Maine Democrats Are Uniformly Fugly People, Inside and Out

I stand by that statement, and even though it's, yes, my personal opinion, it's also pretty easy to back up with hard evidence.

Although I really don't understand why these deep-blue radical Maine types are as rabid and unappealing as they are. They spring from a state of great abundance and natural beauty - I don't know. You'd think there'd be some chill in them by virtue of that alone.

But, nope. They're all snarling lunatics determined to dictate how everyone around them has to live and do things, which seems very contrary to a state filled with wilderness types and wild spaces.

Normally, that breeds a fierce sort of independence as opposed to an obsessive need to control every aspect of your neighbor's existence, while declaring yourself king or queen for a day.

One of the Democrats now running for governor of Maine is the current secretary of state, an obnoxious AWFL named Shenna Bellows. You might remember her from her highly publicized preening over throwing Donald Trump off the 2024 Maine Republican primary ballot.

The woman is still bragging about it, to college classes now, but sort of glossing over the fact that the Supreme Court of the United States reversed her high-handed action in a unanimous, 9-0 decision. Even KBJ couldn't argue for allegiance with Shenna.

𝐌𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐄’𝐒 𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐎𝐅 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐁𝐑𝐀𝐆𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐊𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐎𝐅𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐓 — 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐔𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐄 𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐓 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐍𝐄𝐃 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝟗-𝟎

Shenna Bellows — Maine’s Secretary of State and former executive director… pic.twitter.com/Yeq3m5kLOa

— M.A. Rothman (@MichaelARothman) April 7, 2026

...“𝘐 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴. 𝘐 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘥𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵, 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘺 6𝘵𝘩 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰 𝘐 𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘋𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘥 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘵.”

...And she’s not just reminiscing. She’s campaigning. Bellows is now running for 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞 in the 2026 Democratic primary (Bangor Daily News), and she’s using the ballot removal as a credential — the same decision that was struck down as unconstitutional by the highest court in the country. Then she added: “𝘞𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯’𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢. 𝘞𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺.” The irony is staggering. She’s the one who unilaterally overrode the democratic will of Maine’s Republican voters by removing their preferred candidate from the ballot. That’s not defending democracy — that’s a state bureaucrat substituting her judgment for the electorate’s. 

After the ruling, she said she “𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴” in Bucksport, a town represented by a Republican state house member and Republican senator. She frames it as bipartisan outreach. Others might call it a victory lap.

There's entitlement, right there.

No kings, but the Democrats sure love their evil queens.

Shenna Tells Colby Students Proof Of Citizenship Bad

-She says Save ACT will harm Maine Democrats.

-She says the difference between red and blue states are that Republican-run states are racist and suppress black votes.

-She then asks the entire room who might not have an ID -… pic.twitter.com/DXKOq35di0

— TheUnquirer (@unquirer) April 7, 2026

-She then asks the entire room who might not have an ID - they all said they do.  The only people who have a difficult time are illegal foreigners - but she refuses to show the voter data on this.

Bellows is such a peach. She's still waging a social justice warrior battle to protect men in women's sports and will probably get overturned again when the courts get an eyefull of her argle-bargle referendum rewrite.

Shenna strikes again:

The draft wording for the ballot referendum to protect girls' sports is out, and it will likely open up Shenna Bellows to even more abuse-of-power criticism:

“Do you want to change civil rights and education laws to require public schools to restrict… pic.twitter.com/5cTNK2BKqT

— The Maine Wire (@TheMaineWire) April 7, 2026

...“Do you want to change civil rights and education laws to require public schools to restrict access to bathrooms and sports based on the gender on the child’s original birth certificate and allow students to sue the schools?”

Bellows has faced criticism in the past for ballot language that opponents argued was overly complicated, slanted, or written in a way that obscured the core issue before voters.

(Case in point, the voter ID law initiative.)

That history is likely to fuel fresh concerns from referendum supporters who believe the wording should be straightforward and clearly describe what the initiative would actually do, rather than frame it through dense legal language.

If she asked the basic question, which is  'Do you want to allow boys/men in girls/women's locker rooms/sports,' it would give the game away, though, you see?

CUE: AWFL guilt-inducing argle-bargle

Not to mention, there are accusations of being a 'walking ethics violation.'

A walking ethics violation.

Every other Democratic gubernatorial candidate should be outraged by Shenna Bellows' campaign tactics. pic.twitter.com/bCc9HHhwRG

— The Maine Wire (@TheMaineWire) April 7, 2026

Big Somali booster, too.

The governor whom this race is on to replace, the perpetually churlish, surly, and imperial Janet Mills? Well, she's running in the Democratic primary for the right to challenge Susan Collins for that United States Senate seat.

She's already counting what chickens and toddlers she hasn't devoured in her sleep and is looking forward to a Trumpian impeach-a-palooza.

She abides in a dank cottage in the dark Maine woods, eating wandering, lost children while she waits for her chance. https://t.co/QuB7XXQBNI

— tree hugging sister 🎃 (@WelbornBeege) April 7, 2026

Meanwhile, her opponent, lunatic Nazi tat man Graham Platner, is busy contradicting himself. First, he loves the smell of war in the morning.

