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Lance Dutson Story, and other Crazy Maine Tales

Weird Stuff from Maine and Beyond

“The peasants have no beer!” “Let them drink Chivas”…October 20

Augusta, stop the misinformation, and please do the math….

I have resurrected this blog post because I am so frustrated with the disinformation I have seen revolving around this justifiably unpopular tax. If only someone would do the math.

If you are one of the fortunate 14,000 people who have Dirigo health coverage, of course you want the rest of us to pay for your health insurance. But the truth is just that, even if it is subsidized by all of us, it will still be far too expensive for most of us.

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New England has a bad deer tick problem - these are the critters that cause debilitating Lyme Disease.

I’d been walking the woods the last few days and was horrified to discover a deer tick attached to my leg. (I’m usually on better terms with the universe, but my head had been in a bad place lately).

I was very fortunate to find a walk-in clinic in town that could take me at only a few hours notice, since time is of the essence in these cases.

I had hoped to be gainfully employed by now, but the economy went sour (in case nobody noticed). Hence I have no insurance yet.

There is something in Maine call

Lance Dutson Flees AugustaMarch 28

This story is pretty old news now, but in case you’re still curious , here’s the short version.

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Here is the long-awaited tape of the beginning of that Augusta meeting about Pay-per-Click.

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It seems that Lance Dutson has removed every single post about Mr. or Mrs. L. or the Maine Office of Tourism from his blog. (No matter, I have them all)

He must be getting scared that the truth is finally going to come out and bite him.

Too bad about the damage that he did to so many innoent people.

SUSAN COLLINS & the Bangor ConnectionMarch 15

(Continued from here….)

There it is again. Bangor, Maine. It keeps rearing its ugly head.

Susan Collins is from Bangor, Maine, where  John Day and his yellow journalist friends at the Bangor Daily News, (BDN) stole the election for her. (You can read about those tacky tricks in the previous posts)

In additon to using what Kennebec Journal’s Davis Rawson termed “journalistic jingoism” the BDN even launched a bogus “push poll” about Joe Brennan, Collins’ opponent.

(A “Push Poll” is a survey which raises some hypothetical and bogus negative issue about one’s opponent. For instance, I might ask:

     “Would you vote for John McCain if you learned that he had murdered 14 novitiate nuns at a Bible camp?”)

Perfectly legal, too.  Panders to the ignorance of voters.

In this survey, 1/3 of Maine voters claimed that they would not vote for Brennan if they found out he had “Hired a private investigator” to dig up “dirt” on Collins. How many of them had changed their mind to reach this decision?

As it turns out, not only is Collins a Bangor favotite daughter, but her opponent Joe Brennan also ran in a gubernatorial race against Bangor Golden Boy John McKernan.

The BDN had previously dug up their own [non-existent] “Dirt” on him. It was a lie, but just as in the Lance Dutson sc

Lance Dutson & Susan Collins, continuedMarch 14

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I forgot to mention the dirty tactic Collins used to win that 1996 election:

Someone in the Dem camp hired an aide to check out Collins’ public finance records while she was working in Mass government, for the Weld administration.

Filling out these papers is mandated, and when a candidate ultimately throws his hat in the ring, past records are always resurrected…. it’s S.O.P.

Of course, most impeccably honest Mainers (like myself) are a bit naive about such things, and most ambitious Maine politicos (like most all) are a bit deceptive about them.

When Ms Collins got the standard post card announcing that someone had requested her Massachusetts public records, she brought it to her campaign office and inconsolably wept that some despicable democrat blackguard was SPYING on her.

Her camp notified John Day, a columnist for the BDN (Bangor Daily News), who graciously agreed to write an absurdly misleading (yet classicly “Bangor”) article, artfully beating the good but naively uninformed Maine populace into a frenzy of indignation over this nasty non-issue.

Day was only a columnist, yet for some reason, the article actually made the front page headline as fact, not opinion.

Later, Collins of course denied any prior knowledge about the public record search, even though it was she w

LANCE DUTSON & SUSAN COLLINS: a Match made in….?March 10

I’m reading a book by Jean Hay Bright about Susan Collins and the tactics that she used to win her senate seat in 1996.  (See this)

This rang bells in regards to a similar tactic she used only recently(accusing Tom Allen of “Spying on her by taping a speech.) But it especially resonated with the tricks that Collins webmaster Lance Dutson used to gain notoriety in the Blogosphere.

It seems they both know how easy it is to pull the wool over the eyes of some people.

And neither one is ashamed to use that knowledge. (Notice Dutson’s use of Collins’ classic “Victimization Stance” in these letters from Nancy Marshall. Dutson accused her of terrorizing him and his family) I’ve pulled this post from another blog:

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  [This text is from 2006, in response to the mendacious smear campaign against the MOT]:

Not too long ago, a Maine blogger and web developer named Lance Dutson was quite accidentally thrust into the spotlight following an ill-advised lawsuit against him by Maine’s ad agency, WKP. Dutson had made a completely erroneous charge about the Maine Office of Tourism’s use of Google Adwords (PDF - slow to load)