As much as we are looking forward to a breather from the battle for the political reins of our Great State, we are only slightly hopefully that the grit and competitiveness the candidates have all shown on the campaign trail will actually translate to action once the dust settles.
For all the talk involved, Augusta’s track record for accomplishment is dubious at best.
On the campaign trail, everyone knows what the problems are. Every other year we send some of our best and brightest to Augusta to address those issues and what we get year after year is a Gordian knot of partisan politics.
Consider the recent, much discussed Forbes magazine poll, ranking Maine as dead last among the 50 states in terms of business friendliness: Whether one takes the Forbes ranking as the gospel truth or considers it merely one brief, biased snapshot that scarcely does our fair state justice, the fact is we have significant problems before us that need to be addressed.
Gospel truth or not, the Forbes article is just evidence to that effect.
We can say for sure that more of the same mustard the Baldacci administration so adroitly doled out over the last eight years is only going to dig us in deeper, and we are already in pretty deep.
