He's no Brown by a long shot.
American Skiing was a wall street plan--salespeople go searching for clients just like any business--bubble burst and they said oops we were wrong..but then you dont want to know the full story from those in the know past what you google. We successfully invested in the mountain (and what a great investment that turned out to be to this day!) and not some BB ski stock effected by weather--fun stock to own for emotional reasons, not anything anyone put their future into unless they were idiots. It was a ski stock! LOL
The Red Sox (when winners) were put together by a team of forward thinking people like Otten-that was why they were chosen to be part of "the owners". The alternative energy business started, a restaurant on the mountain, the handicap skiing program which he funded/backed and had another wonderful lady take full control over back at the onset-she later went on to have the idea for biggest snowman and woman in the Guinness Book of records to draw attention to the Bethel area-home of the beloved Gould Academy, but then I just am boring you with all facts. Good memories of entrepreneurial people in the Bethel area.
Doesn't hurt to dream, I will give you that. Maine voters will decide--they really don't have a real good track record for the past 30 some years.
Les Otten '10 ! ;)
http://lesotten.com/ottenjobsplan/files/otten_jobs_plan.pdf Otten Job Plan for anyone interested--
LePage has raised more money than Otten has. Otten has spent the most of his own personal money. Abbott has raised the most money, from his Collins connections. LePage has raised the second most, from grass roots / tea party supporters.
Now, of course, Otten doesn’t need to raise money like the other guys do, since he has all that money that American Skiing shareholders lost.
What’s “Menards”? For someone who complains about fact checking, you sure miss some biggies.
I’m not saying that LePage is looking at a challenge to Collins, I’m saying that Freepers, many of whom wonder why Collins and Snowe are Senators, might want to consider placing possible challengers to Collins into offices where they can get the name recognition and power they need to mount an effective challenge. I’m almost certain that Abbott is not challenging Collins in 2014.
Otten is more like Brown. Brown is showing himself more and more as a RINO, and Otten is a RINO as well (although, to be fair, not a DIABLO like Mills). LePage and Beardsley are the only 2 solid conservatives running.
Otten did not have to get himself wrapped up in American Skiing. Yet he did, he was the CEO. He exercised bad judgment. A failed company looks terrible for the CEO. Otten wouldn’t have had that failure on his record if he just kept Sunday River the way it was. Otten made a bold, risky move and it failed and a lot of people lost a lot of money. You seem to think that LePage is lacking in some way because he doesn’t have bold plans involving spending a lot of money. Right. LePage is conservative. I ask only of LePage that he cut taxes and cut spending. I’d like Maine government to be smaller after he’s done, and I think he can do that.
The Red Sox were a baseball team for 100 years before Otten got involved. It’s not all that hard to get someone to buy the Red Sox.
I’m not against successful entrepreneurs like Otten. I recognize that he built Sunday River. But he made some risky moves, which failed. We don’t want a Governor who makes risky moves and fails. LePage isn’t going to be dreaming big. He’s going to be conservative and responsible. And right now, we need conservative and responsible. LePage, responsibly, could listen to the advice of big dreamers and make a decision based on that advice. We need cuts in spending and cuts in taxes and LePage has proven he can do these things.