AUGUSTA, Maine — Members of the Waldo County GOP Committee voted Tuesday evening to recommend a censure of Maine Republican Party Chairman Charlie Webster for his handling of the party’s presidential caucuses.
Raymond St. Onge, who leads the Waldo County GOP, said the initial motion was to call for a vote of no confidence in Webster and a recommendation that he step down from his post. That motion was amended to recommend a censure instead. The amended motion passed by a strong majority, St. Onge said.
The censure recommendation will be taken up at the state GOP committee meeting on March 10. A censure is essentially a nonbinding but public slap on the wrist.
Webster is under fire for his handling of the Republican caucuses, particularly Saturday’s announcement that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney had narrowly defeated Texas Congressman Ron Paul in the state’s presidential preference poll.
When the announcement was made on Saturday, a number of communities — including all of Washington County — had not held caucuses and their results were not counted. Additionally, Waldo County Republicans discovered that some of the county’s votes were not counted either, even though most communities there caucused well before the Feb. 11 deadline.
St. Onge said he sent the Waldo County poll results to the state party on Feb. 7. When he asked party officials why those votes were not included in the results announced Saturday, St. Onge said he was told it was a clerical error.
Waterville also was omitted from the results, even though the city also caucused early.
“What I tell people is: I’m not going to fire or discipline my staff for clerical errors,” Webster said Wednesday, acknowledging that mistakes were made.
Webster has said that the state party committee will discuss the caucus process at the March 10 meeting, but he doesn’t believe that including all state votes will change the outcome. He also has said that he will not release updated numbers until that March meeting.
“The bigger discussion will be about whether we should do this type of caucus again,” the GOP chairman said.
Including Waldo County’s numbers would add a couple dozen votes to Paul, but the margin of victory announced Saturday was 194 votes. Washington County Republicans would have to be strong for Paul in order for him to overtake Romney.
St. Onge said he doesn’t have a strong opinion on whether Webster should step down but said he hopes the media chaos ends soon.
Webster said he has been around long enough to weather criticism and calls for his resignation.
“If people were saying ‘he can’t raise money, he can’t raise candidates or he doesn’t speak for the party,’ then I’d consider it,” he said. “That’s not the case here.”
The state Republican party chairman in Iowa stepped down in the wake of a similar controversy earlier this year. Iowa initially awarded its caucus win to Romney only to discover about two weeks later that former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum actually had won.
There’s Waldo !!
Funny.
The GOP is in such disarray, this is no surprise!
They are in disarray because they have lost touch with their basic conservative, pro-constitution, pro-liberty values and replaced them with the failed progressive, neocon agenda peddled by the likes of the Chicago-based Leo Strauss, et. al.
The GOP either jetisons the neocons or they are done as a legitimate party in this nation.
True, true.. The Neo-Cons are Marxists masquerading as good Americans. That is why the GOP suddenly adopted the color red.
LOL…”good Americans”?
Well, they are “good Americans” in the sense that they support one-world government, open borders, feminism, women in combat, homosexuality, micro-chipping, and reducing the number of real Americans through abortion. Apart from that, they are real patriotic.
thats a joke, right? I mean no one that is let out without a keeper believes what you posted
Son’s comments are either ironic or deluded . . . maybe both.
Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe support globalism, multiculturalism, feminism, and partial birth abortion. And yet you consider them “good conservatives.” So tell me, who is the deluded one?
This is idiocy beyond all comprehension. Leo Strauss , William Kristol, Charles Krauthammer are Marxists…. oh my.
Name-calling is not a valid argument. The goals of Neo-conservatism are watered-down versions of the principles of Marxism; and that assertion is now accepted as true by millions of Americans. When Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe support feminism, abortion, and women in combat, they are supporting ideas which originated in the Soviet Union, hence the use of the color red.
Wow. That’s a very powerful statement. A return moderation?
the gop cant jettison anything! they are stuck with their rehtoric
Like a sinking ship with all the rats scurrying to get out before it goes down to Davy Jones locker. If the GOP would lose the neo cons and all the Faux News fans…they might gain back some credence as a viable political party.
Segment from evening news:
Newscaster (pointing microphone toward Kevin Raye and Chris Gardner):
Did you conspire with Charlie Webster to suppress the vote in Washington County?
Raye and Gardner (in unison): Who, us?
Where’s the hidden camera man when you need him?
It’s so funny how the Maine GOP is worried about college students voting when they shouldn’t be or voter ID’s, etc… How about just counting the actual votes?
Wonder if they required voter ID for the caucus?
Nice try Charlie.. but this Karl Rove maneuver of yours just cost the Maine GOP 1000’s of republican votes. Washington County just turned into Chicago style Cook County .. and we’re having none of it. It’s time to go quietly into the night.
After this blunder I won’t be voting for a single Republican this fall. I always knew Webster was crooked, I just didn’t know he was this stupid!!
I think duct tape over his mouth would be a more appropriate consequence than censure. He needs more than his wrist slapped. A real “Spanken” may be in order.
he needs to go to prison! This is crazy and the founders would be ashamed… ”The state Republican party chairmen in Iowa and Nevada both stepped down in the wake of similar controversies in their states earlier this year.” …they are stealing this election from Paul and it makes me sick!
who are the founders? does that include all the people who fought or volenteered?
Jefferson and the followers of Jefferson.
Dont threaten him with a good time.
Not voting is the worst thing you can do. Vote Ron Paul is is the only one for change. They don’t want him to win, thats why they did this. They want things to stay the same.
Ron Paul 2012, He had nothing to do with this.
I think the marxist wolves in Washington are licking their chops over this sentiment.
Time for him to act like a tree and leaf.
He probably got a tip about a bunch of out-of-state students planning to vote in Washington County’s caucases. :)
Charlie Webster has guaranteed that this state will go for Obama in 2012. Any chance a GOP candidate had of winning Maine is over. Great job Charlie!
Maine hasn’t voted for a Republican candidate for President since 1988 so I doubt this would have impacted the odds one way or the other.
He just sealed up the next 50 years!
charlie webster? paranoid!he should be at every voting place if he is so concerned.
Webster is the Democrats MVP again…Congratulation’s Webster. Way to shoot yourself in the foot again. lol
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these hacks can only take Maine taxpayers to their level. You can get only as high as the politician
diebold elects for you, eh? Worried about your vote for Ron Paul being disenfranchised?
Not to worry those “change” Dem/Repubocrats have finalized their merger with Wall Street.
see
SEE LINK FOR FULL STORY
http://inthesetimes.com/article/12685/managing_dissent_in_chicago
News » February 14, 2012
Managing Dissent in Chicago
As the G8/NATO summits
approach, activists protest restrictive new rules–and
prepare for the spotlight.
The U.S. Constitution
guarantees freedom of speech and assembly, but not
freedom from the capricious dictates of the
Chicago Police Department and the Secret Service.
CHICAGO–Although the world’s most powerful man
calls Chicago home, the city’s boosters still have a
chip on their shoulder. In 2009, their bid for the
2016 Olympics ended in failure, but Mayor Rahm
Emanuel has convinced his old boss, Barack Obama, to
let Chicago host the G8 and NATO summits in May. The
stage is now set: Leaders of the military alliance
and “Group of Eight” rich countries haven’t met in
the same place at the same time since 1977.
“If you want to be a global city, you’ve got to
act like a global city,” Lori Healey, executive
director of the Chicago G8 & NATO host committee
and a leader of the city’s Olympic bid, said in
January. But as activists have learned, cities
playing their global role tend to systematically
squelch dissent. The U.S. Constitution guarantees
freedom of speech and assembly, but not freedom from
the capricious dictates of the Chicago Police
Department and the Secret Service, which could
nullify protest permits immediately before the
summits.
