The campaign of Libby Mitchell, the Democratic candidate for governor of Maine, is in meltdown mode this week, after the state senator from Augusta was caught in a lie. During a televised debate Sunday, Mitchell criticized her Republican opponent Paul LePage for saying he’d tell Obama to “go to hell” if the administration’s policies hurt Maine’s fishing industry. The blog As Maine Goes reports:
LePage rebutted Mitchell saying, respect cuts both ways, and he used a photo he had seen of the Sen. President laughing at a picture of Pres. George W. Bush portrayed as a terrorist. Mitchell said she had no idea what LePage was talking about.
Last week, somebody defaced some of Republican state Senate candidate Roger Katz’s campaign signs in Augusta with anti-Semitic slurs. The wording of the messages indicated the graffiti was probably not the work of kids, since it mirrored phrases favored by neo-Nazi hate groups (including the acronym “ZOG,” which stands for “Zionist Occupation Government”).
You’d think that such an incident might be news, particularly since Katz is the city’s mayor, and the vandalism was reported to police. But the Kennebec Journal didn’t seem to think the story merited coverage. Nor would it allow publication of at least two letters to the editor on the subject — one of them from a city councilor. . . .
You can respond to this in one of two ways: Either you bitch and moan that Bill Clinton is being mean-spirited, unfair and sexist, or else you get off your sofa, get involved, and help these candidates stomp the crap out of Democrats on Nov. 2.
UPDATE: By the way, I spoke today with Christine O’Donnell’s campaign manager Matt Moran, and also spoke to Libertarian Republican blogger Eric Dondero, who is in Delaware to help out with the O’Donnell campaign. Both of them were encouraged about the solid grassroots effort on the ground there. Meanwhile, Democrats are bringing in their big guns for tax-raising bald-headed pro-masturbation Senate candidate Chris Coons:
DNC Chairman, Tim Kaine, is at the University of Delaware today stumping for U.S. Senate candidate Chris Coons. Like Coons, Kaine came under fire for promising not to raise taxes as Governor and then broke his promise within his first few weeks in office.
Christine O’Donnell, Coons’ Senate opponent said, “Birds of a feather flock together. These two tax and spenders have broken promises to the voters who elected them. Their tax and spend policies are still killing jobs even today.”
“My opponent, serving as the New Castle County Executive, also raised taxes – three times, even though he made a campaign pledge in 2004 not to do so.”
O’Donnell continued, “Will Coons and Kaine apologize to the college students for destroying their future with crushing debt? It is the youth that will have to pay tomorrow for today’s reckless spending. Will these promise-breakers apologize to these young people for the jobs that aren’t there as they try to start their careers?”
