The online Maine Examiner, which is in the middle of a political spat between Democrats and Republicans, remains a mystery to Gov. Paul LePage. During an interview with Maine Public’s “Maine Calling” radio show Tuesday, the governor denied any knowledge of the conservative-oriented website at the center of an ethics complaint filed by the Maine […]
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Lewiston Rep. Roger Fuller won't run for re-election; Craven, Reeder seek seat
LEWISTON — As this year’s campaigns shape up, it’s already clear that big changes are coming for the city’s legislative delegation. Perhaps the most surprising is that former lawmaker Margaret Craven, a Democrat, has filed to run for a House seat that most had expected to remain in the hands of incumbent Roger Fuller. Fuller […]
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Sen. Schumer gambled with a losing hand
Chuck Schumer started a government shutdown he couldn’t finish. The New York Democrat, among the shrewdest operators in national politics, stumbled badly because he succumbed to the siren song of the anti-Trump resistance. He believed that any charge could be made to stick to President Donald Trump, no matter how implausible, and chose the dictates […]
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Craig Olson hopes to go from a Maine island to Congress
Born on a little Wisconsin dairy farm near the Kickapoo River, Craig Olson isn’t one of those Mainers with deep roots who’s slightly suspicious of folks from away. The 52-year-old Democratic congressional hopeful is someone who lived in a number of states before buying “a complete fixer-upper” in a nice neighborhood on Islesboro 17 years […]
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Maine ethics panel will consider Democratic complaint about GOP
AUGUSTA — The Maine Republican Party denied Friday that it has anything to do with the secretive Maine Examiner. Despite online evidence that the party’s executive director had ties to the website that helped torpedo Lewiston mayoral candidate Ben Chin’s campaign in December, the GOP said the Examiner “was not created or operated by, or […]
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Democrats lacking resolution
Democrats generally always cave in during negotiations with the Republicans. As a Democrat, I’m mad. Democrats under the leadership of Sen. Charles Schumer caved in to Republicans on the government shutdown on a promise of negotiating a DACA agreement in three weeks. They simply threw in their negotiating chip. Last week, Schumer had a deal […]
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Democrats folded like a baby stroller
Dear Democrats: That was no government shutdown. It was a long weekend. It was a snow day. Don’t get me wrong. I am no fan of shuttering the federal government as a tactic of political negotiation. In the first place, it inflicts hardship on the people you’re sworn to serve. In the second place, it […]
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Democrats cry foul as photos tie GOP to Maine Examiner
[UPDATE: More ties discovered between Maine GOP’s director and a secretive website] AUGUSTA — Shortly after lunch on the first Monday of December, Maine Republican Party Executive Director Jason Savage copied an online photograph of Lewiston mayoral candidate Ben Chin onto his computer. Savage’s copied picture, titled “chin-profile-two,” wound up illustrating a story that ran the […]
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Democrats can blame Barack Obama for immigration mess
By Marc A. Thiessen Special to The Washington Post The government shutdown is over. Democrats finally realized that closing the government over illegal immigration was a losing political battle. They created a needless crisis and got rolled. So who is to blame for their current predicament? Along with Charles Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, Democrats can […]
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Maine Democrats file ethics complaint against state GOP alleging ties to 'fake news'
AUGUSTA — In an ethics complaint filed Tuesday, the Maine Democratic Party accused its Republican rivals of working hand-in-hand to spread bogus claims through a secretive website masquerading as a news organization. Democrats asked the Maine Ethics Commission to investigate possible campaign finance violations by the Maine Examiner and Maine’s Republican Party in their publication […]