On January 18, the Chicago City Council
overwhelmingly passed two ordinances pushed by
Emanuel that restrict protest rules and expand the
mayor’s power to police the summits. Among other
things, they increase fines for violating parade
rules, allow the city to deputize police officers
from outside Chicago for temporary duty and change
the requirements for obtaining protest permits.
Large signs and banners must now be approved,
sidewalk protests require a permit, and permission
for “large parades” will only be granted to those
with a $1 million liability insurance policy. These
are permanent changes in city law.
Another conspiracy against our leaders in Augusta…..Crazy……
Yeah, and it’s all the media’s fault!
The right still imploding. Now they are trying to nominate a guy whose kids can’t even google their own last name, incredible.
After everyone gets done making their jokes about the sad Republicans then take a moment to think about the fact that these are the people who are currently running and in control of our State. These are the people who are making the laws that you and I are forced to live under. It isn’t so funny anymore is it?
Let’s make sure this bunch doesn’t deprive the rest of us our right to vote when their jobs are on the block.
if unemployed and ederly and democrat you cant vote! Thanks Charlie for protecting the voting process.
Better than spending our kids and grandkids into oblivion which is what the democrats are doing. Oh yeah…and bombing 6 countries too. How’s that hope and change working out for you?
It was GW Bush who spent this country into oblivion while starting wars AND reducing revenues (tax breaks for billionaires)–and he and his Republican cronies were also busy removing regulations from Wall Street, so they could destroy people’s savings with reckless stock market shenanigans.
I do not believe George Bush started that war! I believe it was the deaths of over 3000 americans that started that war.
If it was about the death of 3000 people then the country could spend a lot less and provide national healthcare for its citizens. A lot more lives would be saved by healthcare than would be lost if 9/11 happened every single year. (Not to mention that little inconvenient fact that Iraq had nothing to do with the 9/11 attackers.)
Seriously?? I do not believe you could try and compare a terrorist attack to national healthcare.
still with the BS that Iraq was involved in 9/11? even bush said they weren’t and no wmd’s either
You need a history lesson Jennifer C. The war in Iraq was started because Bush and Chenney declared that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Affectionately known as WMD. The statement made by the Bush administration concerning WMD was later proven to be false.
Nice try Jennifer C…..Was Osama in Iraq? Which president found him and stopped him again?
But it wasn’t Iraqis who struck America. Of the 19 terrorists, 15 were from Saudi Arabia.
Sorry. Bush, Cheney, and Rove, created the Iraq War based on the supposition that the country had WMD. Despite these gentlemen’s assertions Saddam Hussein’s WMD factories were knocked out of business when George W’s daddy invaded Kuwait and annihilated Hussein’s Army.
JUST GOES TO SHOW YOU HOW WELL THE DECEPTION WORKED, THEY FOOLED YOU, JENNY, OPEN YOUR EYES,G.W. BUSH IS A MASS MURDERER!SO IS OBAMA!
The same people are running both parties people! It’s not a democracy anymore there American friends! Thats why it’s so important that Ron Paul wins. They will never let someone who is so against the establishment get this far again. Wake up and take the power back for the people.
TRUEST STATEMENT MADE HERE!
Which 6 countries would that be Seagal?
Should I take your reply to mean you are in favor of dishonest elections?
What dishonest election are you talking about? Oh, I see, you thought that the caucus was an election. Well, having read many of your posts, I understand your confusion.
thanks bush and repukes
At least the 6 Countries where an enemy!
LOL
As a life long Republican I am tired of my party of No telling everyone that Obama is the reason that their lives are miserable, their marriage is failing, that he is spending their kids into oblivion which was done 20 years ago.
We are paying on the debt that Regan, two Bushes, Clinton presidents put on us. And congress has the check book and spends the money. The president doesn’t have a vote MaineSeaGal. And my party is the ones that controls Congress…any spending they have to approve before it goes to the President to sign….
So if Republicans in Congress don’t sign the checks than we are not spending our childrens money down the road….Simple as that…but it is so easy to blame others thinking that everyone out there reading it is stupid….Well Maine citizens are not stupid….they know both parties are the blame for out of control spending in the past twenty years.
By the way, Obama never bombed 6 countries. Your buddy Bush took us to war against false pretences declared war without Congress voting which was un-constitutional. Broke our laws not to torture people under our own Geneva Convention that we all swore to uphold since WW II.
Under Bush he increased our debt 89% in eight years. Obama’s increase is 32% in 3 1/2 years. So who is spending your childrens money? But Reagan increased it 115% in eight years and he is my so called parties hero….Oh well, facts don’t stretch the truth. People do with their own spin….
Except Clinton balanced the budget before he left….Which GWB blew out of the water…
No, Clinton borrowed from Social Security as an accounting gimmick.
Let’s see -Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya is three. The other three?
The changes proposed in Iraq by Bush and Cheney are still being worked out by the tribes. Afghanistan hasn’t changed one iota. Don’t expect any immediate changes. Libya was grateful – at least the Rebels were. Egypt is disentangling itself from a military-civilian government mix up. Iran is warming up its nuclear weapons. But we haven’t bombed them – yet. Believe we’re going to let the Israelis have the first shot.
Radically changing world. Trying to shake the two trillion dollar -Iraq Afghanistan -deficit is a major challenge whilst trying to bolster a struggling economy as teapubulicans block all attempts at recovery.
Stop wrecking the fun!
lol
Nah – just funny that so many people jumped aboard the teapublican bandwagon.
Censure ??? Who do you limp-wristed morons think you are kidding?
What’s next ? Will Kevin Raye be caught cavorting in a hot tub full of ketchup?
Maine Republican Party Chairman Charlie Webster, what a piece of work!
Maybe we should call him Maine Republican Party Fraudster Charlie Webster.
“There’s trouble in paradise, the birds no longer sing, some devil stole my angel, won’t somebody please tell me what to do.”
The whole thing was crap here in the county all we got for notice to vote was an eight by eleven white paper tacked on the wall at our general store telling of the places to veto for certain towns to vote at.No news ads no radio ads.since I like many in my town only get to the store 1 time a week the voteing was over once we saw the paper.For crook sake all the other primarys get weeks of news before the veto.For us in the county it is like we are not part of maine ,the candidates never come up here(susan collins comes as she has a multimillion dollar building supply biz and family).
They don’t want you to vote Jeff, they are scared of some small, 76 year old guy from Texas who believes in this funny document know as the U.S. Constitutiuon…
their paranoia will be their downfall…
Regardless of what happened, Ron Paul has about as much of a chance of a) gaining the parties nomination, and b) beating President Obama in November as glacier has of surviving in Hades.
What makes you sure Jeff wanted to vote for Ron Paul? If he did he would have been well aware of when and where his caucus was held, because the Paul campaign is very active in Maine, much to their credit. They were all over the caucuses! Ron Paul came to ours…because we have an active group of organizers who put it together! Sitting around whining about nobody telling you and nobody getting things done while other people who are not being paid to do it are out working to get a good vote and make themselves and their state count in the country…if you didn’t bother to find out and go, keep quiet.
You had to have had the announcement of the caucus a month in advance. If you did not take it up with your TOWN gop chairman.
The Maine GOP caucuses were well advertised on tv and radio as to the deadline on February 11. They even made national news.
