LEWISTON — A former communications director on the re-election campaign for U.S. Sen. Susan Collins denounced a Maine GOP-sponsored blog that’s provided fodder for attacks against Lewiston mayoral candidate Ben Chin. Lance Dutson, who was once the chief executive officer for the right-leaning Maine Heritage Policy Center, called a recent post questioning whether Chin is […]
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Election shows Americans becoming entrenched
WASHINGTON — To understand the disappointment of Democrats with Tuesday’s off-off-year election results, consider what they might have said had two key states, Kentucky and Virginia, voted differently. Kentucky, a deeply red state in presidential years, has a habit of electing Democratic governors, including Steve Beshear, the popular incumbent who was term-limited. Polls gave Attorney […]
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Democrats have heads in sand
The Democratic Party has been hijacked by liberals. I wonder if any have even noticed? The new Democrats are anti-everything. They are the politically correct crowd at its worst. They are against Christians, Israel, abortion and praying in public. They are against voter ID. (Why? Because illegals and dead people would not be allowed to […]
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Sanders: Just blame those rich folks
Bernie Sanders is the most prominent conspiracy theorist in America. He runs around the country saying that the economy is “rigged” by what he calls “the billionaire class.” Sanders doesn’t mean this metaphorically. He’s dead serious. As he put it in his speech at Liberty University a couple of months ago, our economy is “designed […]
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Democrats criticize Paul LePage on mental illness statement
Adults with a Serious Mental Illness | HealthGrove The flags will be at half-staff until Tuesday at sunset. The Republican governor issued a statement on Monday that faulted politicians for blaming guns when in his opinion, the nation’s problem with violence is about people with mental illness getting access to guns. “Mental illness is plaguing […]
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The destruction of the U.S.
As I write, this country is in a critical downward spiral. The people in this country need to listen to the debates and three major programs on Fox News that talk about what is going on in the world that everyone needs to be concerned about. Civil unrest is going on right now and it […]
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Perkins-Mitchell Dinner to replace Maine’s Jefferson-Jackson dinner
AUGUSTA — The Maine Democrat Party’s biggest fundraiser is now named in honor of former Maine Sen. George Mitchell and longtime Labor Secretary Frances Perkins. The Perkins-Mitchell Dinner is a rebranding of the annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner. Maine’s Democrats and other state parties around the country are choosing to end their associations with Thomas Jefferson and […]
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Both parties committing political suicide
WASHINGTON — Meanwhile, on the Democrats’ side: • They are running a presidential campaign decrying wage stagnation, income inequality and widespread economic malaise — as if they’ve not been in office for the past seven years. • Their leading presidential candidate is 27 points underwater on the question of honesty and is under FBI investigation […]
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Auburn Democrats to meet
AUBURN — The Auburn Democratic City Committee will meet from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22, at Auburn Hall. Candidates for the School Committee in the November election have been invited to address the committee. Parking is available in the garage. Use the courtyard entrance and take the elevator to the second floor. All […]
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Obama and the liberal way
This in response to Ellen Field (Aug. 19). The Democratic Party, to which I belonged for more than 50 years, became the party of Barack Obama, with his secretive background and citizenship. He associated with people who hated America (the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers). Democrats concocted Obamacare behind closed doors, then insisted the […]