This week, we deal with the inauspicious return of Graham Platner to the public square, as well as the adventures of his replacement in the U.S. Senate race, Troy Jackson. Are progressives pining for their true love in Platner, and is the Democratic establishment annoyed that Jackson’s campaign now has to deal with a distraction? We discuss.
This is also a week where a long list of bad stories for Maine dropped, in which the negative consequences of progressive governance continue to become apparent.
On the education front, in the wake of Maine once again performed dismally in a major educational results evaluation, Commissioner Pender Makin continues to try to tell us that “test results don’t matter.” Why don’t they matter? Mostly because the test results tell us how poorly she has performed and how disastrous the policies she has pursued have been for Maine kids.
In Portland, business owners are growing increasingly vocal over the continuing decline of the city. Homelessness, aggressive panhandling and needles everywhere — all of which are the result of progressive policies failing the city — have caused not only everyday citizens, but the business community to say “enough is enough.”
Speaking of needles, they are now washing up on the shores of communities along the Penobscot River, as the out of control needle programs — a progressive policy — in Maine now grow out of control.
Everywhere Maine is living with the destructiveness of hard-left policies run amok. We discuss the implications and more in this week’s Pine Tree Pulse.