I assume you are a member of your town GOP committee, and were helping to put on and advertise your caucus, because all of them all over the state were handled by volunteers, including inviting candidates or their representatives to speak. I am sure, Jeff, that you were helping with that, also.
I can’t believe this guy shares the same name as the dictionary!
Censuring Charlie Webster …………………… “NO” …………………………. Kick his *ss out period, he is (and has been) a disgrace to all voters.
Censuring is different from censorship. Aside from that, I agree with your sentiments!
Your right and I’ve corrected my error, thought one thing and typed something else, Thank you.
When you caucus….don’t step in the ca ca……if you make it appear as someone else stepped in it, you are on your way as true politician.
The GOP “Child Care Center” is lacking “someone in-charge”!
In the words of Star Kist. Sorry Charlie.
Charlie Webster is like a fallen angel, he can tell no truth.
GOP means “guard our pockets”. Their “change” in in their pockets.
A primary system vote would not have been cancelled due to weather. This caucus system is a joke far beyond Mr. Websters role.
No system is perfect, but the caucus system is the most transparent and interactive. The maneuvers to hide the count were thwarted in some areas by citizens making a motion to maintain the traditional public counting. This is where actual evidence of misreporting is coming from.
I like the caucus system and think paper ballots (or receipts) are essential for vote integrity. “Trust, but Verify!”
I would still like to know more about Aroostock County. It was counted in a lump sum on the spreadsheet and the cited turnout looks light from reports I’ve heard…The moral fall of the status quo GOP is sad to watch, luckily it is countered by the righteous rise of the Ron Paul r3VOLution. Get, and stay involved my friends, witness, and hurry along, the withering of the leftist “neocon wingnuts” of OUR Grand Old PartyOnward
The lack of participation is frustrating to me, much more than the counting. In theory the caucus system is pure democracy-especially when the candidate appears in person.
voter fraud! they can never speak of that again, if they can’t get there own stuff together, then they have no right to claim voter fraud. If it was not so sad it would be funny. He is so worried about the intergrity of our votes he can’t get his stuff together.
But they were ok with all the other idiotic statements and claims he has made in the past??? Nice.
Members of the Waldo County GOP Committee voted Tuesday evening to
recommend a censure of Maine Republican Party Chairman Charlie Webster…
Republican Party: Who cares, Waldo County’s vote doesn’t count anyway.
P.S. Where is Ipledgemysacredhonor with his list of where to turn these people in?
:-O yikes!
lol I knew Romney’s win over Ron Paul was shady, wonder how much Romney’s paying people to cheat Ron Paul out of a win.
It’s amazing how anti-constitution the disgusting neo-conservatives have become and how sad it is that they have completely destroyed the GOP with their lack of principle and abandonment of basic conservative values.
consevatives have no values
I hope the more success a true outsider like Ron Paul has, and the more the corrupt establishment reveals its true nature .. in the mainstream media and in the political structure .. the more the American people wake up to just how far gone our country is. And how desperately we need to revive our Constitutional form of government and respect for the rule of law. It’s like holy water to these lawless vampires who scramble into power.
Soviet-style tactics, courtesy of the Neo-Cons. You WILL vote for the party candidate! Go Ron Paul — Go Alex Jones!
Ron paul is Goldwater to the repukes uncontrollable! So most will vote TRUMAN a true american with no party favortism, he fired Mcarthy,he punched a reporter, he had the balls to drop the bomb,he was made vice president to get him off of hounding the goverment of money spending, and by the way he failed in buisness(went bankrupt) as a haberdashery(mens clothing).
I find it odd that the neocon fervor to make it harder for people to vote even extends to republican voters. It’s like their cravings are so compulsive they started eating their own foot.
it’s the beginning of the end for the GOP “leadership”…including the sell-out LePage, who is in the bag for Mittens but doesn’t have the guts to admit it…
No one made it harder to vote. There was simply a time limit. It is not my usual stance to support Charlie, but truth is truth, and some people are simply looking for publicity for themselves and their candidate.
Wow, two hits in one day. 1st the loss of a typically republican senate seat and now a GOP county delegation calling for this. I bet Webster is outta there before the next elections, maybe before the end of this legislative session.
You guys should be rooting for Charlie to stay if he is as awful as you claim! Why would you want your opponents to improve? Silly dems.
Some of us prefer to have capable people working in our Government Republican or Democrat….Being partisan and saying “I want this guy to fail to make republicans look bad” is what got our country into this mess….
I could care less who they have a chairman. LePage does enough damage to the party, and he’s elected by the voter’s, the Republican Committee Chairman is not.
If???
This whole sad affair is not a comment on the Maine GOP, but a revelation of how the Romneyites will become what they profess to hate in order to win. Charlie Webster is nothing but a lackey for Romney.
There is no better example of why 65% of the GOP voters find Romney detestable.
Shame on you, sir. SHAME ON YOU.
shame on shame repukes at the helm of the last bigot ship
Not only will they try to suppress the vote,they’ll eat their own.
It sounds like there wasn’t enough support for a measure asking for his resignation so they downgraded it to the censure. If so then it’s very disheartening that not enough people saw this vote suppression for the serious thing that it is.
IM Running! Vote for the Nextgovernor
What about the votes that were incorrectly counted after they were sent in in order to change it so Romney had the lead over the others? Oh yeah, that’s why Ron Paul still won’t win after the votes are done being counted, because they can just change them to Romney anyway. Of course he hopes it dies down, that way him and his goons can keep getting away with voter fraud and the 1% can keep getting their candidate elected every time.
What makes you think votes were incorrectly counted? Everyone who attended a caucus had his vote counted and knew what the count was before he left. The votes for each caucus are listed on the maine gop website. If you see that they are different from what happened in your town, that is one thing. If you are simply making a rant about something that hasn’t happened, you should be ashamed.
It was not Ron Paul who had the wrong results published in Iowa. It was Rick Santorum, the only real Conservative in the race.
The votes were indeed incorrectly counted in some, if not all the counties that the GOP “mistakenly” marked as having 0 votes on their spreadsheet. Votes were stolen from Paul and Santorum and given to Romney in those locations, and this has been confirmed by the Belfast County caucus chairman.
http://www.fox19.com/story/16937227/reality-check-was-there-voter-fraud-in-maine
If they were recorded as ‘0’ how did they get changed to Romney? It was still 0 for everyone in those elections.
What makes me think that? The news media reported it– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3ivrynAFP0
And, yes, it’s not just Paul getting this treatment, it’s Santorum– there was quite a bit of people upset over Iowa. I don’t really care much for the guy– he’s better than Romney though! Though his record proves that he is not the real Conservative, so I’m not sure how you can claim he is. The most conservative person up there is Paul and he has a record to prove that so if that’s what you want is a real conservative then you should be voting Paul instead of just parroting what the media tells you about Santorum.
I like Ron Paul. I have known him since about 2003, when I met him at a Gun Rights Policy Conference. However, he is not a Conservative he is a Libertarian. There is a massive difference, but it does not compare with the differences between either or them and Moderate or Liberal.
When you are judging a candidate with a record, it is sometimes necessary to go beyond vote counting. You need to find out why certain questionable votes went the way they did. On all the counts I checked with Santorum the reasoning was sound. There were things inside bills that either poisoned something that would have seemed approvable, or pieces that were very good in the long run enclosed in a distasteful package. It is very hard to find purity in any legislature and/or legislation.
But I have learned that when the reaction to someone I like the majority of the time is ‘How could you do this?’ there is often a good answer. Which is one reason I would like to see most legislation eliminated.
