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Just wanted to share some news with all my thru hiking and trail friends and this forum might not be the most proprer place to do it but it sure is a place to get news out. Moxie, thru hiker, hell raiser, and sometimes trail character just won a seat in the Maine State Legislature. I don't knpw if I would trust me to be a lawmaker, decision maker in billion $ budgets, but it just shows with hard work and determination even trail trash like me can accomplish something. In ain't no thru hike but it is another adventure in my life and I am anxious to go for it. Also for the first time in many years I will now be available to go to trail days and ALDA because we will not be in session during those events. At last, a chance to see all my old friends again.:sun
Lone Wolf
06-13-2007, 07:34
congrats. have fun
The Old Fhart
06-13-2007, 07:39
Congratulations Moxie! Ever since I met you on your thru, I knew you'd accomplish great things, that is, if you lived long enough!:D
Mother Nature
06-13-2007, 07:40
Congrats, Moxie!
You'll be great you ole rascal! I always knew you'd turn out fine! :)))) I'm sure you will make Maine proud!
Miss all of our old chats together.
Hope to catch you in Maine when Smokestack finishes his 2007 thru. Sad to say he is home at the minute with a severely inflamed achilles.
Mother Nature
bigcranky
06-13-2007, 07:40
That's great. The people of Maine must be more open-minded than I thought <grin>. Good luck.
TJ aka Teej
06-13-2007, 07:52
Moxie, thru hiker, hell raiser, and sometimes trail character just won a seat in the Maine State Legislature.
With a name like Moxie you were a shoo-in! :D
Congrats and good luck!
saimyoji
06-13-2007, 08:23
Way to go. :banana
Alligator
06-13-2007, 08:38
Congratulations!
way to go! watch out maine...
Skidsteer
06-13-2007, 08:51
Git 'er done!
Well. Someone from the South had to say it.
Frolicking Dinosaurs
06-13-2007, 08:55
Congrats. Maine is lucky to have you.
Rain Man
06-13-2007, 09:15
... Moxie, thru hiker, hell raiser, and sometimes trail character just won a seat in the Maine State Legislature....
Congrats. We need more hiker types in politics!
Rain:sunMan
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Lone Wolf
06-13-2007, 09:19
We need more hiker types in politics!
I'm running for vice mayor here in Damascus. I'll be in charge of all vice. Gambling, prostitution, porn, etc.
Vote for Wolf for a happier Damascus!!:banana
Frolicking Dinosaurs
06-13-2007, 09:57
LW is immenently qualified for this position. Surely there is no one in Damascus more qualified :D
Congrats Moxie! Perhaps as your first act you could outlaw mosquitoes and black flies.
Congrats Moxie! Perhaps as your first act you could outlaw mosquitoes and black flies.
I think they're written into the state constitution, but try anyway!:D Congratulations Moxie!
Dances with Mice
06-13-2007, 12:10
Congratutions, state of Maine!
Congrats! It takes a lot of Moxie to be a good politican these days, so I guess you had a leg up on everyone else. I wasn't aware that Maine has a hiker trash (political) party. :D
Trillium
06-13-2007, 19:28
congrats Moxie!
Nightwalker
06-13-2007, 21:14
I'm running for vice mayor here in Damascus. I'll be in charge of all vice. Gambling, prostitution, porn, etc.
Vote for Wolf for a hippier Damascus!!:banana
I could definitely vote for that. Heck Wolf, I'd vote for you for just about anything*, except maybe Pope or somethin'. :)
*We need more stuff stirrers in guv'mint.
ferryman
06-14-2007, 19:12
Congratulations to you Moxie on your recent election victory :sun . It will be an honor to serve the people of the great State o' Maine. Hope you get some time to enjoy the great outdoors! Best of Luck, Steve Longley
Jester2000
06-14-2007, 21:02
Moxie, elected while running as the Billville/Libraritarian candidate ("Better Red Than Dead"), moved quickly to consolidate power and enact his agenda.
He sponsored legislation requiring Mainers to sit around wood stoves all winter talking about the Red Sox. Moxie, of course, became the only drink permitted to be sold at public school cafeterias.
Steve the Ferryman was given tax exempt status and the difference was made up by requiring those wishing to ford to purchase a permit.
All Mainers were required to do one week of trail maintenance per year. Strangely, this resulted in the trail becoming more difficult and harder to understand.
School bus drivers' wages went up threefold.
Mainers voted overwhelmingly in a statewide referendum that Maine was finally, in fact, the way life should be. Except for certain neighborhoods in Portland.
Enjoying his success and pushing further, Moxie ran for US Senate in 2012. At the time Olympia Snow had the highest popularity rating at home of any US Senator, but Moxie prevailed after he beat her in a live televised wrestling match.
Some termed it "Moxiemania." Others called it "Mass Moxteria." But regardless of how you felt, it was hard to deny that, as the newly renamed Mox News Network ("We Report, You Say 'Auyuh'") said, "we don't know what it is, but Senator Moxie's got it. And it's contagious. But CDC's working on a vaccine."
Such was his popularity nationwide that Moxie was elected President in 2030, despite the fact that
a)it wasn't a Presidential election year and
b)he had died two years earlier.
Congrats Mox!