Tag Archives: Lance Dutson

Bloomberg group gives Maine gun purchase background check proponents huge cash edge

Good morning from Augusta, where filings from two groups looking to expand firearm background checks on Maine’s 2016 ballot show that they’re awash in much more cash from a group linked to Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire ex-mayor of New York City. In April and May, filings with the Maine Ethics Commission show that the group, Everytown […]

LePage’s ‘white girl’ remarks are a national sensation. They almost weren’t a story

Well, Gov. Paul LePage is again an overnight national sensation, and how his racial remarks became a story and gave rise to a wave of responses is a story in itself. Let me recap: At a Wednesday town hall meeting in Bridgton, the Republican said that drug dealers from Connecticut and New York named “D-Money,” “Smoothie,” and […]

LePage: Drug dealers often impregnate ‘young, white’ girls in Maine

Gov. Paul LePage said at a Wednesday town hall meeting in Bridgton that drug traffickers from Connecticut and New York come to Maine and impregnate girls who are “young” and “white” before leaving the state. The comments gained national attention on Thursday evening, with ABC News, Vox, The Daily Beast and the Huffington Post picking up stories on them. It also […]

Maine poll: Wide support for welfare reform, less certainty on taxes

A recent poll shows wide support for changes to Maine’s welfare system, but respondents would rather see property taxes go down than get an income tax cut. It bodes well for the part of the Maine Republican Party’s proposed 2016 referendum to reform welfare in Maine. But there’s less certainty about the other half of that plan — to roll back the state income […]

Roundup: As Maine Goes is back and so is Poliquin’s self-financed campaign machine

As Maine Goes, the go-to website and online forum for Maine conservatives since the late ’90s, is back online under new ownership after going dark a month ago. New owner Lance Dutson, a political consultant and former CEO of the Maine Heritage Policy Center, bought the site last week and re-launched it this weekend, promising to […]