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• Anonymous

  Thanks for trying to kiss our butts after kicking us in the groin!

• Anonymous

  And that’s the best she could do after ten days or so?  Well, kudos for doing so.  It could have been dropped altogether.  

• Anonymous

    As usual Quimby is talking out of both sides of her face.

• Anonymous

  Don’t believe a word of it, she is just trying to cover her you-know-where after realizing we are not all as dumb (fat, ugly and on welfare) as she thinks we are.

• Anonymous

  Wait a minute, I need to get my boots on, it’s getting deep…

• Anonymous

  I tell you what nothing ever wins with the posters on here. I do not know here but I can say that everyone of us in life have said things in the past that we wish would not have. Obviously she felt conviction for what she said and apoligized. Good for her bc something tells me that alot of posters here would NEVER admitt a wrong. Apology excepted…thank you

• Anonymous

  Speaking of sayings, “Too Little Too Late” comes to mind…what was said was said…she is apologizing to cover herself and her reputation…whats left of it…Roxanne doesn’t care about the people of maine, she cares about her own agenda…one example among many others comes to mind…for generations in the small town of barnard near dover foxcroft, folks had camps where they would go and enjoy the quiet of the maine woods, hunt, fish and just get away…she ended the leases and tore down their camps…no compensation, no apology, just her own agenda…enough said! 

• Anonymous

  I see people on this comment section calling Maine a welfare state all the time. What’s the big deal?

• Anonymous

  Amen to that BAD96!!!  Apology?  Yea..Imagine that..Pfftt..

• Anonymous

  No need to apologize it is the truth.  You go Quimby, however love the quote at the end.

• Anonymous

  She’s a two timing lady.  She wants everyone in the State of Maine to bow down to her so she can buy up the land and do nothing with it.  If she keeps buying the land and doing nothing with it, she will be putting how many people out of work, putting them on welfare.  This lady just wants everything her way and could care less about everyone else.  This time though she opened her mouth, it got published, now she is doing damage control cause she still wants her land deal in the Millinocket area to happen.  slime ball!!!

• Anonymous

  To late the horse…

• Anonymous

  Roxanne, please go try to “help” people who actually WANT you help.  We do not.  Thanks.

• Anonymous

  There’s a name for that move.  Not a dirty Sanchez, but along the same line.

• Anonymous

  So which is it?  You lied in the first article, or you lied in the apology?  Ridiculous.  People of ample means are so used to getting their own way that when they are met with challenges they revert to belittling and name-calling which to me proves that they only got where they are by luck not necessarily above average intelligence.  She showed her true colors in the first interview and I am sure that is her honest opinion, so why try to back track on it?  Why be ashamed of how you feel?  If you feel that Maine is a welfare state and everyone is fat then maybe you should use some of that money you made off of our state to help with education education about how life can be on the other side of poverty, and education on nutrition etc.  You don’t have to be intelligent to be rich, just ask Paris Hilton, but sometimes in order to have a healthy, happy lifestyle, you need the intelligence and opportunity to not be impoverished, unfortunately when you are on the other side of the fence it is easy to judge a class that society and the caste system has created.

• Anonymous

  Rusty Trombone? Cleveland Steamer? Alabama Hot Pocket?

• Anonymous

  The thing of it is, she is a public figure….same as the governor. What they say, usually is a very public thing and the whole country hears this. Both of them have made our state look like a bunch of fat, welfare, redneck idiots.  I don’t know of any other person in the public eye who has embarrassed their state as much as these two have. Posters stating their opinion is one thing, but people such as this is something else entirely. They represent our state and are doing it badly.

• Anonymous

  “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than speak out and remove all doubt.”
  -Mark Twain

• Anonymous

  if you don’t like the state they why are you buying half of it?

• Anonymous

  Not your fault people can’t handle the truth, Roxy.

• Anonymous

  I read the inital article at a local diner. After reading, I looked up and scanned the room. I saw veterans, fisherman, business owners; all hard working Mainers. WE are proud, WE are hard working, WE have morals and values. Your comments and opinions mean less than nothing to us.

• Anonymous

  Hypocrites……..the BDN is filled with ‘em.

• steviemk

  Hey BDN how bout giving us a ‘flag’ option for inappropriate editorials

• Anonymous

  That scarf screams “authentic” Maine.

• Anonymous

  Quimby is more virtuous than the bulk of people who post comments under the articles on the proposed National Park.  I have been shocked at the crudeness, meanness and down-right lack of civility as people champion their snowmobiles and demand that the current situation–one of pathetic economic malaise–not be tampered with by Quimby.

  Quimby has the character to apologize (not that she was entirely wrong–we do have a lot of problems, statistically).  I doubt a single one of you rabble-rousers is going to say anything decent, let alone noble in response.

  If I were her, I would have been so infuriated by your stubbornness and vulgar expression, I would have put up fences and cut you all out.

  But I would have been wrong to do that.  Because the National Park is a wonderful idea.  Humans are greedy, destructive, expansionist creatures, and if we don’t protect land and cultivate the beauty of wilderness, there will soon be none left.

• Anonymous

  First. I have no axe to grind in this effort but, I do believe many Mainers including many who respond here refer most unkindly from time-to-time about welfare recipients, unemployed people and big box stores taking over locally owned shops (yet flocking to these same rather than support local stores). Ms Quimby spoke to Forbes magazine quite disparagingly about Mainers and Mainers corrected her. She made a mistake was corrected and now apologized.  Neither you nor I know her sincerity but, I am willing to take it at face value. She is making an effort to conceive a National Park but, it will not be she who decides if a park will be or not. Folks be reasonable, stop flapping about her intentions, let your voices be heard through the process and see it through to the end. It is reasonable to expect that all voices can weigh in on this effort pro and con.  BTW I lived in Millinocket when I was a youngster.

• Anonymous

  I do.

• Anonymous

  You guys are funny…

• Anonymous

  Have to wonder who she paid to write that baloney because I highly doubt it came from her. Roxy already told the world what she thinks of Mainers-which just validates my own opinion of her. She showed her true colors and now she wants to whitewash them. Too late! Waaaay too late. She makes Leona Hemsley look like a sweetheart. Just take your money and go away. BAN ROXANNE!

• Anonymous

  That is nice of her…

• Anonymous

  Roxanne  – don’t cave in.  The things that you said were factual and the things that Mainer’s have written about you on the postings are far worse than anything you said. 

• http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1628932330 Naran Row-Spaulding

  I still think we need to outlaw bee enslavement, and make any profits from their enforced servitude illegal. We can call it the “BEEmancipation Proclamation.”

  Quimby can apologize for her unpleasant comments all she wants now, but Mainers know the truth.

  She can keep her land, and chain it off, for all I care. Just don’t ask the rest of us to pay for that “privilege.”

• Anonymous

  Stole it from Abe.

• Anonymous

  you are a minority.

• Anonymous

  Maine already has a very nice State Park where she wants to build her legacy. It is called Baxter State Park and we love it very much. We love Percibal Baxter for giving it to the people of Maine before it became developed. 

  Miss Quimby could give that land to Maine citizens by adding it to Baxter, but she appears to want her name to live on through history by having her very own personalized national park.

  Sorry, Miss Quimby, you have upset too many locals to have them talk very highly of you. Your apology may be accepted by some but most of us will remember your insulting way of talking down to us. 

• Anonymous

  How do you know?

• Anonymous

  I think that Quimby should post all 100K+ acres of her land and ban everyone from it.  Hopefully, she will live another 40 or 50 years too……..then she should have a directive in her will to sell it all off as 40 acre subdivisions……..ha ha, that would be a riot.

• Anonymous

  I find it amuzing that you, of all people, complain of the “crudeness” of other posters. Your coments have historically been just as crude and hatefilled as anyone else’s, if not more.  And your personal attacks have gone far outside the scope of anyone’s intended dialogue.

  I’m not a fan of hers, but I will admit that she is free to do what she wants with her land. I’ll also agree with her to a degree on her original comment that caused so many hurt feelings, she does have a point. 

  If she is successful in getting a national park on her land, no one will come to see it, because there is nothing enclosed by it that is noteworthy or isn’t already in Baxter.

  And by the way, it is “rabble rousers” not “ramble rousers”.

• Anonymous

  Man, he is one ugly dude….

• ptkitty

  I am mindful that  Abraham Lincoln also said:  “If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may FOOL all of the people some of the time; you can even FOOL some of the people all of the time; but you can’t FOOL all the people all the time.”

• Anonymous

  Well, let’s put it to a vote then.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_APVY6G6ITCLZCM2P6GM7UZIIY4 Douglas

  A person who can admit a mistake demonstrates humility and humanity.  A person that cannot admit their mistakes demonstrates continuation of dillusional foolishness.  You can bash Roxanne Quimby on her intent with her land, you can disagree with her approach to how she wishes to achieve her intent, but please do not bash her character if you cannot base it on more the public media as a source.

