Well, Maine just re-elected Susan Collins in spite of the fact she had the lowest approval rating of any Senator in the country, so he probably has a chance.
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“Challenge accepted!”
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Susan Collins gives a lot of lip service to bipartisanship and responding to the needs to Maine. I think now that she’s got another 5 years before re-election, she’s putting a tiny bit more of her money where her mouth is.
LePage liked to own the libs.
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Growing up, for some reason I always thought of “New England” as this bastion of no-nonsense, mainly Democratic supporters because “New England” is “The North” and “The North” was “The Union” and they fought on the side of truth and light. Never dawned on me that this is an area brimming with self-loathing right wingers who elect people like LeTurd and the insufferable Susan Collins.
I suppose my first clue should have been in the 80s with all those murders in Cabot Cove.
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Don’t forget bacon, sausages, and coffee with lots of cream.
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You should be paying sales tax for online purchases. Allowing online purchases to escape sales taxes puts in-state sellers at a distinct economic disadvantage.
Not all on-line sellers charge the sales tax but that is changing as states get more aggressive in making sure the taxes are assessed on purchases by sellers. State taxing authorities have also been auditing sellers’ records to see if any in-state buyers made purchases with no sales tax charged. They will then send a bill to the buyer assessing “use taxes”.
I received a bill for “use taxes” from the Department of Revenue Services for computer supplies purchased from New Egg. I understood that I was liable for the tax and paid it.
This in no way diminishes the fact that both LePage and Desantis are assholes.
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Maine is the northernmost Appalachian state, and like its more southerly brethren, it’s a poor state with a small economy and a lot of backwoods rubes who are not familiar with the 21st century.
The more urban areas are charming and more Democratic (a national trend) and the rest of the state is rugged and scenically beautiful—but not really liberal.
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“little son-of-a-bitch, socialist cocksucker,”
wow … projection? spot on … except for the “little” and “socialist” part …
Assume LePage has this embroidered on a pillow …
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Grifters gotta’ grift. The time is right with the amount of marks coming out of the woodwork with money to throw at con-men.
Please clarify “after all it’s Maine”.
Actually, the old description was “rock-ribbed Republicans.” Those Republicans tended to be very fiscally conservative but were a mind-your-own-business, live and let live when it came to social issues. The Southern Repubs are much more about being all up in your stuff - culturally nosy, intrusive, and judgmental, while being all over the place fiscally.
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OT, but Rudy’s trying to get the last drops out of the lemon before he gets prosecuted…
Note how they don’t use actual image files and are using photos of the screen? Yeah.
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I’m so sorry, Maine. I know what a bad governor is like cause I have Greg Abbott and he’s awful and Texas doesn’t deserve him either. He’s killed tens of thousands of Texans with his covid response and froze about 200 of us to death with the power grid bullshit. He’s down at the border yammering about Wall.
My heart goes out to Maine and I hope y’all dodge this bullet.
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They elected him twice thanks to 3rd Party Stooge Eliot Cutler pulling enough votes away from the Democratic candidate each time. And yes there is another 3rd party stooge Michael Heath stepping to to put LePage back in for a 3rd term!
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Pillows schmillows.
I’m Paul LePage, and I’ll pay you five hundred dollars to run as a Pro-Choice Independent. Or Green candidate. One hundred dollars will be yours. You can pick your own party name. That’s right. Make it your own. You just have to be Pro-Abortion, and fifty bucks is yours.
I’m Paul LePage, and I approve this message, unless it’s illegal.
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I’m shocked anyone thinks this guy is Governor material or that he could get past “person, woman, man”, without forgetting or saying something incredibly racist, misogynistic, or plain offensive and inappropriate. In other words, this man needs a thorough psychiatric and neurological examination.
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And it’s going to happen again because a third of Maine voters are mean SOBs, and other third are either closet meanies or incredible clueless .
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Hey, don’t give MyPillow Guy any ideas! 
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Dear TPM,
There is no need for the asterisk. A shitshow is a shitshow is a shitshow.
And LePage is going to make it a shitshow.
Regards,
A loyal Prime member who values your reporting and editorial standards.
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