Many were surprised to see a transgender from central Maine taking part in the state’s Democrat senatorial candidate debate this week. That’s an area of the world generally given over to farmers, loggers, and hunters.
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The trannie in question was Ashley Webb, and he’s from Farmington, which goes a long way toward answering that question.
Ashley Webb appears to be a gentle, confused soul afflicted with serious emotional fragility (he started crying right in the middle of his presentation), something of a reversed gender version of Ellen Page, as opposed to the commonplace type fueled by uncontrolled rage, like this guy.
Farmington is located in south central Maine about two hours north of Portland. It’s the seat of Franklin County, and one of the biggest towns in a rural area. It’s also, largely due to its University of Maine campus, one of the LGBT hotspots of New England.
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I lived in Farmington for a short period years ago. Walking down Main, on which the campus fronts, I was puzzled by the number of heavyweight young women – two hundred pounds and up, many with shaved heads and wearing overalls and the like. At first, I figured that was just the Maine rural look. I was at last set straight (so to speak) by a member of a local religious sect (who look Mennonite but aren’t), who explained that the Farmington campus was the major gay focus of the entire state.
That lends to Farmington a patina of sophistication unique for a town with one major intersection. It’s also quite a switch from its previous claim to fame as the home of , the inventor of earmuffs.
The interesting thing is that Ashley Webb wasn’t even the weirdest candidate who appeared at the debate. That would be current Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, who comes across as an android whose programming has been compromised.
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Susan Collins is looking better all the time.
