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My name is Gerald Weinand and I live in a small town in coastal Maine. I am a licensed architect and the editor of Dirigo Blue, a blog about progressive politics in the Pine Tree State.
Real Name: Gerald Weinand
Groups: Social Security Defenders, Saturday Morning Home Repair
Twitter: @DirigoBlue
Diaries published: 444 (293 days since last diary on Mon Jul 22, 2019 at 06:34 PM PDT)
Comments posted: 20494 (20 days since last comment on Mon Apr 20, 2020 at 05:05 PM PDT)
Diary frequency: often
Comment frequency: frequent
Total Recommends: 10381
Total Comment Ratings: 51069
Most Recommended Diary: Feingold to filibuster FISA bill = FISAbuster, 590 comments, 763 recommends
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Soon after I began posting here at Daily Kos, I discovered Turn Maine Blue, a progressive blog that focused on my home state of Maine. I quickly became a regular, and as the owner lived out of state, he asked me to take over as the editor of the site,...
by Spud1
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on Mon Jul 22, 2019 at 06:34 PM PDT
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The Maine Republican Party has been caught lying about the role it played in creating a fake news website that was used to attack progressive candidates. The website, called the Maine Examiner, “is not listed as a business organization with the Maine...
by Spud1
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on Thu Jan 25, 2018 at 06:03 AM PST
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Short and sweet. Donald Trump had this tweet:
My guess is that this community can come up with some great parodies of this. It’s Friday night and what better way to escape the family entanglements of the long holiday weekend?
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on Fri Nov 24, 2017 at 03:01 PM PST
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Sen. Susan Collins of Maine has called for Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for US Senate in a December special election in Alabama, to withdraw from the race:
Collins is often described as a “moderate,” and in some cases she is, although she...
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on Mon Nov 13, 2017 at 10:51 AM PST
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Maine’s Secretary of State, Matt Dunlap, is suing the federal Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity to obtain information that he, a member of the commission, thinks is being withheld from him. The commission is led by Vice President...
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on Thu Nov 09, 2017 at 11:47 AM PST
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When you’re famous you can just grab `em! 4 comments
on Mon Sep 18, 2017 at 10:06 AM PDT
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