• Anonymous

  If Quimby was trully concerned about the people of Maine BURTS BEES would still be here. Her Motto seEms to be, “WHATS MINE IS MINE AND WHATS YOURS IS MINE”   Roxanne Quimby will be remembered  but not as she envisions.

• ptkitty

  I am mindful that  Abraham Lincoln also said:  “If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may FOOL all of the people some of the time; you can even FOOL some of the people all of the time; but you can’t FOOL all the people all the time.”

• Anonymous

  Actually, it screams, “I’m too lazy to shave my beard”…

• Anonymous

  Actually, that would be great.  When she dies someone with more common sense will take it over and by then wood prices will be up… Fantastic. 

• Anonymous

  So, what drug was she on during the Forbes interview? 

• Anonymous

  Seems like you are, perhaps, taking a moderate stance on Quimby, and admitting she has a point.  You can attack me all you want–I’m used to it, and expect it, actually.

  Your argument is that “no one” will visit the Park because it replicates the service provided by Baxter.  When I travel, especially to big cities,
  people are always praising up Maine, and saying they want to visit.  They wish they lived in Maine, not the rush-hour stressed out concrete jungle

  My point is, Maine is a very special place in general, and we ought to continue to promote its image as a beautiful natural place.  There is a lot of untapped marketing potential–and having another National Park will help tap into that potential.

  Another consideration, is that the Park will provide jobs in perpetuity, and as we focus our management on wilderness and beauty, the land will become even more beautiful than it is now, astoundingly so.  In a hundred years, for example, there will be massive trees (obviously we will need to manage the sylviculture of the Park) and flourishing varieties of life, giving the Quimby Park a unique wilderness profile, different from Baxter.

• Anonymous

  Quote “but please don’t bash her character if you cannot base it on more the public media as a source”…

  Was that supposed to be english?

  She can do with her land exactly what she chooses, she can break the leases and destroy camps that have been held for generations, she can close off roads that have been used for decades, she can deprive people of the ability to log her land and keep an economy going.

  She can do all that, it is her land. But we are still a democracy and we do not have to “like” her methods, her motives or her plans and we sure as heck don’t have to stand by and say nothing while she does those things. 

  A national park in that area is a lame idea, no one will come to see it, no one will care. But she can keep trying and degrading the people of the state (as I said before, she has a point though) but unfortunately, the people she is denegrating are those that supported her ideas. The people with jobs or who can take care of themselves already didn’t want her park. 

  A liberal to making fun of someone on generational welfare,  that is rather telling…

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Cecil-Gray/1027119962 Cecil Gray

  It takes guts to apologize especially around an issue that is so volatile to many. Regardless of Ms. Quimby’s stance she did an honorable thing. If one is capable of reading then it is easy to have seen the pile of insults that have been hurled her way on this forum and you leaders of such assaults know very well who you are. I would gather a large wager that this apology will only intensify your assault.

• Anonymous

  Well, she hired a PR consultant.  Unfortunately, although I’m sure she is truly sorry that she said what she said, her complete contempt for the people of Maine is what she feels and who she is.  Any chance of her plan coming to fruition is gone.  Anyone that supported her plan would tacitly endorse her opinion of Maine people.  No one will do that.

• Anonymous

  There is no “market potential” that isn’t already tapped by Baxter.  There is nothing inside that park that will attract people, period. They can go into Baxter and see just as many trees, they can also see mountains (and climb them) as well as some beautiful rivers and streams. The only thing that a national park would bring is people wondering why put up a park where there is nothing to look at.

  You also seriously overestimate the value of a couple federal jobs, there would be at most 2 dozen positions for a park that small, and I seriously think I’m being optimistic with that number.
   
  It might increase traffic into Baxter, but the national park itself would be pointless.

• Anonymous

  First of all she already has blocked access to her land by removing bridges and putting up gates. She states that she wants all to enjoy her “Park”, How can the elderly and disabled “enjoy” her “Park”? She talks out of both sides of her mouth just like the politicians. She didn’t apologize until Snowe made a statement in the BDN. So the only thing that comes from her lips is garbage!

• Anonymous

  I love seeing (reading) you two go at it. It’s great.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Cecil-Gray/1027119962 Cecil Gray

  Mainers don’t pay a dime for access.

• Anonymous

  Anybody got a violin I could borrow?

• Anonymous

  I simply disagree.  There is a huge desire in the people of America to visit Maine–are you denying that?  We simply need to work with that desire.  Coca-Cola and other companies can double or even triple demand through careful ad campaigns for products that are far less beautiful and healing than a National Park.  It’s simply a matter of tapping into the demand and motivating the millions of people who want to visit Maine.

  Your next argument is that very few jobs would be created.  In addition to Federal jobs, which are excellent pay, there would be tourism based jobs, such as restaurants and B&B’s.  Also, there would be jobs to support the tourism-based jobs, such as carpenters, constructors, etc. 

  A National Park, also, will create jobs in perpetuity.  The economic benefits extend much farther into the future than any mill or factory.  Mills and factories are lucky to last five years these days.  A Park will last for generations, at least.  Once that is calculated into the cost-benefit equation, the result is impressive, indeed.

  What is your alternative?

• Anonymous

  How do the elderly and disabled enjoy snowmobiles and hunting?

  The main issue, though, is jobs, right?

  However, I suspect the elderly and disabled enjoy Baxter, if they want to.  So they will be able to enjoy the new Park.

• Anonymous

  if you didn’t mean it you would not have said it,SO SHOVE IT

• Anonymous

  Cecil if you believed one word of that apology ? Seriously?

• Anonymous

  The main issue is jobs, right?

  However, I suspect the elderly and disabled can enjoy Baxter, if they want to. So they will be able to enjoy the new Park.

  How do the elderly and disabled enjoy snowmobiles and hunting?

  Also, your crude, mean remark about Quimby speaks to her noble and civil poise in relation to your failure to use the cloak of anonymity with grace.

• Anonymous

  Fact – She said all the things in the Forbes Article.  Fact – her lawyer, her PR Person, and or her Gopher wrote the apology.  If Tot Mom went on CNN and admitted to killing her kid now that the trial is over. And asked for your forgiveness would you forgive her too? Same thing!

• Anonymous

  The only reason she apologized is she needs the public support for her park. Why doesn’t she merely leave us alone.

• Anonymous

  it’s very easy to apologize after the fact… the damage has already been done and she knows it…. she is very shrewd… say what she thinks in a magazine that goes nationally… then apologize to a local paper which means nothing… that way she thinks us hicks wont think anything of it…. she is not and does not care about creating jobs… what she cares about is her national park… the colors have finally come out and i for one wouldnt trust a thing that woman ever says again.

• Anonymous

  Two writes make a wrong.

• Anonymous

  What part of her job in the Obama Administraton appointed position don’t you understand?

• Anonymous

  thinking a little lower!!

• Anonymous

  I’m going to start a business selling QUIMBY KOOL AID! Will you then buy your 2 gallons a day from a Mainer instead of a Mainer/hater?

• Anonymous

  Baxter is a State Park not a National one. I still don’t see the need for another park in the area, however.

• Anonymous

  A sincere apology from Roxanne, its more likely damage control,,, a little to little and way too late….! 

  Roxanne’s need of self immortalization is why there is a boycott,
  supported by various groups dedicated to battle the park and those that
  support it, as well as many politicians that will block it at every turn.

  A fool she is not, but neither is she the kind giving person that she
  portrays herself to be.

  As for Quimby National Park,,,,, give it up, area residents loath the
  subject, the thought of a feasibility study and more over her…!

  If she truly wants to be remembered as a giving person that did some good
  in Maine, then she should donate her land to Baxter State Park.

  .

• Anonymous

  “Coca-Cola and other companies can double or even triple demand through careful ad campaigns for products that are far less beautiful and healing than a National Park. ”

  Well in that case maybe Roxanne should do as Coca-Cola does and spend big bucks on advertising …  Then when people from around the world start coming up in hordes to see what Baxter has to offer and the park needs to expand then maybe folks will get behind her, seems it would be better than trying to coerce and insult us :-/ 

• Anonymous

  “A liberal to making fun of someone on generational welfare,  that is rather telling…”Is that supposed to be English?

• Anonymous

  Yo JK, were you bullied or a bully?

• Anonymous

  Watch it, or he will get your comment removed….

• Anonymous

  can you get that in writing…
  much like her putting writing about how big her park will ever be,,,, it aint gonna happen

• Anonymous

  but if we speak the truth about her obvious physical features, we get our comments removed

• clamcove

  National park is a no brainer which is why the folks who don’t own a thing up there can’t see it.

• Anonymous

  Nothing doing. The broad showed her true colors in that Forbes interview.

• Anonymous

  LMAO!! 

