Angus King’s experience as an independent governor shaped him as a candidate for the U.S. Senate.
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U.S. Senate
Cynthia Ann Dill vs. Angus King vs. Charles E. Summers
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He’s a pocket-lining sneak and phony who is contemptuous of Mainers.
Go back up your mountain, you goat!!..IHF
“Angus King’s experience as an independent governor shaped him as a candidate for the U.S. Senate.”
You’re right!
as governor he learned how to exploit the system and enrich himself and his friends while giving maine people the shaft.
He’ll fit right in in D.C.
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Agree 100%. It appears BDN is one of his biggest fan club.
I speak to very few people who say they intend to vote for Angus King, yet it appears he’s going to win the election by a wide margin. Obviously, I travel in the wrong circles.
That’s a good reason to disbelieve what the pollsters try to tell everyone. Make up your own mind. There’s some [unquantified]tendency for many voters to be influenced by polls indicating that a given individual is more likely to win an election and voters may have some natural [again, unquantified]tendency to want to vote for whomever they think will win(go with a winner). Vote for the individual who you think will best serve the interests of Maine.
Hm, what part of the state are you from? I don’t know anyone who isn’t voting for him. (Just curious; Maine politics is so interesting…)
Great video; great decision to run. I was disappointed Olympia decided not to run again; this independent voter would have stuck with her no matter who the Ds put up against her. With her out, Angus King is the clear independent/centrist choice for Maine.
moderate centrists are good for one thing and one thing only, spending money they don’t have and ultimately enslaving the next generation with their immoral debt
Hm, that’s an odd stereotype of centrists. But really, Angus has 5 kids and at almost the debates he speaks passionately about how he thinks it is immoral to leave such debt to his children and grandchildren.
Say what you want about centrists as a whole, but on this particular issue I think King is genuine and you might have him pegged wrong (if indeed you are referring to him).
He talks the talks, but he does not walk the walk. He is a politician and will say what is necessary to get people like you to vote for him. And there are plenty that love his double talk.
He’s tall and lean; he has a certain aura; he can talk and look thoughtful at the same time; he asks no serious questions such as whether capitalism as we know it is up to the job of keeping the planet habitable, or whether the brave new corporate global order with its skewed distribution of the moola and other goodies is the best that can be done for a burgeoning world population.
That’s all good: his fellow plutocrats won’t get nervous. He won’t say rational but unsettling things like that radical Sanders does. They won’t have to consign his speeches to times when few are around to listen. Either of the corporate parties will be happy to have him around, not minding his scolding them for being partisan (as if that isn’t the reason for parties in the first place). He’s a good fellow who knows the required handshakes and demeanor. He’ll argue to amend away the worst of Citizens United, but he won’t come close to throwing the lobbyists for the money-changers from that temple or any other. They are his kind of people and the source of his sustenance.
As for the rest of us – well, he’ll do what’s necessary to keep our pitchfork bearers off the streets, which ought be pretty easy to do, what with our obsessions with Brady and Belichek, nachos, chicken wings and the big flat screen. All we ask is for plenty of talk of shared sacrifice (for all except us, of course), and other sources of mighty platitudes: freedom and liberty, rugged individualism, competition and free markets, the American Dream and an occasional toss of cake crumbs.
Good health to Angus, the available man!
King, an unctuous self-serving snake-oil selling plutocratic carpetbagger.
Rather despicable really, and in another state, unelectable.
I gave you the “like” but for your information “carpetbaggers” were northeners who went South to exploit people (after the Civil War.) The southerners who came north for that purpose were called “Scalawags.”
Place a nickel and a dime on the table for voters to choose from and 99% of the time they will choose the nickel. like a child the big shiny one is more appealing.
Angus : an obvious choice (?).
Says who?
Pfffftt.
All the Naysayers! Instead of attacking King, come up with a viable alternative!
Dill!!!
Unfortunately for Dill, a vote for her is a vote for Charlie. She would do well to drop out and throw support tp King. I don’t see the Repubs tauting Summers’ attributes.
He is no where near my pick for senate.
