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  Dang I hit the paywall. Anyone have a synopsis?
context: There's more to this story which this article barely scratches. Possible back door agreements, project influence, flat out lying.. requires more reading. >
  
  Yeah the article is light on details, or like any investigation at all.  "Accusations of conflicts of interest were dismissed by the accused, while the people accused of bullying and harassment deny any bullying and harassment.  shrug" >
  
  First world problems because they are all acting terribly and there are other ways to go about this. >
  
  Bullying? That town has nothing but a history of bullying. I grew up in Winthrop. It was my home town. My dad had a hunting & fishing shop (Lobster pound too) on route #202. 
  My dad defended   the working class and called out what was wrong. 
  I remember when I was 14 years old, sitting at the table eating Captain crunch when suddenly a news crew with big cameras came into the house to do interviews. I was shocked and didn't know what was going on. Dad told me he filed a lawsuit against DOW Chemical & DuPont for the toxic chemicals that were dumped into the woods nearby our house.
  My parents were harassed for years. 
  But dad stood his ground for the longest time.
  People from all over the state would show up In support of his business. "Thank you, Maine!"
  Eventually it became too much and we had to move.
  I spent most of my early child hood bullied and of crap that I didn't do. Class warfare is what it really was.
  Dad lost the lawsuit. Said there were too many attorneys to fight against.
  Winthrop is beautiful i itself. I visited the year before last, when mom died. 
   I went to Norcross Point (the place that's talked about in the article) and captured some beautiful winter footage of Winthrop before I left.
  It was a sad day. It's funny how when we're kids, we think things are bigger than what they are. Every now and then, I look at the drone footage and think to myself, "Wow! This looks like a little fairytale town from a Christmas story."
  Despite all the heartbreak my family and I endured, there was still a little bit of magic in that town. Those are the memories I like to remember.
  Edit: I think Sarah's dad was my science teacher when I was in middle school. Great guy. If it's the same person I'm thinking, he helped my get into college and was a great role model. >
  
  They got caught with their hands in the cookie jar, attempting to enact a stricture that would directly benefit a business concern. This is not how rules that govern us all are to be set. They got to resign when they should have been fired and investigated for corruption >
  
  Yeah it's pretty standard play in councils and low level government >
  
  The mooring bill requires you to own shorefront property to place a moore within 200 ft. of the shore. That obviously creates a potential class based access barrier, which would make me angry as well. Hopefully, they work it out >
  
  Wow, did that story pull a surprising U-turn on my expectations.  I went in thinking it was going to be a bunch of alt-right crazies upset about some kind of reasonable thing and harassing officials about it, and it turns out it's people upset about what appears to be significant corruption on the part of the town officials.
  Wish we had more details here. >
  
  That town has a history of corruption. >
  
  But see that’s how they win >
  
  Dang I hit the paywall. Anyone have a synopsis? >
  
  There's more to this story which this article barely scratches. Possible back door agreements, project influence, flat out lying.. requires more reading. >
  
  Yeah the article is light on details, or like any investigation at all.  "Accusations of conflicts of interest were dismissed by the accused, while the people accused of bullying and harassment deny any bullying and harassment.  shrug" >
  
  First world problems because they are all acting terribly and there are other ways to go about this. >
  
  Bullying? That town has nothing but a history of bullying. I grew up in Winthrop. It was my home town. My dad had a hunting & fishing shop (Lobster pound too) on route #202. 
  My dad defended   the working class and called out what was wrong. 
  I remember when I was 14 years old, sitting at the table eating Captain crunch when suddenly a news crew with big cameras came into the house to do interviews. I was shocked and didn't know what was going on. Dad told me he filed a lawsuit against DOW Chemical & DuPont for the toxic chemicals that were dumped into the woods nearby our house.
  My parents were harassed for years. 
  But dad stood his ground for the longest time.
  People from all over the state would show up In support of his business. "Thank you, Maine!"
  Eventually it became too much and we had to move.
  I spent most of my early child hood bullied and of crap that I didn't do. Class warfare is what it really was.
  Dad lost the lawsuit. Said there were too many attorneys to fight against.
  Winthrop is beautiful i itself. I visited the year before last, when mom died. 
   I went to Norcross Point (the place that's talked about in the article) and captured some beautiful winter footage of Winthrop before I left.
  It was a sad day. It's funny how when we're kids, we think things are bigger than what they are. Every now and then, I look at the drone footage and think to myself, "Wow! This looks like a little fairytale town from a Christmas story."
  Despite all the heartbreak my family and I endured, there was still a little bit of magic in that town. Those are the memories I like to remember.
  Edit: I think Sarah's dad was my science teacher when I was in middle school. Great guy. If it's the same person I'm thinking, he helped my get into college and was a great role model. >
  
  They got caught with their hands in the cookie jar, attempting to enact a stricture that would directly benefit a business concern. This is not how rules that govern us all are to be set. They got to resign when they should have been fired and investigated for corruption >
  
  Yeah it's pretty standard play in councils and low level government >
  
  The mooring bill requires you to own shorefront property to place a moore within 200 ft. of the shore. That obviously creates a potential class based access barrier, which would make me angry as well. Hopefully, they work it out >
  
  Wow, did that story pull a surprising U-turn on my expectations.  I went in thinking it was going to be a bunch of alt-right crazies upset about some kind of reasonable thing and harassing officials about it, and it turns out it's people upset about what appears to be significant corruption on the part of the town officials.
  Wish we had more details here. >
  
  That town has a history of corruption. >
  
  But see that’s how they win