BRUNSWICK, Maine — Former Gov. Angus King has received more than $350,000 over the past year and a half as a consultant, trust executor, college professor, corporate director, public speaker and author, and he and his wife, Mary Herman, hold millions of dollars in assets that include stocks, bonds and mutual funds.
Meanwhile, King’s Republican and Democratic rivals for Maine’s open U.S. Senate seat have incomes that are notably smaller and less diversified.
The details are contained in financial disclosure reports the candidates had to file with the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics. King filed his report last month and Republican Charlie Summers and Democrat Cynthia Dill finished their reports this week.
The deadline for filing the financial disclosure report was May 15. Candidates face a $200 penalty for filing more than 30 days late.
The length of the reports — which cover Jan. 1, 2011, through the report filing date — speaks to the differences in wealth and income among King and his two rivals.
King’s 25-page report lists 23 sources of non-investment income and 15 pages of mutual fund, stock and bond holdings for King, Herman and their children.
Summers’ five-page report lists his salary as Maine’s secretary of state, his wife’s income from a foundation that awards scholarship money to students attending for-profit colleges, and a handful of stock holdings.
Dill’s eight-page report includes her income as a state senator, her husband’s income as a teacher and an early withdrawal from a retirement fund.
“People have known that Angus was wealthy,” said King campaign manager Kay Rand. “When he was governor, wealth didn’t influence the way he governed, and it’s not going to influence the way he votes in Washington.”
During the nearly 18 months covered by the report, King earned five-figure sums for sitting on company boards, including $67,000 for the Bank of Maine, $18,000 for Hancock Lumber and $25,000 for Woodard & Curran, an international engineering firm with an office in Portland. Campaign spokeswoman Crystal Canney said King resigned from the federally regulated Bank of Maine board in April in order to avoid a conflict of interest.
King also divested his ownership in wind development company Independence Wind in preparation for his Senate run, selling his stake to partner Rob Gardiner. The disclosure report shows that King earned a profit of $69,500 from that transaction. He also had earned $50,000 a year in management fees for three years he spent working on the development of two wind turbine projects, at Record Hill in Roxbury and Highland Plantation in Somerset County.
King also earned almost $40,000 from his Maine state government pension and between $10,000 and $30,000 during the reporting period in rental income from two rental properties in Brunswick and a rental condo on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas.
The value of the assets King and his wife hold in mutual funds, stocks and bonds, including a number of stocks Herman inherited, amounts to millions of dollars, said Canney.
Herman’s stocks include holdings in Apple, Exxon Mobil, Nike, PepsiCo, Nike and Toyota. Her bonds include holdings for Augusta, Bangor, Cape Elizabeth and Kennebunk, along with the Maine Turnpike Authority and the Maine Municipal Bond Bank.
Summers listed just one source of non-investment income: his $72,727-a-year job as Maine’s secretary of state. His report, however, listed just $70,000 in income for all of 2011 and the first six months of 2012.
Campaign manager Lance Dutson said Summers actually earned about $105,000 during the reporting period and the campaign will have to amend the disclosure report.
Summers’ stocks include holdings in Exxon Mobil, Ford, PepsiCo and Wal-Mart. He lists no income-generating properties.
Dill’s financial disclosure lists about $66,000 in non-investment income from her service as a state legislator, an adjunct professor at Southern Maine Community College and an early $30,000 withdrawal from a retirement plan. Dill also reports income as a consultant for Washington, D.C.-based Common Cause, where she used to work, and Friends of the Maine Woods, an advocacy group Dill started to support the location of a national park in northern Maine.
Her only stock market investments appear to be two mutual funds. She also is part owner of a rental condo in Cape Elizabeth and is part owner of a parcel of land in Walpole, N.H.
Independent candidate Andrew Ian Dodge also has filed a disclosure report.
Unsuccessful candidates in the Democratic and Republican primaries also had to file financial disclosures. Those who have filed already include Democrat Matt Dunlap and Republicans Rick Bennett, William Schneider and Bruce Poliquin.
A vote for Angus is a vote for corruption. See his shady dealings with wind power if you want evidence.
As a young man tagging along with my father, a third generation carpenter / contractor, I learned growing up in the fifties and sixties that there are three types of the wealthy . The Old Rich, the Young Rich, and those who “Aspire to be Rich” .
