Donna Dion Running (with three PDF pages, why?)

This 2010 Democratic candidate for governor has a website started here: http://donnajdionforgovernor2010.com/

I would link to her "Blueprint for Success Page" but it is in .pdf format and I don't wish to burden those of you without adobe readers (to the majority who do, sorry, click it on her front page). She vows to follow the Clean Elections Act that way she can have moral high ground at the end of the day. This gives me a perfect opportunity to discuss something about the morals of the "clean elections". However, thats for a later blog. Now, back to her site. She states:

Empower the communities to evaluate new businesses and make the process simpler and quicker but not at the expense of the environment or increasing the tax expenses already being carried by our citizens.

Excerpt over. So, ease business beaurocracy, but protect the environment (good)and make certain citizens have priority over businesses when discussing tax hikes (bad). She leaves the door open to tax increases on businesses. Alright, I won't have to pay new taxes. However, when the Governors down the street has to lay off someone because the taxes went up, I can still applaud them. (It is still a small, perhaps medium sized business, it employs fewer than 5 thousand people which qualifies a large business. Now you know.)

As for education after high school, she makes this statement:

They [students] should first say “where can I go?” and not “can I afford to go?”

Excerpt over. So, this alludes to cheap or free college. I know the college we currently have is not cheap. (I know because I'm going.) Somewhere over the shattering rainbow of hope I read Maine was having a budget crisis. We can call that statement an ambiguously failed statement of short sighted thoughtfulness about colleges in Maine. She goes on and mentions workers joining the workforce with the skills needed (very good). She then says this:

Work within each county to evaluate and prioritize their assets and work with them to develop a new economy specific to their needs.

Excerpt over. If only counties had Constitutions.... It sounds like funding may be determined by county and not by state program. Or, it could mean the state would want to overlook county funds and have the "government come to help". So what if it is government "helping" government, it can't work out well. Remember the former Shah of Iran? Either way it sounds like the way the federal government has been intruding on the states rights.

Yet, back to topic. She gives guidelines:

Must maintain sensitivity to:
Environment
Tax burden on Mainers
Education for the future
Training for the current and new job market
Development of new business throughout the State
Assistance to the more vulnerable population of our State, elderly and developmental disabled and our children in crisis.
Equal opportunity for all people.
Affordable health care

Excerpt over. Environment gets a thumbs up from me. Tax burden on Mainers should include businesses. Education for the future is ambiguous and a nice phrase without meaning much. Job market is thumbs up. New business, no clear plan, and will be difficult if their taxes go up. The vulnerable Democratic punchline. The elderly need care from DHS, not the governor. Look up Stillwater Healthcare in Bangor, visit it sometime. Why the police haven't stormed that place despite all the complaints to Augusta is beyond me. Ahem. Moving on. Developmental disabled? gaff. A good mentioning, I hear politicians promise us a lot, I rarely see them give any. I think it has to do with so few of us vote. Ranking below the living dead and Mickey Mouse, children with severe autism are some of the least likely voters in America. This is one who will be voting, and certainly not for - ahem, composure. Equal opportunity, I think she should run for Mayor of Lewiston instead of Governor. She would be closer to that issue. Affordable health care? I hope she means to shut down Dirigo health. Did you know it has costed 100 million dollars but only covers ten thousand people? Did you know its original goal was 5 million dollars and 100,000 people?

Finally:

We can build from the blueprint to form a strong State structure that will carry all citizens forward to a better tomorrow.

Quote from Marx, I mean excerpt over. "Strong State structure" "will carry all citizens". Only a Democrat (of the two main parties, hopefully).

This humorous, yet sadly real, blog posting brought to you by Randy Hughes-King, author of RHKINC.blogspot.com, also running for city, um, council- but remember I'm an author.

P.S. This is real, commentary is real, but I am not this stupid. Trust me. I have aspergers and one of the symptoms is I can't, or am not very good at lying(as in I've never successfully pulled one off).