• Anonymous

  Roxanne, you have magically removed all doubt….definately a woman speaks with a forked tongue

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NNIZMC53H2WBMKRCGE4PVE7KCM Paul

  She needs to crawl back in her hole down south and stfu…We don’t need nor want you in Maine :)

• Anonymous

  So, the BDN is showing its support of Roxanne Quimby by re-printing her letter-to-the-editor so-called apology?  Her agenda includes what is most profitable to her, not to the people of Maine.
  Remember, she moved Burt’s Bees to NC, then sold it.  Wonder how the original Burt is doing in Dexter?

• Anonymous

  Is that the same man in both pictures?

  Go away Roxanne. RESTORE Boston.

• Anonymous

  How’s the disabled going to enjoy her park? Swim the streams and rivers? Get real!

• Anonymous

  forget it.

• Anonymous

  I agree wholeheartedly. I also do not trust the federal government and think one federal park in Maine is one too many. 

  This woman should go back to New York or New Jersey or wherever it is she’s from. At least she’ll fit in there. She sure as hell doesn’t act like one of us.

• Anonymous

  I agree. She needs to go NATIONALLY with her apology….if only to clear up misconceptions the rest of the country has about Maine. LePage should also do the same, since he made Maine the laughing stock of national late night talk shows! Thanks for nothing, you two!!

• Anonymous

  no apology needed, you were correct, Ms Quimby.

• Anonymous

  Flopping a fish on the rocks Roxanne. Take a lokng walk off a short pier.

• yowsayowsa1

  “The main issue is jobs, right?”

   No.

   The main issue is for her and her enviroterrorist friends to stop logging on the entire northern forest by allowing the National park Service to get a toe hold in the Katahdin region, thereby giving them the opportunity to release their coercive and “beat them till they give up” land acqusition techniques.

   There is nothing “noble”, or “civil” about this woman.

   She is a conniving, cold, calculating, self absorbed narcissist who is trying to gain credence in the field of enviromentalisim by establishing an elitist paradise where everything goes back to it’s original state of wilderness to the detriment of all else including the local population.

  NO PARK FOR Me.

• Anonymous

  Don’t back down now Roxanne. You got it right the first time. If the people of Maine don’t know that they are fat and lazy, somebody has to fill them in.

• Anonymous

  I am beginning to think Spruce dweller is either Quimby or a close friend of hers

• Anonymous

  Baxter wasn’t always loved and respected for his park. People acted the same as they are now with Quimby. They didn’t want the park, it removed a lot of land from the tax rolls, it removed working forest from the woods operations and on and on.

  Amazing what a few decades will do for a park and the man who built it huh?

• Anonymous

  always trying making it personal aren’t you? Usually people learn how to handle life and opinions without being personal as they grow up.

  Betting you’re no Greek God yourself.

• Anonymous

  and you’re God’s gift right. Some how I doubt it. Grow up much?

• Anonymous

  and some comments on here scream “I’m too ignorant to write anything worth while so I’ll stick to personal attacks on appearances instead”

• Anonymous

  Great question.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Cecil-Gray/1027119962 Cecil Gray

  Stupidity would be a kind word.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Cecil-Gray/1027119962 Cecil Gray

  You might as well say ban brains.

• Anonymous

  I hope she puts it in conservation easement with strict limits on usage so that anyone else buying has to abide by those same terms. Conservation easements are perpetual. It will be forever wild no matter what happens with the park. Remember that.

• Anonymous

  correct on this!  she just wants to inflate her ego even more. there will not be any more jobs, or visitors to this area. more likely, be less. now many places to go fishing, hiking, and snowmobile if you want. the land would be more restricted, if she gets her way. more parkland, will not bring more money. we already have the state park, and that does not overwelm the area with visitors. no different than land expansion, to state park, except national status, puts it into w whole total category, and would not be for the better.
  why be fooled by this person??  she has her interests at heart, no one elses.

• Anonymous

  you are right, as i have numerously stated. just less access, thats all

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Cecil-Gray/1027119962 Cecil Gray

  2 fine examples above of “decent” exchange in a debate that could alter the dump that is Millinocket’s economic present. Can’t afford: I would love to go toe to toe with a verbal hit parade right here with you, but “Censorship” keeps it “cordial”, as it should in public, and I am the last to call for a flag on your pathetic lapses of reality.

• Anonymous

  I’d tell her to her face!!!!!!

• Anonymous

  The whole state needs to vote on this.

• Anonymous

  Yep! The golden rule is stone dead in Maine.  Its just  withered and died in the hearts of many stranded time travelers.  Just can’t make it back to the past by any viable means.  Makes ‘em really twisted mean don’tcha know.

• Anonymous

  Why, again, is it elitist to promote a National Park that Americans can enjoy and Mainers can benefit from?  I kind of missed that part of your rant.

  I also missed the rationality behind “enviroterrorist.”  Wha??

  The argument that Quimby wants to stop all logging in the State is kind of lacking as well.  In fact, didn’t some other billionaire just buy a huge chunk of Maine, which he is going to allow traditional conservation practices on, like logging?  Or maybe, like Quimby, he’s a major threat to the USA???

  Your inflammatory rhetoric is ridiculous.  You look like a hate-monger who cannot show any manners.

  Like I said above, if confronted by extremists like you, I would simply fence off the whole region to show you what a real fanatic environmentalist would do–

  But Quimby is more noble than me.  And she certainly has much more composure, common courtesy and equanimity than you. 

  You seem like a real hothead, who just wants to shout out absurd extreme things to get attention and form a mob.

• Anonymous

  Real impressive.  Big oil companies continue to rip you off, and you ignore them and attack someone trying to preserve and protect the majestic beauty of this country.

• Anonymous

  That’s okay, I think all of you are from Millinocket and are part of the local government, which seems to be very biased in favor of logging and factories.  Very.

• Anonymous

  Real impressive.  Big oil companies continue to rip you off, and you
  ignore them and attack someone trying to preserve and protect the
  majestic beauty of this country. 

• Anonymous

  Common courtesy?? Is it common courtesy to call Maine a welfare state? If she wanted support from the people of this great state, that is NOT the way to do it.

• Anonymous

  It is amazing and it makes sense.

  Personally, I don’t see the need for a national park abutting our state park. It makes me fear that the feds might decide to take what is ours to add to what might become theirs. I do not trust the federal government in the least. I would prefer to see that land given to Maine rather than the feds. 

• Anonymous

  Quimby made a mistake and apologized.  Have you ever made a mistake and apologized?

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SCNJPPZDX7GEYELESV2YGQFLN4 Pat T. Riot

  I think that a National Park in northern Maine is a good idea.  I think that a National Park on Mt. Desert Island is a good idea, too.  Everything we do in this country doesn’t have to be in pursuit of the almighty dollar, noble goal that that is.  Of course, National Parks do bring visitors and visitors do bring money.  One thing that I think is ironic is this.  I’m guessing that many people who oppose Roxanne Quimby’s plans are also adamant that landowners can do pretty much what they want to do with their own land.  But they don’t seem to feel the same way about Roxanne Quimby doing what she wants to do with her land.

• Kyla Hershey-Wilson

  It’s classic colonizer rhetoric to conflate the human residents of the land with its scenery. Careful.

• Anonymous

  And we don’t like to be manipulated, so stuff it Quimby.

• Anonymous

  “Apology excepted…thank you”

  I “except” her apology, too. I don’t accept it though. It sounds to me like something her publicist wrote, nothing something written from the heart.

• Anonymous

  yeah right

• Anonymous

  Actually, it’s “I’m TOO ignorant to write anything worth while, so, I’ll stick to personal attacks on appearances, instead.”

  Frankly, Quimby started with the attack first, when she stated that Maine was a welfare state!

• Anonymous

  I wonder if she’s sorry for what she said, or if she’s only sorry that she said it? Sometimes it is the thought that counts.

• Anonymous

  thats were your wrong Spruce. Unliky quimby.. John Malone not only supports SUSTAINABLE havresting but encourages it. I happen to be  a log buyer for a mill in maine and have and will contuniue to purchase logs from Malone…. On the other hand I KNOW FOR A FACT that Quimby has not and will not EVER cut one stick of wood!! she would rather let the wood fall down around her in here “Precious” park!

• Anonymous

  Not preserve! Prevent, harvests 4-wheelers fishing hunting, are you from maine Spruce? By you attitude I tend to think you are from “a-way”.

• Anonymous

  Just because people disagree with you doesn’t mean they are biased. It means they think that your idea isn’t what is best for the area and want no part of it. Common sense says it is a foolish idea and I cannot wait until it is done and over with.

• Anonymous

  It is a welfare state it is second only to California in the amount of welfare the state gets per capita.

