Hate Mail - Pedo-Supporter Says What?

YES,  I VOTED FOR GEORGE MITCHELL TWICE when he was running for the Senate,  as I recall I didn't vote for him to be the Democratic nominee for governor, when he got the nomination and lost to the putrid James Longley (who ran as an independent) but for Joe Brennan who later served as governor of Maine.   The first time I voted for him for Senate, his opponent was David Emery who was a right wing idiot (I think it was Jack Anderson who said he was the "dimmest bulb" in the House), the second time he ran against the anti-choice, crypto-fascist, queer-bashing-evangelical Jasper Wyman.   

George Mitchell left elected office in 1995, when he was the Majority Leader in the Senate,  his term as majority leader was hardly a glorious period,  I sent several letters critical of him and his tenure as leader of the Democrats,  it was not the lowest point of a Democratic majority in the Senate but I predicted, correctly, as it turned out, that his term would lead to the loss of the Senate. 

I respected his role in brokering the peace in Northern Ireland as Bill Clinton's representative in those talks but I didn't hold him in high esteem.   Among the things I held against him was his refusal to help Maine entities when he was at the height of his power in the Senate,  it was well known among those in the non-profit area and among many who were reliant on federal money that you couldn't count on Mitchell or his office being much help to you.   I can't recall if it was he or one of his staffers who told a scientist I knew that "he didn't see it as his role to do that,"  while holding office TO REPRESENT MAINE.    I'll point out that, like Ed Muskie, he didn't mind having his name on things but you shouldn't expect to get much in the way of financial support from him.  

Anyway,  all that happened well before he is documented to have ever heard of Jeffrey Epstein, the earliest so far documented connection between them comes from 2003, well after he was an elected official from Maine,  twenty-one years after I first and about fifteen years after the last time I voted for him.  So far we don't know if he was involved with the rape of underage girls or not, though I can't believe he didn't smell the stench of Epstein.   

So, there's no evidence that "I voted for a pedophile."  Unlike you who certainly voted for one the year before last knowing full well he was a sex criminal.