Thomas Saviello One of the Challengers, Was Interviewed on CNN cable news Recently. A Republican, he Formerly Served in the Maine Senate.

Maine’s Secretary of State Shenna Bellows With President Biden Behind Her at the White House for a Women’s History Month Celebration. She is the First Woman to Hold the Position.

Three attorneys for Donald Trump issued a six page plea today, December 27,  to Secretary of State Shenna Bellows requesting that she disqualify herself “from this matter beause she has already concluded that President Trump engaged” in the insurrection – a determnation that she made well before the submission of evidence  or argument in the matter according to the plea in the form of a letter on Gessler Blue LLC letterhead.

The letter says that Bellows has exhibited a personal bias.  It cited three public statements showing that she has already “prejudged” the ballot challenge.  Two of the examples of bias came in tweets on February 13, 2021 and the third on January 6, 2022.   The performance request from Trump attorneys calls for Secretary Shenna Bellows to disqualilfy herself because of the above bias and appoint an “unbiased” and “impartial” hearing officer and transfer the matter to that individual.

“I don’t know of anyone living and breathing in Maine who is impartial on the 14th Amendment, Section 3 issue,”: said this blogger.  “The provision Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, disqualifies people wiho served as federal officials and ‘engaged in insurrection or rebellion’ from holding office.  The original intent was to bar Confederate officials from serving in the US government,” according to an article on the front page of “The New York Times,” on Thursday, December 28, 2023 entitled “Trump to Stay on the Ballot, Michigan Says.”  “Sounds like Section 3 was intended for Donald Trump as well,” said this blogger.

The letter was signed by three attorneys for Trump:  Benjamin Hartwell, Portland; Scott Gessler, Greenwood Village, Colorado; and Gary Lawkowsky of Alexandria, Virginia.

Apparently these attorneys on behalf of Donald Trump went on their own promotional tour by distributing the letter to the press on the same day that Secretary Bellows office received the letter.  “Trump attorneys wanted to prejudice the press and consequently the public against Secretary Bellows. So they distributed this piece of performance pr on their own terms. Performance is Trump,” said this blogger.  “Mainers are smarter than that.”

The Secretary of State will have no comment on the matter until it is resolved according to a message from her office late this evening.