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Georgia Day 1

Georgia Day 1

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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Down in Georgia

Down in Georgia

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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The Conventions

The Conventions

I have been watching the Democratic convention with some amusement as Hillary gave her speech. I don’t know what Obama was thinking about letting her speak during prime time, as I don’t believe her speech helped him one bit. It isn’t about what she said, but what she didn’t say. Her speech said just enough [...]

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American Energy Independence

American Energy Independence

On August 9th the Maine Republican Party state committee voted on a resolution in support of American energy independence. The resolution was not without its detractors, but in the end the resolution secured a majority vote. Then there was an objection and a member claimed that the resolution required a two-thirds majority in order to [...]

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Georgia and the Convention

Georgia and the Convention

Just a few days ago Russia invaded our ally and sovereign nation of Georgia. How quickly we forget, as I find it interesting that we are shocked that Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, or really ‘Dictator in Chief’ is behaving like the former soviet KGB agent he is. In what is a clearly a neo-soviet [...]

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A Party in Need of a Cause

A Party in Need of a Cause

I was extremely disappointed by our party’s inability to pass a resolution in support of energy independence. The resolution did get a majority which was a decent consolation prize, but failed to reach the two-thirds needed to pass. The purpose of the resolution was to send a clear message that Maine Republicans not only care [...]

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A Frustrated Republican, Yet Optimistic.

A Frustrated Republican, Yet Optimistic.

Hello readers, this will be my first real personal blog to my new web site, so this may get interesting. I was going to open with ‘greetings Zak fans,’ but then it occurred to me that not everyone reading will be a fan and or may change their minds after reading this blog. A mild [...]

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