Zachary Earl Smith

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Hello all. It’s been a busy fun filled year so far. Most recently Jess and I bought a house and I’m starting a new job with the Maine Dept. of Labor. I will be working for the CareerCenter helping recently unemployed people find work, and outreaching to businesses to help incentivise them to create new [...]

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Hello all, just letting everyone know that I am working up in Caribou at Ouellette’s Variety and Alice’s Bakery. It is very awesome and a lot of fun. I have been working here for over a month and Jess just started here last week. She and I both love it, and we are looking to [...]

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I’m back from Georgia after working in the runoff election down there. It is really different working on a campaign with an abundance of money, really different. My voice is a little hoarse after several 12 hour plus days making calls for Senator Chambliss on behalf of the Republican party of Georgia. Ugh, also the [...]

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Whoa, what a day. Got up at 6:30am to be down in the lobby by 7:15am, where I was given a GPS and the keys to a 15 passenger van.  I then had the joy of figuring out how to get team Maine to the victory office, a minor expedition in of it self particularly [...]

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Am on the road again for the GOP cause, this time in Atlanta Georgia for the US Senate runoff election. Georgia has a law that the winner of an election must be by a majority, so if you don’t get it than the top two vote getters go head to head in a runoff. The [...]

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I am still looking for a job, so if you know anybody who is hiring please let me know. I will also upload my resume up to the site here in a bit, and maybe some other info. Also on the political front, I have agreed to go work for a few days down in [...]

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I would like like to thank everyone for their support as it really does mean a lot to me. The results are finally in after nearly 12 hours or so, Sutherland 2122 and I got 1918, a difference of 5%. I’m not totally positive if every last town has reported in, but there aren’t enough [...]

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I recently received a phone call from a gentleman who had a rather interesting question, “How are you any different from the last few politicians who have held this seat?” A very fair question, especially when you consider the popularity of Congress and the failure of our own state government down in Augusta. I know [...]

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My overall experience of the Republican National Convention was just absolutely wonderful. It truly was an amazing experience and one I will never forget. I was just blown away by both Gov. Palin’s and Sen. John McCain’s speeches, they were truly inspiring. McCain, I believe, was absolutely right in calling Republicans out on our failure [...]

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I am about to leave the hotel now to head back to Maine. I will blog more when I get back home but I just wanted to say what I great time I had here, and how privileged I feel to have been a part of this historical event. This was truly one of the [...]

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