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September 26, 2018March 12, 2011 Don

The republican House leadership seems to too timid to actually do what they promised and defund Obamacare. So, I sent a letter to the leadership telling them they are not doing job one.

The most leverage they will ever have to take away funding is by tieing it to the continuing resolution. They are letting a rule they created get in the way of ending Obamacare funding.

If you are as concerned as I am, you may wish to write a letter as well as make some phone calls. Perhaps my letter which I will put below will give you ideas. If it helps in anyway, that is fine with me. Yes, I cc’d Guinta.

Following the letter will be the addresses.

March 11, 2011

Dear Speaker Boehner, Leader Cantor, Congressman McCarthy, Congressman Price, and Congressman Sessions:

YOU ARE NOT LISTENING!!

Grant Bosse Drops Out…

September 26, 2018January 9, 2011 Steve MacDonald

Maine Squeeze

September 26, 2018November 14, 2010 Steve MacDonald

Maine by degrees of Republican-ness

Maine has something of a bi-polar disorder. They have purple US Republican senators, democrat congressman (still) and just elected a tea party-ish backed governor while handing their entire state legislature over to Republican control for the first time in about 30 years.

Why do that?

For all the why’s and what-fors that can be imagined, at the end of the day it is hard to ignore the pressure from on high. Two years of high-profile democrat campaigning to advance what turned out to be a very unpopular progressive-national agenda, was felt most strongly in the places where voters felt they have the most control–local state house and state senate races. It’s been true all across the country.

Moderate to democrat Maine, it seems is no different. In a state that has let the left dominate state government for decades, Republicans successfully sold the need to be more state-centric and that resonated locally, perhaps to fend off the nationalization of local government from massive federal overreach.