Yeah, Rick is the same guy who thinks that woman should walk behind their man with there head down, not to be heard unless spoken too. Man is head of his household and what he says goes, woman don’t have a vote….This man runs around blaming others for infringing on his faith, but he is the same one going around telling you that if you are not a born again Christian that you aren’t worth anything, a disgrace. Woman don’t have a right to protect themselves from HIV or disease and not to use contriseption. Just one thing after another…..This is the same reason he lost his Senate seat in PA by 18 percentage points because he is too extreme with his religious views. He has already lost the independant votes…..people don’t want a guy who is going to rely on the almight God to make decisions on running this country. That’s why he gave everyone of us a tool between both our ears…a brain so we can think for ourselves. If Rick becomes the nominee for my party, they will have a broker convention and Jeb Bush or someone else will step in and save the Republican Party from Rick S.
Olegrizz, if you had something between your ears you would not have such a muddled idea of anyone. No sense going through all your gibberish, but just one question: Why would a Catholic think that you are not worth anything unless you are a born again Christian? You make no sense…and I don’t think the Republicans have to worry about losing your vote no matter who they choose…you are not going to vote Republican any way. Nice try, though.
I have learned that there were votes that were reported and not recorded. They were not changed, just not recorded. Hopefully, since all votes were turned in there will be a recount. Everyone who caucused should pay attention to what the numbers are when they are listed, because everyone knows the results of their own caucus.
You are such a troll.
Maine D’s… Probably the angriest group of people that can be found anywhere in this country!
Bitter Hater’s hardly seems fitting. Staying at home collecting State aid do this to you?
Man, you guys are a trip.
Girl, what are you even talking about?
did you actually read the article? your post has no relevance at all…
Evidently sarcasm and innuendo are lost on you!
Moving on. Most D’s are angry because they have failed in life or have made poor choices in life. I understand that some folks have health issues, financial hardships or their parents “just did not encourage” them enough. These people however are in the minority. Most of us just screw up (quit school to buy a Chevy camero, pregnant girlfriend, etc) and we are loathe to admit it. Soooo bitterness turns to anger which turns to victimization which turns to envy which in turn is exploited by the Democratic Party for votes. “Not your fault” right? You have been exploited by rich individuals and corporations …you deserve more in life and on it goes. See, I’m a happy person – that’s because I’m a rich, white, evil capitalist, oppressor of minorities, women and children, spoiler of the earth. I achieve personal gain at any expense. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! I already know all of that I am a Republican.
gotta love the social and economic conservatives, they squeal so loud when they get screwed by the very system they so ineptly try to defend
AMEN AMEN AMEN!!!
Election fraud and irregularities should anger all voters, regardless of party affiliation. Your insults to the left have nothing to do with this topic.
Come on. Is that really the best you can do to defend your beloved GOP?
Spin it as these comments coming from Democrats? Suggest you look at the headline a second time. The call for punishment came from Webster’s own party. Try thinking on your own rather than spouting the drivel distributed by Faux Noose…
No love for Webster… just amazed at how angry and bitter most of the comments are.
Im not a dem or a repub, I try to vote in the lesser of the 2 evil’s, IMO anyone who stands by the constitution, instead of running over it is a step up, from the rest on both sides.Anyone from Maine should have enough sense to see they are all lieing thieves. Ron Paul has a history of following the constitution when he puts his vote in on a bill.I don’t agree with some of his view’s but that alone makes him stand out above the rest.
you seem to know all about state aid–anyone that thinks there are more democrats than republicans on state aid is sadly delusional
Another reason so many are going to become, independents. Charlie must go and the recount must be done asap.
Eat Your Own, it’s great!
A censure is a little more than “a slap on the wrist”, in the political world. It is one step below expulsion.
If the GOP cared about perception, Webster would be sent packing…someone higher up the food chain approves of his actions.
Does anyone recall the Iowa debacle? They had to come out and admit, weeks later, after Mitt Romney got all the initial benefits, that it was actually Santorum that won that state’s caucuses. By the time they come out and admit that it was Ron Paul that won in Maine, Mitt will have already capitalized on it, again. He wins even when he loses!
Ron Paul did not win Maine, but he was a close second. If there were people who wanted to vote for Ron Paul they should have conducted their caucuses within the time frame that was announced by the Maine GOP. The rest of us did.
This was not a close finish like Santorum/Romney in Iowa.
Time for Charlie the tuna to go…he is a constant embarrasment.
Dont Care- Dont Care- Dont Care—–
Who in their right mind would vote for Romney in the first place…?
Beyond that, Ron Paul seems to be too afraid of Quimby for my vote….
If none of the GOP candidates will take a position on this,,, I just wont vote….!
once again, Ron Paul has taken a position on the park system, he doesn’t support Quimby’s park, he says it outright, you just have to go down to your local library and read some books…I know it is difficult and you may like Ron Paul’s books so much you may incur a late fee, but please give it a shot, I’m sure you’ll be glad you did.
“he doesn’t support Quimby’s park, he says it outright” I am eager to find the quote where Ron Paul actually states he is opposed to the Quimby National Park… and yes, it is very important to a lot of Maine conservative voters that it be directly stating his opposition against the “Quimby National Park”
Regretfully, campaign staffers have told me that its not a “national issue” and that his “general campaign view” is all we are going to get.
They went on to say that “if” Ron Paul comes back to Maine, he might think about addressing it— He came back, but then refused to comment…
A vast ammount of Maine conservative voters, politicians and groups want to see Ron Paul state his opposition to the Quimby National Park.
As I have said, if none of the GOP candidates will take a position on this,,, I just wont vote….!
Good lord man, read “Liberty Defined” by Ron Paul wherein he has a chapter devoted specifically to government ownership of land (i.e. Public Land). In the chapter he discusses the fact that he does not support the expansion of the National Park system, therefore, he DOES NOT support Quimby’s park, or anyone else’s ideas on creating new national parks. His position is clear, now pull your head out of the sand and do some reading for crying out loud….your constant rambling about a non-issue that has been thouroughly addresses in a nationally published book is really starting to get sad at this point. The term , ‘willfully ignorant’ is more and more applicable to you with every post …
Who’s ignorant, me or the Ron Paul drone that has yet to post the actual statement where Ron Paul actually says that he opposes the Quimby National Park….
The Fact Is that Ron Paul “still” has Not said anything about Quimby…!
Who cares about Ron Paul or any of the Republican nominees about Quimby’s National Park….it’s Maine citizens that vote to have the park. And most of them want it. It’s not a Federal issue until Maine decides to vote for it. So go ahead don’t vote in the November election, who cares…..they don’t have anything to do with Quimby wanting to donate her land…campaign staffers are right, it’s not a national issue…get over it….move on….We need to talk about jobs for Maine people, industries coming to Maine. If you owned 100,000 acres and were paying the taxes on it, I doubt very much you would listen to me if I came to you and told you what you could or couldn’t do with your land. Hypocrisy at it’s best….Move on man….
Your wrong, it is a national issue, because its a national park, and the reason its important is that the oval office is being manipulated by a special interest group.
Don’t worry, the Rethuglicans won’t count your vote anyway.
Actually,,,, its a lot of votes
actually, you are alone in your ignorance of Ron Paul’s stance of the National Park system
I guess we will see at the polls
btw-it’s polls
thank you
Still, they are a lot better than your typical two-faced sleazy liberals
you mean the typical 2 faced sleazy conservatives?
no, you know what I mean
yes, the 2 faced sleazy conservatives
if you say so
I’m a registered Republican, but this November I’m voting a straight Democratic ticket, in large part due to shenanigans like this.
