Politics & Other Mistakes: What they write about

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Posted by Al Diamon • February 13, 2012 •

Thanks for coming to my power-point presentation on the Maine Democratic Party’s U.S. Senate prospects. As this first shot shows – oops, that’s an old Libby Mitchell screen saver, just forget you saw that – the party is well positioned to return to prominence this year by following bright young leaders like …

Hmmm, blank screen. Can’t imagine what the problem is. Maybe if I reboot.

Ah, here we go. This is state Sen. Cynthia Dill of Cape Elizabeth, a candidate for the seat currently held by Republican Olympia Snowe. Dill is the creator of one of the most interesting economic development schemes ever advanced by someone not named Ponzi. She gets paid for writing her blog, Dill’s Conventional Wisdom, by her own political action committee, Dill Leadership PAC. Last year, she wrote checks to herself for a nifty four grand for turning out 31 short essays, which comes to about $129 each.

Here’s the beginning of one of them:

“Pretend for a moment that I am legislator (sic). Now imagine me readings (sic) bills that would deny legal immigrants welfare benefits.”

Apparently, proof reading costs extra.

http://www.dailybulldog.com/db/opinion/politics-other-mistakes-what-they-write-about/

It sounds as if the current Senators from Maine are comfortably ensconced.