EAST MACHIAS, Maine — The controversy that continues to plague efforts by Maine’s registered Republicans to indicate their presidential nominee preferences moves to Washington and Hancock counties on Saturday, Feb. 18.
A snowstorm prompted cancellation of Washington County’s caucus last weekend, and Hancock County’s two GOP caucuses were long-scheduled for Feb. 18. Consequently, the results of those events were not counted when the Maine Republican Party announced last week that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney received 194 more votes in the state’s presidential preference poll than Ron Paul, the congressman from Texas who was decreed the runner-up.
Other wrenches in the GOP vote-counting machine affected the results of caucuses in Waldo County and other areas, despite the fact that many had been held before the state party’s Feb. 11 deadline. In the meantime, some GOP caucuses around the state won’t be held until March.
State Senate President Kevin Raye, a Republican who lives in Washington County, said after meeting with Maine Republican Chairman Charlie Webster, it’s his understanding that the results of the Washington County caucus will be counted when the results of the nonbinding straw poll are tallied, as that caucus was delayed by weather. Whether the results of other caucuses held after Feb. 11 will be counted, Raye said, is an issue to be decided at a Republican State Committee meeting scheduled for March 10.
“The State Committee voted last fall on a process that said caucuses needed to be held between Feb. 4 and Feb. 11, and that’s what Washington County opted to do,” Raye said Friday. “Other counties chose to do it after that deadline, and I get the impression that Charlie Webster is not sympathetic.”
There has been a firestorm of protest targeted at Webster for how the situation is being handled. On Friday, Webster dismissed the entire caucus process as a “beauty contest” during a morning drive-time talk radio interview. That comment came on the heels of the Waldo County GOP Committee voting Tuesday to recommend that Webster face censure by the state GOP committee.
Webster also told the Washington, D.C.-based political journalism organization Politico that some of the errors made in counting votes were related to an email problem. Some of the emails sent by communities to state party headquarters to report results were flagged as spam in the party’s email system and not discovered until later.
“We’re correcting [the errors],” Webster told a Politico reporter. “There was a small change in the result, but it’s not a significant number, and it doesn’t affect the outcome.”
Calls placed to Webster on Friday by the Bangor Daily News were not returned. But just after 5 p.m., the Maine Republican Party released the new caucus tallies to date showing Romney’s lead over Paul had grown to 239 votes. The new numbers showed Romney with 2,269 votes and Paul with 2,030, followed by former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania with 1,052 and former U.S. House speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia with 391.
Calls to Romney and Paul campaign contacts also were not returned Friday.
Rep. Richard Malaby, R-Hancock, said Friday that the controversy smacks of “much ado about nothing.” He feels caucus results should not have been made public until the entire process was completed in March. “This whole thing has been a very good argument for going to a primary,” he said, noting that one downside of a primary election would be the cost of staging such an election.
University of Maine political science professor Amy Fried said Friday that, while a primary might prove costly, she expects it would increase participation.
“This has been an incredibly messy situation,” she said of recent events. “I suspect that, if there were a statewide primary in Maine, more people would likely take part, and they could likely participate by absentee ballot. It takes time to go to a caucus and hang out there. Caucuses are good for what’s termed ‘party building’ — trying to get more people involved.”
Malaby lives in Hancock, just down the road from the site of Saturday’s caucus at the Hancock Grammar School, located off Route 1. Registered GOP voters from Fletcher’s Landing, Gouldsboro, Hancock, Lamoine, Sorrento, Sullivan, Waltham and Winter Harbor are expected to participate in the event, which begins at 10 a.m.
Malaby said Friday he has no idea how the still-brewing controversy will affect turnout. “I’ve heard from people in Augusta who were involved in caucuses over previous weeks that they had great turnouts,” he said. “I’ve also heard from people this week who feel angry and disenchanted and tell me they won’t come out.”
Kathy Birdsall, the coordinator of the Hancock caucus, said she, too, doesn’t know how the controversy will affect attendance on Saturday. “I’ve heard people say, ‘Well, if my vote is not going to count, I’m not going to come,’” she said Friday. “I assure them that their vote will count, that the results will be reported.”
Another GOP caucus will be held Saturday in the Hancock County community of Eastbrook for registered Republicans from Amherst, Aurora, Eastbrook, Franklin, Great Pond, Mariaville and Osborn. That event at the Eastbrook Town Office on Route 200 begins at 1 p.m.
