Tim Bodnar is in more than a political hair tangle with Mike Hein, a man who worked for me for six years in the first decade of the new millennium.   The above post provides a hint of how vexing the situation has become for Tim and his wife.

The AI manipulated image of Hein weeping is brilliant.  Hein told me more than once that he loathes public exposure.  Well, looks like those days are over my friend.  And you’ve made the bed you are about to be forced to sleep in.

Hein showed up in my life around the time Maine was collapsing to the sexual orientation cabal.  The Christian Civic League of Maine decided in 1990 to go on political offense against the sexual orientation movement.   That last decade was consumed by that very public fight.  The League decided to use populism, instead of lobbying under the dome.  The strategy worked.

The enemy responded with unlimited funding for grassroots lying.  They went door-to-door and lied to all the folks who signed our petitions.  It took millions of dollars and a few years but they managed to knock off the few points that provided victory in close statewide elections.

The stress in my office was intense through these years.  It was a small staff doing a big job.  Hein showed up as the worm was turning in the direction of sexual liberation.  Hein stepped into the role of Administrator and single handedly managed all the detail related to mailings and bookkeeping.  He was the most efficient and competent person to ever serve in that position during my twenty years of leadership.

During those years that ended with my forced resignation a gulf opened up between me and the small evangelical churches that provided one third of the operational funding that kept the lights on at 70 Sewall Street, the headquarters building purchased on debt and named in honor of Protestant Prohibitionist Ben Bubar Jr.

This building is now abandoned and the operations are managed from Bangor.  I eliminated the hundred thousand dollars of debt that I inherited from my predecessor and left the League with money in the bank, all bills paid and the building much improved for professional operations of an effective Christian witness in Maine’s State Capitol.

While I find it hard to believe that Hein’s mailings to the pastors contributed to the collapse of their support for my leadership his actions since 2020 leave me scratching my head.  As things deteriorated  toward my resignation in 2009 I was told countless times that my “tone and style” was harsh and mean — even though I blow dried my hair, always wore a suit and never (well, rarely … lol) used the word “sodomite.”  Ironically this is the same tactic that the sexual orientation cabal was using to undermine the League’s success.  They turned their opposition from hundreds of thousands of voters into one man.  Me.  They froze me in place and created a fictional version of me in the media.

This was the days before effective social media, podcasting etc.  Those communications channels were just appearing.  I attempted to get set up but never assembled the necessary resources to make it happen before I resigned.  And after I resigned I decided to put the League in my rearview and move on with my life.  I didn’t want to set up in competition by leading my own version of the institution.

The guy who was paid to replace me just retired.  He was praised in person at his retirement party by Janet Mills, Paul LePage and Susan Collins, two Governors and a serving US Senator.  He was described as thoughtful and effective in comparison to me, his predecessor, who was represented as having practically destroyed the institution. 

Politicians and pastors had no use for me because they just wanted the sexual orientation issue to go away, or they wanted to use it to raise money or keep the pews full.  That’s what the guy that just retired did.  He raised a bunch of money as the woke version of the sexual orientation cabal took over everything.

All was quiet for me with respect to Mike Hein until Covid hit.  Activist friends told me Hein had abandoned his conservatism and become socialist/communist.  It was true.  And one of his tactics for gaining the confidence of his new Leftist friends was to publicly attack my family.  I didn’t learn how detailed and hateful those attacks were until the fall of 2024 when Tim Bodnar showed me one of the posts during a LIVEstream interview.

Right after that LIVEstream Hein scrubbed the X account that featured those posts and cut me off in writing.

He started a public and private crusade using his X account, texts and emails against Tim Bodnar in the fall of 2024.  He attempted to recruit me into his crusade.  Tim’s provocative public image bothered Hein … a lot.  To this day he chooses to ignore Tim’s public Christian testimony and effective political work (that Hein publicly claims to agree with) in favor of using gossip and subterfuge to undermine the connection Tim has with his Maine audience.

It appears Hein stooped so low that he found an estranged daughter living in Colorado and recruited her into his crusade to destroy Tim’s effective activism against the Gardiner School Board’s attempt to insert a Tranny health clinic into that small town’s public school infrastructure.

I’ve either been deeply embedded in Maine politics, or remained aware on the margins, since my late 20s.  I’m 64 years old this year.  Nothing Mike is doing surprises me.  He is a smart and ruthless political operator.   While I’ve never been involved with crusades of personal destruction I’m sure used to being accused of doing that.  This was the favorite tactic of people like Betsy Sweet.  Probably still is, if she’s still active.

She and the legacy media loved to accuse me of carrying on a personal vendetta against “gay” people.  It worked because everybody knows that Christianity is judgmental and mean when it comes to sex.  It was really sad to watch all my Christian friends in the Evangelical movement drink deeply from that well of lies and choose to believe the commands of their oppressors.  The recently retired leader who took my place was the choir director who led them in singing their surrender to satan.

And all the people of Maine are now paying the price — especially the children.

I don’t know what Mike’s problem is, and a big part of me doesn’t want to know.  Maine is  a broken place in very fundamental ways.  None of us adults can avoid responsibility.  We all need to stop scrolling and start thinking deeply about our own role in creating this reality.

We didn’t comment during diversity training.  We blamed someone else when our son or daughter “courageously” bragged to us about their sexual sins, and claimed that those sins were their identity.   We created this mess.  If we don’t fix it, God will.

Pray we wake up before God’s grace is withdrawn.  You don’t want to see what happens after that.  Believe me.

Selah.