Sen. Olympia Snowe may have another would-be challenger.
State Sen. Cynthia Dill, D-Cape Elizabeth, wrote on her blog over the holiday weekend that she is weighing whether to join the two other Democrats hoping to unseat the three-term Republican senator during this November’s general election.
“Not since George Mitchell have we had a Democratic Senator in Washington fighting for the middle class and taking a stand for good people struggling to find and keep jobs, put food on their table and protect their families,” Dill wrote. “The Republican Party is out of touch with the challenges American families are faced with, and quickly becoming more and more extremist and obstructionist.”
Dill, who could not be reached for comment Monday, asked for the public’s feedback on whether she should join the race.
Any Democrat that appears on the November ballot would almost certainly face a difficult campaign should Snowe succeed in recapturing the GOP nomination given the veteran senator’s popularity among Mainers.
Two Republicans — Scott D’Amboise of Lisbon Falls and Andrew Ian Dodge of Harpswell — are hoping to knock off Snowe during the Republican primary.
But neither D’Amboise nor Dodge appear to have captured the hearts of many Republican loyalists in the state, despite the fact that Snowe occasionally receives higher approval ratings from Democrats and independents than from members of her own party. And Snowe is a fierce campaigner with a sizable campaign war chest.
If she decides to join the race, Dill would by vying for the Democratic nomination against former Secretary of State Matt Dunlap of Old Town and Rep. Jon Hinck of Portland.
An attorney, Dill represented Cape Elizabeth for two terms in the Maine House of Representatives. Last year, during her third term in the House, she won election to the state Senate to fill the seat vacated by fellow Democratic Sen. Larry Bliss, who stepped down to take an out-of-state job.
Dill has been a frequent speaker on the House and Senate floor during her time in Augusta and occasionally stirs things up through her writings on her blog and as a contributor to the liberal-leaning Huffington Post website.
Earlier this fall, Dill caused some controversy when she formed an organization to support conservationist Roxanne Quimby’s offer to donate 70,000 acres of her own land in the Katahdin region to the federal government to create a Maine Woods national park. Some Millinocket-area opponents of Quimby’s proposal, however, questioned why a Cape Elizabeth lawmaker was getting so involved in the debate over a North Woods park.
Hinck’s campaign, meanwhile, issued a statement Monday welcoming Dill’s possible entrance to the race while attempting to label Snowe as beholden to special-interest groups.
“In this critical election year, the people of Maine have the opportunity to clearly state that they are fed up with a Congress that puts powerful special interests ahead of working people,” the campaign said.
Dill is no George Mitchell. She is one of the most liberal politicians in Maine. Her extreme left-wing views are not what Maine is about. Plus, she doesn’t care about the northern part of the state.
Looks like Roxanne got tired of trying to convine our reps so what better way to move your idea forward. Buy a senator
george mitchell? not a liberal?by your standards, obama would be a condervative then.mithcell is a crackpot, as hillary, bill, michaud.
you are partly correct, you should of stated that she does not care about anywhere in the state. no liberal, in any state in the country,cars about the state they are from, or the rest of the country.
So I hope she runs. She’s a sure loser. She’s no Ronald Reagan, either.
Sounds just like George Mitchell to me.
What southern Mainer does, if they are not from northern Maine or have family/ties to northern Maine. Most people I have met have this attitude like, there is another part of Maine? It is that far away, you can’t just drive down to Portland anytime for anything? Wouldn’t you want to be in the Portland area if you are in Maine? Or, what do you want to go there for? Referring to any part of Maine outside the Portland area.
Dill is probably the only person that could convince me to vote for Olympia Snowe.
Amen to that. I am so fed up with both Snowe and Collins that I can’t stand to listen to either of them any more. I truly hope to see Snowe defeated in the primary but if not, I hope Matt Dunlap wins the Democrat nomination. I would vote for him over Snowe in a heartbeat. How I wish the entire country could follow the lead of Texas, where the legislature only convenes every other year. These politicians- Democrat and Republican alike- have gotten entirely too comfortable. They’re more interested in protecting their a***s than they are in doing what’s in the best interest of the nation. Susan Collins, in her first campaign, stated that she would be a one-term senator, yet here we are, how many years later, still listening to her drone on and on, sounding more and more like a Democrat. She got re-elected for her most recent term and won’t even answer constituent emails until she’s up for re-election again.