Old Rich wear it with with humility, they are more secure in their person and are fairer, the Young Rich are arrogant and boastful and are unaware of others , for them it’s “all about me” !
And the “Aspiring Rich” will cut your throat in a hearbeat!
This theory couldn’t be better illustrated than with this current selection.
I’ll go with Angus!
Angus seems to fit nicely into the “young rich” category. And I guess that we can conclude that you are against the 1 percenters except when you are for the 1 percenters.
Not all 1% are the same, I’ am just against the greedy callous ones.
Teddy Roosevelt was from the rich set yet he desired to break up Monopolies, this even caused him to be austracized from the republican party.FDR was the Old Rich. A true humanatarian leader.Bill gates is a philanthropist. Also Warren Buffet , would be the old rich, Dill’s little gymnastic stunt on the memorial shows her to be the young, and the restless. Quite inconsiderate and self absorbed .LOLCharlie Summers is a sure wannabee!The Koch Brothers are the most dangerous of all as despite their age and their considerable wealth they are still insatiable !
Like I said, you are against them except when you are for them. Either you are “all in” or “all out”, you can’t have it both ways and that has always been the problem with this stupid 1% crusade. Sorry, but I cannot be convinced otherwise.
Thomas Edison was of the 1 % crowd, so was Bernie Madoff!
Which one would you trust with a dollar to go to the store to buy you a newspaper?
Madoff would play the dollar at the Wall Street casino and con someone else into delivering yesterday’s newspaper. Edison would give you a newspaper he found in the trash and pocket the buck. You would get your newspaper and Edison would get a merit badge from Harvey Firestone and Henry Ford, his skinflint buddies.
Your probably right!
LOL
Neither, and I am sure that is your way of saying you get my point. That is my problem with that whole movement. Not all one percenters are included in the fight against the one percenters. Nice guys like Angus King and Steve Jobs are excluded. Makes no sense.
Steve Jobs was NOT a Nice guy!
He offshored Jobs to Chinese Slave Camps, giving up American Jobs just to increase profit margins!
1% ers should be evaluated by their actions, not their wealth.
“Not all 1% are the same, I’ am just against the greedy callous ones.”
Right, 1%ers are only bad if you say so. mkay?
Yup…that’s why when it comes to the charitable contributions line every April 15 the open wallets belong to the conservative and/or Christian righties while the liberal lefties report stingy percentages………….. reflective of transparent, callous greediness.
Really? Please point me to the stats that validate this.
Do you really check the statistics for righteousness factors with every decision that faces you in your life? Do you really not walk on the sidewalk until you check the stats on how many accidents have occured on the stretches in front of your house? Do you really refuse to pat dogs until you find out how many dogs have bitten humans?
http://blog.geoiq.com/2009/01/07/dataset-of-the-day-who-is-more-generous-republicans-or-democrats/
Feel free to charitably pay Gore’s home electric bill to change the stats.
learn about tax writeoffs.
you think that they “donate” to help others?
So on the one hand you like to paint people with a broad brush. But on the other you want to make exceptions when its convenient for you.
A Bag of Cortland Apples makes for good pie.
A Bag of rotten Cortland Apples makes for pig slopp.
Closer Inspection of the contents makes ALL the differance.
difference.
Close inspection!
See, it works!
Yes, indeed. The Kochs landed directly beneath the parental tree: their pappy was a key contributor and booster of Robert Welch’s John birch Society, a favorite tree house club for conspiracy theorists, reactionary cranks and selfish old poops for decades.
‘Not all 1% are the same, I’ am just against the greedy callous ones. No your only against the ones who support Republicans. When they support Liberals and their views your with them 100%. Angus is one of the most ego driven, pompous, arrogant , corrupt individuals in Maine’s History. He is Maine’s Boss Hog or J.R. Ewing. He made most of his wealth off of the backs of Maine Taxpayers through subsidies and other handots. He started creating his wealth back in the 8o’s by getting money through huge subsidies from our electric bills and through other handouts with CMP, Bangor Hydro/Maine Public Service. He has collected more money through land buys with the Nature Conservancy, now he is doing it with the Wind Power Scam. He hasn’t held a real job he has only gotten his wealth through Government Subsidies/Handouts, Working with MPBN (Maine Watch + Other Programs) and Governor. The guy if he hadn’t gotten his money through us he would be a bum collecting Welfare. The guy is a snake. Now he with his Massive Ego since Olympia Snow is now gone thinks he can waltz right in and take this seat having it handed to him unchallenged. Well Maine People will see this charade for what it is. A guy who is an empty suit who only wants to go in and rubber stamp Nobama’s pathetic economic and social agenda. Then give handouts to all of his Liberal buddies.