• Anonymous

  be carefull dweller… she should put up fences means you would not have access either so which side are you on or which way is the wind blowing today….. very stealthy and sneaky

• Anonymous

  first you dispise millionaires and the wealthy and feel their hard eraned wealth should be distributed down to yourself. on the other hand you adore the same???????????

• Anonymous

  and how about you spruce… miss perfect we think not

• Anonymous

  Seems like the whole world is against you… how does it feel to think that way?

• Anonymous

  if your used to being attacked maybe look deep into a mirror and ask yourself… could I be a better person

• Anonymous

  Damage control, ay, Roxie? Too little, too late. Kinda hard to pull the bullet back after you’ve pulled the trigger, isn’t it?!?

• Anonymous

  Well i tell you what, my grandfather is old and disabled and he can get out there and go hunting every year and fourwheeling, yea, he does that to oh yea, he enjoys his snowmobile too. Just saying.

• Anonymous

  Does Quimby really mean this apology? If she had given some thought to what she was saying she would not have to give this lame apology. Did she also apologize in the FORBES Magazine to the state of Maine? 

• Anonymous

  Sure I have…..but sometimes, apologies are too little, too late and this is one of those instances. You don’t bite the hand that feeds you……don’t cut off your nose to spite your face……And, seriously, I don’t think she would have apologized if she wasn’t backed against the wall, cuz I don’t think she really means it. She’s just trying to save face……the people of Maine might be alot of things, but STUPID is not one of them!!

• Anonymous

  Agreed.

• Anonymous

  I believe actions speak louder than words. A person can’t say something, and then later claim that she doesn’t believe anything that she said. That makes me wonder which statement was the untruth.

  She moves her company out of Maine to North Carolina, sells out to a major corporation, and then talks of , “… my hopes for helping Maine to build its future by adding jobs and creating economic growth”. If her concern was to provide employment for Mainers, Burt’s Bees products would be produced in a facility here in Maine, employing Mainers and paying Maine taxes.

  Here are two rules concerning  public figures: Watch what they do, not what they say, and follow the money.

• me in me

  BAN(gorian) ROXANNE

• Anonymous

  Here’s an idea for you Quimby…..why don’t you put your money where your mouth is??…….If Maine is a “welfare state”, then why not take your money and CREATE some JOBS….then, you MIGHT, eventually, have the support you so badly need!

• me in me

  huh?

• me in me

  what?

• me in me

  the pot calling the kettle black??

• Anonymous

  Virtuous?  She sold her ‘environmentally correct’ company to AEA, an investment front for the Rockerfellers and Warburgs.  Ever heard of Standard Oil?  It’s now Exxon/Mobile.  It was started by the Rockerfellers.  Burt’s Bees is now owned by Clorox, a chemical company.  She’s all about the money, power, and her legacy.  If she were really virtuous and principled she would never have moved her expanding business out of Maine, but would have stayed for the greater good of the state. She moved because it helped her bottom line. She apologized because her comments irritated a large section of the Maine population, and she fears that it will hamper her efforts.

• yowsayowsa1

   Her mistake was to come here telling us how things should be done.

• yowsayowsa1

   I thought you was at the occupy Meddybemps rally!

• Anonymous

  Say what you mean, Roxy, and mean what you say.  We know how you really feel.

• Anonymous

  Stop the self-righteous drivel.  Quimby’s remark was crude and mean.  She said what she really believed.  Do you honestly believe she is sorry for what she said?  She’s in the ‘sorry I got caught’ mode, and she’s doing damage control.

• Anonymous

  My thoughts exactly …

• Anonymous

  I learned a long time ago that it’s not okay for others to hurl insults and then expect automatic forgiveness the second they lay down the olive branch. That’s the way bullies get a free pass using verbal abuse to control others.

• Anonymous

  Bravo! Well said.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7T3YNF6MG3FPEAVTFIJC44VQUI Dlbrt

  I am sorry Roxanne for all the harsh statements!

  Now GO AWAY!!

• Anonymous

  You got it — is she lying now with this “apology” or was she lying when she gave her interview to Forbes?  Either way, she can’t be trusted now.  We will not be able to trust anything she says.

• Anonymous

  Your charity is overwhelming.

• Anonymous

  I suspect that, if you make what is considered a viable threat, your mask of anonymity can be removed by law enforcement.  Death threats are the lowest of low forms of expression.

• Anonymous

  I totally agree.  I should have said that myself.

• Anonymous

  If he can hunt, he can get around in a park.

• Anonymous

  Funny, you are the one who comes across as bias and angry.  

  If someone says what they mean, that’s a good thing, right?  Unless it’s Quimby

• Anonymous

  I think we live in a time where things are  changing so fast, we ought to slow down.

  In my experience, the people who feel the most persecuted and helpless are anti-abortion activists.  They have told me they pull their hair out all the time, what with two million innocent babies dying a year in this country.

• Anonymous

  Preserve wilderness.  Prevent things that aren’t part of the wilderness.

  My attitude is that a Park would be good for the region, far into the future. No one has a viable alternative.  I guess that makes me an outsider.

  But then again, you’ve identified yourself as a buyer in the logging industry, so we know where you are coming from.  How’s that leash of dollars feel?  Ever get heavy?

• moosehornrider

  What made her change her ideas about us Obese, beer swilling, drug abusing, welfare recipients here in Maine?? I personally don’t think she has..she just realized how ignorant she sounded, & became just a little scared of us ….Her sickening apology may not work w/many…

• Anonymous

  Thats what im saying!

• Anonymous

  It is a welfare state which most of the right wingers here bring up all the time when it fits their argument ….” welfare bums” ,,,,,,,, how many times have we heard that one?…. but when Roxanne says it suddenly its an insult and a lie.  

• Anonymous

  So, Quimby saying that Mainers are fat, welfare recipients is not a biased generalization that she made out of anger at the fact that things were not going her way?  She simply needs to stand behind what she said.  She was either lying then, or lying now.  I certainly believe that we should all be able to say what we mean, without profanity.  Judging by many of your posts, you’re as intolerant and as angry as any other poster on here.  Nothing wrong with having a strong opinion about something, though.

• Anonymous

  She wants the backing of Mainers and this is how she gets their support?!?! Not exactly the correct approach!

• Anonymous

  At least you’re straightforward with your tight affiliation with the logging industry.  I appreciate it.

• Anonymous

  He’s an impressive guy.  I wish I knew his secret.

• Anonymous

  I don’t take this as a death threat. Maybe if paycheck2paycheck sees Quimby in the woods, she will get an earful……maybe paycheck2paycheck has something to SAY to Quimby.

• Anonymous

  HUH?? What does this have to do with the article?

• Anonymous

  yeah I am gonna lose a lot of sleep about how you feel…. :-P

• Anonymous

  I think that would be a great idea.  At least the federal govt. won’t control it and when improvements are made in those subdivisions, a higher tax rate will be paid.

• Anonymous

  I dont know i just hope im as fit as he is when i get his age.

• Anonymous

  Honestly, there are far worse things in this world, happening all the time, than a billionaire offering up private land for perpetual public use.  Take a deep breath and control your anger–for your own good. 

  Up above, you seem to issue a threat of physical harm.  And you are showing intense anger in your use of profanity.

• Anonymous

  Honestly, if I were Quimby, I would fence it all off, just out of spite.  She has a lot more patience than me.  That speaks to her character.  

• Anonymous

  Too little, too late, and either your previous comments or your apology is a lie — both cannot be true.

• Anonymous

  Thanks!! :) :P

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Cecil-Gray/1027119962 Cecil Gray

  The 16 million acres of moonscape are in control of people from away.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Cecil-Gray/1027119962 Cecil Gray

  Yep, Right!

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Cecil-Gray/1027119962 Cecil Gray

  It’s useless Penny, the Quimby haters would vote for a Great Northern steamroller as it was running over them.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Cecil-Gray/1027119962 Cecil Gray

  Would you care to expose your” fact” gathering as to who wrote her apology?

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Cecil-Gray/1027119962 Cecil Gray

  The paper companies moved and sold their worthless mills. Wonder how thew CEO’s are is doing?

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Cecil-Gray/1027119962 Cecil Gray

  And the world wide paper demand will be up? Doubt it .

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Cecil-Gray/1027119962 Cecil Gray

  It does not matter who owns the land to the noisy Quimby haters. All that matters to them is that the private land owner SHOULD and MUST grant the Bubba Nation the  right to four wheel, mud up roads, poach, snowmobile, camp and shake a bush, in short to do as they please as if it was their land. Anything remotely short of that is a conspiracy to induce the jobless town with Communism, Socialism, Totalitarianism, Rastafarianism, Feminism, and any other Fox News code fear word for change. There is no private land concept here because the naysayers think they own all 16 million acres of forest lands.

• Anonymous

  then go right ahead

• Anonymous

  So anyone who has a job is suspect in your eyes?  How’s that trust fund holding up?