In Washington County, Washington Academy on Route 191 in East Machias is making its cafeteria available for a 1:30 p.m. caucus. Head of School Judson McBrine said Friday that the facility could seat 300 people or more. Whether all those seats will be filled, he said, remains to be seen.
“I’m confident that, with a weekend of good weather, unlike last weekend, that we will have a good turnout,” Rep. David C. Burns, R-Whiting, said Friday. “And if the cafeteria fills up, there are spillover rooms at the Academy.”
As to the confusion surrounding tallying votes from previous caucuses, Burns said he’d be interested in taking a look at a statewide primary.
“As a voter, I’ve had concerns all along about this Republican process,” he said.
LOL their own party is corrupt with each other, why would anyone elect any of them?
There is that “we conservatives are not really that much worse than the good for nothings that ruined Maine for thirty years.” thing again.
So you readily admit that you conservatives are worse?
con·serv·a·tive/kənˈsərvətiv/
Noun : A person who is averse to change and holds to traditional values and attitudes, typically in politics.
Conservatives are deluded. By definition being a conservative is being opposed to change
in a world where change is the only constant
and adapting to it is how success is ultimately measured.
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wow, I never knew you could write upside down! lol
I cna eavn mvoe lteters all aruond adn stlil hvae ti srot of make since, too.
Data manipulation is so common, now, that we all can see right thought i it … this time.
Sorry, Charley !
; )
I’d expect a higher than usual turn out.
Downeast Ronmulian unite !!!!
Charlie is right, this is just a beauty contest now. Look at all of the drama, back-stabbing, lying, cheating, and down-right meanness going on. I’ve never seen 7th grade girls act so awful. Glad I un-enrolled as a Republican a couple of years ago. This is not the party of my father, that’s for sure.
Isn’t it grand… Charlie and “the boys” sticking it to Republicans.
Switching to Libertarian after the GOP was hijacked a decade ago by Karl Rove and his Machiavelli cohorts was a spiritual uplifting act that I’ve never regretted. And this year more than ever. By December, many here will have great remorse that they didn’t.
Crazy Charlie Webster has spent all week dusting off his grandfather’s trusty abacus and is raring to go up there in Washington and Hancock county. Don’t laugh, just last week he was counting on his fingers and toes.
He takes his orders from Karl Rove and the other Repugnican “leadership”.
Ah yes Mr. Richard Malaby, R-Hancock, but if you did go to a primary system – you wouldn’t be able to stuff some one of your own connected hacks down our throats before the main event in November. Did you check that out with brother Karl before you spoke? Pope Karl thinks he’s in charge of who gets to be called a Republican and who gets to be elected – everytime , everywhere. No others need apply.
We need an organizational chart… how does ALEC, the Heritage Foundation and the Koch Bros, fit in with Karl Rove ?
But the bottom line is that the bosses have said Ron Paul can’t win.
What part of that does the party faithful not understand, yet ?
Conservative math is defined by thinking you can cut taxes AND lower the deficit.
It is one (dumb) thing to be anti-science and against evolution or climate change as a faith based, irrational political position.
But it is another, entirely, to be a politically opposed to the science of economics and/or mathematical realities and still think you should be entrusted to run a State or Nation.
If conservative math is that you can do its simple you cut taxes and you cut spending. Is that so hard to figure out? And why do you assume all Republicans are anti-science and evolution. I’m Agnostic, a Scientist and a Republican.
Because he reads the newspaper.
“If conservative math is that you can do its simple you cut taxes and you cut spending. …Is that so hard to figure out?” Yeah, actually.
Then you Sir are in the minority in your own party!
WOW!
Brilliant!
Cut everything and Shut down the economy!
That will Fix Everything!
What’s actually hard to figure out is what you might mean in this collection of words posing as a sentence. I usually don’t bother correcting grammar here in the comment-sphere, but when the meaning is totally lost in how you express yourself, one has to wonder. I can only assume your grasp of science, economics, and philosophy matches your understanding of English.
Sounds like many problems here. Not a fan of RP but if he lost through ineptitude or out right stupidy on the parties fault, shame on them and good luck to RP.
Charlie Webster and the entire LePage team are an embarrassment to the state of Maine.
Of course, the caucuses matter, now, in terms of the entire election process and should be handled accordingly.
This ain’t no beauty contest, so far. It’s about as ugly as it can be.
Obama 2012
The skirmish that has ensued over the Maine caucuses
is actually causing more of a brouhaha than when the Black Panthers stood outside polling places (in Philadelphia) intimidating voters in 2008. As I recall, Eric Holder (and President Obama) decided it was not worth looking into?
