{"id":29428,"date":"2010-10-17T08:11:35","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T08:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/maine-democrat-candidate-for-gov-libby-mitchell-busted-big-time\/"},"modified":"2010-10-17T08:11:35","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T08:11:35","slug":"maine-democrat-candidate-for-gov-libby-mitchell-busted-big-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/maine-democrat-candidate-for-gov-libby-mitchell-busted-big-time.php","title":{"rendered":"MAINE: Democrat candidate for Gov. Libby Mitchell busted Big Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Embarrassing Photo Surfaces<\/strong><\/p><p>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>Everywhere you go in Maine, the topic of discussion is the major smack-down by Paul LePage, Tea Party Republican for Governor of his Democrat opponent Libby Mitchell in Sunday night's debate.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/TLUrUR8XaKI\/AAAAAAAANxA\/deJonnAIGAo\/s1600\/PaulLePage.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d4d90_PaulLePage.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>In brief: Mitchell hit LePage on recent controversial statements including the Waterville Mayor saying if Obama hurt Maine's economy he'd tell him to \"go to hell.\"  <\/p><p>She can be heard in the video saying: \"As Governor you have to be respectful of the President... at all times.\"<\/p><p>LePage shot back saying he had seen a photo of Mitchell holding a sign saying George Bush was an \"International Terrorist.\"  In the video, Mitchell completely denies such a photo exists.  The next day, a right-leaning blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asmainegoes.com\/\">As Maine goes...<\/a> published the photo. Now, all of Maine's media (and New England) is abuzz over Mitchell's blunder.  Mitchell issued a statement of apology late yesterday.  <\/p><p>The very latest poll has the race virtually tied with LePage at 29% to Mitchell 28%.<\/p><p><em>Editor's Note - As Maine goes... has two libertarian contributors, fmr. state legislators Stravos Mendros and Ken Lindell of the Republican Liberty Caucus.<\/em><\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d4d90_7828681836623105417-1080585398672806741?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embarrassing Photo SurfacesFrom Eric Dondero:Everywhere you go in Maine, the topic of discussion is the major smack-down by Paul LePage, Tea Party Republican for Governor of his Democrat opponent Libby Mitchell in Sunday night's debate.In brief: Mitchell hit LePage on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/maine-democrat-candidate-for-gov-libby-mitchell-busted-big-time.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}