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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (18924)

12/19/2016 12:30:44 PM

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Maine Elector Says He Plans To Ditch Clinton And Vote For Sanders Instead

MediaPunch

By MATT SHUHAM Published DECEMBER 19, 2016, 12:10 PM EDT

A presidential elector from Maine announced Monday that he plans to cast his vote for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), despite Hillary Clinton winning the state’s popular vote.

“I am not a Clinton elector, I am a Democratic elector. I do not represent Democrats all over the country, I represent the Democrats in Maine," David Bright wrote in a Facebook post.

According to Maine law, Bright should be voting for Hillary Clinton when the state’s electors cast their votes Monday. Instead, he wrote that he planned on casting his vote for Sanders “not out of spite, or malice, or anger, or as an act of civil disobedience,” but rather “to represent thousands of Democratic Maine voters – many less than a third my age – who came into Maine politics for the first time this year because of Bernie Sanders.”

Maine and Nebraska are the only two states that do not apportion their electoral votes on an all-or-nothing basis. Clinton won the state by a 22,142 vote margin, according to the Cook Political Report, leaving her with three of its four electors—or, at least, that was the assumption.

Maine is also one of 30 states nationwide that requires presidential electors to vote according to how they are assigned. Bright acknowledged as much in an interview with the Portland Press Herald, but said that wouldn't stop him.

“Maine also has a law that you’re not supposed to go faster than 70 on the interstate,” he said. “I suspect that I’m going to break that law on my trip to Augusta this morning, too.”

Democratic primary voters in Maine had chosen Sanders by a margin of nearly two-to-one over Clinton when the state held its caucuses in March.

The state's electors are scheduled to vote for president at 2 p.m. ET on the floor of Maine's House of Representatives.

Read Bright's statement below:

David Bright
3 hours ago

Love it or hate it, here's the statement I'll issue after the Electoral college vote today.

Statement by Democratic Elector David Bright
Dec. 19, 2016

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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (18924)	12/19/2016 12:34:44 PM
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OOPSIE: Andrew Cuomo booked 200 DC hotel rooms for Clinton inauguration (LOL!) Posted at 11:47 am on December 19, 2016 by Sam J. Apparently Andrew Cuomo was a teensy bit overly confident in the Clinton campaign and reserved 200 rooms for his friends and family to attend Hillary’s inauguration. Of course to be fair, Hillary Clinton herself was a teensy bit overly confident, but she’s not the one who might be out a bunch of money over hotel rooms in D.C. Follow Lachlan Markay ?@lachlan Andrew Cuomo reportedly booked 200 DC hotel rooms for family and friends to attend the Clinton inauguration. Oops. t.co 10:16 AM - 19 Dec 2016 Cuomo booked 200 hotel rooms for Clinton inauguration“A little overconfident,” snickered one Republican. pagesix.com 2525 Retweets 2626 likes Unless she lost early enough for him to cancel? Per The Washington Times: “New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was so eager to celebrate Hillary Clinton’s presidential inauguration, he booked 200 hotel rooms in D.C. for family, friends and supporters of his own possible future bid for the presidency,” reports New York Post columnist Richard Johnson. Mr. Cuomo snagged this big reservation at the iconic Madison Hotel, three blocks north of the White House. Alas, his plans went awry for obvious reasons. What now? The “what now” appears to be that Cuomo actually sold the rooms to Republicans. View image on Twitter Follow TheBlaze ?@theblaze New York Gov. Cuomo sells 200 D.C. hotel rooms he reserved for Clinton inauguration to Republicans t.co 11:37 AM - 19 Dec 2016 2323 Retweets 4141 likes Guess he lucked out … and helped the GOP celebrate THEIR win. Thanks governor!