And those 2008 votes “counted”
Oh well, we all know there are different rules for “Democrats”
Ah, the New Black Panther Party story. Two bullies stood outside a polling station and got caught on a video that went viral on conservative blogs and FOX News. Yet, not one voter ever filed a charge saying that they had been intimidated. Thus, there was no case that could be made for voter intimidation. A career attorney inside the Justice department made the call not to pursue the investigation yet it “became” a decision made by Holder and Obama. What a joke.
There’s a Faux News fool born every minutes, I guess.
You say: “Yet, not one voter ever filed a charge saying that they had been intimidated.”
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Who would ever feel safe to file charges against Black Panthers closing ranks outside polling places in Philadelpia, brandishing a weapon and calling white voters, crackers and white devils?
In your world, there was nothing to it because no one filled charges. (Charges were filed by observers and witnesses. They called the police.) That these thugs were there, milling around the entrances to polling places, pounding night sticks in their palms is of no concern to you.
The gauntlet these voters had to scale was threatening and repugnant. To look at it from a different angle, it would be like blacks in black neighborhoods, heading off to the polls and being confronted with Sen. Robert Byrd D-WV (when he was the Exalted Cyclops) and Sen. Ernest Hollings D-SC (always a racist and a bigot) pounding a nightstick into his palm before they gained entrance to the polling place. Byrd and Hollings would also be calling them some choice names before they entered. Try to picture a white President and a white AG dropping any charges that were filed.
As I said in my prior post: Oh well, we all know there are different rules for “Democrats”
Those Black Panthers claimed they posted themselves at the polls because “They would not allow some racists and other angry whites, who are upset over an impending Barack Obama presidential victory, to intimidate blacks at the polls. “Most certainly, we cannot allow these racist forces to slaughter our babies or commit other acts of violence against the black population, nor our black president.” (Najee Muhammad and Uhuru Shakur)
Repeating the same nonsense, over and over, does not make a thing true, any more now, than it did when George Cheney-Bush tried it,
Obama 2012
What’s the analogy?
Even if the Black Panthers were ‘doing something’ outside of polling places in Philadelphia, they are not in charge of passing out ballots or counting votes.
Are you implying that they were keeping people from casting their votes by intimidating them or somehow blocking the doorways?
If not, I can see why the Obama administration considered it a non-issue, because I totally missed that story, as well.
Post a link and I’ll take a look.
I am so not surprised that you know next to nothing about the Black Panther case. Here’s a surprise for you…the mainstream Media didn’t report it.
My only point was the uproar that has ensued since last weekend over Maine’s caucuses….it even made National News. Why I compared it to what was described as a non-issue and lack of coverage of Black panther voter intimidation in 2008 was what popped into my mind in assessing the constant drumbeat of a delayed caucus in Washington County because of a snow storm. I suppose I thought it might be of importance to compare what is newsworthy (a cancelled caucus) and Black Panther intimidation (not newsworthy….move along folks)…..where the votes are to be counted and part of our national Presidential Election.
But anyway…here’s your link. You will have to go to Google search and type WSJ – Opinion: Holder’s Black Panther Stonewall.
Here is Holder’s attitude in dropping the case against the Black Panthers standing guard at some polling places:
The Attorney General seemed to take personal offense at a comment Culberson read in which former Democratic activist Bartle Bull called the incident the most serious act of voter intimidation he had witnessed in his career.“Think about that,” Holder said. “When you compare what people endured in the South in the 60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and to compare what people were subjected to there (the South) to what happened in Philadelphia–which was inappropriate, certainly that . . . to describe it in those terms I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who risked all for “my people” said Holder, who is black.
I still am not following your line of reasoning.
Nonetheless, this ‘bruhaha’ is not about one local ME caucus delayed by a snowstorm.
Come on. Wake up.
I think I got it.
But it is really just old news, Dwneast. You handled it well, too.
… “the Black Panthers (in Philadelphia) standing guard at some polling
places ” ?
Gee-whiz, doesn’t that just remind you of right wing Minutemen standing “guard” along the Mexican Border ?
One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.
So, I wonder how many people at the GOP caucuses were packing ?
But oh, let’s say we could just never mind that because …
IT IS SO very different, wherever you are,
when the Americans exercising their right to bear arms
look just like most of you,
… (there, there, I know it upsets you, Grandmother.)
