The redistricting squabble has shown no signs, as of yet, of lessening. Yesterday, the redistricting commission held a public hearing, and invited Maine citizens to step up to the mic and give a piece of their mind to the lawmakers on the panel. That’s when this happened: Susan Cook, the secretary of the Maine Democratic [...]
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NOTE: The following article originally appeared in the Bangor Daily News, as the first of Matthew Gagnon’s weekly opinion columns for BDN. With due respect to everyone involved in the same-day voter registration squabble, you’re all getting on my nerves. This debate has quickly devolved from what could have been an honest and needed conversation [...]
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Today, Chris Cilliza of the Washington Post published 2011′s list of the best state level blogs. The list was built from submissions from the reading public, with the results compiled and put into list form. Pine Tree Politics was this year’s sole representative from the state of Maine. So, naturally, I’m taking that to proclaim [...]
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Tarren Bragdon announced in April that he would be leaving his position as CEO of the Maine Heritage Policy Center to start up a similar organization in Florida, leaving a gaping hole in conservative policy leadership in Maine. Maine Heritage is unquestionably the most influential conservative think tank in Maine (yes, there are others), and Tarren [...]
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Rather than blathering endlessly about phantom issues invented to simply raise money, I have a suggestion for challengers to Senator Olympia Snowe. Ask her about where she stands on a potential threat to nearly a thousand Maine workers. The welfare of the Maine people, after all, is the most important responsibility of a lawmaker representing [...]
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Today, on the heels of the United States Senate vote on the debt ceiling increase, I received a fundraising email from the Scott D’Amboise for Senate campaign. I’m pretty used to dishonest and mind-numbingly stupid emails from politicians seeking office, and D’Amboise is hardly the only offender. Still, his emails have always been particularly dishonest and [...]
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Norm Olsen made a number of damning accusations on his way out the door, last week. His statements should be familiar by now to anyone who has followed this mini-controversy, but if you need to be brought up to speed, just read his parting shots here. One of his more troubling accusations piqued my curiosity: [...]
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Scott D’Amboise‘s filing with the FEC is finally online to take a look at. I say finally because it took quite a bit longer to see than the others. This is probably because D’Amboise filed his report a day late. That’s the kind of thing unserious candidates tend to do a lot of. It reports $141,599.12 [...]
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In the past couple of days, the cause célèbre in Maine politics has been the resignation of the Commissioner of Department of Marine Resources, Norm Olsen, and his subsequent torching of the administration on his way out the door. Once the fiery bridge burning occurred, rather predictably the left swooped into action like an opportunistic condor, [...]
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EDIT: Since the original publication of this article, FrumForum has continued to investigate D’Amboise, and has found increasingly disturbing things. Namely, that he has been a repeated guest on the “Aroostook Watchmen” program, and has spent far too much time agreeing with crazy conspiracy theories, or coming up with rather insane policy ideas of his [...]
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