Winners and Losers

Herb Hoffman continues to enjoy his 15 minutes of fame which has now been going on for about six weeks, while the Fed UP With Taxes folks make good on step one of the People’s Veto. They are a few of this week's winners in PolitickerME's Winners & Losers list.

Winners

Losers

Herb Hoffman

Herb wins another court decision and thanks to the Maine Democratic Party, Herb Hoffman will enjoy another week of free press. Enough with the appeals and just let the guy on the ballot.

Portland Press Herald readers

More cuts at he paper and a slew of early retirements will have a real impact on political coverage this fall. Paul Carrier, who covered state house politics, will be missed. He was fair, impartial and well liked.

Fed Up with Taxes

Ninety thousand signatures in 60 days…impressive

Bruce Ladd

Another legislative candidate joined the campaign cash crime wave this month when he was indicted by a York County Grand Jury on forgery charges and one count of theft in connection with his bid for Clean Elections funds.

Jim Cohen

he Portland City Councilor is capable, well liked and smart to enough to realize that you can’t do it all. Cohen goes out on top and steps down from Portland Politics

Real ID Petitioners

The folks collecting signatures to repeal Maine’s new license rules have failed to get enough signatures coming in with less than half the needed amount.