I was following you right up to the last line. There you lost me. It is President Obama’s social agenda.
Don’t Blame Me!
I can’t help it that Republicans are Callous and Greedy!
LOL
And just where do you list George Soros, who dumps millions into the Democrats coffers?
Old yet still aspiring!
I think that he has become immune from feelings in his Hedge fund Transactions!
I do not see Angus as young (AKA arrogant) rich. He looked out for the kids of Maine. He brought the laptops into the schools where they are still today, and we have seen them become a very integrated part of learning, and help keep our kids up with technology. He was also the Governor that made it mandatory for all teachers to be finger printed as a way to help keep our kids safe from predators in the school systems of Maine.
He has my vote, and if he is elected and then decides to leave and run again for Governor of Maine, I would vote for him then too because he is WAY better than any of the ones who have held that office since he left.
You want arrogant, or aspiring??? LePage is definitely your man. He is proving over and over he does not care about all Maine people. He did not get my vote to get into office, is and has been proving why he did not deserve my vote, and he will certainly not get it if he runs again. If Angus is not in the race for Governor next time, I will vote for the best candidate that can defeat the little dictator that is there now, AND be good to the true majority of Maine people.
He sure looked out for the kids the laptop program is a boondoggle. It has done nothing to improve performance in schools and the kids take them home and abuse them by using it to download songs, be on facebook with them, go to websites that are distasteful etc.. If Laptops are a success we wouldn’t be 27th in the country and dropping fast in Education.
Just like some people at work. Go figure… People use Facebook, download music, and go to distasteful website… No big surprise there… We know this is true because as we have seen in the news businesses are putting in software to stop people from doing all of that, and more in some cases.
But as far as the computer being at home with the kids. Remember what the schools have been saying (and I agree)… Parent’s involvement in the home go a long way too.
I’ve had kids tell me that they use the laptops to play games at school during class, and that “there’s nothing the teacher can do about it”
And I have seen people at work use it to play games instead of working too.
On the other hand I have seen kids learning software in school at the early high school level that is used in jobs now. Look everything a kid is doing with them in school that we consider is bad, and remember that adults in jobs doing the same thing, and by the way most of those computers are Microsoft driven computers… Does that mean that I am a bad person because I was smart to own some of their stock? NO!!! So if you are going to complain about them being in the school, then you might as well complain about them being everywhere. You might as well complain about all the people that own stock in some type of computer driven company too. Look… with the good comes the bad. It is up to us as adults to make sure it is used for the right thing. If you are not helping, then complain all you want, because you are part of the problem and you at least can hear yourself.
LOL!!!! “He brought laptops to schools”
are you serious?
he created a multi-million dollar fiasco that we’re enduntured to for years now!
we’ve paid close to a billion dollars over the past 10 years for this bs.
He even owns stock in apple.
He got rich off that, don’t fool yourself into thinking he was doing it for “the children of maine”
And we are already starting to pay for LePage’s bs now which is MUCH worse than either of the two good thing I have mentioned that Angus did for us. We are all going to find something that we feel is wrong with any politician, even if it is just that he is from the wrong party (or does not belong to one). And as far as your comment on him getting rich, read my reply to your other statement. BUT I am noticing everyone is hinging on the computers… So I am guessing you and the rest agree that it was a good thing that he did to protect our kids.
Than you don’t fully understand his last name ( The King) and that is exactly how he conducts himself. Ask anyone who served with him, in Augusta. Yes either party and they will tell you the full story and for the benefit of Maine, he should not go to Washington as it will be only to benefit, himself. He needs to continue to take his money off shore, not pay taxes and reside in his Virgin Island mansion as he was doing. Good Ole Maine boy, huh? Not by a long shot.