Got a robocall from Kevin Raye pushing hard for votes for Romney tomorrow. He and Chris Gardner got caught with their pants down on this one and had to delay the caucuses to stop a Ron Paul upset. Webster, Raye, Gardner — all birds of a feather.
Dirty politics at its best. The people of Maine deserve better than what they will get if Kevin Raye is sent to DC. Beware the liberal Democrat RINO in Republican clothing.
Robo -President,
is what the GOP wants !
http://thelastword.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/14/10408640-norquist-tells-romney-whos-boss
Now we know why Lepage went to Florida. He had to pick up some forged ballots from the Florida GOP.
Romney’s campaign has taught us that money can buy you love.
Tea party mentality has hijacked the republican party. They are bound to lose. Ignorance is no substitute for brains and heart. The republicans used to be honorable: now they are just rabble.
LOL….a rabble in arms is what won our freedom from the British empire…looks like a similar rabble will be necessary to win back human freedom from folks of your loyalist mindset once again…history does indeed have a way of repeating itself…sad to see so many willing to stand on the wrong side once again
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Man, if I were a delegate from one of these towns, I would be SO friggin upset at the state republican office. I would like to think that Washington County would join Waldo and ask for censure of Charlie Webster. I would consider it an outrage that the state committee chairman thinks that my caucus doesn’t count.
Washington County votes will count..maybe…..maybe not. We’ll decide once the votes are counted? The nation will be watching, that’s for sure!
Unfortunately, the nation is no longer watching. Maine had one weekend to be in the spotlight, and the Republican leadership blew it, and furthermore, because of the mess they made of it, nobody will ever know which Republican really had the most support in Maine.
Before libs rejoice, this should be thought of as an assault on democracy rather than a symptom of a dysfunctional political party. Anytime a poll like this is thwarted, either intentionally (like this time?) or as a result of confusion, the only real losers are the rank and file people. This time Republicans, another time Democrats. The winners are people like Webster who do the bidding of party bosses and can collect whatever they can.
More delusion.
The whole world is watching.
Sorry, Charley.
This is a good point, actually. The Democrats did the same thing to Eugene McCarthy in 1968 that the Republicans are doing to Ron Paul this year. I’m still laughing, though.
The nation IS watching..and they are all saying what a corrupt Governor LePage is and that Republican Voters are getting the shaft from their party leaders! Believe me it’s all over the news!
Who ever said the Republican Party and their votes are honest? Answer….Nobody.
So the ROBthePUBLICan Party is now turing into the ROBtheROBthePUBLICan Party? Stealing from themselves to serve their desperate attempt to beat the Dems in November??? Wow. Will Herr Vebster declare a winner a THIRD time???
Paul Won.
Charlie Promised Spot from Romney.
Romney Declared Winner.
Charlie Caught Red Handed.
Charlie Tossed Out (hopefully).
“Rep. Richard Malaby, R-Hancock, said Friday that the controversy smacks of “much ado about nothing.” He feels caucus results should not have been made public until the entire process was completed in March.”
Representative Malaby doesn’t get it. This whole debacle has secretness at its heart. It was the State GOP directive to not announce the tallies publicly at the precinct level that began the suspicion that someone intended to fiddle the results. Mr Webster’s role in this has also contributed to the trouble: His condescension and clear double-dealing has been a disservice to the process and the party. However things fall out eventually in all of this, he should fall out of his position as he has irreparably ruined his reputation and any political event he is associated with.
A solution to the ‘caucus problem’ that does not require switching to a primary is simple. Single day caucuses, with one possible make up day, and tallies announced publicly at each precinct immediately after the count. With that you get transparency. One step further would be proportional representation in at least the first delegate count/vote.
Incidentally, Mr Webster continues make himself look bad by stating that it’s just a beauty contest, a straw poll, and meaningless. If that were so, and not other consideration – like the publicity value of the caucus – were related to the process, why make such a fuss about secrecy and counting this versus not counting that county?
Ron Paul is the only chance we have. I hope Washington County is awake. There is a reason the mainstream media is afraid of Ron Paul.
Please tell me,
Why hasn’t the Ron Paul campaign been in Washington and Hancock counties this week?
He could have won the state if he had showed up!!
Now I have my doubts about him……
Ron Paul’s foreign policies are dangerous. (He believes Iran should have nuclear weapons……just because everybody else does.) Ron Paul is an anti-semite. I guess that would explain his reasoning for Iran having a nuclear weapon. Ron paul is anti-abortion. I assume you support these postitions of Ron Paul?
