AUGUSTA, Maine — A fourth independent has filed petitions to appear on the November ballot for U.S. Senate in Maine.
Tea party activist Andrew Ian Dodge says he submitted 4,183 signatures to the Maine secretary of state’s office on Wednesday, a day after independent former Gov. Angus King submitted his petitions.
Two other independents, Steve Woods of Yarmouth and Danny Dalton of Brunswick, have submitted their petitions. The deadline is Friday.
Six Republicans and four Democrats are seeking party nominations for the opportunity to appear on the ballot. Their primaries will be held June 12.
He has a great chance…meet your new senator from Maine…(giggles)
Ya right Dodge. Good luck with that. Bwahahahahaha… (Perfect example of what the TeaRadicals have to offer.)
Now let me get this straight. Is he a Tea Party candidate or is he an independent? I would hate to see the Tea Party corrupt the Independent Party the way they have the Republican Party.
The tea party did not ‘corrupt’ the republican party. The republicans welcomed them with open arms, as they thought the teas were on their ‘side’ and it would be business as usual. They were wrong.
Sure they did. They have succesfully taken over a standing party and all its apparatus. It should be a model. Sort of like what the radical religious right has done in their putting forth candidates to school boards and then changing the curiculum of schools to teach creationism. It’s their way or the highay.
The Tea Party is backed by big money. Principaly by the Koch Brothers and their John Birch society friends.
They don’t have the integrity to stand on their own like the Green, Communist, Libertarian parties.
If the Tea Party has ideas that are attractive to most Americans, let them come out and label themselves as a political party and run on their name. There apparently is no law stopping them from doing this. Others have managed to run on their own. Is it that they don’t have the courage or are just too lazy to stand on their own.
I assume you were trying to make a point here. Fail.
The Republicans are out for every lunatic fringe group that the can get!
Their New Leader Mitt the Fish changes colors when he is around them!
His latest is camoflauge color is Trump!
http://leftaction.com/action/tell-mitt-dump-trump
Is Romney a unicorn? If so, is Trump drinking his blood to keep politically alive and relevant?
There is no Tea party. The Tea Party is simple the Republican Party wing that was created by Republican Lobbying organizations and funded by Republican Billionaires to challenge the Republican mainstrwam with nuttiness, confusion, and wacko extremist politics.
Last time I checked “fiscal restraint, limited government and individual liberty” created the enormous wealth and success of this country. The alternatives seem only to lead to economic despair and ruin. Lately, as we chase the tailights of Europe, I’ve heard the Germans pummeled for espousing and demanding fiscal restraint of the countries that took an alternate course while Germany built a nicely balanced economy that can pay for its social services. One thing is for sure–there will be no safety net, no social programs and no entitlements absent fiscal restraint and growth arising therefrom.
It is all about the economy and jobs….. Then they create bills to tick women off. There is more of a ‘war on women’ than there is a ‘war on Christmas’ in this country.
From the Tea Party website:
“Our mission is to recruit like-minded Americans to the Tea Party
movement in order to advance the principles of limited government,
fiscal restraint, and individual liberty at all levels of government
through promotion and education.
The Tea Party movement is a
grassroots movement of millions of like-minded Americans from all
backgrounds and political parties. Tea Party members share similar core
principles supporting the United States Constitution as the Founders
intended, such as:
Limited federal governmentIndividual freedomsPersonal responsibilityFree marketsReturning political power to the states and the people
As
a movement, the Tea Party is not a political party nor is looking to
form a third political party any time soon. The Tea Party movement is,
instead, about reforming all political parties and government so that
the core principles of our Founding Fathers become, once again, the
foundation upon which America stands.”
So it appears patomi, that the tea party movement is not democrat or republican as the members know quite well that it stinks on both sides of the aisle. And given what their principles are, I would much rather support the tea party than whatever it is democrats are for. We don’t really know what a democrat is for since they only know themselves seconds after someone tells them what new welfare program they want.
promote the interests of billionaires, mislead the middle class, and inject foreign ideologies into the political debate – Randism and Austrian economics.
Precisely what the current Obama campaign is doing. How astute of you to finally notice.
Limited federal governmentIndividual freedomsPersonal responsibilityFree marketsReturning political power to the states and the people
How about what is ACTUALLY in it like promoting the general welfare and regulating commerce!
You cant Make Up what ever you feel like just to suit your agenda!
I got to ‘grassroots’ and started laughing…
Perhaps we should let each potential candidate succeed or fail on their own merit. If not then Tinserblic we could all watch candidate Representative Cynthia Dill-D as she jumps on and dances on a Veterans Monument in South Portland, do her actions represent the morality of all Democrats? I would hope not. She was so proud of herself she posted the video on her facebook.
http://www.asmainegoes.com/content/maine-legislator-dill-disrespects-veterans-memorial
Disrespect, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. The website you link seems to be as chock-a-block full of partisan baloney as a Teamsters Union endorsement of a Democrat.
The website is a conservative blog it’s ‘editor’ is Naran Row-Spaulding who makes frequent comments here and on other Maine newspapers sites.
So was Dill jumping up and down on it or not?
