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October 16, 2010
Predictable Newspaper makes Predictable Endorsement
In a move that pretty much anyone could have seen coming, the Bangor Daily News endorses Eliot Cutler for Maine's governor.
Maine faces crucial decisions in the next four years. The state can continue to limp from budget crisis to budget crisis with Libby Mitchell, or state spending can be slashed in haphazard and counterproductive ways under Paul LePage. A better way would be to elect a governor who will remake government so it is focused, effective and affordable.First of all, "blow up state government?" Really, BDN? Terrorist imagery? Have you no integrity left? Twenty years ago, when I first moved to Maine, the BDN was a decent newspaper. Now, I find The Maine Edge more informative and a lot less predictable.The Democratic and Republican choices this year — between one candidate who wants to largely maintain the status quo and another who wants to blow up state government — reflect a failure of these parties.
The BDN's embrace of Cutler doesn't stop with an editorial. The news department gets into the game, with an article that cries crocodile tears over the 'nastiness' of party politics and sets up a certain gubernatorial candidate as above such nonsense.
While both major parties have spent much of the campaign attacking the rival party’s candidate, the independents in the governor’s race have cited the partisanship as a reason not to vote Democrat or Republican.Candidates for governor sparring on issues?“Well, there they go again. The bickering is not going to get us anyplace,” independent candidate Eliot Cutler said during a recent debate after LePage and Mitchell sparred over transportation funding.
Oh, the humanity! Please, save us, independent candidate!
Independent. Interesting word. Webster's defines it as "not affiliated with a larger controlling unit." A larger controlling unit in this case, I suppose, would be a political party. So one would expect that someone who calls himself an "independent" candidate for governor has taken care not to tie himself too closely to one political party.
One would expect. Based on his political donation record, Eliot Cutler disagrees.
Open Secrets is one of the most useful sites on the web. In 2008, I used it to expose a rather inconvenient fact about some Palin-bashing historians. This year, I used it to investigate Eliot Cutler's donation history.
According to the information I found at Open Secrets, Cutler has made $47,416 in political donations to political candidates since 1989. $44,916 of those donations went to Democrats. $2,500 went to Republicans. What does this mean? Basically, this 'independent' candidate gave just only 5% of his political donations to the GOP. I guess that makes him only a 95% Democrat partisan. This analysis only includes individual donations Cutler made to candidates and partisan organizations like the DCCC. Maybe it's just me, but one would think the donations of a true independent would be a bit more evenly distributed between the two parties.
Finding this information took me only about a half-hour. A few minutes to do a search on Open Secrets, and a few to crunch some numbers in MS Excel.
Eliot Cutler announced his 'independent' candidacy in December of 2009, almost a year ago. Not one political reporter thought to spend a half-hour checking out his donations in that time when those donations undercut the image he's spent his entire candidacy cultivating?
Not one?
Even if one doesn't believe in the Bible as a theological document, it's hard to deny the truths about human nature in that book. In Matthew 6:21, Jesus says "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." A simple concept - money is valuable, so we tend to spend it on things we want or believe in. Most of Eliot Cutler's donations have gone to one of the two political parties he now claims to transcend.
He has put his treasure there.
Where, then, is Eliot Cutler's heart?
Posted by slublog at October 16, 2010 09:26 PM
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