birds and squirrels. Linda Norton, who lives in the neighborhood, said Wednesday she feeds birds with bird feeders and also puts seed on the ground for the sea gulls. She said she has not heard any complaints from neighbors about what she does and was not aware it was causing a problem. Norton said she will be winding down the feeding now that winter is over but will not stop all at once. Nearly a dozen sea gulls were on her roof Wednesday morning. Norton, an artist whose studio is in her home, paints seascapes and her collection includes those with sea gulls. Norton lives in the home that had been her grandfather’s house and recalls a story he told her when she was growing up. “When I was a child, my grandfather said he would come back one day as a sea gull,” Norton said.
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Camden Continued from Page A1
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reads the lyrics of Al Wilson’s song “The Snake” during a campaign event at Grumman Studios in Bethpage, New York, on Wednesday.
Campaign Continued from Page A1 Muslims and trade, was hopeful on Wednesday of a cash infusion to fund their efforts. “Our funders are committed to nominating a principled conservative that can win in November and can help Republicans up and down the ballot,” said Katie Packer, who is leading the anti-Trump Our Principals PAC. “They understand that this is a long slog now and they are supportive of our mission and strategy. I expect that we will have the funds necessary to execute.” Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, lobbyists and congressional staffers were among those who met with Kasich advisers on Wednesday to discuss what one Republican congressional staffer present admitted was the governor’s “longshot” bid. He has won only his home state in nominating contests so far. Kasich’s campaign has “a plan going into the convention … and if the convention goes to a brokered convention, they have a legitimate chance,” the staffer said.
Shift to New York
The next big test in stop-
ping Trump will be New York, the state he calls home. A Monmouth University poll of New York Republicans released on Monday showed Trump with 52 percent of the state’s support, a huge lead over Kasich at 25 percent, and Cruz at 17 percent ahead of the state’s April 19 primary. Trump held a rally in Bethpage, New York, on Wednesday evening where he referred only obliquely to his Wisconsin loss, saying it “takes guts” to run for president and criticizing Cruz for drawing small crowds in the state. The Trump campaign also announced members of its New York-based team, including party leaders in each of the state’s 27 congressional districts. “It’s very important for Trump to bounce back strong. The sense of his inevitability is one of his strengths,” said David Yepsen, director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Center at Southern Illinois University. Cruz met with black and Hispanic religious leaders earlier in the day in the New York City borough of the Bronx. “The men and women of Wisconsin resoundingly rejected (Trump’s) campaign,” Cruz told reporters afterward. “Donald has no solutions to the problems that we’re facing.”
A Reuters/Ipsos poll on Tuesday showed Cruz statistically even with Trump among Republicans nationally. His recent gains marked the first time since November that a rival had threatened Trump’s standing at the head of the Republican pack. Trump has 743 delegates, Cruz 517, and Kasich 143, according to an Associated Press count. Trump would need to win about 55 percent of the remaining delegates to reach the 1,237 threshold. “We fully expect this to go to Cleveland,” Packer said of the anti-Trump effort.
Clinton on the attack
On the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders, a Brooklynborn senator representing Vermont, is trying to stage a come-from-behind upset of Hillary Clinton, but will struggle to overcome a large deficit in delegates. Sanders’ big win in Wisconsin, which brought his victory tally to six out of the last seven contests, added to Clinton’s frustration over her inability to knock out a rival who has attacked her from the left. That frustration was on full display on Wednesday when the former secretary of state gave two live televised interviews in which she criticized Sanders. In contrast to a Republican primary season that has been rife with personal in-
sults, the Democrats have largely avoided personal attacks and stuck to policy arguments. But Clinton attacked Sanders for his position on guns and said he lacked a depth of policy understanding. “You can’t really help people if you don’t know how to do what you say you want to do,” Clinton said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” She criticized him for an interview to New York’s Daily News in which he failed to offer specifics on how he would break up large banks — a key part of his campaign message — when he was asked how he would put to use the existing financial regulation Dodd-Frank law. “It’s not clear that he knows how Dodd-Frank works,” Clinton told CNN in an interview on Wednesday afternoon. The Democratic Party nominating race moves to Wyoming on Saturday before New York on April 19.
“This guano is unsightly, corrosive and just plain disgusting,” she said. Neighbors also have reported rats, with one of the neighbors hiring an exterminator who attributes their presence to the feed left out for the birds. There also has been an increase in squirrels because the same people are feeding them unshelled peanuts. “We have had three power outages due to squirrel suicides since January,” Rogers said about them getting on power lines while waiting to be fed. Neighbors have spoken to the two people but they only stopped for a short time before renewing the feedings. Rogers provided the select board with a copy of the ordinance adopted by the Rockland City Council in 2012 when there was a problem with a woman feeding birds from her home. That ordinance prohibits the excessive feeding of animals if it creates a nuisance. Rockland Code Enforcement Officer John Root said Wednesday that since the ordinance was enacted nearly four years ago, there have been only a few complaints of people violating the law. He said there was an elderly woman who was feeding birds at Sandy Beach and she had to be warned twice when the feedings became excessive. “They can cause a problem for a neighborhood,” Root said. He said that in the case that led to Rockland adopting its ordinance residents had to spend a lot of money to clean their homes. And these neighbors were unable to have outdoor gatherings because the amount of bird poop was so great. Rogers said she and her neighbors have gone to the town’s code office and were told there was no ordinance prohibiting such feedings in Camden. She said Maine Inland Fisheries and Wildlife officials also told the neighbors that there was nothing they could do.
Prior to Rogers speaking to the board, the selectmen also heard a presentation from Alison McKellar, a member of the town’s Conservation Commission, who said that some of the town beaches have high levels of bacteria, which is due in part to people feeding birds. At the Tuesday night Camden meeting, the select board told Rogers that it would refer the matter to municipal staff and see what they can come up with to address the problem. Select board member Martin Cates recommended the town officials discuss the matter at its next workshop. Rogers said she did not want to identify the two people who are feeding the birds and squirrels. Linda Norton, who lives in the neighborhood, said Wednesday she feeds birds with bird feeders and also puts seed on the ground for the sea gulls. She said she has not heard any complaints from neighbors about what she does and was not aware it was causing a problem. Norton said she will be winding down the feeding now that winter is over but will not stop all at once. Nearly a dozen sea gulls were on her roof Wednesday morning. Norton, an artist whose studio is in her home, paints seascapes and her collection includes those with sea gulls. Norton lives in the home that had been her grandfather’s house and recalls a story he told her when she was growing up. “When I was a child, my grandfather said he would come back one day as a sea gull,” Norton said.
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