Let it go.
I sorry, skull and cross bones? If this is the best he can do for a press release photo he is doomed.
At least it wasn’t smiley faces…..
Why are there no pirates in Maine?
Because they can’t say AAR!
Picture, words, thousand.
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My first impression was that BDN did a typical media “flattering” photo of an unfavored candidate. Then I did a Google image search. What ever happened to “dress for success”?
Having a skull and crossbones scarf is dressing for success if your name is Black Beard.
There are some things that a person can’t change—however, a haircut, lose the earring, and a necktie instead of a skull and crossbones scarf might increase his chances of winning.
Well this one is on my web-site. http://dodgeforsenate.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/CanDodgepicsmall1-300×296.jpg
Go Tea Party!
Please !
Far Away!
http://0.tqn.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/f/S/3/Throw-the-Bums-Out.gif
I feel like he would have a hard time staying focused on the issues.
Batten down the hatchs laddie, there is a storm coming.
Ian Dodge does not represent any more than other consevative candidates who share that we have been Taxed Enough Already. The BDN is giving him the spotlight in this area, knowing full well that he changed his status from R to I to Libertarian at one point over the last few months.
Scott D’Amboise sought to challenge Olympia Snowe long before she made her announcement not to run, after which the “scramblers” safely got into place. But, isn’t it nice that we still have a free country where this can happen! RIGHT people in, left-leaning out–
A suit and a shave and he would look just like Angus…
That nice big gift package with the largest bow on it is how you should vote..
Don’t worry about what in the box as long as the box looks good.
Maybe he doesn’t have a suit. Just a Pirate scarf.
Arrrrgh! lol
But me like big boxes with pretty bows!
Tea Party darling
koo koo for cocoa puffs…………..
Nothing like voting for a Tea Party Pirate. HO HO HO and a bottle of Rum.
I think it is great that many independent candidates enter politics. I commend each of them for their courage. Democracy in a Republic requires participation.
Rotsa Ruck there Andrew.
Maine does not need anymore Tea Party influence!
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Come on Maine! Be consistent. Do the unthinkable. Surprise the country (though not as surprising now). Show ’em that ”as Maine goes, so goes the nation.” Make dodge ball’s dream come true. Show the country how foolish we really are by: 1) even entertaining this thing being elected to anything but a council of circus freaks. 2) lending legitimacy to it.
He could be the poster child for the whole Tea Party…that is exactly what I picture each and every one of them to look like.
It’s remarkable how many ad hominen attacks the Left can launch against people with ideas and beliefs contrary to their own. Not that they would ever want to waste their vitriol on something like an academic, fact-based debate. I used to think the far right were the kings and queens of fear-mongering and then I saw the Left in action in Obama’s New America…..
They could have chosen to use this photo here on my campaign site. http://dodgeforsenate.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/CanDodgepicsmall1-300×296.jpg But hey where is the fun in that? No pirate jokes mean a dull comment section.
Ok, looks aside, I also did a google search for Andrew Ian Dodge. Up popped this gem of a post he wrote:
“This is a visitor post by Andrew Ian Dodge
“You’re 39, conscientious got married and everything looks vivid until the sudden discovery of colon cancer. A chief hand account of the events that follow written by Andrew Ian Dodge and his wife Kim Dodge. A percentage of the avails will go to Maine Cancer Foundation.”
Unfortunately this is not the sketch the latest weepy from Hollywood or the latest Lifetime mini-order. It was our life for the latter half of 2007 and most of 2008.
Less than 6 months in imitation of Kim & I married I was diagnosed with colon cancer which turned out to subsist stage 3. There were post-action complications blamed on a faulty instrument and all sorts of odd moments acknowledgments to chemo. Needless to say the experience has influenced me in many ways.
My mind of the book were written in the same proportion that it happened, though much of it had to be cleaned up for clarity. I wrote like much as I could during the healthy time, even blogging from ICU, granting not very coherently. Kim and I managed through to procreate the book finished early this year and in the long run found a good e-book publisher. I like to compass that some of my parts are mildly droll with a touch of gallows jocoseness.
Proceeds from the book are going to the Maine Cancer Foundation to this place in Maine to benefit others going end similar trauma. And it is but $.99”
Is this the same guy? I mean, cancer sucks and all that, but if this is how you write, you don’t get to be a Senator. Sorry.
Why can’t Public schools educate children on the basics of US history. “fiscal restraint, limited government and individual liberty” created the enormous wealth and success of this county”. Nonsense. Slavery created the enormous wealth of this country. The slave trade and King Cotton funded the banks of New York, built the Erie Canal, the textile, shoe, and manufactuing plants of Mass. Government deficit spending created the railroads, mines, and the west after the civil war. That investment funded the steel explosion of the 1880’s and 90’s. Government spending for WWI promoted the investment bubble of the 1920s when “fiscal restraint, limited government and inividual liberty” brought total economic collapse.
Europe has now proved that fiscal restraint in economic downturns produces recession and economic collapse. Hoover tried it in 1929 and it failed. We and Europe are trying it now and it is failing.
Please no!!!