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My comments in this morning's BDN :
"But he had kind words for the man who beat him in June.
“I think Matt ran an honorable campaign and is clearly the better candidate and a good public servant,” Baldacci said. “The dynamics of the district are very independent.”

Going forward let's stop talking at each other and about each other and start talking to the rest of the Second District who are not Democrats as to why we can do more to help people here than our opponents. That is the real the challenge of 2028.
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www.bangordailynews.com Democrats are already fighting over who blew Maine’s 2nd District race In a year when Democrats stand to gain roughly 40 House seats, the 2nd District is the only one they may lose in a district whose lines haven’t changed.
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I would say Hakeem Jeffries and the DCCC much maligned in Maine deserve enormous credit for this blue wave. The number of Democratic reps in either the Blue Dog or the New Dems caucus went from 124 to 175. Clearly for most of America that is not deep blue there was a winning message.
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Hold on, folks. Can we talk about Hakeem Jeffries for a second?

He spent four years in the minority with no gavel, no subpoenas, and no committee chairs. And he still got results. He forced the vote on the Epstein files, and it passed 427 to 1.

He forced a House vote on extending the ACA tax credits, with three Republicans signing his petition. He forced a vote to restore union rights for a million federal workers.

He helped get Ukraine aid through. And he ran months of war games to prepare for every dirty trick this regime might pull on the midterms.

Three days before the election he told a rally: “One of the first things we’re going to do is run Pete Hegseth out of town.” That doesn’t sound like a guy without a spine to me.

He’s said “accountability” in dozens of speeches. The subpoena power arrives January 3rd, and you’d better believe he plans to use it.

I get it. We’re all hungry for hearings. So am I. But responsible leaders don’t promise revenge on camera, they build cases that hold up.

Speaker Emerita Pelosi made the job look easy, because she was insanely good at it, and she is precisely who has showed him the ropes.

That job seems hard as hell to me, and that's probably why whenever "popular" Democrats are asked if they want it, they're like "Nope. And I will be voting for Leader Jeffries."

An overwhelming majority of Democratic members of Congress plan to back him as Speaker, but he hasn’t even been sworn in as Speaker yet. Let him do the job before we cut him off at the knees.

Republicans would LOVE it if Democrats did their dirty work for them, knocking out our FIRST Black Speaker of the House in history.

JFC, even the horrible, lying jackass Mike Johnson got TWO FULL YEARS, and he accomplished NOTHING for the American people.

Affordability. Accountability. That’s what the MAJORITY of voters asked for, and he’s laser-focused on both.

Give the man a chance.🙏💪
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At Timber in 2025 with Ginny Manuel of Hampden and Senator Elect Troy Jackson. This was a successful fundraiser for Troy that we organized for his Governor campaign.

I was one of the first elected officials to endorse his gubernatorial campaign. That proved to be an important step toward the eventual US Senate nomination.

What a roller coaster politics has been since then lol. But with Troy's election we arrived at a good place.
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From tonight's NewsCenter: Only District in the entire country to flip from Democrat to Republican.

This was an entirely winnable race.

When 2028 comes we need to win so that Mainers can actually be represented in the US House of Representatives.
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FYI-Working on organizing a community spaghetti supper - all homemade food----with area nonprofits in mid December to raise money for home heating oil assistance in our region of the state. More on this next week. But we will be seeking sponsors from the general public and the business community to help in this effort. With the price of home heating oil skyrocketing I think it is important that each of us do all we can to help our neighbors stay safe.