If you understood Ron Paul’s foreign policy, you would understand that it is an extension of his AVOID A FINANCIAL MELTDOWN economic plan and protects Medicare and Social Security and doesn’t raise taxes.
Admiral Mike Mullens, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stated the single biggest threat to national security is the national debt. Not Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan or North Korea. The national debt is the greatest national security threat!
Read his positions yourself: http://www.ronpaul2012.com/ under the Issues
I don’t get the anti-semite stuff – Abortion won’t change just perspective and federal funding. Military funding and Iran nuke won’t change effectively. There will still be a congress. Paul won’t go against the constitution. ie
I recall I usually ‘like’ your posts.
I don’t understand why the Ron Paul campaign is not in Washington County right now.
If the candidate himself showed up, I have no doubt that he could
get the 200 or so votes he needs to beat Romney.
But the RP folks are no where to be found.
I’m suspicious that they don’t see the value of the opportunity they have.
Nothing about this process passes the smell test……
“If the candidate himself showed up, I have no doubt that he could get the 200 or so votes he needs to beat Romney.”
That would be embarrassing to the Maine GOP Party.
rotflol
General Webster might just be a tad overconfident as his cavalry heads into the Battle of Little Big Fraud.
Kevin Raye’s statement does not mimic the verbiage found on mainegop.com under Important Information Relating to Municipal Caucuses. There is a lot of difference between “caucuses needed to be held between Feb. 4 and Feb. 11” and “The Maine Republican Party is encouraging all municipal committees to hold their caucuses between February 4th and 11th.”
Why do we need monitor machines from Venezuela? They’re probably all rigged.
Does anyone know how did the democratic caucus went in 2008? I don’t recall.
No, I don’t but how do you think this GOP one in 2012 is going, so far ?
No one is really paying attention…
No RINO Romney
Smells a lot like when John Martin used to announce the ‘final’ results of a recount two hours before the tabulating was finished.
Check out this article from the Kennebec Journal: Recount Gives Even Bigger Margin to Romney: http://www.kjonline.com/news/recount-give-even-bigger-margin-to-romney_2012-02-17.html
According to the article: 1) some towns were not included in the recount totals because Charlie Webster did not have the contact information to confirm their vote totals; 2) 20 of Ron Paul’s votes “disappeared” from Limington; 3) 5 more people than originally reported voted in Bar Harbor and all 5 of those votes went to Romney; 4) 5 more people than originally reported voted in Trenton and all 5 of those votes went to Romney; and 5) 28 more people than originally reported voted in New Gloucester and almost all of those votes went to Santorum. Yesterday, CNN reported that Charlie Webster said that the paper ballots had been thrown away so there is no way to do a recount. How convenient for Mr. Webster that his “recount” can’t be challenged!
Republicans who cheered he destruction of ACORN and the nationwide GOP effort to use voter ID laws to disenfranchise voters now have found out what it’s like to have your right to vote taken away.
How’s it feel, huh?
Charlie has got to go or be, removed.
I wouldn’t believe a thing that Charlie Webster says, even if his hand was on a stack of bibles.
I hope that the tallies are independently verified.
As a side note I found this quote:
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” — Benjamin Franklin
How can votes lost in spam result in vote totals from towns for Ron Paul going DOWN when they are added? Uncommitted votes also went down. Spam can hold NEGATIVE votes? Vacuum votes? As one example, 20 people initially were reported to have voted for Ron Paul in Limington, but in the corrected version, zero people did. I’d be curious if anyone from Limington remembers having caucused for Ron Paul…
Hmmm…Interesting point. How do votes go down?
Also, the fact that Maine GOP Chairman, Charlie Weber, blames his spam filter for errors in releasing a correct vote tally last week contradicts earlier statements made by him where he stated that “there’s no way to recount. These were just slips of paper that were thrown away after. There’s nothing to recount. There’s no ballots left”
Is this a case of incompetence (as Charlie Weber would like you to believe) or corruption and election fraud?
http://www.dailypaul.com/214742/cnn-no-recount-in-maine-after-all
Yes, now they want a primary where no one can see and prove the vote fixing, or the whole idea behind secret ballots and using rigged black box voting machines they control. The national elections should be done as one big caucus with public counting and recording at each precinct on video, with the precinct vote totals, and made instantly available to the public from each precinct across the country. THEY should not be totaling anything in secret either with a machine or with a tally room WE SHOULD.
