Governor Mills has been a wonderful Governor. She has performed magnificently, balanced budgets and kept more people alive that all other governors in the country during the pandemic.
And she saved us from the radical, lunatic, Paul LePage. That was no small feat.
Governor Mills will reach the US life expectancy for a men and woman, 78.39, however, if she were sworn in after the 2026 election as a freshman Senator. She will join the other selfish elderly members of Congress who have stayed longer than the national life expectancy age, and others who will reach the life expectancy age by the end of their term. Chuck Schumer is 74, Nancy Pelosi is 85 and Angus King is 81.
And it is us older folks who understand and have had to be real about our aging. It’s time Governor Mill get a little more real about her age and our limitations as we age.
And it is troubling that she has relied on Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer, to make her decision to run for the Senate seat in 2026. Schumer has been a leader who has delivered for the war crimes and genocide in Gaza. Governor Mills has not been very loud at all about a genocide and war crime taking place in Gaza. How anyone – how any Democrat – can watch what is going on and Gaza and not be very loud about stopping it. Is that truly the Democratic Party we want to build? It doesn’t seem that it’s the Democratic Party that will attract young people to the polls who just didn’t show up enough in 2024.
Young voters are very important in the 2026 elections. Young voters need to be maximized for Democrats in both the House and Senate if either chamber in Washington is going to be controlled by Democrats.
What makes Governor Mills’ anticipated campaign most irresponsible is that she would be sworn in as a freshman senator with no seniority. She would let Maine waste that valuable seniority time, instead of being responsible and letting a younger Maine candidate build that seniority long into the future on Maine’s behalf. Seniority is a very important factor in DC, and especially in the Senate.
If elected Mills will become the Dianne Feinstein of Maine and only a one term Senator.
I have always been supportive of Governor Mills. And at first it seemed like a really great idea when she first talked about running. But after thinking about it. It is a terrible idea, in so many ways. Not because she is intellectually incompetent. She is, however, too old, and just not age appropriate to be a freshman US Senator. That she doesn’t know that instinctively itself is an element that raises questions about her fitness for a Senate seat.
2026 will be a good year for Democrats and an opportunity to elect a younger Democrat who can use the advantages of incumbency for future elections for years not so advantageous for Democrats. Governor Mills candidacy is as irresponsible as Joe Biden’s reelection effort was. She is as selfish as Joe Biden’s candidacy if she goes through with it.
The only sector of the electorate who will truly benefit from a Senator Mills will be the special interests who support and fund her. Maine’s middle class will not share in those advantages and gains.
