Stench Of Bullshit In The Air From Iowa To Maine

What is that nasty smell in the air? Some might call it bullshit. Others, the rot at the core of the "we're not the Republicans, so you owe us your votes" Democratic Party. Amid the blatant cheating and disinformation management of the Iowa caucuses that kicked off the 2020 election year, I'm not surprised that

Democrats in Maine are fibbing to gullible college students about my campaign for the U.S. Senate as a Green.

Did you know that, according to the Women's March and other Democratic Party front groups, my campaign volunteers are guilty of a criminal act when they register new voters as Greens? I have that in writing from a Women's March organizer in Maine sending passive-aggressive emails to allegedly "help" us stay on the right side of the law. 

Then there's the supposedly non-partisan group registering voters at my alma mater and telling environmental activists supporting our campaign the same lie. They're citing a Federal Election Commission regulation that stipulates what corporations and labor organizations* may or many not do while conducting voter registration drives.

* Note: Lisa for Maine is neither a corporation nor a labor organization, in case there is confusion on this point. (You might think that our relatively small campaign would be no threat to Maine Democrats with their millions of dollars of corporate contributions. But ranked choice voting is a game changer.)


Fun fact: when campaigns pick up ballot petitions from the Secretary of State in Augusta, we're also given a stack of voter registration cards. 

So either the SOS is trying to entrap us into illegal activity, or they understand FEC regulations as they pertain to campaigns. 

Extreme conditions are imposed for ballot access: it must be conducted during ice storm season January 1-March 15; commence weeks before college students are back from their winter holiday; and Greens must collect the same number of signatures as the two corporate parties.

Candidates sometimes share surplus voter reg cards with other candidates whose need may be greater. When supplies run low, we can also photocopy a blank voter reg card and use copies to register new Maine Green Independent Party members -- and the Secretary of State is okay with that. 

If the voting public has not yet figured out that Democratic Party operatives will lie, cheat, and smear third party candidates they perceive as a threat, then they must not be paying attention.

One of my favorite bloggers had a field day opining on the Iowa caucus debacle as in her recent post "The Myth Of Incompetence: DNC Scandals Are A Feature, Not A Bug" by Caitlin Johnstone. 

I keep seeing the word “incompetence” thrown around. “Gosh these Democratic Party leaders are so incompetent!”, they say. “How can anyone be so bad at their job?” 

Well, they are not bad at their job. They are very, very good at their job. It’s just that their job isn’t what most people assume it is. 

Their job is not to win elections and garner public support, their job is to ensure the perpetuation of the status quo which rewards them so handsomely for their malignant behavior. Toward this end they are not incompetent at all. They know exactly what they’re doing, and they’re doing it well. 

They are extremely competent. Depraved, certainly. Sociopathic, possibly. But not incompetent.

Yet my friends still under the sway of corporate-controlled "news" are spending sleepless nights worrying about whether Bernie will get the nomination this time around. (Spoiler alert: he won't.) 

Lisa for Maine super volunteer and advocate for people experiencing homelessness Jess Falero & friend Gia

Meanwhile, my team is out on the streets of Portland in the bitter cold talking to potential voters while being interrupted by "blue no matter who" folks with clipboards who want a signature criticizing unpopular Senator Susan Collins.

My team of dedicated Greens is also competing with billionaire Mike Bloomberg paying $20 per signature in Maine for his ballot access petitions.

It's enough to make a grandmother want to abandon pushing the boulder uphill and go back to spending weekends with her little grandchildren.

But being bullied doesn't sit well with me. It tends to make me more determined, even stubborn. 

In the face of adversity and dirty tricks, I'll stay the course. And I invite you to stay with me because, in the race to elect a senator for people, planet, and peace, we're in it to win it.