Yeah, cause Snowe isn’t liberal *enough* for Maine. The average income in Cape Elizabeth is six figures. Do us a favor Dill – continue representing your beautiful people in Maine’s liberal metropolis of Cape Elizabeth and leave the running of the State to real Mainers who have to work for their food.
she is not even from Maine and it shows.
Heaven forbid you would want to ostracize non-native Mainers, especially those who want to do business in this state.
Kind of like the Arkansas or Mass raised senators from NYC, who wants them?
We like being poor and we don’t want anybody showing us anything different.
Ya I think Jock and Olive did have to work at one time before they fleeced the taxpayers out of several millions.
This is just wrong and idiotic.
And what does Ms. Snowe have for wealth Cletus?
Is a lawyer from Cape Elizabeth really trying to convince people she knows anything about being middle class? I guess I found my entertainment for the next few months.
Compared to Snowe?
she makes 9.6 million a year. She and her hubby have assets some say close to 45 million.
Real working middle class
A certain liberal Democratic Senator from Hyannisport convinced people in Eastern Massachusetts for years that he knew everything about the torment that the middle class suffered. Maybe she’s been reading Teddy’s playbook – now all she has to do is turn into a drunk like he was.
Now that’s not very nice!
Teddy hasn’t had a drink now for 28 months.
That’s lame. I noted that you had no comments on the recent “gift” to Baxter State Park. Guess you can’t hunt, and snowmobile and traipse there anymore. So instead you just want to take cheap shots at a dead Kennedy? That’s classy. Don’t you have a landfill to run…..at our expense?
If I had owned those 100 or so landlocked, inaccessable acres, I’d have given them to Baxter too.
And don’t forget, what Peter T said it was worth.
That ain’t chicken feed……..when it comes to write offs.
As for Teddy……. some of his past deeds need to be remembered.
yes as a deterrent to voting in another like him
every one has skeletons, but that are usually addressed by others when that person is alive. If one of your loved ones has some, would you appreciate people commenting only on that ?
Write offs? … That’s NOTHING compared to what this company claims in write offs I bet. It only adds fuel to the fire, but no recreating there much now.
Who would speak for Mary Jo Kopechne ??
You?
And let’s not forget Sen. Larry Craig, R ( Airport Men’s Rooms )
ted kennedy. working class hero. sa-lute.
maybe even join him before she has a chance to wreak havoc everywhere too
Do you have a chicken esteem problem?
Not that I would vote for her in a primary, But she would be closer to middle class than Olympia and her husband!! She’s one of the wealthiest senators in the nation.
LMAO
Yeah, Cape Elizabeth and lawyer in the same sentence doesn’t spell for the middle class, those struggling to find jobs, and put food on their table etc., or anyone in touch with middle class America, especially when for two years almost half the country didn’t make enough money to pay federal taxes.
You know, it was a lawyer from southern Maine who recently said something along the lines of, it shouldn’t be an issue to go to Portland, and gave me the attitude, there is a northern Maine? It’s that far away? Wouldn’t you rather be in Portland anyway? Is there really anything up there?
At least another one in the firm seemed to have some empathy???
We need and want a Senator that looks out for the best interest for all of Maine and thats Senator Snowe not Dill thats been bought by Roxanne Quimby with 12,000 dollars to destroy the Northern Maine economy and way of life.
You mean the way of life of having no economy?
See? This what will happen if the national Republican party is stupid enough to funnel money towards the primary here to defeat Snowe. You’ll just end up with a wicked liberal Democrat.
a liberal is someone who walks out of the room when an argument turns into a fight
a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged
1.Has anyone thought up a system of self governing that does not involve politicians?
2.When is Maine going to add the voting category:
none of the above
3. Why is our tax dime used by FBI agents to commit voter fraud and elect candidates
who support corporations?
see http://www.thelandesreport.com/Donsanto.htm
Go back to the park, pitch your tent, and try to sell your lunacy .
Nobody here is buying.
Thirteen Techniques for Truth Suppression
by David Martin
Strong, credible allegations of high-level criminal activity can bring
down a government. When the government lacks an effective, fact-based
defense, other techniques must be employed. The success of these
techniques depends heavily upon a cooperative, compliant press and a
mere token opposition party.
Call the skeptics names like “conspiracy theorist,” “nut,”
“ranter,” “kook,” “crackpot,” and of course, “rumor monger.” You must
then carefully avoid fair and open debate with any of the people you
have thus maligned.
Change the subject. This technique includes creating and/or reporting a distraction.
What noparkforme said.
Ah, you’ve read some of my work, i see.