• Anonymous

  “ as people champion their snowmobiles”

  There are  thousands of landowners in Maine that allow access to snowmobiles in our great state. My thanks to them!!!!  Snowmobiles don’t hurt the land, trees, or anything. But her closing ITS 85 sure hurts the wallets of the owners of Bowlin Camps, Mattagamon Wilderness Camps and many more, does she care? No!!! It’s about control and using that trail as leverage to get her “Quimby National Park”. Also the deer and moose sure enjoy those nice hard packed groomed trails to help them get to food, when the snow is so deep that many starve due to lack of feed.

• Liberal Soup N Crackers

  She must have had an elitist’s epiphany.

• Anonymous

  Damage done, foot in mouth.  She should shut up and go away.

• Anonymous

  There are  thousands of landowners in Maine that allow access to snowmobiles in our great state. My thanks to them!!!!  Snowmobiles don’t hurt the land, trees, or anything. But her closing ITS 85 sure hurts the wallets of the owners of Bowlin Camps, Mattagamon Wilderness Camps and many more, does she care? No!!! It’s about control and using that trail as leverage to get her “Quimby National Park”. Also the deer and moose sure enjoy those nice hard packed groomed trails to help them get to food, when the snow is so deep that many starve due to lack of feed.

• Anonymous

  I agree.  Silence was broken-all doubt has been removed.  You can’t fix stupid and Roxanne can’t fix this.  Roxanne……go home.  This State is not your home.  Take your attitude at go live with your bees.

• Anonymous

  You’re like a certain chickaree that ruined my hunting trip last year–you just pop up and chitter wherever I go. 

• Anonymous

  You have a point.  I think the owners of the camps should be compensated.

• Anonymous

  Millinocket Town Council should be spanked. They are not for the greater good of Millinocket only their selfish interests.

• Anonymous

  Apparently she doesn’t.

• Anonymous

  “Humans are greedy, destructive, expansionist creatures”

  Such a noble and compassionate statement!

  “if we don’t protect land and cultivate the beauty of wilderness, there will soon be none left.”

  95% of this state is forested and un-developed…your comments are not rooted in anything close to reality.  And, BTW, in the current economic condition of our country, I fail to see how development and human expansion threaten any natural areas.  We are in a freakin depression!  Are you seriously THAT dim witted? 

• Anonymous

  I know several folks who are on disability and enjoy snowmobiling and hunting.  Is that what you mean?

• Anonymous

  Mrs Quimby……. you are your own worst enemy on this one……basic sandbox 101- play nice with the other kids in the sandbox.  I realize you own the sandbox, so to speak, but you can’t call the other kids names and pick on them and then expect them to want to be your friend and play in your sandbox.  Life generally doesn’t work that way…..people skills are a handy thing to acquire as one matures…and if you haven’t acquired people skills….. you have enough money to pay someone who has some people skills to speak for you.  Sometimes silence is golden.

• Anonymous

  Apology accepted.
  Now, Go away !!!
  And dont come back.

• Anonymous

  She shipped all the Burt’s Bees jobs south out of Maine……she’s not REALLY worried about Maine jobs……if she were honestly worried about jobs she never would have moved Burt’s Bees out of state.

• Anonymous

  After the way some Mainers talk about her, I don’t know why she would feel the need to apologize!
  I think she’s an amazing woman!!

• Anonymous

  Sounds like he WAS a bully

• Anonymous

  And another one for “DISLIKE”

• Anonymous

  Apology accepted.

  Move on folks.

  There’s nothing left to see here.

• http://twitter.com/DirigoBlue Gerald Weinand

  It is unclear why the BDN did not provide a direct link to the Forbes interview in which Quimby made her remarks. Here it is:

  http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltobias/2011/10/03/maine-vs-thoreau-the-roxanne-quimby-question/

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Cecil-Gray/1027119962 Cecil Gray

  Great Northern planted their foot a long time ago.

• http://twitter.com/DirigoBlue Gerald Weinand

  Uh – the photo that accompanies this piece could have been taken last year.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Cecil-Gray/1027119962 Cecil Gray

  Deer enjoy deer yards, something the investment cutting scheme does not care about. I have nothing against snowmobiling and there is a massive amount of land available to it. The attitude that a landowner who wishes to offer her land for a Park being the cog in the wheel of dooming snowmobiling, hunting, general access, and fishing in Northern Maine is paranoia.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Cecil-Gray/1027119962 Cecil Gray

  Paper Company boardrooms have been manipulating Maine for a long time.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Cecil-Gray/1027119962 Cecil Gray

  Only if said landowners do as the mob requires.

• Anonymous

  quimby, you sound like a politician. what you said was correct. the problem is,  people can’t handle the truth. you are handling your argument for a national park terribly. you need some help. i offered it to you but you won’t take it. call me i can help.

• Anonymous

  I do not beleive a word , she only cares about herself but of coarse that is my opinion

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_DTKESEJXAHGWJYWWMLONGTJTDM JohnM

  Oh As they like to say she said a “non -truth”. A lie is a lie. You made your bed now sleep in it.

• Anonymous

  Very well said…thank you! This is really what is at stake….

• Anonymous

  Probably the same person, claiming to be two, and getting paid twice!

• Anonymous

  As long as she’s paying taxes on her land, she has the right to put up a fence, it’s not very neighborly, but she has the right to do it. But by making it a park, she wants to control how the land is used forever without paying any taxes on it. How is that noble? It sounds very egotistical and controlling to me, especially when she doesn’t even live there,  and what she wants is contrary to what those who do live adjacent to it want.

  If she was really concerned about jobs for Mainers, she could use some of her untold million$ to hire Mainers to work in her business that she located here, rather then moving her business elsewhere to pad her own pockets.

• yowsayowsa1

   You seem to be on her payroll.

• yowsayowsa1

  The

• Anonymous

  That’s why she keeps playing the yes no game ? The cutting of timber in winter provides food for the deer. 

• yowsayowsa1

   You talking about farmland?

• Anonymous

  “I would like to convey my heartfelt…blah blah ..blah blah blah”….thats all I got out of it.

• yowsayowsa1

  Yes.

   Sadly spruce dweller can not see beyond the forest.

• Anonymous

  fool it is, if you think so little of maine people, sell or give your land to us and leave. move somewhere else, we will survive without you.

• Anonymous

  Her “apology”  is a little too late. She lost a ton of support by her original comment, which I would guess- is how she really feels.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CE3BA4IPU4C2VY4EWDQ3663FIU Diane

  A lot of problems statistically? There are lies, damn lies, and statistics.

• Anonymous

  no worry…disability has replaced welfare in parts of Maine..

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CE3BA4IPU4C2VY4EWDQ3663FIU Diane

  The best courtesy she can show the state of Maine is to leave and take her attitude elsewhere…

• Anonymous

   Humans are greedy, destructive, expansionist creatures, and if we don’t protect land and cultivate the beauty of wilderness, there will soon be none left.
   Hahahaha. This quote says it all. How can someone hate their own very existance, and still pretend to be rational?

• Anonymous

  Have you ever been to Maine?

• Anonymous

  Just because you are elderly doesn’t mean you can’t go hunting, fishing, or snowmobiling, or a multitude of other outdoor activities for that matter.  I know of quite a few elderly people that still recreate outdoors, they don’t move as fast as they used to but they get out there.

• yowsayowsa1

   Your fears are well founded on truth;

  http://www.landrights.org/VideoGoodOfAll.htm

• Anonymous

  She got caught off guard was all, and was frustrated her new tactics have not seem to work as well. With the exception of some.  She has already put gates up, where have you been. And she can not put up fences for your information.

• Anonymous

  NO it is not, it is getting the Federal Govnerment involved and their retrictions.

• Anonymous

  Roxanne, don’t ever apologize for speaking the truth about Mainers. You just forgot the part about Maine alcoholics and their love for imitation coffee brandy.

• Anonymous

  Not a Federal Park.

• Anonymous

  And you are not biasted towards the Federal Park? Extemely

• Anonymous

  Not preserver, ISOLATE.

• Anonymous

  The problem with Maine.. you have two  incomes.  rich and poor most of the percentage is poor  there isn’t a middle class.  the middle class is now the poor.  If this state  doesn’t start looking at the stats,  jobs and   education this will be a welfare state. 

• Anonymous

  At least Baxter wanted a balance, you know the gates were not put up till after his death. Unlike Quimby. She can not and should not be compared to Gov. Baxter.

• Anonymous

  If they are so factual, why is she backpeddling?

• Anonymous

  I do not hate Quimby, I just strongly disagree with a National Park and here tactics for the last 10+ years.

• Anonymous

  Is she just backpeddling, because she has lost some support?

• Anonymous

  With her gates, she has just about done that. With the exception of trying to EXTORT the snowmobile clubs for support.

• Anonymous

  Wel then add it the land to the state park system.

• Anonymous

  Interesting, if she was right; then why apologize?

