An astounding show, and great tradition. Tickets are harder and harder to get... the local talent that shgines in this always leaves one in awae. Go once and you're hooked!
Bosco has made extremely valid points here. I also like the end of the presentation when Theriault quoted from a 2008 Mayoral e-mail in which Larry Gilbert had advised all the Councillors that the defiant, unsupervised Somali youths need to be dealt with soon, and that within 2 years if nothing is done, he thinks they'll be wreaking untold havoc to the point of probably even taking lives. Theriault added that when his Mayor... a long time ex-Police Chief and former U.S. Marshall makes a statement like this, he takes it VERY seriously! Mayor Gilbert was speechless when confronted with his own words. He demanded the e-mail then and there, even paused the meeting which was running way overtime to read it, in a feeble attempt to put his own quote into some (more diversity loving) context, but couldn't find any. His red face was priceless. I would love to see that e-mail make print. It would be interesting to see how the Mayor, our cheerleader for diversity, really feels!
Wow! Sounds like it was poorly attended. "crowd filling about one-third of the Armory" the word "about" in cases like this usually means less than 1/3. Not very good considering the proximity to the election and all. How much did this boondoggle cost the taxpayers to have Mr. Bill come here to rally his minions?
Not happy to read this story at all. The suddeness and the no comments of it all begets more questions than this story answers.
This guy was good!! This is a loss.
He'll never come close to winning. We could use his head next year at the Ballon Festival though. Kidding aside....
This media hoopla over whether he'll announce as a write in or not is about all we'll ever hear. The self serving free publicity over whether he'll honor us by allowing us to write in his name is getting it's final play. His support is much weaker than I actually expected.
"Jenkins said the campaign hasn't cost anything, so far." and "As governor, he said he'd work to lower taxes" - well since he didn't follow the more burdensome route if filing for candidacy like a person with true ambition, he just added a bunch to the cost (and true to his word... none of it his) of running the election, as the votes now have to be handled differently with an announced write in candidate. Guess which communities will have the most write-ins to be sorted and inspected? Thank you John, I appreciate having to pay to keep your ego inflated!
In August Jenkins has said he would only consider the run for Governor if he got enough registered Maine voters to support him on Facebook, (repeat... ON FACEBOOK)wth the filing deadline for gubernatorial write-in candidates looming on Sept. 20, Jenkins said he wants to meet the 5,000-fan mark by Sept. 17. Right now on Sept. 18 he only has 2818 Facebook fans, barely half his stated goal. Some of these "Facebook Fans" are not even actual supporters... having signed on only hoping to see him announce and ultimately draw Libby Mitchell votes - thus helping LePage) but now all of sudden this half stated goal is all he needs to see... the rest of the 5000 supporters are in phantom "notebooks" and on cocktail napkins. Perhaps someone inadvertantly slipped him a phone book, and told him it was a list of supporters???
Jenkins had his chance, and served as one of the worst State Senators ever... missing so many votes that they actually sent the State Police looking for him a couple of times... his padded resume of meaningless accomplishments looks impressively long, but that is art a true BS artist. He has earned a black belt in that.
Enoch's Comments
Can't give enough accolades
An astounding show, and great tradition. Tickets are harder and harder to get... the local talent that shgines in this always leaves one in awae. Go once and you're hooked!
Agree with whitewash
Bosco has made extremely valid points here. I also like the end of the presentation when Theriault quoted from a 2008 Mayoral e-mail in which Larry Gilbert had advised all the Councillors that the defiant, unsupervised Somali youths need to be dealt with soon, and that within 2 years if nothing is done, he thinks they'll be wreaking untold havoc to the point of probably even taking lives. Theriault added that when his Mayor... a long time ex-Police Chief and former U.S. Marshall makes a statement like this, he takes it VERY seriously! Mayor Gilbert was speechless when confronted with his own words. He demanded the e-mail then and there, even paused the meeting which was running way overtime to read it, in a feeble attempt to put his own quote into some (more diversity loving) context, but couldn't find any. His red face was priceless. I would love to see that e-mail make print. It would be interesting to see how the Mayor, our cheerleader for diversity, really feels!
Sounds like it was a flop.
Wow! Sounds like it was poorly attended. "crowd filling about one-third of the Armory" the word "about" in cases like this usually means less than 1/3. Not very good considering the proximity to the election and all. How much did this boondoggle cost the taxpayers to have Mr. Bill come here to rally his minions?
Very sad!
Not happy to read this story at all. The suddeness and the no comments of it all begets more questions than this story answers.
This guy was good!! This is a loss.
Jenkins - a specialty ballon?
He'll never come close to winning. We could use his head next year at the Ballon Festival though. Kidding aside....
This media hoopla over whether he'll announce as a write in or not is about all we'll ever hear. The self serving free publicity over whether he'll honor us by allowing us to write in his name is getting it's final play. His support is much weaker than I actually expected.
"Jenkins said the campaign hasn't cost anything, so far." and "As governor, he said he'd work to lower taxes" - well since he didn't follow the more burdensome route if filing for candidacy like a person with true ambition, he just added a bunch to the cost (and true to his word... none of it his) of running the election, as the votes now have to be handled differently with an announced write in candidate. Guess which communities will have the most write-ins to be sorted and inspected? Thank you John, I appreciate having to pay to keep your ego inflated!
In August Jenkins has said he would only consider the run for Governor if he got enough registered Maine voters to support him on Facebook, (repeat... ON FACEBOOK)wth the filing deadline for gubernatorial write-in candidates looming on Sept. 20, Jenkins said he wants to meet the 5,000-fan mark by Sept. 17. Right now on Sept. 18 he only has 2818 Facebook fans, barely half his stated goal. Some of these "Facebook Fans" are not even actual supporters... having signed on only hoping to see him announce and ultimately draw Libby Mitchell votes - thus helping LePage) but now all of sudden this half stated goal is all he needs to see... the rest of the 5000 supporters are in phantom "notebooks" and on cocktail napkins. Perhaps someone inadvertantly slipped him a phone book, and told him it was a list of supporters???
Jenkins had his chance, and served as one of the worst State Senators ever... missing so many votes that they actually sent the State Police looking for him a couple of times... his padded resume of meaningless accomplishments looks impressively long, but that is art a true BS artist. He has earned a black belt in that.