(1) He is a fool (2) He's willing to stand up to the big bad gun nuts.
That probably will get him reelected by the nuts and berries Portland constituents he represents.
Yeah, like my Ruger .22
Boy, I feeeeeel safer already.
Ugh! These "unlicensed sellers" the gun grabbers refer to are selling TEE SHIRTS, JERKY, and HATS. They are NOT gun sellers, yet they try to scare people into beliving there selling guns illegally.
Maine may be a Blue state, but only around the cities...the loggers and other woodland denisens will not stand for it.
Well, it ended as I figured it would: bill goes down in flames, author promises he'll be back next session. This is not unlike the situation in NH except the name is Coen instead of Strimling. Eventually, Mr. Strimling will marginalize himself by the narrow view he takes of his duties as senator...just like Mr. Coen already has.
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" That probably will get him reelected by the nuts and berries Portland constituents he represents."
If we don't somehow stop the voter fraud and election rigging in the City (Portland, I suspect, is only one of them), then they sure as Chicago will!
Did anyone happen to notice how Brennan stole the Senate majority a few years back when the Post office conveniently "delayed" sufficient absentee votes in the mail to have turned the election to VamVakias (R) until the polls closed and they were disqualified? Some of them had been laying around, apparently, for up to 10 days when normal delivery time is 2 to 3. Return addresses, we are told by reliable wittnesses to the re-count fiasco (where votes for Rs in blue ink were thrown out while those for Ds in red ink were counted), all return addresses (opening the envelopes was forbidden and they were destroyed unopened after the re-count) matched registered Republican Voters according to Registration lists which are available to Party Chairs gratis.
And what's this about City Clerks locking themselves in a room with covered windows in the basement of City Hall with a bunch (if not all) of the ballots following an election?
Has anyone thought to look into this bilge?
(Well; actually, a few of us have...)
Can anything be done about it?
Will anyone ever be held accountable?
Probably not. They have the power, you see; we don't.
So, I think that we might as well just get used to the idea that the vote of Portland (as well as Lewiston) will be a foregone conclusion in perpetuity.
And as most of the "blue" (I rather think of Kerry States as "Red" personally) NE States clearly demonstrate, as the cities go, so go the States.
Yeah; it sox - but that, i have observed, is just how it is.
Just getting used to it has been difficult for me, though...
How about you?