This suddenly seems pretty trivial to me. I got a call an hour ago from my brother Kevin saying our mom had a heart attack this morning and was in the ER. I worked my way through the phone system at Maine Med and got to the ER and then a ward nurse on a different ward. She couldn't give me much information with HIPAA and privacy laws but I take it as encouraging that she was moved out of the ER. She said she would ask the attending doctor to call me. My mom has lived in Maine her whole life and is 79 years old with some health issues. You never know how serious they are because she is a true Mainer, never complaining unless maybe she has a gunshot wound. Fingers crossed....


>>He was sentenced today to 30 months in prison, and his wife to a year, for pocketing campaign funds. The initial reaction here is that he got off easy. I don't agree. For one thing his political career and his political career are destroyed (deservedly so). And I don't think 2 1/2 years in prison is anything to sneeze at. I wouldn't want to spend 2 1/2 days in prison. Some people think anything less than the death sentence or life in prison is a slap on the wrist. I disagree. I think the sentence is pretty appropriate.
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>Jimmy Dimora, the Dem party boss and city councilman in Cleveland and his side-kick - Frank Russo county auditor - got about 20 years each for a pattern of corruption on Federal RICO charges. Not saying that is appropriate for non-violent crime, but definitely a lot more than 30 months and I believe less money was involved overall.
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>The one big difference I see is that Jimmy even looked like the old Nast cartoons of Boss Tweed and nobody was even mildly shocked he was a crook.
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>Jesse Jackson Jr. (and his father) have disappointed a lot of good people who deserved better of someone they thought they could believe in.