• Anonymous

  They did initially.

• Anonymous

  Why, because they do not support here ill conceived vision the the State of Maine being a playground.

• Anonymous

  Well she is trying to get support for her national park. If she has to tell you that you are thin and smart to get it done, well you are thin and smart.

• Anonymous

  I hardly think so. Roxanne may be well fed but she is hardly lazy.

• Anonymous

  Polease! A “heartfelt”  “sincere”  apology doesn’t take THREE WEEKS TO SAY. Spare us your attempt to convince us your a benevolent benefactor. Just be honest, it will serve you much better in the end.

• Anonymous

  I wish she would fence it off, that way she would have to pay fair taxes on her land, instead of the deal she gets now.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_L4HN75W2CVMDCTEO26HUVZVOTI Hhhh

  people are fat in this state
  they love welfare

  YOU ALL CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_L4HN75W2CVMDCTEO26HUVZVOTI Hhhh

  if the Federal government gave back all taxes they took from
  States in in 2010, minus federal help given back to each state.

  every state would get a check….maine would get a “YOU OWE” letter

• http://twitter.com/ccastong CJ Castonguay

  After reading the forbes article I feel Quimby’s heart is in the right place but it seems she doesn’t believe we know what is good for us and that we need to be directed by “someone”.  If I were her I’d just stick behind her comments rather than seeming so two-faced about it.  If you are speaking from the heart and believe you are speaking the truth don’t back pedal or if you are truly sorry for what you said send your apology to forbes not us if you want to break the nation’s stereotype of Mainers.

• Anonymous

  Maine ranks as second highest welfare state in the Nation. I think New Jersey is first.  Maine ranks as the 27th highest state with obesity rates.  When Ms. Quimby was giving an interview for Forbes magazine, perhaps she’s the kind of personality who utilizes statistics in her discussions? Some people are pragmatic that way. I admit I didn’t read the interview, so if her language was in a denigrating, unkind and harsh judgemental tone, I don’t know. It’s another thing, if she was just quoting statistical information. Either way, she would have been better served to not bring up the those 2 topics at all.

• http://www.facebook.com/joyce.m.harris Joyce M. Harris

  It’s about time she apologizes!!!!! The damage was don initially and people of Maine are still holding grudges.

• Anonymous

  Who is going to go to this park?  It’s not like Yellowstone or Acadia what are people going to do there?  I don’t understand how she thinks this will be a money maker for the people of Maine.  We already have Baxter State Park  I think she wants to make certain the land is never developed and to get out of paying taxes on it.

• Anonymous

  She spoke her mind, apology not accepted.

• Anonymous

  Problem is, she lumped everyone in with her statement on a national level.  What she said to her entire audience is that the entire population of Maine is  fat, lazy and living off the Govt., we’re all a bunch of slobs.  I might add if Maine is a welfare state whose fault is th at? 

• Anonymous

  Thankfully her true colors finally came through and the folks of Maine are getting to see how she really feels.   Just like Cecil’s did during the bear referendum.

• Anonymous

  He’s been here, but I suspect he’s a transplant – he was a puppet propped up for the bear referendum, and now he’s on Quimby’s payroll for this National Park debacle.  Thankfully the mills are back to working in Millinocket, and Roxy finally slipped up and told us how she really feels.  He doesn’t understand the concept of the North Maine Woods Inc., and never will. 

• Anonymous

  It’s for sure not working with me – she finally slipped up and told us how she really feels.

• WestCoastGirl

  Dear Roxanne,
   
     I know I said it was over between us in my last letter, but I feel compelled to give you one last bit of advice before I walk away forever.  What I’m about to say is for your own good, you know, in case you happen across another charity case you wish to save.  My advice goes a little something like this – “Open Mouth, Insert Birkenstock”.

  Best, (as said through clenched teeth and a forced smile)

  Maine

• Anonymous

  But you’re right Roxanne, we are a welfare state with too many methadone clinics!!!

• Anonymous

  JOKE  one word  JOKE!!!!

• Anonymous

  “People are fat in this state”……people are also skinny and average.

  “They love welfare”…..they also work……remember that this Christmas when you buy a wreath, everytime you buy blueberries, or clams or lobster or scallops…there are also doctors, lawyers, clerks at stores, bus drivers, cops, teachers, people at the restaurants where you eat and the list goes on. Some of you people make it seem as thought no one in the state of Maine works!

  Welfare is in every state, not just Maine……if more jobs were created, things might not be so bad. There will always be the welfare receiptients, but on the whole, Maine has a lot of good, hard working, smart people.

• Anonymous

  She said it once, she meant it! Apology not accepted. BAN ROXANNE

• Anonymous

  You gotta admit she is cute as a button though.

• Anonymous

  You see, it’s because I LIKE you so much that I called you all fat, hick, welfare druggies.
  :)

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_APVY6G6ITCLZCM2P6GM7UZIIY4 Douglas

  Jonathan, oh Jonathan, please do forgive me for my typo error that seems to have caused you such consternation and confusion!  I deeply apologize as the sentence was supposed to say “….if you cannot base it on more THAN the public media as a source.” 

  Here is what I see as rather ironic; Quimby buys the land, wants to create a park or preserver or whatever she calls it for the public use, and yet Mr. John Malone now owns over 1 million acres of land.  He could lock the gates, call it private, put up a billion NO TRESPASSING signs and no one is voicing their concern for that?  It is ironic.

  But again Jonathan, I made no reference in my post to my view on her intentions; I am not in favor just to set the record straight.  You will see that in my post to the other articles on this matter.  I only commented that is was the right thing to do for her to apologize for the previous comments and that does show character.  Nothing more, nothing less.

• Anonymous

  If it becomes a park, Mainers will lose the tax revenue that land would otherwise generate, so we WILL effectively be paying for access that she wants to control even after she now longer owns the land. That’s real chutzpah on her part!

• Moose

   She has two sides to her face homely and ugly bi*ch

• Anonymous

  Landowners, including Quimby, can do what they want with their land, just as long as it is THEIR LAND and they continue to PAY THE TAXES on it. But she wants to control that land forever and pay no taxes on it. Understand the difference?

• Anonymous

  Well…we feel the same way about you as we feel about RQ.

• Anonymous

  Very good point. SD can not tolerate anyone who has worked and prospered. SD has even stated on here that he/she is all for redistribution of wealth.
  Fortunately not many on here approve of her views, as you can see. 

• Anonymous

  Roxanne spoke the truth. Without food stamps many of the 25% of the children living in poverty would starve. It’s a sorry situation.

• poormaniac

  One hot topic , 275 comments in less than 12 hours !  Roxanne , while I think you’re statemant about the people of Maine was dumb and think you’re apology insincere I have got to say you’re a better man than I am for having the guts to try. I also must ask as to why the Friends of Baxter just published a newsletter stating that you are looking to add an additional 70,000 acres east of the East Branch the original 70,000 for a total of 140,000 acres after you have repeatedly stated that that was not your goal. Is your goal really much much more ? Please level with us , we do not take well to outright liars around here. Hence our disdain for politicians. If you truely are different , and really mean well for the people of this region it’s time to take the correct approach. Level with us.

• http://twitter.com/Phoebe6853 Phoebe Figalilly

  She probably thought Mainers didn’t have the intelligence to read Forbes.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TESS4LTERD7SDYZ6JF2FBGI6C4 Nnnnn Nnnn

  IF YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH…STOP READING *HERE*

  this chart shows Roxanne Quimby as being right
  maine is the fattest state in new England surrounded by the thinness states in the country
  http://calorielab.com/news/2011/06/30/fattest-states-2011/

• Anonymous

  My religion tells me I have to accept Roxanne’s apology until such time as God looks into her heart and announces that it is false.  He knows, so I’ll leave that judgement to Him.  We don’t.  One thing that would help is atonement.  What can she do to atone for the sin of lying about God’s people, or as our leading poster put it “kicking us in the groin?”   We are looking for acts now, not words.  Let’s see some atonement Roxanne.

• Anonymous

  How do you “know” anything at all about her, aside from what you read in the paper? Please.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TESS4LTERD7SDYZ6JF2FBGI6C4 Nnnnn Nnnn

  here is proof other states are laughing at us:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0axuezQyzU

• Anonymous

  Too little, too late RQ, the damage is done.

• Anonymous

  No one should be an apologist for Roxanne Quimby. She said what she said and she can’t take it back. Her truth was told and know she wants to pander to the people of Maine. If she cared so much about Maine she would not have moved her business to North Carolina. She, including others bear responsibility for the 40% of industry that has left the state. Most Mainers want a good job and not scrimp by on what gets handed to them. Quimby pulls up stakes and how many workers did that put on unemployment 80 or so? And she has the audacity to preach to
  people. Maybe she should take her National Park idea to North Carolina along with her proposed economic drain on federal tax dollars.                          

