WE HAVE A NEW GOVERNOR AND OTHER ELECTION CHANGES

Election Results:

The Following email was just received from the Eliot Cutler Campaign Office at 11am:

"At noon today I will announce at a press conference here in Portland that I have spoken with Mayor Paul LePage and congratulated him on his victory. The results that are available to us this morning are unofficial and informal, but I believe that it is unlikely that there will be a material change in the outcome.

"Although we all will await the official tabulations by the Secretary of State, I do not want to make it more difficult for Paul to assemble the team he needs to govern the State of Maine and to prepare a budget for the next biennium. In all likelihood, he will be the next governor for all the people of the State of Maine, and all of us who love the State of Maine should give him our support as he sets out on a difficult journey.

"I am unendingly grateful to you for your investment in the effort we have made and your support for our vision for Maine.

"I am proud of the fact that we came from literally zero to just a few thousand votes short of winning in a mere 16 months. And I am prouder still that we stuck a dagger in the heart of negative campaigning in the State of Maine, that we never ran a single negative attack ad nor made a single personal attack, that we withstood an onslaught of lies, slander and deception directed against us and that we emerge from this race with our heads held high and our integrity intact.

"You should be proud of your participation in this campaign, and I hope that you are, as I am. I am indebted to you and grateful to you.

Thank you.

Signed by Eliot Cutler
Authorized by the Candidate and paid for by Cutler 2010

Dave Johnson is the NEW Representative to the Maine House of Representatives for our District, having won 54.95 percent of the votes.

The proposed AOS for our school district was approved. So now, what SAD 63 and CSD 8 have been doing since 1977 (before mandated consolidation) is "legal." Suppose we could get back that $178,000+ the state took last year. After all, we were doing exactly what the state wanted before they even mandated it.

Clifton's proposed "amendment to the amendment" for the wind tower ordinance was defeated. Good thing. According to a reliable source, portions of the "amendment to the amendment" were illegal and a costly court action was sure to have occurred if it had passed.

BOTH of the state's Congress persons were re-elected. It should be an interesting "arena" under John Boehner as Speaker of the House. This writer won't miss Nancy Pelosi as Speaker but I won't be bringing out any horns and whistles for Mr. Boehner, either. I'd just like to see the children start playing together in the sandbox with some degree of civility - for a change.