Zombies were everywhere in hyper-liberal Portland, Maine, on Saturday night, and I’m not sure it was just Halloween.
I was offered a free “doobie” several times by a kind old hippie after being in a bar for 10 minutes.
Pot is legal in Portland, as it is in New York and other blue cities with chronic street homelessness, not that those in charge would ever admit a connection to laissez- faire social policies that provide “safe” injecting sites and free needles.
Democratic Senate candidate Troy Jackson with Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey in Scarborough, Maine, over the weekend. AFP via Getty Images
You may have guessed it’s not exactly Susan Collins territory .
Despite the fact that the elusive Collins is aggressively uncollegial to MAGA Republicans and regarded as a RINO nuisance by Donald Trump , Portlandians will tell you she is the president’s puppet. They are fed up with ads trashing her Democrat opponent Troy Jackson for, among other things, marrying his second cousin.
She has kept such a low profile on the campaign that Jackson’s team displays a giant milk carton at his events featuring her face on a “missing persons” ad.
At a town hall in Scarborough on Sunday, Jackson barely g...