Regarding the new vote totals provided by the state chairman on Friday for locations that had caucused prior to Feb. 18, evidence has now surfaced that there was an active attempt at vote total manipulation:
http://www.ksla.com/story/16937227/reality-check-was-there-voter-fraud-in-maine
So a call went out for precinct captains to reconfirm totals. This provides an opportunity to adjust totals where the precise numbers are not recorded. Prior to the caucuses, the precinct captains were told not to announce numbers even to those in attendance. An increase in Romney’s total seems dubious but, as in Iowa, we will likely never know the real vote count in Maine.
The possibility of vote tampering may seem less likely in a primary but there are Internet postings that indicate lack of ballot box security in New Hampshire and an algorithm indicating electronic manipulation in South Carolina. Perhaps these concerns seem paranoid but such things can happen.
The most credible system of voting would be a caucus in which votes were counted, recorded and announced in the presence of all those in attendance.
Looks like the GOP is recounting Maine and now South Carolina results are being investigated too. We already know that in Nevada, more votes were cast than voters and Iowa lost so many votes, they can’t say who won. Although Maine GOP is recounting the vote tallies, the Maine GOP will not release Washington County vote tallies until March despite having them much sooner. My question is why delay the announcement? To further solidify and manipulate a false candidate’s lead?I read that Maine GOP Chairman, Charlie Weber, blames his spam filter for errors in releasing a correct vote tally last week. My question is do you believe this? How plausible is such an excuse?!? Because, I have also read that Charlie Weber stated that “there’s no way to recount. These were just slips of paper that were thrown away after. There’s nothing to recount. There’s no ballots left”Is this a case of incompetence (as Charlie Weber would like you to believe) or corruption and election fraud? Either way, it doesn’t matter if the reason is corruption or incompetence — the result is the same. Ron Paul may have won 2 states and gets credit for zero.
I guess folks are beginning to get the picture by now that those who are running the Republican Party have little or nothing to do with democracy or a democratic process?
John Martin ..
and of course honest Paul Violette
All I can say If cheating as has been indicated occured why did Mitt Romney pick up MORE votes?…. Had 194….at days end Feb.11th…and recount gave him 239 as reported on Fox..Feb. 17th….Does common sense still exist? As I read anyone holding caucus after Feb 11th knew votes would not be counted.. These rules are on the books?? So when I process this information…Please tell me how Charlie Webster was wrong to announce winner and is being character assassinated? I heard one person say the people in Washington country are tough…we had some snow…. people showed up to lock down caucus locations because the chair person called snow.. and knowing full well votes would not count?? How is that Charlies fault?…Well, I am pleased truth prevails…cause Mitt was the one who now I know gained votes..Romney team accused of cheating and conspiracy… if so…I doubt the Romney team would have more votes as we speak…just human error…on the peoples part who served…as caucus chairs…I think in the future we should hold caucus all on one day…With a snow date for all….because as I read some had a week to believe the hype..pitied RP and came out to vote for him after the fact…that is questionable to me??
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Even if I were a Republican I would be furious at the haphazard way that the Maine GOP is handling the Caucus Process! The entire country is looking with suspicion now at Maine’s elections especially the GOP side. I suppose LePage is happy as a fly on horse manure tho and will be of no help in correcting any of the Apparent Gross Errors being made! RECALL ALL GOP FRAUDS IN MAINE!!
GOP=CROOK
What Charlie didn’t plan on was, shooting off his mouth at the decrement of two maine counties.
He may have figured out the numbers, but I doubt if it were him that did it. What he did successfully do was completely alienate 2 Maine counties of their fair value and an honest accounting of a well formed process. We have always have had caucuses in this state, and with one failed swoop, the man has people wondering?
This is not about who has won, this is about our process. Don’t let Charlie Webster change the way that we have been doing things since we became a state. Charlie Webster needs to go, without any doubt. Kevin Raye spent too much time in Washington as a lobbyist; he knows how to do it. Charlie Webster isn’t smart enough to get out of his own way, Raye wants Romney, hence Charlie being a good dog, barked, and ran.
Who cares, Rotten RINO Romney will become Obama II the beginning of the end
*An end to the 2nd Amendment
*Forced healthcare mandate
*Jobs shipped overseas
If it comes down between Obama & Romney, why bother voting
Controversy, yes because the BDN is stirring the pot…. I love it..
Ron Paul wins Maine, results:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjQBwcCtzwG8dEdGUWZjS1FwTW8wTzVyOEJ6dmg4cHc&authkey=CKT21ZkH&hl=en_US#gid=1