The majority of “republicans” in this state are sadly democrats anyway, hence their support of neocons like Romney…..so go for it, the Romney supporters won’t know much of a difference between their candidate and Obama
so neocons is an answer to republicans who dont like republicans? well im a supercon confectionary maker and i just made powder puffs out of repukes! We O con or NeoCon. Just Back tracking!
Eight of them tried to tell us how great they were. Now we have three or four, kicking and scratching each other saying how bad the other one is.
Mitt says he would have let the major auto industry go bankrupt. Well, he did the other day – I can’t keep up with his changes. In any case, he preferred to dump thousands of auto workers into the streets and have them attempt to get on the unemployment roles, than having the government shore up the industry and keep them on the job.
GM and Chrysler were saved. Ford was able to stand alone. All three are still changing production methods and products. And, it’s paying off. The money is being paid back, too.
There are major differences. The republicans hold the edge in Change. Their changes occur each day as they struggle to rectify what they said the day before.
The Republican Party and the mainstream media have been controlled by Marxists behind the scenes, for decades. Read the book “Witness” by Whitaker Chambers.
James, if you vote a straight Democratic ticket this November you are not anything resembling a Republican. Anyone can be ‘registered’ as anything…but there is no way a real Republican could vote for people who are so far away from our Constitution…no matter what silliness they perceive some. Especially when you are talking about a non-elected person who is in the party, but not the legislature or any other part of the government.
You justify blind obeisance? Today’s republican party is the ruination of this country.
No, I am advocating following rules that pertain to certain activities. The Republican Caucus in Maine was to be held during the week ending on February 11 and all reporting was to be done by a particular time in the evening of February 11 so that there would be one announcement, and not a trickle through that would be ignored by the media and public.
The timing was well-advertised to the town chairmen and the method of calling a caucus also available to others should no one call a caucus in their town.
Following rules and guidelines and regulations is not a bad thing to do. It is not blind obedience (and no kind of bowing down. We leave that to others.) It is simply a way to get along in society. No rules is called anarchy, and only the strong survive in anarchy. Good societies find ways of protecting everyone and allowing everyone to flourish.
If you decide to cast your vote in the general election next November the DAY AFTER everyone else, you may…but don’t whine that it doesn’t get counted.
Your take on the facts is obviously different than mine. To my mind, this event, whether or not your take or mine is the correct one, is one more nail in the coffin of the republican party. The party has allowed itself to be hijacked by idealogues who foster a very narrow take on governance. Republicans generally come across as anti people. The party is quickly becoming irrelevant.
So, no “real Republican” could vote for anyone in the current batch of Republican candidates?
Maybe you are reading a different Constitution than I, onthewater. Mine says ‘of the United States of America’ what does yours say? Or are you relying on a so-called professor of the constitution for your interpretations?
After Obama signed NDAA? With Paul as Obama’s alternative? No one but Paul is actually talking about the imperative things. I wouldn’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. I just did the opposite: for the first time in my life I changed to Republican just to be able to vote for him should he make the Pa ballot. Next year I go back to Libertarian.
He needs criminal charges brought up against him..
Whats the Charge?
He was just being a Republican!
Hahahahahahaha. You couldn’t write a better or more ironic storyline. Mr. Voter fraud himself is being castigated by his own party for not bothering to count all the votes. If I don’t stop laughing I am gonna hurt myself. This is rich.
Some votes should not be counted: all those that did not make the deadline that was announced weeks ago. However, the votes that were sent in by those towns that did caucus and report on time should be reported, now.
he cant count
They try to shut out Ron Paul but we the people will not keep quiet or be censored. He Represents what America was! A country governed by the best document our constitution. Democrat, Republican, Independent doesn’t matter he is the only true Constitutionalist! Our country is the best in the world if we follow our Constitution!
Look, this is February in Maine. Cabin fever season.
Keep it coming. We need the entertainment.
Right On Mr Grumpy! Not sure about you, but I have goofed off enough today… I need to get back to work in order to keep paying the taxes that keeps Knightscross in his or her mom’s basement or state funded housing.
flip them burgers
So much for democracy…….
Rethuglicans are so corrupt from the Maine Senators to the Governor down to the Minions. Very clear now where the Voter Fraud is. The Crooked Rethuglican and Tea Party Thugs. Now you Know how LePage became Governor.
Step down, Charlie!
No! I, we, support Charlie.
Here’s another article on the proceedings from the Waldo County GOP meeting:
http://waldo.villagesoup.com/news/story/waldo-county-gop-calls-for-censure-of-state-chairman/484985
…As someone who attended the meeting, I’d have to say calling for his removal from our perspective would have been a little extreme considering the only thing the Waldo GOP was concerned about was the uncounted vote from caucuses that have happened SO FAR (Washington County is yet to take place). Much of this uncounted vote barely swings the margin in RP’s favor, and Rick Santorum actually won the tally of unreported votes from Waldo County…
Now if after this weekend somehow RP gets enough votes in Washington and Hancock county to change the outcome of the caucus, and Webster STILL does not include those votes, then that may be grounds for giving him the heave-ho… just my two cents.
I agree with you to a point. But my wife ran Senator Olympia Snowes office for 26 years before she retired. Charlie Webster she knows very well, too well. This isn’t the first time he got caught red handed making decisions without having all the votes in….Really it doesn’t matter if the votes change the outcome, what Maine citizens want is all their votes to count before anyone is announced the winner…How come Nevada, and Iowa chairman’s stepped down for the same reason and Charle is an Angel…..
Soviet-style tactics, courtesy of the Neo-Cons… You WILL vote for the party candidate! No wonder they dress in red.
It was the main stream media that decided the GOP would be red and the Democrats blue. It would have been quite ironic, cutting to close to home, had the democrats been given “red.”
There is a concerted campaign across the nation to keep Paul from winning any of the primaries. More than this, however, there is a general – and intentional – confusion in many states about the actual role of the primaries versus the caucuses. For instance, in Massachusetts, there is both a primary and a caucus. The primary is simply a popularity contest, the caucus determines the membership of the state’s delegates that attend the GOP convention later this year. In MA, unregistered voters can vote in any primary of their choosing – something which helps Paul, as he draws in the largest number of defected Democrats. The primary however means little, as the unpublicized caucuses which follow it determine the delegate composition. In order to vote in the caucuses, one must be a registered Republican…The GOP party chiefs of MA were caught misleading voters last week by telling people that unregistered voters could also vote in the caucuses – they cannot. The pre-appointed GOP front-runner will remain so, whether voters like it or not.
It is widely known that voter fraud got LBJ elected to the Senate and widely known that voter fraud got Bush to win the Florida presidential electoral college votes even though Gore won the state’s popular vote. In the latter case, the fraud campaign extended all the way up to the Supreme Court, which stopped a recount effort which would have included thousands of additional ballots. There are very dark hands in very high places.
Newspapers and TV newscasters have been calling the winners for years with the same kind of results. Often they base it on exit polls which do not include every voter nor every region. Because of these news outlets/media some voters don’t even bother going out to vote. Why vote in Hawaii when the national news outlets in the East already are heralding a winner? Sometimes if those out west were to ignore the national news casts via the internet, the outcome of the election would be different. Here in Maine Webster did the same thing—ignore some of the regions and declare a winner who, in fact, may not have been a winner at all. Romney was already given one state win when Santorum was the actual winner.
Get rid of the hype of the media and all their interference; wait for the actual counts to be given. Stop declaring results without the count being completed. Let American voters make the decision without the media playing a huge part in the outcome.