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_Y357KA34BJFG4FUM4BQHWTT2WA abovethebest

  Quimby told the truth.  I want to marry her.

• Anonymous

  A good friend of mine high up in the National Park Service tells me the Park service does not have the resources to maintain it’s current inventory in the system let alone take on another park. The current federal debt will make it impossible for Quimby to achieve her dream. Congresswoman Pingree states that Acadia brings $150million to the region. If you eliminated Acadia, there would still be $150million coming in to the region because Bar Harbor and Mt. Desert are vacation destinations. Acadia for years has operated with a staffing and budget shortfall of 53% or $7.3million, as $13.8million is required to adequately staff and maintain the Park. Conclusion, Congresswoman Pingree is “all wet”. She basically is pandering to political interests and special interest groups. One must assess the private economic benefit of the North woods versus the public economic benefit. The other fact is the government can only spend $25,000 on a preliminary feasibility study without justification to and approval of Congress. However I am sure the Obama administration and Sec’y Salazar will ignore that as they do everything else. Don’t be surprised when Salazar declares the area a national wildlands area.

• Anonymous

  or maybe she is surrounded my morons.

• Anonymous

  i know, that made me laugh

• Anonymous

  ok, that made me lol

• Anonymous

  I find people who use the word ‘hater’ have an overdeveloped sense of drama.

  People who use the word Kool Aid are generally dismissive and hostile towards people with opposing opinions.

  Love and light,
  stg

• Anonymous

  You would know that best since you agree with her on moronic issues

• Anonymous

  Quimby showed her distain for anyone who opposes what she wants. She feels that name calling will get her support? She showed her true colors and now wants to repent. She didn’t really mean it.. or as I believe, she really didn’t mean what she wrote in the BDN letter.

• Anonymous

  at least I can spell:  **if your used to being attacked maybe look….**

  2 minutes to point out the misused word or you, IB, are officially in the M-Class.

• Anonymous

  Personally, I didn’t think she was lying.  Been to WalMart lately?  C’mon are we all so PC that we can’t talk about our own State without our self righteous-o-meter blowing up?

• Anonymous

  why doesn’t she just sell the land or better give the land to the gov they can sell it and give the money to to fed debt so we can keep …the tax the hard working wealthy people complainers,,,,, quiet

• Anonymous

  my plans for the future is to start a company called Bertha’s Buns. Sell cinnamon buns. I hope Tim Hortons buys me out. I will then buy everything north of Bangor and sell it to canada. straighten out line of the US border. Northern Maine with be developed and thriving like quebec and newbrunswick. Also we will use the new border patrol stations and customs buildings as community centers. veryone can stay where they are or move south

• Anonymous

  I m shur i kan spl btter than u. butt i wil admit eye nevr tuk tipe. an i dont wast tym to prof red or spel chck. dat for perfek pepel lik urselv. i mov on.

• Anonymous

  Whose fault is it that Maine is a welfare state? Environmentalists and Democrats, primarily.

• 525_44

  I wouldn’t accept an apology from this bitter woman who through a tantrum via media because she wasn’t getting her way and used Mainer’s as her target of her vile, uncalled for comments.

  Some folks think making an apology makes things right….
  No thanks.

• Anonymous

  Wonder if you expressed yourself directly to Roxanne, or is this it? Cowardly if this is it.

• http://profiles.google.com/retired04497 Mike Kiernan

  Sorry Roxy but that foot in mouth’ taste is never gonna go away. And now that you’ve gone and labeled us all 1 step right above a beer chugging and fatty food chomping bunch of backwoods redneck’s, do us all a favor. Stay in North Carolina ! Maybe you can find something to find fault with there, like the early morning moonshine still’s ‘fog’s’ coming up from the valleys and gulch’s. Either way, do everyone a big favor and just put a plug in that hole in your face and keep what opinions you have about us to yourself. We don’t need’em and no one up here really cares.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_Y357KA34BJFG4FUM4BQHWTT2WA abovethebest

  roxanne is cool.  i want to marry her.

• Anonymous

  You didn’t get a like the first time so you try again?

• Anonymous

  I tend to believe the Forbes article-why say it if you don’t mean it.
   Her property is no longer a working forest and has miles of river, lake and stream frontage. I hope the state realizes this true value and taxes her property the way it should be taxed. Then the state can use this revenue to assist with rerouting the sled trails elsewhere to help sustain the proven financial uplift that the sledding has in this state.

  Can you say Bipolar or personality disorder!

• http://www.facebook.com/cmynewworld Brian Curry

  I agree with this.  The “beat them till they give up” land acquisition techniques are appropriately named.  I worked for the park service.  I worked on boundary maintenance….  I know how that works, and it is not the paradigm of a good neighbor.  Hang in there Quimby opposers!  We don’t want more land owned by the Federal Government!  

• Anonymous

   How many people out of ALL the fat people in maine came from someplace else?… how many people live in the state of maine compared to other states around it?….. Why are most of the jobs in southern maine and not more in northern maine?…. why are most people in southern maine transplanted from mass and commuting to mass to work?…. why is it that northern maine has all the retired out of staters?…northern maine has had a bad rap for years and years.

• Anonymous

  Believe me, I’m fine with not being PC.  Quimby is the one apologizing, not me.  As I’ve said, she needs to live with the comments she made.  I don’t think she was lying in her original comments. It’s her apology I question.   By the way, not everyone who shops at WalMart is fat or on welfare. I’ve traveled all over the country, and I’ve not been in any state, where there aren’t many obese, welfare recipients.

• Anonymous

  “I would like to convey my heartfelt and very sincere” ….blah.. blah… blah….kind of like the sound of charlie browns school teacher..thats what I got out of the rant.

• Anonymous

  In another 20 or so years when she’s gone the cost of T.P. will be through the roof :-/

• Anonymous

  If the shoe fits wear it….The facts and truth are not always kind…..

• TeaParty_aka_AmericanTaliban

  Maybe she thought she had to act like LePage to make Mainers like her?  I don’t think she has any chance of winning the people of Maine  over now.  It’s a day late and a dollar short, as my mother would say.

• Anonymous

  “straighten out line of the US border. Northern Maine with be developed and thriving like quebec and newbrunswick. Also we will use the new border patrol stations and customs buildings as community centers. veryone can stay where they are or move south ”

  Works for me !!!  and I live here   ;-)

• Anonymous

  good for you–go for it..shouldn’t be too hard–I am sure she don’t have a lot of admirers knocking on her door for her hand in marriage   8>)

• steviemk

  it also shows Maine to be 27th ou of 51, a good distance from even the midpoint.

• steviemk

  might I suggest a honeymoon cruise off the coast of Somalia?

• Anonymous

  Is she human and deserve props for apologizing? yes  (if it was heartfelt) Is she human and arrogant for saying what she said in the first place? yes  Does she have a good idea with a park that includes everyone? no, but then neither do any of the other parks.  Is a park a good idea for what it is being proposed for? only if you enjoy what it offers, over what it doesn’t…I for one enjoy hiking and biking AND hunting and snowmobiling…and I don’t care to see paved trails or wheelchair ramps(no offense to the vertically impaired)  So she isn’t speaking for me…but then neither are golf  courses and grocery stores(as I prefer my garden and farmers markets)   Her actions do represent someone at war with opposition.  She does concern herself with promoting ideas that are more popular with folks that are from away…than us Mainahz…but nothin’ stays the same forever…as is evidence by all the support she gets from some Mainahz…She really needs to lay out her intentions and quit playin’ tiddly winks with the snowmobile groups,  if she has no intention of  bringing sled access to her park…as far as politico speak…she says “all” ,but all really refers to the all that enjoy not only the activities she supports, but Preservation, as the vehicle by which she brings those activities…which is really the subject…because snowmobiling and hunting and fishing don’t preserve anything…they are activities that require more skill at managing…called “Conservation”….Preservation is really more about preventing man from interacting with nature in a way that allows for co-existence….you can’t just put nature on a shelf and say don’t ever do this or that to it, because the survival skills we once had will end up as dull as a butter knife…where would our ancestors be if they said no to hunting and fishing…hahaha…those sports keep us in tune with nature….Preservation is really the extreme
  ….but then so is mismanagement of Conservation…so get Big Business and Big Government out of  the woods and OMG…there would be plenty of  jobs and deer and hiking and snowmobiling and fishing and berry-picking and mushroom collecting and wood-cuttin’ and leaf-peepin’ and……..

• Anonymous

  You have got to be from out of state.  

• Anonymous

  She is trying ti dig herself out of the cellar. She would not has said what she said if she did not believe what she said. She id beyoun reproach…and she chews spruce gum most likely!!