'Anti-war' candidate Graham Platner once defended 'urinating' on dead Taliban, called war 'the most enjoyable experience' https://t.co/Flz7H0jUCk pic.twitter.com/4nqH0C53i6

— New York Post (@nypost) April 6, 2026

And then, if it's Donald Trump's gun thunder, he doesn't.

War is not a game. pic.twitter.com/R91TWmTMQV

— Graham Platner for Senate (@grahamformaine) April 7, 2026

Contradictions and hypocrisy abound, so it must be a day ending in 'y.'

Platner is also looking forward to impeachment-arama, but he's giddy at the prospect of wielding 'ethics oversight' at the Supreme Court. He wants to take out at least two of the judges when he gets there.

You know who else purged the judiciary of opposing voices, right? https://t.co/dnZOQsRV3m

— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) April 7, 2026

Of course, shrieking 'impeachment' isn't so much an original thought among Democrats as the chorus from their theme song, but still.

🚨 If the GOP doesn't hold the House, impeachment 3.0 is coming.

Trump Derangement Syndrome has fully captured the Democrats and it's the only thing holding their party together. https://t.co/nFvCbZBeMB

— Mark Meadows (@MarkMeadows) April 7, 2026

As much as we want to say, 'Freakin' enough with it already,' these loons are deadly serious and telling you flat out their intentions.

There are reports that the Nazi tat dude is feeling cocky enough to start his pivot to the general election, because the governor isn't polling so well against him.

Platner feels like he's got the old hag in the bag and should be on to bigger and better things.

Up in the Maine Democratic Senate primary battle, the Graham Platner campaign contends to Axios that the contest is already over, and that governor Janet Mills’ Maginot Line of support among Democrats has fallen. pic.twitter.com/Hlu5LO2fQQ

— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) April 7, 2026

Maine People’s Resource Center poll | 3/20-3/31 LV

US Senate Maine Democratic primary 2026
🟦Graham Platner 61.1%
🟦Janet Mills 28.0%
——
US Senate Maine 2026
🟦Graham Platner 48.3%
🟥Susan Collins 39.3% (incumbent)
—
🟥Susan Collins 45.0% (incumbent)
🟦Janet Mills 41.9%

Link to… pic.twitter.com/NNHHGg2vSm

— Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 (@PollTracker2024) April 7, 2026

FIGHT THE OLIGARCHY

'We're taking your stuff' is one helluva Platner platform.

We are the richest society in human history. 

We can have universal health care. 

We can have universal child care. 

We can have universal public higher ed. 

We can have a tax code that pulls back all the wealth that was stolen from the working class over the past 50 years.

Yech.

What's interesting about all these lesser lights is Maine's voting procedures. For example, to win the Secretary of State spot, I read that Shenna Bellows pulled basically a Lisa Murkowski, thanks to the state's ranked voting system. Bellows didn't win the election; she just didn't lose it, and somehow managed to pop to the top when all the calculations over who liked whom better were finished.

This is what the state legislature had hoped to have in place in time for the upcoming 2026 Congressional general elections - an expansion of the state's ranked choice voting laws. But in what had to have been a massive shock to the progressive nervous system there, the Maine Supreme Court told the legislature that their pending bill was unconstitutional.

Maine Public: Maine Supreme Court says proposed ranked-choice voting expansion is unconstitutional

A bill pending in the Legislature would have expanded ranked-choice voting to races for governor and legislative seats by counting only the final vote tally to decide a winner.…

— Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 (@PollTracker2024) April 6, 2026

The decision was unanimous. It's a lucky thing the bill's authors thought to run it by the court before it passed.

...In a unanimous advisory opinion, the justices on Maine's highest court said the language of the state constitution makes clear that the first candidate to earn a "plurality" of the vote wins those races. As a result, the justices said the constitution does not allow for the additional tabulations that are needed during a ranked-choice runoff.

"LD 1666's conception of a vote as being a series of instructions or rankings that when tabulated pursuant to a ranked-choice process leads to an eventual final vote is inconsistent with the constitutional concept of a 'vote,'" the justices wrote. "Under the Constitution, for each of the offices at issue here, a single vote is taken, with the votes sorted, counted, and declared once and then submitted by each municipality to the Secretary of State."

Ranked-choice voting is allowed in primaries for governor and the Legislature — as well as for all federal races in Maine — because the process for those elections is spelled out in state law, not the constitution. But the discrepancy still causes confusion among voters.

Dadgummit!

Now, I don't know if this helps Collins hang on to her seat, but I do know Democrats wouldn't have done it if it didn't have some distinct advantage for their vile bunch otherwise. So, not having it has to be an inherently good thing for a fair election. State Republicans are certainly thrilled.

As for this malodorous Democrat roster of mediocrity, chicanery, and mendaciousness, woof.

I don't see much hope for a Maine turnaround any time soon if any of these sterling individuals get elected.

And if Platner should win, everyone will, in short order, be wishing they had Susan the Squish to kick around.

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