SEE YOU IN COURT

 

IT TAKES A WOMAN

 

Could we be looking at the next Democratic Presidential candidate?

Main Governor Janet Mills is the only person to stand up to Trump face-to-face.      Democratic Senators and congresspeople will talk about Trump but will not defy him to his face.   It takes a Maine woman.

 

Maine political women have a history of standing up to corruption.  This is a legacy from Margaret Chase Smith, who stood up against McCarthyism in the 1950s

 

 the Ol'Buzzard

MAINERS AREN'T CRAZY REGARDLESS OF THEIR GOVERNOR.

HERE IS A LESSON WE SHOULD LEARN!

There is no use to go into the racist, homophobic, psychotic ravings of Maine's twice elected governor Paul (Pepe) LePage as it has been dominating the airways for the last few days.

   
In both of the last two elections a liberal third party candidate ran and split the democratic vote and so we ended up with LePage for two terms.   

Just as  the Republicans have a far right Tea Party component, the Democrats also have an ultra-liberal component that will vote issues rather than party.   

It is not a bad thing to have ultra-liberal views, but when voting on principal will obvious throw the election to the far right wingnuts of the other party, purism becomes foolish. 

I am an ultra-liberal and I would have voted for Bernie had he been the nominee; but we all should suck it up and get behind Hilary.   She will be a good President, and there is only one alternative and it is frightening.

the Ol'Buzzard

MAINE'S GOVERNOR DOES IT AGAIN

Pepe Le Page

The University of Maine at Farmington has been listed in News Week as one of the best small colleges in the US for over a decade. 


The past president Theodora Kalikow was honored yesterday by having the Student Center named in her honor.   Maine's controversial governor Paul LePage was the invited speaker.

   

A few minutes after the Governor took the stage two student held up signs stating: 'LePage Main's Shame,' and 'On environmental issues Theadora Kalikow - A, Paul LePage - F.'   

The Governor saw the signs and said "I can't do this."  He walked off the stage and on his way past called the students "Idiots."

Paul LePage was twice elected.  Both times a liberal third party candidate split the Democratic vote.  

 This has always been the danger of third parties: they tend to take votes from one side more than the other.   A multi-party system is healthy, but it should be more than three choices.   A third party run usually ends giving victory to the party most opposing its views. 

The thing most disturbing is that in the local e-newspaper all the comments (except mine) were negative toward the students.  Being a college town most residents are liberal, but almost all the political comments and letters to the editor or always by angry conservatives.    

There is a correlation here on the state of the nation.

the Ol'Buzzard