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Voters Take Keys Away From Elder Politician
Maevehttps://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/voters-take-keys-away-from-elder
The real reason gerontocrat Janet Mills ended her campaign
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Good for Maine. Gives me some hope.
Maine somehow ended up choosing her and SUSAN collins. hope they dont make the same mistakes with Platner, because his views are a little wishy washy.
I mean I’d rather a third party soc get it. If people can put that energy into the Totenkopf guy, surely they can put it into a socialist?
A_norny_mousseVirtually every major outlet ran with Mills’ own “I ran out of funds” line — a verbal sleight of hand that makes it sound like a budgeting problem, like her campaign manager overdrew her checking account. None of them asked the obvious follow-up: why didn’t she have the money? That question doesn’t get asked because asking it puts voters at the center of the story instead of Washington donors and consultants.
This is a beautiful illustration of the problem with news media conventions (what I call Journalism 1.0), which hold that the reporter must quote what the official person said — even if it’s obvious bullshit.
But even in Journalism1.0 the reporter should then continue to probe and question these statements.
she got her CHECK from blocking datacenter moratium, and allowing at least one to be built in maine.
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I mean I’d rather a third party soc get it. If people can put that energy into the Totenkopf guy, surely they can put it into a socialist?
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I know who he is.
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I know it’s a primary. I said what I said.
Probably what they think of Mamdami?