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I'll never stop being amazed at career politicians -- of all people -- who portray "playing the system" to get sweet, sweet "taxpayer money" as a bad thing. Especially as they run for reelection.

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The Great Spy on Each Other and Tell on Each Other Society.

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One Day the Poor Will Have Nothing Left to Eat but the Rich.

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Standard Republican boilerplate (Derp).

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According to Lewiston School Committee member Sonia Taylor, the mayor said that “people come from Massachusetts and New York to Lewiston for welfare” and “they are lazy and their children are lazy in school.”

All together now: HE SEEMS NICE.

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Is Seton the Motley Fool?

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Listen very carefully, voters of Lewiston. If you re-elect this man he will just get accustomed to his sweet government paycheck. You won't be really helping him get off the dole.

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I hope the website will tell us what Macdonald has for breakfast, lunch and dinner every single day, what he buys at the store, whether he drinks alcohol or smokes cigarettes, what his assets are, whether he has any vices that some taxpayer paying his salary might find in any small way objectionable.

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The Repubs just moved further right and continued the same screed.

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Actually, I think you were right the first time with shameless moocher.

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Spanking machines for the poors: those not on welfare can demand those on assistance crawl and get spanked.

It's just good sense!

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Any ideas on what shape that patch should take?

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Children who never asked to be born, as well.

No doubt this wingah wants to shut down Maine's one Planned Parenthood, too.

Vindictive Mainers are the worst.

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The shittiest governor in the Union shut down all the missions in Portland last summer and guess what? Now there are many more street people there.

It's like magic!

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A fool to be sure. I only managed a few seconds of him before I got too stabby to continue.

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