Everyone has been dancing around the whispers of “Les Otten” and “the failure of American Ski Company”, hesitant to engage, or really hammer him on the subject. Well – maybe not everyone – but the …
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On April 22, 2009, 86-year-old WWII veteran and self described “lifelong Republican” Philip Spooner testified at the public meeting on the Maine Equal Marriage bill. His testimony was brief, but powerful, and the video …
Thomas Brackett Reed is one of the least known, and least talked about politicians from Maine. I wouldn’t be surprised if you had never heard of him – but interestingly he may be one …
Ted Ropple of the Republican Project touched on something I’ve been meaning to write about for a week or two. Les Otten has money. He gives some of it away. A lot of time …
This morning, Matt Gagnon of Pine Tree Politics called in to Drive Time Bangor to talk about Bruce Poliquin’s $100,000 donation to the TABOR II campaign, and the general state of the referendum fights. …
One of the reasons New Media platforms like Twitter and Facebook are both powerful and useful, is because it allows public figures to transparently and effectively communicate with the grassroots, engaged voters of a given …
Some people, it seems, take criticism quite well.
Others don’t take it so well.
Then there are others – like Representative Andy O’Brien (D, District 44) – who not only don’t take it well, but react to …
No politician in Maine history can claim to have gotten closer to the White House than James G. Blaine.
Blaine had not one, not two but in fact three opportunities to be elected president, and indeed …
Over the weekend, Saturday Night Live couldn’t resist poking fun at the recent news – specifically healthcare reform, the balloon boy, and Obama’s Nobel Prize. The satire took the form of SNL’s most recent …
Maine has never had a statesman occupy the oval office in the entirety of its 189 years of existence. While states like Virginia and New York have churned out an impressive army of Chief Executives, …
“Dirigo Blue has just posted on the record quotes from the major Democratic gubernatorial candidates explaining their opposition to TABOR…”
The jaw-dropping victory by Scott Brown in the Massachusetts Senate race completes an I-95 trifecta that started in Virginia, headed north to New Jersey, and landed in the Bay State. Where does the momentum go …
Republican Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie has been making a lot of noise lately for doing something that was entirely unexpected: being blunt, speaking truth, and pragmatically dealing with problems that his state …
Few would have believed it possible only a couple years ago, but the Republican Party is increasingly being made less hospitable for culture warriors.
I’ve been arguing since my days in college – which, looking back, …
Last Wednesday, Matt Gagnon of Pine Tree Politics called in to Drive Time Bangor to talk about the Washington D.C. Snowpocalypse, party caucuses in Maine, and the curious campaign of Jason Levesque.
Every Wednesday, Matt talks …
