The Governor and the Dictator

Early this year the Christian Civic League of Maine filed multiple Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with the office of Governor John Baldacci.  The ministry suspected there were pictures of his trip to Cuba.  As it turned out there were many pictures of the trip, and a couple with the Governor and the Dictator.  While Maine's media ignored the story, for the most part, an interesting one minute video has appeared on the popular online website called YouTube.

YouTube gives users an opportunity to upload, for public viewing, videos that they have produced.  The service is free.  Anyone with an internet connection can view the uploaded videos.

The video that features the League's picture of Baldacci and Castro appears in a video that links Maine's incumbent Governor with the Cuban missle crisis.  The video begins with a picture of Kennedy, and audio of him speaking about the crisis.

Someone created a YouTube account called mheinforme and uploaded the video to that account.  The League's Administrator is named Mike Hein.  He has no knowledge of the account.  "I'm a YouTube dummy," Said Hein.  "I don't have a clue who put that up there."

Hein said that he doesn't care who put it up.  Imitating political advertising disclaimers he quipped, "My name is Mike Hein, and I approve of this message."

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