They are called communes, among other names and it’s not a lifestyle I would fit in with on either extreme.
Thanks for your support Kired, I especially found your comments about FBI agents committing voter fraud useful eh?.
You really are Canadian,EH?
I have no idea what you are talking about
That’s just what Maine needs; half its Congressional delegation from out of state.
LePage only spends half his time here.
More lies, but what else would we expect. People are on to you, maybe it’s time for a new identity.
I don’t even know what you’re talking about, but it’s pretty telling when you’re hyper-critical of those you disagree with and blatantly lenient with those you agree with.
Question: If the Governor’s wife is a Florida resident, who’s Maine’s First Lady?
Ummmmm……Roxanne Quimby?
LOL, wow. Who does this person surround herself with that makes her think she would stand a chance in hell .
Roxanne Quimby?
Lots of mirrors!
If I believed in reincarnation, I would suspect she’s really Marie Antoinette.
see link for full story
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1542356/Professor-Ian-Stevenson.html
Professor Ian Stevenson
12 Feb 2007
Professor Ian Stevenson, who died on February 8 aged 88,
was the world’s foremost scientific authority on the study of
reincarnation; the founder and director of the Division of Personality
Studies at the University of Virginia, Stevenson spent more than 40
years travelling the world, accumulating more than 3,000 cases of
children who appeared to have memories of previous lives.
A typical case involved an Indian boy, Gopal, who at the age
of three started talking about his previous life in the city of
Mathura, 160 miles from his home in Delhi. He claimed that he had owned a
medical company called Sukh Shancharak, lived in a large house with
many servants, and that his brother had shot him after a quarrel.
Subsequent investigations revealed that one of the owners of
Sukh Shancharak had shot his brother some eight years before Gopal’s
birth. The deceased man was named Shaktipal Shara. Gopal was
subsequently invited to Mathura by Shaktipal’s family, where the young
child recognised various people and places known to Shaktipal. The
family was particularly impressed by Gopal’s mention of Shaktipal’s
attempts to borrow money, and how this had led to the shooting —
information that was known only to the family.
Stevenson’s studies were informed by an encyclopaedic
knowledge of history, philosophy and the natural sciences but
characterised above all by an empirical rigour. He would travel vast
distances to interview the children and their current and “previous”
families, meticulously noting corroborative and conflicting statements
in their accounts, and cross-checking official records, and police and
autopsy reports.
Dense with statistical data, his studies avoided any
theoretical speculation on Eastern philosophical theories about the
transmigration of the soul. In fact, “soul” was a word Stevenson was
always keen to avoid. He preferred the term “personality”, and was
always careful to state that the mountain of evidence accumulated in his
researches “permitted”, rather than compelled, a belief in
reincarnation.
Do you like cake?
When she heard that we can’t even afford to eat tuna cat food she said “Let them eat lobster”.
Dill should instead run for Lt. Gov.
There is no Lt. Gov. position. Although… she could move to Massachusetts and run for Lt. Gov. there. That would be an acceptable solution.
EXACTLY!
Dill is a Hugo Chavez-esque table-pounding socialist of the worst kind. She has about as much chance against Olympia Snowe as a redhead running for mayor of Washington D.C.
If Dill is “Chavez-esque”, will she be donating oil to the needy of New England as do the people of Venezuela?
Another clone comment indicating a complete lack of any understanding of the word socialism.
You mean Communism !
She’s a Dilly all left.
I just wish I knew when “Moderate” became a dirty word…. The fact of the matter is that most Mainers are politically moderate and yet we seem to be stuck with the extremes of both parties.
If you read these comments you begin to think that the people of Maine are either right wing hacks, or left wing wussies. Those that are more middling spend vary little time belittling their neighbors in BDN comments. They are the “silent majority” often mentioned but rarely heard.
Peace.
of all the things being discussed in politics today, i think yours is the most important question.
i think people are so eager to get a swipe at their ideological rivals, they forget to listen to opposing ideas. hard to build a moderate consensus when no one is listening. also hard to expand your own thinking, clinging to ideology.
now we see why Ms Dill got involved with the Northern Maine proposed National Park issue……get the name recognition going…….
Dill will get no love in Northern Maine, but I bet she gets a lot of financial help from Quimby…!
A choice between Stalin and Trotsky.
“She wrote on her blog.” That is all I need to hear about this woman. Get a life lady.
Moon Bat!
Come on !!
This woman cant be serious.
Back out now, lady.