I would rather have that “King” as Governor again, than have the little dictator we have now.
Are you seriously calling Angus King “Old Rich”?
No! I said that I would go with Angus.
He is “Old” however!
He ain’t much but he is better than the other two!
And therefore you go with corruption.
he’s gotten rich from our money, from our children’s money.
Thats how he made his money off power with grants and bonds in which the bonds are being paided back by the state taxpayers when he was Gov. So we just helped make him richer. It will be a sad day if he goes to Washington.
Would you rather that people not buy Maine bonds?
To make AUGUS RICHER, the answer is NO
There is a reason Angus is asking that no one take money from the “super pacs”. Right now he can outspend everyone. If the superpacs get involved it might become a level playing field. Honestly (wink wink) he is looking out for the process.
The one thing both King & Quimby have in common— Quimby
Anyone else find it odd that a owner of a wind company would have stocks in Exxon Mobile?
Cause the guy has been a hypocrite from day one.
Not at all. Exxon’s a good company and pays a reasonable dividened. A lot of people own it.
Exxon is a great company to invest in, I even have some of their stocks. However, I don’t own a company that claims to be part of the industry that will get us away from oil.
Why not? That’s like saying that you won’t buy both Kraft and Proctor and Gamble stock because their products compete with each other. Love for fossil fuels doesn’t preclude establishing alternatives.
Ahh Angus, King of the 1%ers.
No wonder he doesn’t need Super PAC money and is challenging his running mates not to take money either. Go figure.
Why not report the whole story? How much did they pay in taxes for 2011?
Long live the KING!
We already have a Dictator in Washington, do we really need a King?
Of course we need a KING in Washington. And just think, he’ll bring Queen Mary with him!
Bush left 3 1/2 years ago!
Wait a minute, Dill is paid to promote a park? Is she an Angus understudy?
Now I forget, do we like King because he’s Liberal, or hate him because he’s wealthy?
Excellent!
we hate him because he’s acquired his wealth from the taxpayers.
much like we hate welfare cheats.
The only thing this tells me is that should King win, he will be a Senator of below average wealth.
You will need to wait ti”ll he leaves before you can make that distinction!
Andrew Ian Dodge financial report must look like mine…not worthy of wasting the ink to print it.
It’s interesting that Angus owns Apple and that Apple was the company chosen for the laptop program in Maine when Angus was governor.
don’t forget first wind,
he was on the board of directors at one time.
The impoverished people of Maine would appreciate a promise from King that he would fulfill his office on a non-paid basis for the duration of his term….just as Gov. Romney and his Lt. Governor did while they were in their offices in Massachusetts.
Guess it’s all in how you define “rich”…
Mr. Obama is a 1% too fella. No different than Romney.I am going to vote “none of the above”.
The only problem with that is that you end up with “one of the above”.
Did I miss the newsflash that reported Obama’s refusal to take the people’s money in the form of payment for office? Perhaps I did miss it along with the non-promises of Elysian Fields.
Mr. Obama has no where near the wealth that Romney has and he sure wasn’t born with a silver spoon in his mouth like Romney was. Mr Obama doesn’t hide what he pays,or in Romney’s case,what he doesn’t pay in taxes either. Have you noticed that Romney always talks about how his father struggled to get ahead but he never talks about his own struggles because he never had any. Last but not least ,as a veteran I find it shameful that Romney protested in favor of the draft in 1966 and told people to stand up and be counted and then run of to France and lived in a castle made for wealthy people while he did missionary work for the Mormon church. I’m quite sure he enjoyed his deferment from the draft so he didn’t have to serve his country.
Are you inferring that Americans of peace goals who volunteer their service on a non-paid basis are are non-patriotic?
No, I’m inferring that anyone who chastises other people for protesting a war and trys to goad them into fighting in that war and then turns and runs to another country is Non-Patriotic. What would you call them?
Cowards
… and chicken hawks.
There is a multi issue murkiness in your argument.
There is a need to stress the importance to younger readers of
learning the facts surrounding all “of-age” (primarily male) people back in the sixties and seventies. They need to understand how the draft was implemented and they need to understand the nature of the social protests that divided the country.