• Anonymous

  Quimby and Character do not go together.  Stop praising someone who has slammed our people in a major magazine.  There is no way SpruceDweller that you could be from Maine.  Those of us who are raised here, which are becoming a vast minority…have pride in our state and don’t sell out to these big talkers from away.  Don’t do us any favors Miss Quimby.

• yowsayowsa1

   Brian

   You might want to check out this thread on AMG;

  http://www.asmainegoes.com/content/maine-woods-national-park

   Some pretty good info there, and you might want to add some of your own observations.

• Anonymous

  Yuck

• http://twitter.com/bangorbytes BangorBytes

  Quimby’s Quest: Lost on a Mountain in Maine? http://www.bangorbytes.com/2011/10/quimbys-quest-lost-on-mountain-in-maine.html

• Anonymous

  In New England, Maine ranks 27th for obesity rates while Rhode Island ranks 42nd…Vermont 45th….Massachusetts 48th and Connecticutt…49th. New Hampshire ranks 34th.  What’s with Maine and New Hampshire? (Mississippi is the fattest 34th)

• Anonymous

  Roxanne,
  The comments here are indicative of the general public. If you carefully go through them, you will find that some that once supported you, now don’t, you will find some that were once on the fence, now would rather this just go away, but the overwhelming majority is clearly against a national park.

  It has been suggested by many that if you went a private park direction, you may have a shot some day, but let’s face it, the asset you bought in the oval office has tanked the economy and another national park just isn’t in the cards….

   

  .

• http://www.facebook.com/antonio.giarratano Antonio Giarratano

  I don’t know why she’s apologizing, it’s mostly true.

  People talk and talk about how many jobs and how much abundance of resources this state has, yet how many people are unemployed? How many people are “disabled” sorry, didn’t mean “disabled”, actually meant “lazy”,(not including the “truly” disabled and the elderly.). Just like the people who complain about immigrants coming over and “taking” our jobs. Last time I checked most Americans are too arrogant to do the jobs they do. I see it every Blueberry season. We do actually have an abundance of this wonder fruit, yes, I see a good size of localers raking them, but how many bus loads of migrants do I see shuttled up here. every season. You can’t complain about NO JOBS, because they are there, people are just too lazy or ignorant to get on their hands and knees, get the training, and do what is needed. When I was stationed in New York City I met this real nice college girl that was going to NYU and raising a 5 year old, when she lost her scholarship and couldn’t find a jobs so  she did what she needed to do to make money, she became an “Escort”. Yes, a hooker has a better outlook on life then many people in this state…

  Go Quimby, Fight the Good Fight.

  Now come the immature, squabbling counter-posts. Five dollars to the best one…

• Anonymous

  My personal opinion is your too late with apologies!  You have shown Maine people your true colors and we don’t forget!!!

• Anonymous

  Maine ranks as second highest welfare state in the Nation. I think New Jersey is first. In New England, Maine ranks 27th for obesity rates while Rhode Island ranks 42nd…Vermont 45th….Massachusetts 48th and Connecticutt…49th. New Hampshire ranks 34th.  What’s with Maine and New Hampshire? (Mississippi is the fattest 34th)   

• Anonymous

  As I understand it, Ms Quimby’s proposal is to DONATE her land to the U. S. Government for a national park.    I seriously doubt that anyone is logging her property, so if her proposal is accepted, the timber interests lose nothing — no jobs, no forest products, no nothing.

  We should simply say, “Thank you, Ms Quimby!”  

  I do have issues with the way NPS sometimes treats our parks like the librarian who says this would be a great job if only the public would stop coming in to read a book.   They do conscientiously try to balance everyone’s interests including both wolf lovers and sheepherders.

• Anonymous

  Let’s face it, aren’t Quimbys’ Forbes comments consistent with how most Massholes feel about Mainers?

• Anonymous

  Here’s another old saw – ‘When you find  yourself in a hole, stop digging…’

  She was doing pretty well until that last part. In other words, she expressed  what she meant to say, but admits, in retrospect, she probably should have kept her mouth shut.

  Defeat, once again, snatched from the jaws of victory…lol

• Anonymous

  Amazing! You can look at someone and automatically diagnose their disability or lack thereof?

  Wow, you should trade in your blueberry rake for a MD/DO shingle. Very impressive!

• Anonymous

  She can take her apology, and stick-it.  She’s “proud” of us?  What, like a parent? 

  We don’t need Roxanne Quimby.  We’ve managed since 1820 without her,  and we don’t need her now.

• 525_44

  Wow, how smug of you.
  All ‘disabled’ ppl are lazy? That’s a broad statement and ridiculous to boot.

  [keep your money]

• 525_44

  I am so thankful that I can collapse comments….

• 525_44

  Too little too late and it wasn’t sincere, she stabbed a knife in the back of Mainer’s, twisted it and now is apologetic….pathetic human behavior.

• 525_44

  I would have a lot to say to her if I met her anywhere. I’d love to let loose and let her know what I think and why.

• 525_44

  Exactly. I love Maine but the area she has is no Yellowstone or Yosemite or Acadia.

• 525_44

  I know more folks like myself who are lean and work hard and have never been on welfare.
  I see thin people too.

• Anonymous

  Plenty of deer? What’s she going to do kill all the coyotes?

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FENSACBPHAWMU274FR4YSKFKZA Lee

  Seems to me all this hoopla is about hunting.  As an ex hunter never ceases to amaze me how much hunters complain if land is bought up by a conservation group but never a whimper if bought by a developer.   Lets face the facts, land bought up by a developer is lost for ever except  dinner party’s and pool gatherings, if you get an invite.  Land bought by conservation groups is preserved for us all. Some thing or nothing…..just as simple as that.

• Anonymous

  Your kidding me! You can’t find your spelling error?

• Anonymous

  There’s an old saying, the mouth can only say what is on the heart’s mind. Meaning, she either lied during that interview on what she thought of Mainers, or she’s lying now to get out from under it.   

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Trent-McGlasson/813657341 Trent McGlasson

  Maybe she should re-read her article with Forbes.  Sounds to me like she doesn’t remember what she said.  She should have followed Abraham Lincoln’s advice from the start.

• Anonymous

  I have no problem with Ms. Quimby using her money to buy land and restrict its use; do I like it, no, but it’s her right.

  My major issue with her is her professed interest in adding jobs and creating economic development in Maine.  If she truly cared about that, then she should never have moved Burt’s Bees out of Maine to North Carolina.  I was a big fan of Burt’s Bees products, but have boycotted the products ever since she made that decision.

• Anonymous

  Smart people don’t say everything they think, unless and until they figure out a smart way to say it.

• Anonymous

  Lol…normal nature rules still apply…too many coyotes means we’d have something else to manage…or mismanage…or ignore…at least we’d have the choice to do something about too many or not enough deer…

• Anonymous

  Unfortunately, so many of you who comment here have made this about Roxanne Quimby. It really is only marginally related to her. The real question is: Are the North Maine Woods worthy of national park status? If you ask the rest of the common sense people in the state, the answer is an unequivocal “YES. It’s a no brainer.”

  Only the ignorant and uninformed, and people feeling entitled to something you never had a right to in the first place are against something that could help your region. The rest of us just can’t believe how stupid you can be.

  You would be wise to come into the 21st century. The use for paper products in America has been reduced to personal hygiene products: toilet paper and tissue paper. Just ask Borders and the U.S. Postal Service!

  I have to laugh at the constant barrage of really ignorant and emotional comments posted here. Worse yet, the BDN violates its own policies about name-calling, personal attacks, slurs and vulgarity. Lucky nobody in southern Maine reads this crap.

• Anonymous

  mainerinexile…she moved her company to NC because NC is and has been a business friendly state. Maine is not, and has not been a business friendly state. That’s why LeRage put that sign up “Open for Business.”

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GHHQGYNQ5F2UHDB62KDNVW5DGE Matt

  You’re providing enough of it for her, why should any of us kick in anymore?

• Anonymous

  Bertha’s fat buns.

• Anonymous

  O.K lets say that we do put a park up there. NOBODY going to go! Attendance at Baxter is already dropping faster than Quimby’s popularity, and Baxter atleast has a mountain to look at. What does this poposed park have to attract people????? Woods>>>>> you can see those in just about any part of the state! Why take forest land out of usefull production, and wrap it into a national park that NOBODY will come to! The saying “If you build it they will come” does not apply here!

• Anonymous

  I am doing what I love to do, work with other hard working tough individuals that just want to be left alone to try to make a living for themselve and family without people from away telling them what they should or should not do. I have no leash and lay my head down every night in my stick built house, on my wodden framed bed, that is being supported by my hardwood floors. By the sounds of it you might live in a sod house sleeping on leaves??? if not, than you must be enjoying all the “goods from the woods” that you think should be preserved forever! Can’t have it both ways!

• Anonymous

  WHAT DOES ABORTION HAVE TO DO WITH THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• Anonymous

  Oh yes lotsa butta too. nothing cheap about these buns