While King was governor, I went to a Sam’s Club sport meeting in Augusta and Governor King was there taking questions and one man asked him about the financial trouble Maine was in. His reply was: “the other states are in worse shape than we are, so don’t worry about it”. And he wouldn’t take any more questions about the financial situation of the state of Maine.
So if he didn’t care back then, why should he care about the state now? I can find no good reason to vote for him because of this.
Pretty obvious choice in who not to vote for.
Anyone but this Snakeoil salesman.
All Kings need a small, cooperative fiefdom…
He’ll have to fight LePage for it.
The fey scalawag couldn’t handle the rough and tumble with Gov. LePage.
You’re right Adrienne Bennett would kick their butt while Paulie hid behind her skirt.
Definitely an obvious choice for King himself. Job security, good pay for six years, and open doors for lots of perks during and after.
But for us Mainers, Cynthia Dill is the only choice. She is of the people and for the people. People like us. Cynthia is informed, level headed, and certainly up for solving problems (as her record shows). It’s a mistake to let Angus draw voters away from Cynthia thinking he will carry our message to Washington DC. The only message he carries is for his own benefit.
The only question that I would have is: why has she received little or no support from her own party? That fact has to be discouraging to her.
It is. She has challenged some of the Democratic org that “should” support her but they beg off in one way or another. My belief is that they don’t think she can win, especially with the Angus-induced three-way split, so they can save some money by not endorsing her. I feel disappointed by the party for that. Cynthia is keeping up her hard work though. She just has this strong core that sustains her. And she’s a straight talker who believes in her message. And I do too.
Well, King doesn’t need the job, pay, or perks as he is already pretty set for life. I think he’s honestly running because he cares about the future of this country. Heck, if I had his financial status I can think of many other things I do, so it honestly just makes me think he’s in this for the right reasons.
I just think he has more experience than Dill and really knows how to work with people from opposing parties. If she gets that flustered at small Maine forum events, I can’t see her really succeeding in Washington, though of course I am proud of any Maine woman running for office.
do you attribute the same to Romney?
ROMNEY / RYAN 2012 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Uh, wrong article?
Angus King is the one who should bow out. He shouldn’t have become a candidate anyway. Savvy as he is, he knew he could split his opposition. Cynthia Dill is twice the person King ever thought of being.
Angus King is a huge hypocrite. When he was a mediocre Governor, he never missed a self-serving photo op or sound bite opportunity to extol the beauty and natural resources of Maine. Yet he set in motion the electricity deregulation from which he later tried to get rich.
I will never forgive him for the destruction of Partridge Peak and Flathead Mt. in Roxbury to put up wind turbines in order to make money off taxpayer subsidies and selling Enron-inspired RECs. He was thwarted in his plans for even more massive destruction of the mountains right next to the Bigelow Preserve in Highland Plt.
King bailed out of the Record Hill Wind project just as he was tipped off about the investigation into the bogus “innovation” touted to get the $102 million taxpayer guaranteed loan (you need a taxpayer loan when you have the multi-billion dollar Yale Endowment as a partner?). Now, in spite of getting $33.7 million in Section 1603 ARRA funds (total taxpayer gift), the Record Hill project struggles to have 25% output and can’t seem to earn enough by selling electricity to cover its loans. So it looks like that taxpayer bail out is likely to happen. Ironically, the reason electricity prices are lower is due to low cost natural gas driving an increasing share of electricity generation.
Bottom line: King is a crony capitalist, a big Ego who constantly has sought to stay in the public view after his stint as Governor. Let’s hope he doesn’t end up in Washington, DC.
Perhaps Angus is a “pretty obvious choice” if the intent is to weaken Maine’s standing in the U.S. Senate. Maine has a tradition of holding high profile positions in that coveted body…..from Margaret Chase Smith, George MItchell, and William Cohen, the list goes on. “Independants”, seem to go with anyway winds blows, as long as the wind blows in their favor, with precious little to do with their own personal convictions, or will of the people. “Independents” work well as Governors ie: Longly and King. In legislative body they have no weight.
Is the BDN now a PAC? The headline would sure make you think so.