Maine’s Most Radical Socialist Newspaper Columnist Blasts Chellie In Move Akin To Political Blasphemy

If Maine’s southern-district congresswoman loses the state’s largest leftist newspaper then she’s got a huge problem – unless she’s planning a U.S. Senate run.

In an unprecedented move, the Portland Press Herald’s most liberal columnist has ripped into Chellie Pingree for joining the anti-vaccine lobby.

Pingree is not only the darling of the left, she was married to a former owner of the newspaper, billionaire Donald Sussman, and typically enjoys insestuous fawning coverage from the publication.

So it’s a new dawn when she takes a body blow from Maine’s leading tree-hugger communist – sorry, columnist.

In a column that usually deals with nothing political, Victoria Hugo-Vidal takes Pingree to task for “platforming” a group known as Make America Healthy Again.

The MAHA movement is allied with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of health and human services, described by Hugo-Vidal as a “sometime philanderer and roadkill enthusiast.”

“Pingree is not just quietly working with them behind the scenes but proudly platforming these influencers,” writes Hugo-Vidal. “She’s posted them on her Instagram, lending her congressional prestige and farming bona fides to a conspiratorial, self-centered movement.”

“I’d use the mom phrase ‘I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed’ but I am, indeed, mad as well as disappointed,” says Hugo-Vidal.

The columnist admits she’s as left as they come, if liberalism means loving farmer’s markets, putting raw local honey in tea and “subsidizing small organic farms that grow actual food rather than Big Ag conglomerates that grow corn for fuel.

“But even though we might have a few things in common, you won’t catch me platforming anybody who associates with ‘MAHA’ or lending them any legitimacy whatsoever.”

Hugo-Vidal, a self-described autistic, also tore into Chellie for associating with Moms Across America, whose founder, Zen Honeycutt, believes vaccines “not only caused her son’s autism but also contributed to his suicide.”

Honeycutt also claims organic food resolved a lot of her son’s autism symptoms, which Hugo-Vidal calls laughable.

“Perhaps my next column will be titled ‘Does a witch’s curse cause autism?,’ which would have the same level of scientific rigor as these bloggers,” the column says. “Pingree should be ashamed of associating with these people; being pesticide-free is no excuse for being fact-free.”

If Pingree is abandoning her left flank, the question Hugo-Vidal failed to address is what she’s up to.

Chellie may be preparing to go after Angus King’s senate seat when it becomes available four years from now. He would be 86 years old by then.

Or she may hope he resigns before then due to health issues. (After all Chellie hasn’t forgotten when Angus cut her down at the knees in 2012, dashing her Senate dreams.)

Either way, to win statewide Chellie would have to moderate her leftism since northern Maine tends to run red.

Aligning herself with the MAGA crowd oops MAHA crowd could serve her well if she decides to try to become Angus 2.0.