Tonight's Evening Entertainment

Tonight I was in attendance of the Bangor GOP Committee meeting. Featured was Paul LePage, Mayor of Waterville and top brass at the Marden's chain store.
However, a representative of Susan Collins was there and gave a fairly well spoken update. When it came to questioning she fell apart being incapable of answering a question regarding a vote on Bernake as well as a couple of other questions for which she had no answers. She promised to send an email during the meeting and respond at the end.

She did not have the answer at the end of the meeting. Either Susan Collins is out of touch with the issues, or the staffer is out of touch with Susan.
Then local candidates were introduced and some districts lack candidates. If anyone in Veazie wishes to run as a Republican for legislature please stand up and commit yourself to improving your state.
Then Mayor LePage stood up and gave his speech after announcements of local candidates. He has a proposal that for every new regulation passed, two will be repealed. He would "pull the plug" on the "life support" of Dirigo Healthcare. He connects his own life long experience with the welfare system and how corrupting it has become to those in power very well. He said anyone on welfare within five years would be cut off and forced to sustain themselves.
He claimed he has "4,000 foot soldiers" in his campaign. He said his campaign is doing excellent. Aside from his claim of "foot soldiers" no measurement has him leading. He has a vehement opposition to the welfare system, and he has experienced the humiliation that system creates. However I am a living contradiction to the corruption of the system.
I was placed in foster care when I was 2. I was adopted when I was 8 (after living with the same family for 5 years). I have lived a happy, non-welfare reliant life aside from MaineCare which I struggled to have stay steady with no new benefits when I turned 18. I know DHHS is a massive headache, but it isn't all bad. I'm a success story. However, I am very rare. Everyone else I know involved in the welfare system has massive complaints regarding it. I've witnessed its immense abuses. However, I simply needed to add the other side to this arguement.
He gives a compelling pep talk with much humor. Yet he has to tell us he is honest. Its almost the same scenario when someone has to tell you they are cool or popular. When they do, they usually aren't. In the least they aren't humble if they have to do that. However, few candidates are humble and as such I don't hold it against him. It is just something to add to the picture of it all.

Now tomorrow Les Otten will be speaking at the University of Maine in Orono. He will be in the student union's Totmann room at 5 PM. Everyone is invited, not just College Republicans. At 7 I will be at the Bangor City Council budget meeting fighting any attempt that may be made to raise property taxes. Somewhere within the next two weeks I'm going to be in contact with the other candidates working locally in Bangor to get elected for the various districts.