Pummeled? I guess. Although his Dirigo-funding beverage tax (42 cents per gallon! yikes!) was overturned by the voters voting yes on #1 to overturn it...
The stinkin’ legislature is even now more democratnik. Both the Maine Senate and the Maine House have large democrat majorities now.
Many districts (including the second US congressional district) didn’t even have viable candidates. It’s a shameful state of the party. Unfortunately, not much I can do as I live in one of the few areas that has a highly functional party apparatus.
What so many Outtastatahs don’t understand, is that in Maine... Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins are quite conservative compared to the rest of the state. And the southern part of the state (Boston North a/k/a Cumberland & York Counties) elected a card-carrying LOBBYIST to the congress rather than the admirable Charlie Summers.
If we had any sort of national party compared to the DNC’s Senate campaign under Schumer and House campaign under Emanuel, Summers would have gotten national assistance to defeat Pingree, who’s simply the worst of the worst type to send to DC.
It’ll be fun to watch Baldacci have to cut more though. He can start with these 48 odd Special Advisors to the Governor. At about 150K a pop in salary and benefits, dismissing ALL of them would net an immediate $8 million. Throw out all their aides, secretaries, and assistants and vice-assistants, and that should just about take care of it all.
Furthermore, Maine doesn’t need 150 representatives and 35 senators. Nebraska, with 50% more population, gets by just fine with 49 senators in a unicameral Legislature.
Why, if Maine got rid of this excess of 136 do-nothings... and all their staffs... we’d surely save another parcel of taxpayers’ money.
No sympathy for anything New England.
Any idea how the Lewiston Somalis voted?
Also, Unicameral lawmaking rules prohibit introducing bills that that contain multiple subjects under consideration...
Some days I wonder if it a rule like that would be beneficial...