Graham Platner won the Democrat Senate primary in Maine. It was a blowout. I offer my thoughts on this crazy two weeks in Maine.
Maine voters didn’t buy it. And we have learned in Maine just how hard it is to stand up to big money, and to stand up to AIPAC. They throw everything they can at you. And they do it at the last minute to make it difficult to respond.
It didn’t work in Maine. Maine can see right through their crap.
Cutting the gas tax will starve the highway infrastructure we all need. But implementing a new and large oil windfall profits tax will create a disincentive for oil companies to jack prices at the pump.
Mitt Romney in 2012 suggested a policy where the US would let unauthorized immigrants to self deport. While Romney's position would have been much cheaper than Trump's very expensive ICE solution that seems to have failed, letting members of Congress "self-deport" from their Senate and Congressional seat may be a better solution than asking voters to surrender their right for whomever they...
Maine State Auditor, Matt Dunlap is a CIA (Certified Internal Auditor). Congress really needs an auditor as a member of Congress. While there are plenty of lawyers in Congress. Congress is anemic in the amount of Accountants and especially Certified Internal Auditors. At the same time, Jordan Wood is a gay man in a gay family. I coordinated Fitchburg, Leominster, and Gardner for Massachusetts...