Unfortunately, I don't see anyone in the Maine Republican party at this point (except maybe Peter C.) who has enough backbnone to stand up to the dims and 'rats that have taken over the state capital.
29%, that high, must have taken the poll only amongst the reporters and reporterettes at the PPH and Casco Bay Weekely, opps forgot the CCW went belly up.
We have a dem state and suffer for it with high taxes and a harsh business climate. Every response I get from Allen, my rep, is it is the fault of the Bush admin and the tax breaks we got (for the rich). All the current discussion is not how to cut spending, but what taxes we can raise to keep government going. In the mean time we now have a state sponsored medical program that, in time will completely bankrupt the state.
Ever notice that pub led states are almost all solvent while the dem states are almost all broke?
Maine (Balducci) ping
Baldacci is a classical machine Democrat: tax, spend, and rake in the dollars for yourself and your corrupt cronies.
Things have always been pretty bad for business in Maine, but he has definitely made things worse. MBNA moved into the Camden-Belfast area on West Penobscot Bay some years ago, and brought a ton of jobs with it. Real estate values climbed and Belfast started to gentrify. Last year MBNA announced that they were moving their whole operation out of state, which was a crushing blow to the region and the whole state.
They moved in because Maine is a pleasant place to live and their business can be run from anywhere. They moved out because they were losing their shirts to Maine's crushing menu of taxes and bureaucratic regulations.
You are still going to see some liberals try to spin this as Bush's fault. Bondacci is doing his best to kill us.
This looks like the "it's all Bush's fault" escape clause.
Coincidently, most of the food served at his restaurant is 29 degrees.
Man, I'm glad I left Taxationland two years ago.