Janet Mills Has Dropped Out Of The Senate Race

I HAVE BEEN GRATEFUL FOR much of Janet Mills' time as governor of Maine, especially during the Covid pandemic.  Though she has done and continues to do things I really, really don't like.   She's recently vetoed the ban on "AI" centers that the legislature passed,  which is a real danger to the People of Maine who already pay some of the highest electricity rates in the country.   I didn't bother looking to see if she gave a reason for the veto,  I figured it would be lawyerly and cautious.   What I'd call cowardly.  She has vetoed environmental legislation, supported some really bad things and has a far from stellar record on a number of issues, especially bad in my mind is her lack luster relationship with Maine's Indigenous People.  I expect that she will retire from public office at the end of her term, probably to go on to a number of corporate boards,  that seems to be the most typical thing for someone like her to do. 

The failure of her campaign against Graham Platner's has been telling.    More than one person I've heard noted that it was cautious to the point of being comatose,  certainly not what she'd need to do to beat Collins in the general election.   Even with the controversy over his tattoos from when even he said he was a dumb, drunk kid in the military and some stupid online comments,  I have not seen any Maine politician generate the kind of support and excitement since at least the early 1970s,  and by now I'd bet just about everyone in the state has heard the blanket of billionaire ad buys talking about him and the ones trying to make Susan Collins out to be anything other than the corrupt Republican-fascist that she's been all along. 

We will see what happens.   If Planer wins,  I'm expecting one of the consequences will be that the Democratic establishment which has yet to support him in any way will get a huge shock,  I'd think that Chuck Schumer will be under a lot of pressure to step down as the Democratic Leader in the Senate, though unless Democrats lose the Senate,  I doubt that will happen.   He and the present heads of the various committees,  including the National Committee are idiots who would rather lose elections than face the kind of change we need.   Here's what he said when he was on with Jon Stewart recently:

"Past couple months though there has been more reach out from I would say more kind of like establishment folks. However, and this is the important part, not from like the DSCC, not from the DNC, like the like nobody in the places of power remains interested," Platner said. "I'm not asking for you to like, be my friend. I'm just, but you should be curious, because I'm polling 40 points ahead."

You wonder how long it will take them to fix that now.