BRUNSWICK, Maine — Erskine Bowles, former chief of staff for President Clinton and widely recognized national debt guru, has been invited to speak at a campaign event in Maine for Angus King, an independent candidate for U.S. Senate.
Bowles, former president of the University of North Carolina System, was the Democratic co-chairman of President Barack Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, which published a report on the national debt called “The Moment of Truth.”
Bowles also was an unsuccessful candidate to represent North Carolina in the U.S. Senate in 2002 and 2004.
The event, during which both King and Bowles will speak, is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 9, at the Abromson Community Education Center at University of Southern Maine’s Hannaford Hall.
The event will be streamed online at www.Angus2012.com, according to King’s website.
Old fella Angus is getting a bit ‘over the hill’ to still be trying to live off of taxpayers. Maybe he is a bit confused and thinks that he is still the governor.
This is great. The Bowles-Simpson Commission was entirely ignored by the profligate Obama, and here we are $5 trillion deeper in debt as a result of the Obama disaster. Nobody believes Obamacare will cut the deficit, and a great many believe it will greatly expand it, while also retarding business and job growth for years to come.
Yet Angus King openly backs the nation’s most socialist president, and his socialized health care nightmare. Now, on the ropes due to the US Chamber of Commerce’s effective and honest ads during the Olympics, he feels the need to bring in a national figure with budget reduction credentials to somehow fool Mainers into thinking he is the person we need to send to DC to get control of an out-of-control government.
There is the only one serious candidate in this race who will go to DC and rein in the spending and it certainly isn’t Angus King. Let’s just hope most Mainers realize this before November.
The moment of truth! Oh, that’s choice! Thanks for the laugh, BDN, I needed one this morning.
This is great to see! Our next U.S. senator from Maine should make fiscal responsibility a priority and Angus demonstrates he reflects that line of thinking through forums such as this.
“Alan Kooi Simpson (born September 2, 1931) is an American politician who served from 1979 to 1997 as a United States Senator from Wyoming as a member of the Republican Party.”
Republican Simpson was co-chair of the aptly named “Simpson-Bowles” report. Bowles has himself spoken highly of Paul Ryan’s substantive approach to the debt crisis – Ryan was even part of the commission – although Bowles disagrees with Ryan on the details. Romney has PRAISED Simpson-Bowles and even claimed that his budget was similar (although that was refuted by Bowles).
This, to me, shows King’s independent and policy bona fides. I don’t see anyone else having these types of productive discussions on such serious issues. I guess this is what candidates can do when they aren’t focused on attack ads….
I cannot wait to attend this event. It is tremendously important that the next Senator from Maine take seriously the debt issue. The fact that Angus King will be speaking along side Erskine Bowles, a figure who has worked tirelessly to cross party lines, honestly demonstrates that when King is elected, he will attempt to do the same when he goes to DC!
I think it’s about time a non-partisan effort was forged to tackle our nation’s biggest issue! Let’s focus on how to approach and reduce the deficit, rather than waste energy discussing what we can not do.