Even all the hype about which Republican candidate could beat Obama is nonsense. Allow the GOP to conduct the primaries without the power of suggestion, news media suggestion, to guide who should be nominated. Some voters are swayed by the opinion of the media without relying on their own research into who is the best candidate, who best reflects the way they want this country to go.
Maine should count the actual votes and publish the results.
Nooooooooo. You have to keep Charlie. He’s the Republican’s best guy.
Oooooooooooooh, do I sooooooooooooo agree with you on this. KEEP Mr. Webster…., please, please, please.
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Kick the man to the curb loudly. He is a disgrace to the party and a traitor to the country.
All eyes are watching this state – what a joke.
Hey, Penobscot County caucused on FEBRUARY 4. They built in a snow date. Penobscot’s Republicans are clearly smarter than Washington County’s. Why in the heck would you caucus on the deadline date as if you were in Southern rarely-snows Maine? If everyone did it like Penobscot, there wouldn’t be this problem, and the Waldo missing towns would be the only issue.
It would be nice if the real Republican Party would expel all these Tea Party/ALEC/MHPC parasites from their party. At least before they drag you down to ruin. I know there are some moderate level headed Republicans out there. We just need them to stand up and be heard telling these interlopers to form their own party and stand on their own. That is if there is still time.
Cool – glad to see you’ll be voting for Ron Paul!
Sure, why not, right after the democrats expel all the socialist, communist and the looney bird green party miss fits. But wait – then there would be no democratic party. I apologize for the inconvenience.
ya look for commies under your bed every morning? I love foolish conservatives , they just make it so easy. enjoy President Obama’s second term and lepage’s 1 term
Do you even know what a communist is? Forget the political labels, open your eyes man!
i do but you obviously dont- and you’re the one politically labeling
If obama has a second term we are all in trouble. You liberal types included. How many welfare frauds can a handful of working people support. I think the working class is about to revolt!!
it is because they are sick of giving more tax breaks to the wealthy–gotta love republicans, they don’t want tax the wealthy but have no problem taxing the middle class
your taxes(if you work) are lower under obama than they have ever been.
What part of your answer had anything to do with what I just said?
the working class is sick of giving tax breaks to the wealthy,thats why they may revolt- sorry,I didn’t realize your problem with comprehension
perhaps you should worry more about how the top 10% and business is screwing you rather than worrying about welfare fraud. and actual figures if you reply about welfare fraud and not anecdotal ..
I don’t have any trouble with comprehension when I am reading a paragraph written in complete sentences. Capitalization and punctuation helps also when trying to get across your point. As part of the working class I can tell you that the problem lies in the amount of money being spent. When a balance is less than zero, then it means there is no more money and cuts need to be made. Businesses are the means to the money. No businesses equals no money. That means that welfare etc will be finished. If you were to research the amount of welfare fraud going on instead of just flat out denying that it happens it would be very helpful to your arguement.
like most conservatives you dont understand economics– its not business that creates jobs, its DEMAND–no demand -no economy
try cutting business tax breaks and give aways
i assume you’re a republican with your attitude, try looking at the 1956 republican platform eisenhower ran and won on, then contemplate how low the republicans have fallen since they have been hijacked by the cons
never denied welfare fraud happens but compared to business fraud its a drop in the bucket..
that nasty old welfare, until one of you or yours needs it
too bad about Obama having to take care of the Bush recession
“liberal types”? You must listen to a lot of talk radio if you think Maine’s budget woes are all the fault of liberal give aways to lazy welfare slobs sucking your hard earned paycheck dry. This myth is for suckers to fall for. Sure, there are some freeloaders and sure, the government is bloated and wasteful to a point, but to look only to welfare and entitlements misses a large part of the picture. This whole class resentment thing is stupid. It is scapegoating. There always has to be someone further down the totem pole for you to blame and be lower than you.
Maine is not a wealthy state. We work hard to make it here and I know it can be frustrating to pay the bills and heat your home and all that. I know this, but at the same time, please bark up the correct tree. The Germans were duped into thinking that all their woes and miseries post WWI werre because of Jews, Poles, Gypsies, Intellectuals and Homosexuals. Look how that worked out for them. Know your enemy and don’t let Kevin Crocker or Ray Richardson propagandize you into thinking it is all the lefties” and the poor folks’ fault. Look to the rich men ofthe Lepage Administration and the national GOP who pull their strings for the real culprits. Again, know your enemy.
Oy. Rightees sure are bad at handling criticism. It is self evident that the GOP has veered way over to the right in recent times, but the Democratic Party has too. To say that the Dems are further to the left than they were in the 60’s or 70’s would be lying. Mr. Galt needs to take off the partisan blinders, curb the liberal bashing rage and step back into reality.
No one is getting the full story. Half of Hancock county has not voted either (they do so on the 18th) and there is a strong Ron Paul contingency there as well. There are 48 towns yet to caucus. EVERYONE’S votes should count. I attended the Hancock County Republican meeting in January in Ellsworth and VERY CLEARLY Charlie Webster and Gete Thomson (president of the Hancock County Womens Republican group ) said ALL votes would be counted even though there were towns caucusing after the 11th. I asked specifically if they’d count and they both said YES. Also, at the Ellsworth caucus the people speaking on behalf of the candidates were told in advance that they would get 3 minutes to talk about their candidates. When the speeches started, the first was on behalf of Ron Paul and Ms. Thomson announced as he was approaching the podium…”two minutes” , he rushed through his speech but all the others were allowed to ramble forever. Blatant unfairness. I am embarrassed to be a republican in the State of Maine after this fiasco and look forward to renewing my independent status after the election in November.
Now, now, now. Seems to me that too many otherwise intelligent people have way, way too much of their self-esteem wrapped up in politics. Look how bitter they be.. Calling each other bad names and all. Don’t shame mean nothing?
Step away from Mitt and Ron and Newt and Barack and Sarah and spit on your aching psyche and rub some dirt on it and take a deep breath because no matter who you are and what you do; no matter what you say and how you feel, it’s que sera, sera, baby.. Or like they say down to Belfast: Kway serra, serra..
Ah, Republicans screwing Republicans, well at least we know they’re
not prejudice!
This Republican is pissed!
No one is getting the full story. Half of Hancock county has not voted
either (they do so on the 18th) and there is a strong Ron Paul
contingency there as well. There are 48 towns yet to caucus. EVERYONE’S
votes should count. I attended the Hancock County Republican meeting in
January in Ellsworth and VERY CLEARLY Charlie Webster and Gete Thomson
(president of the Hancock County Womens Republican group ) said ALL
votes would be counted even though there were towns caucusing after the
11th. I asked specifically if they’d count and they both said YES.
Also, at the Ellsworth caucus the people speaking on behalf of the
candidates were told in advance that they would get 3 minutes to talk
about their candidates. When the speeches started, the first was on
behalf of Ron Paul and Ms. Thomson announced as he was approaching the
podium…”two minutes” , he rushed through his speech but all the others
were allowed to ramble forever. Blatant unfairness. I am embarrassed
to be a republican in the State of Maine after this fiasco and look
forward to renewing my independent status after the election in
November.
When Republicans are prevented from voting it’s a mistake. Of course, if it happened and any Democrats were involved, it would be voter fraud.
Your right, but don’t say it too loud. Somebody might hear you and bring it to their attention. They hate being scolded….I mean Charlie has been doing these things in my party for quite sometime, he just got caught red handed with his hand in the cookie jar….
The Peasants will be coming with pitchforks!
