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National Journal: Maine's Angus King "independent" in name only

Steve RobinsonBy Steve RobinsonApril 24, 201310 Comments1 Min Read
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WASHINGTON – National Journal conducted an analysis of Sen. Angus S. King, Jr.’s voting record to date and found Maine’s allegedly independent junior senator votes with Democrats as often as the former chairman of the Democratic Party.
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When Maine’s Angus King ran as an independent candidate for the Senate last year, he carefully guarded which party he would caucus with in Washington and how he would vote. “They’ll know the answer when they get to the K’s,” King said of roll-call votes.
The answer is: with the D’s.
In his first 100 days casting votes, the independent senator from Maine has voted with the Democratic leadership about 90 percent of the time, the same rate of allegiance as the former chairman of the Democratic Party, fellow freshman Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, according to a National Journal analysis of voting records.
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10 Comments

  1. Les Gibson on April 25, 2013 5:32 AM

    This should not surprise anyone. King is a liberal Democrat, always has been, and points to the basic dishonesty of the man.
    What I do find amazing is the fact that he was able to hoodwink the people of Maine 3 times. Well past time to wake up folks.

  2. Anonymous on April 25, 2013 8:32 AM

    Fool me once shame on you…fool me twice shame on…..

  3. John Frary on June 25, 2013 9:17 AM

    Some might conclude that Angus’s claim that he was “independent” was a lie, but this would not be civil so you won’t hear it from me.

  4. Paul Trommer on June 25, 2013 9:17 AM

    Let me be the first. It was an evident lie.

  5. Paul Trommer on June 25, 2013 9:17 AM

    Let’s look at the options: Deceit, deception, dishonesty, disinformation, distortion, evasion, fable, fabrication, falsehood, falseness, falsification, falsity, fib, fiction, forgery, fraudulence, guile, hyperbole, inaccuracy, invention, libel, mendacity, misrepresentation, misstatement, myth, obloquy, perjury, prevarication, revilement, reviling, slander, subterfuge, tale, tall story, vilification, white lie, whopper. Pick your best description of Mr. King.

  6. Anne Fossett on June 25, 2013 10:48 AM

    You bet he’s “Independent.”

    And the PRESS HERALD/SUNDAY TELEGRAM, etc show no bias towards their owner’s wife: Chellie Pingree either!!!

  7. David A. Woodbury on June 25, 2013 12:02 PM

    He’s merely independent of party funding because he can afford to be thanks to family wealth and a sideline in show biz where he rubbed elbows with politicians and promoted those who would later help him.

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