The folks at the Portland Phoenix received some good satire in the mail.
How come I just get tripe like this?
Kris Holtzclaw sent a message using the contact form at http://www.mainepolitics.net/contact.
Leviticus 20:13
13 "The penalty for homosexual acts is death to both parties. They have committed a detestable act [sin] and are guilty of a capital offense.
One of the advantages of the fact that I now live and work in southern Maine is the preponderance of great restaurants. Another is that this website is now qualified to compete in the Portland Phoenix's Best of Portland survey.
If you've enjoyed the blog, take a second to click here and write in MainePolitics.net as your choice. Then click "Submit" and then "skip to finish" in the bottom-right corner (or go back and vote in other categories as well).
MP is definitely a dark horse (and a write-in candidate), but I'm not one to pass up an election. Let's see how it goes.
Columnist Al Diamon has taken the opportunity of the Porltand Phoenix's ten-year anniversary to take a look back at the Maine political scene in 1999 and compare it to today. His conclusion?
"If there's anything the last decade should have taught us, it's that money — or the lack thereof — makes absolutely no difference in the way the governor, the Legislature, and the state bureaucracy do their jobs. In both good times and bad, they fuck things up."
The feature is an indictment of just about everyone who has set foot in Augusta for the past ten years, and you can tell it was cathartic to write. Diamon also provides some advice for setting things right. Here's one suggestion:
"Stop delaying tax reform. Baldacci has proposed cutting the income tax at least four times in the last seven years without ever actually doing it. Legislators have studied expanding the sales tax for so long they should have doctorates by now. Quit stalling. Show some balls."
Looks like the blog got two mentions in the Portland Phoenix this week, an honor usually reserved for hot new ska bands.
The first is the Diamon column. The second is in this piece on the differences between television and blog coverage of the Sarah Palin rally.