The Peasants will be coming with pitchforks!
good old charlie has proved to us that there is two maines. I live in the one that counts allllllllll votes
Charlie kinda has a “Fred Wintle” look in his eyes.
I wonder how many other states Romney paid off the GOP chairs in.
Charlie Webster is a criminal and he will go to jail for that. Ben Swann has reported last night, after speaking to several cacus chairmen that numbers have been reported in Mitt Romneys favor or have not been reported at all. Ron Paul currently leads by 10 points. Regardless if they count the outstanding counties Ron Paul has won and if they haven’t corrected the result by Saturday a large group of people will file a lawsuit.
It reminds me of the democratic caucus A few years back. Run by far left liberals . No one informed me the vote was not in m,y town . I went to the town office several times no note on the building or anything. By the time I found out where to vote they said I was 10 minutes too late. If you were not in the far left circle you could not vote. Obama won . But i bet he was not the Maine peoples first choice just the one who ended up with more votes.
PS. I changed parties to independent after that.
Hey Dave, you are almost as believable as Charlie…take this Sarah Palin Kewpie Doll for your efforts, and go home.
Ok big The caucus for the town of Kenduskeag was held In Glenburn thier was no note at the door of the Kenduskeag town office .
Charlie changes the caucus into a (3rd rate ) circus. I love seeing Republicans sticking it to Republicans. Ain’t it Grand!!!
I wonder which party will come up with enough money to buy the white house this election. It sure isn’t the public vote that puts the president in office any more.
You are a traitor to the American people Charlie Webster. I hope there is an active tea party in Maine (if not, you just created one I assume) and I hope they oust you. TRAITOR!
Step down Charlie Webster. You and Kevin Raye have messed this one up for our Republican Party. You should of never called it for anyone until all precients had reported in. Maine citizens deserve better. The state Republican party chairmen in Iowa and Nevada both stepped down in the wake of similar controversies in their states earlier this year. Your no different, except you think your above the law. Let’s all converge on the Committee meeting March 10th to voice our concerns and get Charile Webster in another line of work. He has broken Maine citizens code of ethics….Shame on you Charlie Webster you lost my vote.
LOL, These poor souls can not even figure out which crook is the best crook to vote for.
Back to Mordor, Charlie (Webster) and take the other Charlie (Summers) back behind the gates with you. I don’t know which is Gollum (Smeagol) or whether the other is Sauron or Sauruman, but the dark empire is calling them back.
Lord, they were worried about college kids voting twice……when they only count votes that go their way in the first place. Seems like the behavior expected of orcs or balrogs and yet the conservatives are the self-appointed champions of traditional values.
no lepage in the news today? must be on vacation? whats that?
“If people were saying ‘he can’t raise money, he can’t raise candidates or he doesn’t speak for the party,’ then I’d consider it,” he said. “That’s not the case here.”
No, the “case here” is that you’re either too incompetent to count a few votes, or you’re willing to overlook the basic democratic ideals our country was founded on to ensure your man wins. There is no third option, and either of the first two are more than sufficient grounds for you to resign your position if you had an ounce of honor or intelligence. You have neither.
On the other hand, you’re a shining example of the ignorance and hypocrisy of your constituency. Hang in there, Charlie! You’re doing a great job for the Maine Republican Party!
I don’t know if the BND will allow me to post this or not, but WABI-TV did a interview with me where I addressed the NEED for Charlie Webster to step down http://bit.ly/z7Mlub
Caucuses are ridiculous. Can we please change to a primary system?
Does Charlie bear a striking resemblance to Mr. Wiffle from please don’t squeeze the Charmin. In this case “please don’t squeeze the Caucus”.
charlie likes to squeeze the cockus
Webster should make every effort to right this mess or he should step down from his position. Maine Republican voters and the State practices are starting to look ridiculous before the eyes of the rest of the country. Unseating Emperor Obama will need much more integrity and unity than what has been demonstrated thus far by early primaries and caucuses. Shame and dismay. “We have seen the enemy, and he is us.”
The Charlie Webster clown show of voter suppression continues. What an ultra-maroon.
Just tell us the numbers in total, it won’t make a difference if they reveal now or later unless they happen to lose some numbers along the way…
This guy is pathetic. I hear that anti-fox new channel is getting someone from Washington County to go on national and express why we’re not a bunch of idiots like Charlie and the Maine GOP (Gray, Old and Pathetic) now appears. Better watch Rachael.
Good tyme Charlies got the blues!
Bendict Arnold Founded the Republican Paty!
LOL
Having followed the disastrous
Iowa caucuses, I felt the annoyance that Iowans must have felt, for Iowa is
famous for its caucus, and the whole country (or at least those who care about
politics) had its eyes to Iowa, and Iowa declared Mitt Romney as the winner,
only to announce in a whisper that in fact Rick Santorum had carried that day,
three weeks prior! You must wonder how
the state officials fought with their conscience, an internal monologue: “gosh,
this is embarrassing. That darn thing
they call democracy and the integrity of the vote, oh and counting, darn that
too.” In the end the State of Iowa did
the right thing. No influence would
disrupt the integrity of the vote.
As a Mainer, I am sad to say
that I believe Maine failed where Iowa succeeded. The GOP and Charlie Webster appear to have
caved to the TV cameras, and possibly to the Romney supporters. Yes, it is just a beauty contest as Mr.
Webster was so careful to point. And maybe this was intended to weather the
storm that Charlie Webster knew was coming.
But the announcement was made, Mitt Romney was the winner. The clearly biased Romney crowd went
wild. Charlie gave em what they
wanted. He gave the CNN’s of the world
what they wanted, for surely he couldn’t send home all those national political
correspondents with an empty feeling, with no closure.
The first question Charlie
Webster was asked on live TV on CNN was about the missing votes. What happened? Couldn’t this have been the difference for
Ron Paul? All great questions from a
common sense reporter who was obviously confused as to why what seemed a very
important moment was handled with such carelessness, with such finality when
the results were incomplete.
What has become of us? Do our caucuses mean anything? How is it that our system of caucuses lasts
two weeks long but not all of the meetings are held? How could we do this to Ron Paul, a Texan who
proved himself a real American by way of his commitment to this State.
I’m not sure who to blame for
all of this. Charlie Webster is the fall
guy. Maybe it’s the whole Maine GOP. Maybe we could even blame Washington County
for canceling the caucuses when it’s not clear whether that was necessary or
the correct decision. Yes, the political
junkies wanted results on that Saturday night and so did TV producers for their
live broadcasts. What I’d like to know
is when did ‘putting on a good show’ for the media became more important than
the integrity of our electoral system and the foundations of our democracy?
I am a republican and I must say that I am enbarrassed most times when I hear him speak for me. It is time for him to go.
What a disgusting man. Just goes to show that guy that’s pointing at others screaming guilty is usually the guilty one himself. How on earth do you live with yourself being so corrupt?
As a Mainiac who now lives “away”, I have always been proud of the super clean elections that Maine runs. I worked counting ballots many times and know how careful everyone always is. I remember the guy who went to jail for being in a room in Augusta with ballots to be recounted. He was not accused of doing anything to them, but went to jail for just being there. And now we have this guy deciding basically just to count the votes the “establishment” likes. Forget Washington County, forget Waldo County, forget the City of Waterville, forget whatever is inconvenient. That is not how things are done in Maine. He should be immediately removed from any leadership position in the Republican Party and sent packing. All votes should then be counted and a winner announced. Period.
something smells fishy!
