The Race is on

I saw the other day that 14 people have announced their candidacy for the gubernatorial election next year. None of the candidates are even close to household names. Steven Rowe is a name some folks might know as the AG on the Democratic side as is Libby Mitchell who has at one time or another run for I think every office in the state. Les Otten will be running from the Republican side. I am not sire who will emerge but I am sure that soon after being elected they will wonder just how they are supposed to fix this mess. Of course they will campaign with ideas and solutions but aren't they all just warmed over from before.

We live in the highest taxed state in the union yet cannot raise enough revenue because no jobs come to Maine for a multitude of reasons.

If Governor Baldacci could run again do you suppose he would? This certainly could not have been what he hoped for or expected. Now with local school districts suffering and teachers and administrators being let go in the middle of the school year he has put forth a budget for next year that looks even bleaker.

I have never been one to think that throwing money at education makes it automatically better but cutting teachers seems to me to be the wrong message to be sending no matter what the current economic crisis is.

I surely do not have any solutions but I do wish Angus King would run again