Sheeesh.
Awwww, don’t be so hard on her. We could all use a good laugh about now.
I’ve had quite a few on this site.
If supporters contribute to Cynthia’s campaign, would the money be Dill dough?
1000 likes!
This should give you nightmares- “what would you call Quimby’s contribution to Dill’s campaign”
I live in Cape Elizabeth and have had to suffer this woman representing me—NOT! She is so full of herself it’s not funny. It’s scary! Cape Elizabeth, BTW, is not all wealthy people like a commenter suggests. There are plenty of middle class people who struggle to get by month to month just like everyone else. It used to be a conservative town until all the yuppie liberals like Dill moved in!
I feel your pain.
Maybe you can get a grant.
Dill didnt make any friends up north when she came up to Millinocket to “tell us” how we should get over it and accept Quimby’s liberal la-la land…
Maine needs good progressive leadership after way too many years of the self serving Snowe. Go Cynthia!!!!
This ought to be fun for the northern Maine folks to watch: Cynthia Dill and Jon Hinck, two yuppie liberal eco-freaks from Portland’s West End and Dill from Cape Elizabeth traveling to “The REAL Maine” seeking votes. The verbal target practice at these two should be brutal. They have absolutely no sense of what Maine is like beyond their safe little self-important cocoon surrounded by equally delusional supporters.
She made no friends in Millinocket
Read these comments Ms Dill. Here’s your public feedback.
Dill wants to climb the political ladder where she can block vote, toeing the party line and turn northern Maine into a day trip vacation spot, cutting access to the natives in the off season. She loves power and wants to swing it.
Snowe2012
Against Dill Senator Snowe would look like a conservative!
Dill/Quimby sounds like the ideal ticket. One moved her business out of the state, and the other believes the state’s boundary line ends one mile above Augusta. By the way, who is she pointing her closed hand at, Olympia?
I think Dill would be a fine candidate, I encourage her to run.
At least it would get her out of Augusta for a few years so we wouldn’t have to listen to her telling us how smart she is, for a while anyway.
Noooooooo
It doesn’t matter who you vote for at the national level…they don’t get elected unless they have been bought and paid for by the moneyed elite in this country…and the moment it looks like something other than that will happen, a media blitz from either the right or left (doesn’t matter which) will destroy the person running and the sheep-brained voters will blindly fall for it.
A rich woman from Cape Elizabeth would seem to be just as far out of touch with the majority of Mainers as a rich woman from Falmouth. What would be gained?
Good point.
Whatever. There isn’t a one of any of them that has any idea what they are doing, or what this state needs. They are to busy getting paid off by special interest groups. What would a person making $800,000 have in common with a person making $25,000? answer , nothing because they could care less. Politics is not about being a public servant, it’s about getting elected, and becoming a self serving waste of space.
The rich fighting the rich. That’s all it’s about these days. I think the state should adopt regulations that ban lobbyists from operating in this state. I also think that legislators that are making in excess of a predetermined amount, should not be paid by the state to be legislators. Snowe supposedly made $800,000 last year. Why does she need to be paid by the state when she is making over 3/4 of a million dollars on her own?
“Not since George Mitchell have we had a Democratic Senator in Washington fighting for the middle class”
George Mitchell fought for and got legislation passed to impose a luxury tax on yacht purchases and other luxury items which basically bankrupted or severely disrupted business in many yacht builder shops in Maine. He then fought to have that tax removed and it was, about 3 or 4 years later but the damage was done and the industry has never totally recovered. George Mitchell is well respected and liked but he was a terrible Senator and a terrible representative for the State of Maine. If Dill thinks she is like him, then no thanks, we do not need any more George Mitchell’s representing the State of Maine.
dill accepted money from rich people to sway her to their cause. theres more than a few people who are in need of someone who will work for the whole state and not for the few who have deep pockets. i dont think dill is up for the job. she accepted 12,000 dollars from quimby to advocate for her. she has no clue about what the people from cape elizabeth need, why would you think she would know what the rest of the state needs. she’s a robot for the rich and does what they say. she’s not even helping the homeless and getting them off the streets. if she is she’s keeping it a secret. i know one thing, when snowe get mail from a mainer, she responds. when gets mail from a mainer, unless you have moony, she deletes and ignores. and by the comments here, she needs to go back into her cocoon and stay there.
The democrats claim to be for the middle class. 35 years ago maybe. Not anymore
Well at least this will give something for Roxanne to spend money on instead of buying up the State of Maine.