PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — Surrounded by green balloons and volunteers sporting matching T-shirts and holding signs, Angus King, the independent former governor, returned to Aroostook County on Friday to open a campaign office to aid in his bid to replace outgoing Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe.
The office, located at 168 State Street, officially opened at 2:30 p.m., shortly after King met with area farmers to discuss agriculture issues. It is the first office opened outside of the campaign’s headquarters in Brunswick, King said Friday.
Campaign staffers, friends, business leaders and others flocked Friday to the new campaign location in Presque Isle. King said he targeted the city as a great office possibility due to the large number of “very active” volunteers, including Patty LeBlanc, office manager and a longtime King supporter.
At this point, King said Friday, he has between 1,500 and 2,000 volunteers, including a number of high school and college students. They include Amanda Bennett, junior head volunteer for the Presque Isle campaign, who will be a senior this fall at Presque Isle High School.
King said he was excited to see the office opening, adding that his meeting with area farmers gave him a chance to learn about the issues that are important to them.
“Advancing agricultural policy in Congress is critical but can’t happen unless, and until, we also work together to fix the process in our nation’s capital that is now broken,” he said.
King also planned to attend the Maine Potato Board’s annual industry dinner Friday evening.
And on Saturday, he plans to march in the Potato Blossom Festival Parade in Fort Fairfield.
King is running for the U.S. Senate seat against state Sen. Cynthia Dill, the Democrats’ nominee, and Maine Secretary of State Charlie Summers, the Republican candidate. Both Summers and Dill also were scheduled to make appearances at several campaign events in Fort Fairfield on Friday and Saturday in conjunction with the Potato Blossom Festival.
Summers was to attend the potato industry dinner and march in the festival parade on Saturday. Dill planned to spend the day in Fort Fairfield Friday and to march in the parade Saturday.
On Monday, King begins a 600-mile motorcycle trip across the state with supporters to talk about issues in Maine. He will be riding with a group of friends from Fort Kent to Kittery. The four-day campaign ride will pass through towns and cities and also will double as a food drive effort.
Canned goods will be collected along the way by those joining the ride and will be donated to local food pantries.
A fitting place given that Presque Isle is the site of the state’s only public experiment in wind electricity, Angus King’s scam du jour.
Of course UMS has run a major cover up of this gross failure and continues to cheer lead this farce of an energy source, despite observed cumulative production at Presque Isle of less than 10% of capacity in the three plus years of operation.
Will the new UMPI president deliver the facts to the state or continue the cover up?
Angus King, wind huckster and profiteering insider sure won’t.
Meanwhile, google “What every Maine ratepayer needs to know”
He forged the passage of laws the tripled our electric cost, now he is trying to do it again.. Obama and Angus are good friends because Obama money funds Angus’s dream to make billions for his cronies..
amen to that! he is as smooth as they come. fitting to have the people that he has running the office. he is as far to the left as they come unbelievable.
Old Fashion Politic’n, out and about the constituency!
It’ sure is better then the Back Alley Knife Fights!
A little less entertaining , but better!
After all if you have seen Knife Fight youve seen em all!
Crapola…..
King need not be concerned about instilling an aura of mystery concerning his political position 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 should be reminded frequently and often that a failed legacy cannot be easily obfuscated.
“King said he was excited to see the office opening, adding
that his meeting with area farmers gave him a chance to learn about the issues
that are important to them.”
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he’s looking for more ways to steal from the state, he needs another country rv tour at maine taxpayers expence
Anyone who can keep a straight face while they lie to you and tout the false benefits of industrial wind power and destroy the scenic beauty and quality of place that Maine is slowly losing are true royalty….in fact they must be a KING
Folks, there is a giant dirty scandal going on here where Angus King smiles to the people’s faces, uses his silver tongue and costs Mainers tens of millions of dollars – and that is only the beginning. If the Bangor Daily New would get out of the tank for wind power and Angus King, this person wouldn’t be worried about Capitol Hill but rather a rockpile at a penitentary.
Please read: “The Untold Story of Record Hill Wind” at the following link:
http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-untold-story-of-record-hill-wind-continued
Did he park his new Mercedes RV in a nearby lot, where it would escape notice?
http://www.portlanddailysun.me/index.php/newsx/local-news/7112-the-crash-report-the-king-s-new-wheels
The King’s New Wheels – $130K Mercedes RV for campaigning
http://www.leisurevans.com/u24ib/
Take the Virtual Tour of the Mercedes RV
http://www.rvbusiness.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/gallery_3.jpg
INDEPENDENT, NOT.. Only a democrat in Disguise…. Democrat or republican, he does’t really fall under what I also believed as independent.