We know the arguments we heard at the time from war protesters regarding war and peace and the war being “against their religion”. Their cards continue to burn in our memories. All those other issues of college vs. military, draft vs. volunteer, the subsequential unpaid volunteerism vs. paid volunteerism arguments and the number system are with us older folks still.
The complexity of your argument is real and very much alive in all of us oldsters and we deal with it in ways eligible young voters do not
especially if we are parents of the military which defends presently. Matters of social and religious conscience are not the same now having been turned upside down as evidenced by old religious guard defense of babies’ right to life at the hands of parents who choose to kill their own children far from any foreign battlefield. What is the current war and where is the battlefield? We face a huge, challenging new reality.
So to your question, “What would you call them?”
Elected officials of our times need true conscience. They need to understand leadership with the defense of the country primary, of course but a very close second priority is national leadership that unites every American, spoken in the language we understand as American. A leader of true conscience based on the life experience of outreach
and solid judgement, carried out with morality and ethics is what the country is begging for in my humble opinion. What is your proof that any candidate will or will not be capable of the office they seek? We need to “stand up and be counted” as our individual consciences speak to every one of us.
We will not get leadership if we do not demand it. These candidates are putty in our hands until the election. It is up to us to raise the standard and then demand accountability from every one of them after the election for the sake of the coming generations of Americans.
”
. They need to understand leadership with the defense of the country primary,”
okay, so that’s saying that we haven’t had a real leader in decades, considering that they let illegals into the country by the millions, refuse to deport them, and even set up special programs just for them.
Thank you, AL…
True. Obama only hides all his college records and transcripts, the passport he traveled on, his writings as a student, etc, etc.
While he didn’t enter public service as a wealthy millionaire, he’ll most certianly exit public service as one; just as Clinton did.
Do you honestly believe that Obama could somehow fake all his college records and still become President of the Harvard Law Review. Quit drinking the “Tea” and watching the Fox ,Not really News, show and you’ll come to your senses.
His college history is quite interesting if you follow all the digging into his past by the right wing Hacks!
It looks as though the ALLEDGED reason that he became a proffesor of sorts for harvard was that he let his Legal License lapse as his application for the bar exam came under scrutiny . It appears as though he had quite a pile of parking tickets during his college years. One of the questions for the bar exam was about if he had any outstanding warrants or fines.
He answered NO and shortly there after his exam somebody turned him in!
The best and easiest way out was to withdraw without protest.
Look it up and you will find the alledged scandal.
It is quite plausibe.
Please point me to the proof of any of this! I don’t care if what you say is left or right, just whether it’s true.
There is the wealth envy I was taking about….. Why on Earth should someone be hated because they are wealthy? Stone Cold Pure Jealousy.
Mormons do that missionary stuff all over. They usually do it before they have a family and obligations.
Do they all cheer for other peoples children to go fight their wars for them before they go?
First of all, I am not jealous of Mitt Romney and I certainly don’t hate him and no sane individual would hate anyone because they are wealthy. One has to ask themselves how you would expect anyone who has never had to want or struggle for anything in their life to understand what everyday people go through. With the middle class shrinking because of business policies of people like Mr. Romney who like to ship jobs overseas to enhance their bottom line we now have to many people just barely getting by from week to week and a lot of people wondering if they are going to be able to put food on the table for their families.Jealousy has nothing to do with it but being able to relate to people’s suffering does.
So you must be against Obama shipping the entire electrical division of GE to India????? Jeff Imelt, (Obama’s best buddy) did that. And there’s the 5 billion transfer of US money to a Brazilian Oil company that George Soros just bought controlling interest in….. Obama gives the oil company 5 billion to drill in 5 mile deep water….Soros sells and pockets billions profit from WE the people, in a 2 week shell game.
I didn’t know that Obama was CEO of GE. It was actually the xray part of their medical division that’s going to China and your story about the $5billion dollar transfer of US money to a brazilian oil company was a myth that was concocted by Fox Fake News and Glenn Beck and was debunked a long time ago. People like you never really look for the facts ,you just swallow the lies because you want to believe them and then you help spread those lies. It doesn’t take a whole lot of effort to get to the truth but most of you Right Wingers have never heard of Fact Check. By the way,I’m against any of our jobs going overseas no matter who’s responsible. I’m a retired union thug that wants everyone to work for good wages and benefits.
