Michael Pajak, who has not denied he is “The Distributist” on AMG despite direct questioning, is now working for “Friends of Maine’s Mountains” as their Executive Director.
Friends of Maine’s Mountains exists to lobby against the development of wind power. According to their fact-based arguments, wind power is a tool of the devil.
Personally, I think that wind power should be built with due consideration given to its impact on the local area, but the concept that conservative Mainers will fight a wind turbine to the end of time (as Scott Fish did in his hometown) and discourage large electricity-producing and job-creating wind farms because of the way they look, yet would probably be wetting themselves with joy to have a big smelly paper mill built anywhere in the state, strikes me as a bit absurd.
But back to Michael Pajak. This is how his bio at the lobby group’s website describes him:
Michael Pajak, Executive Director – Pajak is the owner of imMEDIAcy, a public relations firm, and a partner of Trendology Research, a market research company that publishes hundreds of U.S. industry reports annually. He has worked in state government and the private sector, owned his own restaurant and gone commercial fishing. Pajak has brought his communications, research and advocacy skills to enterprises ranging from the Maine People’s Alliance to the Republican National Committee, and served on the campaigns of Democrats, Republicans and Independents with equal zeal. First coming to Maine in the 1970′s to climb Mt. Katahdin, Pajak lives in Woolwich.
It is odd that Pajak leaves any mention of his work for liberal/Democrat groups off his linkedin page. It is also odd that having “gone commercial fishing” is worth mentioning in a description of a wind lobby Executive Director. It is not odd at all, however, that the bio makes no mention of the Distributist’s hateful speech, because who would want someone like that to represent your organization?
No one.
Friends of Maine’s Mountains has been given their own login at As Maine Goes to post propaganda.