Charlie webster maine biography of albert

And that's the golden quote of the TPM interview. And it's already getting some play in the Twitter stream for its "just-too-stupid-to-be-true" factor. Here's the first few reactions we found:. And now, well, he's unfortunately thrown in Chinese people into the mix too and explains how he fields calls from concerned Mainers when they see Asians on the street:.

Where did they come from? It's not really a good point Charlie, it isn't. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikidata item. American politician. For the British television presenter, see Charlie Webster.

Charlie webster maine biography of albert

For the English football player, see Charlie Webster footballer. References [ edit ]. Charles Webster Joins Race for Governor". Bangor Daily News. The plan also raised the meals-and-lodging tax, and the tax on car rentals in an effort to get tourists to carry more of the burden. To Webster, the tax overhaul — which was backed by only one Republican — showed that Democrats were out of touch with most Mainers.

The law, for instance, added taxes to car repairs, so Webster wrote letters to other small businesses warning them that Democrats might come after their businesses too. Democrats who voted for it became prime targets. Gone are Democrats Sen. John Nutting of Leeds, Sen. Joe Perry of Bangor, Sen. Deb Simpson of Auburn, Rep. Launching a referendum-based assault on an already-passed tax to keep it from going into effect is an extraordinary undertaking in Maine.

In the 50 years before Webster led such an effort against the bill, only one such attempt against a tax had even made it onto the ballot in time to do this. Moreover, GOP leaders in the legislature that passed the law — even those that opposed it — were not eager to deploy such an arsenal. This left Webster in the vanguard of a seemingly quixotic errand to take on the law and gather the signatures — at a time when voters were distracted by summer vacations — to block it before the September effective date.

The movement also found Webster in a strange bedfellows alliance with the Green Party which helped put the petition drive over the finish line. Once on the ballot, the law was decisively rejected in voting that occurred at the same time as the June GOP primary that also nominated Paul LePage for governor.