Politics & Government
Schumer Sandbagged Maine Governor
Democrat U.S. Senate leader did no favors for Gov. Janet Mills, who quit her Senate primary race Thursday amid dismal polls
By Sam Patten
Chuck Schumer did Janet Mills dirty.
I for one was surprised she'd run, she struck me as tired and ready for retirement.
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Her record in office wouldn't stand up to scrutiny from a broader, national-level media not on her payroll.
But Schumer somehow put stars in her eyes and whispered sweet lies in her ear only to leave her at the altar.
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Shameful, really.
Senate Dems should take note.
Schumer's smarmy, transactional, uber-Clintonian style of leadership leads nowhere good.
Leaders like him are the same people who nursed Anthony Weiner and Eric Swalwell as worthy inheritors, and then - as now - they were wrong.
Janet must've remembered a time when the machine worked, when Severin Beliveau could pick up the phone and solve a problem. But that time has passed.
If they want to re-take the Senate, Dems would be wise to ignore tone-deaf Chuck from this point forward.
Sam Patten, former managing editor of The Maine Wire, previously also worked for Maine’s last three Republican senators. He has also worked extensively on democracy promotion abroad and was an advisor in the U.S. State Department from 2008-2009. Patten lives in Bath, Maine.