If Jeff Imelt did this, how did our President do it too? If Mr. Soros invests in Brazil (a country that is thriving, by the way) why should we care? Neither of these instances or complaining about them solve the inequality problems.
Sounds like the 1% have us just where they want us. Insecure and subservient.
because that “wealth” was garnered from the tax payers.
Don’t you hate welfare cheats that live rent free, get everything handed to them, and drive nicer cars than you? they get their living from your tax dollars.
It’s the same with king.
I would vote for the Republican. BUT, I just hate wealth envy aimed at folks that got rich by working their butts off. If he got his from government deals, I’m with you. As for ” big wind”, I don’t know weather it sucks or blows, I just know it’s inefficient and ugly.
The you will get “one of the above”!
it doesn’t matter who you vote for now.
Everyone should be able to see that.
LOL, he’s a couple hundred million dollars different than Romney actually.
Promises from politicians are generally meaningless. LePage is the only one to follow through on exactly what he campaigned on – regardless of whether you love or hate him. He is consistently grounded in his beliefs. Angus King is just trying to broaden his empire.
Our philosophies overlap more often than not as well as I can determine from your previous posts and here as well.
Everyone knows the meaning of “politician” but asking what the descriptor “non-politician” means the usual first reaction is head-scratching. Gov. LePage provides me the definition too. Odd that actually given a non-politician so many people refuse to kick the ‘R” and “D” knee jerk invective. Camoflage King of Politics can try to appeal to higher instinct but if his flawed integrity is permitted authority it will be too late for Mainers armed only with hope.
You have to admit however, that it’s highly unusual for a “politician” to refuse a salary from the state’s voters which he serves, just as Gov. Romney did in Massachusetts. Does that make him a “non-politician”? I think there is plenty of debate on that but realistically, how does a conservative govern the Massachusetts Legislature without political street smaaa…ts?
Yeah, LePage is “consistently grounded” alright, in fact, is often sinks far below ground!!
One of Lepage’s foremost campaign promises was to get rid of Dirigo Health as a first priority if elected.
Each of his budgets as submitted to the legislature (and as passed by them and signed by lePage) has funded Dirigo Health 100%. Not one single position in the Dirigo Health office has been eliminated or proposed for elimination.
LePage’s administration has been advertising on the radio seeking new applicants for Dirigo health to further expand the program.
What was that you wrote about LePage being “the only one to follow through on exactly what he campaigned on “.
You seriously may want to rethink your postion on that one.
If memory serves me correctly,Angus did not accept pay when he was govenor.
just back room deals that made him rich through never-ending programs and companies that he helped create or enable while in office.
King need not be concerned about instilling an aura of mystery concerning his political positions and flawed ideology to Mainers . An unproductive and dilatory tour at the Blaine House, lavish payoffs from the Federal government to underwrite his Quixote quests, and the rapacious destruction of Maine’s wilderness are all too familiar themes to those who have eyes to see. Like his ebony inamorata in Washington, King will pursue an agenda of moral decline and uncontrolled spending, ignoring the wishes of hard-working Mainers while ushering our children and grandchildren into an age of government excess that resigns them to a common existence. This mildewed remnant of average intellect will unlikely go away in the near future; however, he should be reminded frequently and often that a failed legacy cannot be easily obfuscated.
Put down your quill pen and read Hemingway. Write like he did.
Liberty taken to despise the symbolic “quill pen” in favor of a literary artist I will take liberty as well and tell you to write like the founders wrote instead of any literary artist of my choice.
How do you like them cookies?
Actually the prose falls a little short of Herman Melville – Quequeeg might try mastering Melville before he moves on to Hemingway. :-)
“ebony inamorata”??? Give me a freaking break!
Multi syllable racism is still racism.
Quequeeg is quite disgusting. Luckily most folks don’t even bother to read his inane rants.
how is that racist again?
Your prose, while well composed to show you intelligence, also shows your not so veiled racism.
Prove it! The poster establishes with his own words a moral equivalence of agendas bewteen King and Obama and therefore is not the one guilty as charged.
We challenge you to lift the “not-so-veiled” with words of your own choice so that we can determine where racism exists, if at all. Educate us…
lol, you liberals all cry racism if anyone disagrees with your messiah at the WH.
