Yesterday, Eliot Cutler‘s own release made it clear.  In the words of Ted O’Meara:  “The Republican attack line since the Primary has been that Eliot is ‘just a Democrat masquerading as independent.’” This is the biggest perception Cutler is now, has been, and will be running against as he works to win this election. And [...]

Early last week, we reported that two Maine Democrats – State Senator Dennis Damon (D-Trenton) and State Representative Leila J. Percy (D-Phippsburg) – broke with the Democratic Party and announced that they will support independent candidate Eliot Cutler for governor of Maine. Citing support for Cutler’s overall qualifications, experience in “business and government”, and “bold [...]

I am on record as believing that this election – at least with things as they are right now – is between Paul LePage and Eliot Cutler.  As things line up right now, I believe rather strongly that Libby Mitchell is the odd person out and might face a very Susan Collins circa 1994 problem:  [...]

In response to a recent flap over the Chairman of the RNC appearing to oppose our presence in Afghanistan (something that was later clarified by the RNC), the Democratic National Committee released a statement, hammering the Chairman over what it perceived as his opposition to the President’s plan in that conflict.

Today, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree took to Facebook to announce her opposition to any “war funding” in the supplemental budget: I plan on opposing war funding in the supplemental budget. The war in Afghanistan has gone on too long, has cost us far too much in lives lost and dollars spent, and is not making America [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, take a journey with me into the Hot Tub Time Machine and step back to 1996.  Or 1998.  Some time in the late 1990s – it doesn’t really matter. You see, that is the era that the Maine legislature‘s website seemingly belongs in.  Worse (dramatically so) is the Maine House‘s site.  Even [...]

The early bird favorite for the Republican nomination for president in 2012 – Mitt Romney – is wasting no time weighing in to the Maine political scene this year.  Today, Romney’s “Free and Strong America” political action committee (which, for those non junkies out there, serves as his political machine in preparation for his run) [...]

A few weeks ago I wrote how important Senators Snowe and Collins were to the success or failure of the “carried interest” tax hike bill.  Now Maine Watchdog has picked up the issue with their own story. “Mike Burgmaier, a former Maine-based venture capitalist, said the potential changes could have “pretty significant and negative impacts [...]

AFSCME and Americans United for Change (you may know them as “Big Labor”) are aggressive backers of a bill pending in the Senate that purports to deal with jobs, but which conveniently also contains a large tax hike on those long-term enemies of the unions: investment funds. The bill has become contentious as a result [...]