QOTD: "Fuck You For Doing That"

 

In an interview with Vox.com, Maine journalist Alex Seitz-Wald notes how negatively the voters there reacted to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the DSCC trying to force Gov. Janet Mills on them from Washington, with their disturbing lack of awareness and heavy-handedness, which contributed to candidate Graham Platner's rise:

"Maine is definitely a state that has a chip on its shoulder. Every summer, we get wealthy people from New York and Boston and DC and everywhere who come in, and then they leave. That’s the background music of this kind of resentment of outsiders telling us what to do.

People really resented the sense that Chuck Schumer, the Washington Democrats, the people from away, were forcing Janet Mills upon them. I picked up a lot of that really early on. They just kind of anointed her as the candidate and then said, shut up and get behind her. So, more than the 'establishment' or policy, it was just the sense that people who know nothing about Maine are trying to tell us what to do — and fuck you for doing that."

It's not likely that Schumer will learn from this, that the staid, "safe" route is not always the best, and above all to wait and to gauge voter sentiment before backing a candidate. It's best that when a new Congress is seated in January that Schumer be replaced as the new leader, whether for the majority or the minority.

BONUS: Some Senate Dems are unhappy with Schumer's interference in Maine, as well as in Dem primaries in Michigan and Minnesota. They want him to back off.