Senior producer Cory Gnazzo saw a couple of these bumper stickers in Maine last week. They refer to Republican Governor Paul LePage winning the three-way governor’s race in 2010 with 38 percent of the vote. Two years later, Governor LePage’s recent service gets this gloss from the Kennebec Journal’s opinion page:
So to sum up, this is what our head of marketing tells the world: Our people are lazy and won’t work; our state employees are corrupt; everyone thinks our kids are stupid.
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Even if those things were true, why would we pay someone to advertise it? And since they’re not true, why pay someone to slander us?
Also happening in Maine: The Secretary of State announced that a referendum asking for civil marriage equality will be the first question on the ballot in November. If an ad’s moving-ness equated directly to electoral victory, then the pro-equality activists Maine are a lock.
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