The state’s Southern-District congresswoman thinks she’s just discovered Facebook, judging from her new anti-Trump publicity campaign.
Democrat 17-year U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree has suddenly, mysteriously started posting videos complaining about Republicans every time she returns home to her organic island retreat from Washington.
“OK, we’re already back in Maine” Minnesota-born Chellie tells viewers from the ferry deck. “Uh let me talk a little bit about this dysfunctional week at the hand of the Republicans who run the House of Representatives.”
Just before Pingree posted her latest postcard from the midcoast she put one up decrying the fact it was time to go back to work.
The twice-divorced Chellie – once the wife of hedge-fund billionaire and former Portland Press Herald owner Donald Sussman – is not a happy woman, no matter how many U.S Treasury notes she’s bought and sold since she’s been accepting a taxpayer paycheck.
Poor Chell.
She’s been quite the bitter woman ever since her dream of being promoted to the U.S. Senate went up in smoke 14 years ago.
Yup, it was 2012 when Chellie expected her party to nominate her to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Olympia Snowe.
But something upended her dream and that something was named Angus King.
King, a former two-term “independent” governor, made a secret deal with the Democrat leadership from Maine – ‘back me instead of Pingree and I will caucus as though I were one of you.’
It worked. King leapfrogged senator-in-waiting Chellie Pingree, nailed Democrat backing and became Snowe’s successor.
While he’s been partying it up with Democrats in the upper chamber, who’s been left at the altar languishing in the U.S.House, aka the minor leagues? Poor Chellie Pingree.
So her latest gamble at trying to win King’s seat is posting weekly videos complaining about her job.
Chellie is hoping against hope that Angus decides four years from now to retire, a prospect he raised recently.
By 2030, he will be 88 years old, making Chellie a mere youngster. (She’ll be a spry 75 years old by then.)
In her latest campaign video, Pingree tells her friends that President Trump last week had “a grumpy shouting match with a bunch of Republican senators” allegedly unhappy with him.
“They’re mad at him about Iran and a whole bunch of other things,” Chellie advises.
She said Trump bailed on signing a bill Congress just passed “to deal with the incredible housing crisis in our country that not only hits Maine but is hitting everybody else.”
The housing bill she references is being painted by Democrats as the savior for Americans trying to buy their first home.
But in reality the bill is just a bunch of pipe dreams that will have absolutely no effect on whether you can finally afford to buy a house.
The Democrats ignore the real reason houses cost a lot of money – skyrocketing local education budgets packed with huge annual salary increases for the teachers unions whose members are making sure school kids remain as among the least competent readers and mathematicians in the developed western world.
Trump was right when he said last week that the federal housing bill is “of minor importance.”
He was focusing instead on overcoming a senate filibuster to pass legislation that would force voters to present identification proving U.S. citizenship when they cast their ballots, known as the “SAVE America Act.”
No wonder Chellie is so angry.
“Welcome to chaos 101 in the Congress of the United States and Republicans who absolutely cannot govern this country, cannot manage this country,” Chellie whined from the deck of the North Haven ferry.
Chellie is simply mad that illegal immigrants won’t be able to vote if Republicans get their way.
Without illegals Ms. Organic Garlic Farmer may never get a member’s-only pass to the club Angus King joined in her stead.
I can sum this all up in eight words or less .
“ Chellie Pingree is just a piece of shit . “
Look Out People …..HER DAUGHTER WANTS TO BE YOUR GOVERNOR .
And wears her hatred well and it is not a good look.
6 months ago I contacted her office and asked if Americans were her first priority, still waiting for an answer.
Back in the 80s, the North Haven ferry was the only boat small enough to get into Matinicus harbor — they essentially have to make a three-point turn to dock without hitting a ledge, it’s an impressive bit of seamanship.
So what they would do is go to North Haven first, and then on to Matinicus.
She wouldn’t be doing this if it still did….
And I can’t think of a better way to remind her constituents, who live in hot & humid Southern Maine, that she lives on an island where it is 15° to 20° cooler. An intrepid Republican could use that to defeat her.
And actually, she’d best be running for Senate in 2030 because the census is gonna put North Haven into the second district, where it already should be. Pingree versus LePage — not only do we know who would win, but it would be priceless to watch him do it. Pingree is a woman who married well, nothing more…
And she usually flies out of Owl’s Head instead of taking the ferry….