I like Ron Paul, but Ron Paul supporters show up at the caucuses in large groups. I had never seen most of them at any of our regular meetings. Many of them I knew were Democrats and unenrolled. There were Ron Paul supporters who didn’t register to participate, they just walked around with Ron Paul buttons trying to intimidate people to support Ron Paul I know who they were, Democrats, there to cause trouble.
I’m no fan of Charlie Webster, but he sure knows what skunks are.
Why is this so complicated? Does the Maine GOP need to hire an accountant to figure out how to count votes? C’mon Charlie–get it together!
I think Maine’s caucus system should be revamped! I planned to vote for one of the GOP candidates, but I found that the caucus system was much more confusing than it needed to be, and I never did get to vote. I thought I would be able to vote on Feb. 11th, but I found out that voting for my town happened to take place on Feb 4th at Husson. Why doesn’t Maine have a primary system like so many other states, and hold primary elections in the towns where the residents live? The caucus process seems to be a complete waste of time, as only a few party insiders are even involved in the selection of the party’s candidate for president.
Maine had primaries for a few years but due to the “Cost of a Democracy” it was reverted back to the less expensive caucus process.
My party has disgraced me again….I am tired of these Karl Rove tactics….Bush pardoned Karl, should of let him rot in jail….Thank You Mr. President….my party has embarrased us again….
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It seems Republicans are so worried about voter fraud that they are not looking within their own party.. It is for the most part Republicans that are committing the voter fraud..
Republicans do not count votes. Either they win it at the speakers platform or in other cases, at the Supreme Court.
The picture of Charlie Webster standing behind the “working people” sign always gives me a laugh. Where are your work boots Charlie? lol. A working man voting Republican is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders.
Yeah, the Rich Democrats who back Obama’s Billion dollar PAC are sooo much more moral than the ones who back Republicans… Oh, wait a minute, They are the same people.
I agree, the Democrats are no better. If you think your boss needs a raise, vote Republican. If you think welfare recipients need a raise, vote Democrat. If you can see through all the malarkey in the two major parties and realize that they are both equally responsible for driving this country into the ditch, vote Independent. We need 535 independent farmers and fishermen in Washington or we better start learning to speak Chinese, we already owe them over a trillion. Our trade DEFICIT last year alone was $350 billion, or 350,000 million. At this rate, how long before we give them all our money? Buy American, vote independent, pay your FAIR share in taxes, and stay to hell out of ChinaMart while there is still one American left with a job.
We;re speaking the same language…..AND it isn’t Chinese.
The GOP needs to stick a fork in it, they are so done.
guess we found the fraud in the Maine voting process…..his name is charlie
So, Ron Paul was going to win and Charlie decided he didn’t like that and declared Mitt the winner?
There is precedence for his behavior. It is a republican thing. G.W.Bush did it in Florida back in the day. Stole the presidency right in front of the whole country.
Where is the Voice of Washington County? Where is the 2nd highest elected Republican in State Government? Where is Kevin Raye?
Why isn’t he speaking up for democracy? Why isn’t he speaking on behalf of Washington County Republicans?
Maybe he’s too busy with his Washington, DC, K Street lobbyist job…
With these comments:
“If people were saying ‘he can’t raise money, he can’t raise candidates or he doesn’t speak for the party,’ then I’d consider it,” he said. “That’s not the case here.” Mr. Webster confirms for us that he’s all about the money and the power . . . typical political hack.
Keep up the good work Charlie!
Don’t them push you around.
Stand yer ground!
We luv ya
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Yessah
Not!
Funny how things change. Just under 15 months ago, Charlie was a hero, ” The Man” according to Josh Tardy. Now, he’s flopping in the breeze like a used dish rag.
Charlie Webster again. Wow. This guy must be LePage’s brother. Can you say stupid Charlie. I’d like to know what Waterville bar thse two hang out at so I can urinate on their shoes.
Funny. I thought voter suppression was used strictly by republicans against democrats?
Webster and the Republican party had the ability to insure that the members of their party were not left out. They could have held up any announcement until all the Republican voters had the chance to caucus with their neighbors. But make no mistake – – there is nothing “neighborly” about the Republican party – – – the question has to be asked —> IF THE REPUBLICANS DON’T EVEN CARE ABOUT THEIR NEIGHBORS RIGHT TO VOTE THEN HOW CAN AMERICA TRUST THEM AT ALL??? Did they learn this from Webster or the Chief Bully named LeRage. I’m voting Democrat.
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“What I tell people is: I’m not going to fire or discipline my staff for clerical errors,” Webster said Wednesday, acknowledging that mistakes were made.”
When you job is to count the votes…..And you make a “clerical error” like NOT counting all the votes….You should be fired! Tears or not!
Stalin said doesn’t matter who gets the most votes but, rather, who counts the votes. Webster needs to be sued personally and then put in prison.
No, Charlie, the bigger question is whether you should even remain in your position. This is inexcusable, especially in what may well be the most important presidential election of our time.
Anyone care to take bets on when they will come out and admit that Ron Paul actually won the Maine Caucuses?
Vote fraud isn’t new, and certainly isn’t limited to one party. Vested interests who control political processes have always used their influence to affect an outcome that will be favorable to them. The banksters, war profiteers, social “reformers”, and the old money interests win no matter if Obama gets four more years to play elected dictator, or if any of the Republicans EXCEPT for Ron Paul get to fill the position for a term. Ron is the only one of the bunch that is not wholly owned and operated by the new aristocracy.
It is nice that the no good so-in-so’s are getting called on their manipulations in Maine, though…
Who is Webster taking his orders from?
Charlie thinks he’s hurting Ron Paul…when he forces Paul into a 3rd party bid he’ll realize that he was a key element in bringing about the marginalization of the GOP.
Good riddance as far as I’m concerned. Though I disagree with 60% of Dem philosphy, you have to give them credit for doing what the say even if you disagree. In the GOP’s case, they all claim to be “limited gov’t” and “less tax” people….but most don’t behave that way once elected. The GOP has become the party of liars so it’s time for new and REAL party of small gov’t.
Straw poll or not,it speaks volumes as to what our votes stand for…they meen “nothing”.
I hear it all the time from alot of voters,the entire voting system is a fraud …by design.
Presidents are chosen not elected and it seems to be ok because most people have no idea of our constitution or the rules.
I cannot understand why we as a people alow this to continue under fear of marshal law,my answer is “1776”
FIRE WEBSTER! IT IS STILL UNACCEPTABLE TO OPENLY STEAL ELECTIONS IN AMERICA!
We Ron Paul supporters demand not only a re-count, but the resignation of the Maine GOP chariman, and a PUBLIC APOLOGY to Ron Paul. Iowa, Nevada, and New Hampshire should follow suit since there was obvious vote manipulation going on in those states, too, thereby robbing Ron Paul of his rightful count.
RON PAUL for president 2012!!!
This official statement from the Maine GOP:
http://www.mainegop.com/2012/02/chairman-webster-meets-with-maine-republican-party-executive-committee/
many comments and articles focus on Washington County, but make no mention of Waldo County and the city of Waterville. I wonder if they are ignoring this willfully or by omission. It seems if all these combined votes are tallied, it could make a difference. Anyone agree?
Charlie Webster needs to go to prison for conspiring to alter our elections….the same elections that define us as a free country. This man is a fraud and the real results and all the votes must be counted!!!
“The bigger discussion will be about whether we should do this type of caucus again,” the GOP chairman said.
The biggest discussion ought to be about how such a callous and perhaps corrupt state party chairman came to hold such a position of authority and trust.
Pure, blatant, up in everybody’s face theft.
Thank you for reporting the truth to the best of your knowledge.