So we can record the teabagger's latest inspid idea that does nothing for Maine and just a way to line his pocket some more, and wasting taxpayer's money.

ALEC is on your staff? Or, is it that some people on your staff can read ALEC memos>

Oh how I wish that something in the grand plan is criminal ... that would unwind the whole cabal.

Or lead to several mysterious accidental deaths.

Do you need to be from Maine to understand what this might be about? It sounds crazy scary.

A long time ago, when I was still a baby DUer, I warned members here to dismiss what's been taking place in Texas as "our own stupid fault" at great risk. I said I believed we were a test state of sorts, and they wanted to do the same to every state in which they could create a rift.

Which is why a lot of what's taking place around today is so worrisome to me.

plurality voting, there will always be a chance of getting a TeaPublican in office, even in as sensible a state as Maine.

It's not how they got in that was the biggest problem in Texas. It's what they did once they were that made it all but impossible for us to get back a majority.

Two gerrymanderings and various laws designed to suppress Democratic votes are hard to overcome. These are the things I worry about others having to suffer through.

backing of a third of the electorate to become our leader just seems so wrong as well. And it never would have happened if we could have used ranked or approval ballots.

can help tie him down as a lame duck.

you and me both

and some master plan he/she might have in mind, I am more convinced that it is imperative that we here in the state of Washington elect Jay Inslee (D) as governor and not the (R) McKenna. With McKenna, we would get the same attempts to disenfranchise certain voting demographic groups. The state has a natural division -- the Cascade Mountains divide the state between the agricultural east and the industrialized/business center west. The east is generally Republican with the west generally Democratic. The bulk of the population is on the west side. With a Republican governor, the scenario writes itself.