Won’ sending someone who already has his wealth to the Senate prevent the “make my first hundred million” effect like she who is being replaced did? The US Senate is a place for the 1%ers. They either come in as one, or make it on the job.
I don’t hate King because he is wealthy. I am disgusted that his wealth comes from backroom deals garnished off the backs of Maine taxpayers. Our current fiscal crisis in America is due to people like Angus King who use their political leverage to line their pockets. King is part of America’s leadership vacuum – perfumed princes seeking to better themselves at the expense of the peasants. He fits the mold for a modern Senator – but not one that serves the interests of the citizens.
King will cut up the forests for wind farms , Dill will close the forests for a park , I hope Summers is somewhere in the middle. I think I’ll vote for him.
Summers, in the middle??Ha!
I hope you get the chance before he finds a way to kick you off the voter rolls!
I do not like wind power, and it looks like King will be the King of wind power. I knew I did not like this guy.
Romney 2012
We can not afford another 4 years!!!!!
If you like Romney, than you should like King–they both represent the 1%.
YES but is ANYONE QUALIFIED for the job?? That seems to be the biggest issue. No one really need be qualified to fill the position, just like President, but if they have the MOST MONEY they win. this isn’t MONOPOLY, it’s real life. How about we start electing people that have a realistic focus on living like the Average Joe and then go from there….
Would you rather have an average joe or someone who’s been very successful as one of your senators?
the average joe.
someone that’s in touch with reality.
someone that knows what it’s like to be one of his constituents.
I sincerely hope that folks will look into the past and review, before they vote. Forget the party system and vote for the brightest with the least baggage and the one who owes the least political favors which gets us into trouble. Putting unqualified people into top jobs, because they owe them or they are family. You can bet your boots that ole Angus has some major money motive for this position and its not to help the citizens of Maine. So many people just don’t understand what their vote, will do.
He already has a lot of money, so why would you bet that money is a major motive for his senate run?
A Senate spot opens up a world of connections worth more then the salary it pays. The United States Senate might as well be the mob given their exploitation of most Americans and their insane financial compensation for retirement.
There’s some truth in that, and I guess that’s why most of us don’t like politicians.
Looks like the folks in Maine are rabid with wealth envy. It’s an incurable malignant disease of the brain that causes the brain to rot. What’s that stench….?
Ignorance.
Not wealth – exploiting taxpayers by using political connections to get ahead on the backs of taxpayers. Angus King is the quintessential politician – part lawyer, part white collar criminal.
King–Mr. 1%
I don’t know if I’ll vote for him, but I see his wealth as a plus. It shows that he’s been successful.
Or that he can game the system.
So you are voting against Mitt Romney then?
Why bother to vote, it’s blatantly clear that the system is corrupt.
votes can be made from dead people, from illegal immigrants, even from people that don’t even exist.
Romney is the same as obama, just like king is the same as baldacci
Do you see people that use and abuse the welfare system to get free cars, free education, free housing, free food, and free clothing as successful?
Because that’s what angus has done, but on a much larger scale.
he’s gotten rich on the backs of the taxpayers.
Surprise, surprise. King is a rich liberal elite worth millions. Like Pingree and the rest of the liberal limo crowd trying to pass themselves off as good ol’ Yankee just regular folk….
“the rest of the liberal limo crowd” — yeah, like the ultra-liberal Dill, ridding high on the high on the hog with her and her husband’s teacher’s salary.
Does your criticism follow through and fault Romney for all his money? He’s way richer and way more educated at those liberal elite schools. Is he a regular Yankee folk?
I don’t believe Romney has tried to pass himself off as such.
No, he’s a one percenter that liberals hate, Angus is a one percenter that liberals love. Its simple to understand once you think like a liberal.
Did the Heritage Foundation help Summers hide his money?
No , just the Voter Registration forms.
What a disgusting comment.
I read the comment and it was very disgusting and should have been flagged. Obviously this person is an ignorant bigot and should not be allowed to post on these pages.
I wouldn’t go that far. Some of his posts are very good. But when he’s bad . . . .
For those of us who’re late checking in… from whom was the offensive post?
The offensive post was from BHRegulator.
