Massachusetts Wokes solidify their grip on their former colony

hallelujah!

Soros-backed prosecutor wins in Maine’s Cumberland “Love Lives Here” County

Sartoris benefited from a wave of spending from Democratic megadonor George Soros, who has been running a national campaign to elect progressive prosecutors across the country. A group started by Soros’ network spent $440,000 in a bid to oust Sahrbeck, more than all the money spent in every Maine district attorney race from 2012 through 2020.

Sartoris, a Chesa Boudin clone, crushed, 64-36% the incumbent, a centrist Democrat who advocated punishing criminals, rather than engaging them in “restorative justice”. The Republicans didn’t bother running a candidate themselves, so even if there’s a political upheaval in Maine politics this fall, Portland residents will get to experience the continued transformation of their city. into San Francisco east.

On a lesser matter, because the schools have long been controlled by People from the South, three Progressives Are Poised to Take Seats on Portland School Board

Lentz, Grant and Brydon were all endorsed by Progressive Portland, an activist group linked to former Mayor Ethan Strimling.

The election was held to replace three board members who resigned last year in protest of the left-dominated board, saying “independent thought has been punished”. This was after a report showed that the board’s “equity program” had produced higher costs per student, but worse outcomes, than comparable municipalities.

I don’t live in Portland, but I’ve been interested to watch its gradual takeover by progressives, because it affords an opportunity to see how all their most popular programs, from rent control, to a sky-high minimum wage, to bad schools, to curtailment of law enforcement, works out. Portland was a tired old, failing city until the city began to revive in the late 70s: the artists and musicians came first, then book sellers and restaurateurs, and out-of-staters followed them north. A vibrant, small urban city of 30,000 emerged, metastasized into the already-tony towns to its immediate south and north, and though It took awhile — there was still a commercial vacancy rate of 67% in 1995 — the city grew and prospered. But the more Portland has grown, the more its new residents have asserted their politics and policies into its governance and I. at least, have detected a slide back into the 70s again.

Gooder and harder.