Your entitled to your opinion but I’ll stick by what I said. He’s an ignoramus.
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Wow, that’s real harsh and wrong. I don’t think it’ll be up long.
I stand with Angus, but would vote for anyone other then Charlie Summers
Charlie Summers sole good point is that he is a betetr choice than Poliquin would have been.
you stand with corruption.
correct me if I am wrong but hasn’t king made most of his money from government subsidies and programs?
The vast majority of King’s wealth came from selling his investments in private sector businesses that have nothing to do with wind power.
so what about being on the board of directors for First Wind?
I’m sure he made quite a bit of money from that.
And what about the Apple laptop program the he set up?
He owns stock in apple…
He’s made his fortune on the backs of us, the taxpayers
“The very rich…are different from you and me.” This comment by F. Scott Fitzgerald is right on. The very rich see the world differently from you and me. They don’t have my concerns, and they don’t necessarily have my best interests at heart. I don’t want a very rich guy like King to be my governor. Let him go back to making more big money.
I’ve either worked with, or served with, Gov’s Longley, Brennan, Curtis, McKernan, King, Baldaccie, and now LePage.
Sorry to disappoint, but of that list of seven, I’d prefer serving with King over the others.
He wasn’t perfect, and caved in to King John Martin more than I’d like, but he WAS the best Chief Executive of the bunch and effected critical Workers Compensation reforms.
I’m still disappointed Rick Bennett and Matt Dunlap failed to win their respective primaries, as the race would have been closer next November.
The Magnificent Seven!
LOL
Matt Dunlap was at least a “Maine Boy” and would have been a better choice then Dill!
Matt Dunlap would have been an excellent choice and I have been somewhat disappointed that the Republicans have never given Peter Mills a shot at the Republican nomination for Governor. I think both of these guys would have worked in a bi-partisan fashion to do what’s right for Maine.
I supported Bill Schnieder but I definately would have voted for Bennett.
The curreent crop of candidates has actually caused me to consider skipping voting for a major office for the first time in over 5 decades.
If Summers keeps up his spitting in the face of the public with his ethical lapses I might consider voting for King just because he’s not as horrible as the others.
Kind of like chosing to get the flu if it keeps you from getting malaria …
St. Thomas is a great place to hide additional income… Sometimes you can’t hear or see a snake until it strikes.
How’s that? St. Thomas is a US territory subject to US laws including income tax and payroll taxes.
Sometimes footinyourbackside can’t see a jackass even when looking in the mirror at one.
Go with the Cayman Islands. Jackstraw is right.
Was that necessary?
Every time you see a rich Republican running for office, he’s automatically considered a DC fat cat,,, WELL, in this case King is the one that “is” disconnected from the typical Mainer…!
Dill one the other hand represents the extreme greenie liberal brain-washed treehugger
If you would like to do a comparison on wealth disparity,
check the disparity between Congressmen, Senators and their electorate.
Who says Americans do not have a Monarchy.
I’m tired of hearing about millionaires being elected to public office… They certainly don’t do it for the people, or to serve their fellow Americans. Holding public office is supposed to be a service, a sacrifice, not unlike being in our nation’s military… Now however, it’s all about social status and power. When did we decide that predominantly only the wealthy were capable of representing our interests? We didn’t, but since they have the ability to campaign, advertise, and pander to the public, while their less affluent competitors have to continue to worry about where the next meal is coming from, or how they are going to pay their bills, they tend to win more times than not… Make no mistake, wealthy career politicians are not like us, they don’t think like us, and they don’t live anything like most of us. Our founders never intended that Politics would become a lucrative career field, service in political office was supposed to be a service, a sacrifice to mankind, and to our country… Now people get rich doing absolutely nothing, but being a politician, and taking advantage of the opportunities that become available to, or are revealed to politicians before anyone else… I don’t know how we fix this broken system, most times I think it just can’t be fixed… This is how most great nations begin their slow decent into mediocrity, then eventually into failure and dissolution. Our bright shining moment in the world has passed I fear. We are no longer what we once were, and I seriously doubt that we will ever be again. But by god; once we were a shining beacon of righteous freedom and history will remember us…
soooo… all you liberals that think that angus is still your savior…
He’s gotten rich off the backs of the taxpayers.