They’ve gone total “I’m Bill Green and I support our Senator, Susan Collins.”

I would say worse, because now he's almost suggesting it's fine to grab that line that is bound to come down in tomorrow's storm.

What?

I kinda get your point, but the ad repeating twice “no line is safe to touch, evah 👉” is hopefully still a reminder about not touching real life downed wires.

Except he's comparing it to voting for Pine Tree Power. You're not going to be cooked from the inside out by taking a marker to that little circle on the ballot that says yes, but mess with a downed line, and you know, ...

I say he crossed a line.

I think you re misunderstanding the ad completely. I believe he is using touching line as a metaphor/figure of speech in reference of keeping the government away from managing the power grid.

I'm guessing you either plan on voting no or are involved in the campaign, but I still consider it very reckless of Maine Affordable Energy Coalition and/or CMP.

How are you getting that at all? He's just a well known local personality using his catch phrase.

You're really reaching

He is property of Avangrid.

That ad has nothing to do with downed power lines tomorrow.

> I would say worse, because now he's almost suggesting it's fine to grab that line

That’s about the dumbest take I’ve ever read on Reddit.

No, it says nothing like that.

I just donated to Pine Tree Power. It is sad to see a beloved icon shilling for Avangrid and using his power for ill, not good. But you've got this ass backwards. Let it go.

Wrong guess, I thought I d clarify your misinterpreted opinion on that add.

Watched that ad many times. Did not get that we should grab power lines. I did hear "No line is safe to touch ever".

I'm from "away" so idk who that guy is, an electrician maybe?

Seen the ads several times. Looks like poor people simping for capitalists again to me 😉

I don’t know who he is but I can see he’s a corporate simp

*Iberdrola

It’s just an analogy, he isn’t suggesting people go touch downed lines. His ad is saying, both literally and figuratively, that we shouldn’t mess with power lines.

If someone is stupid enough to watch that ad and think “wow, he is saying I should go touch downed power lines” then Darwin was going to get them one way or another.

Almost feels like OP was born and grew up after those ads died out and is completely unaware that "no line is safe to touch, evah" is Jim Wright's iconic catchphrase that a lot of Mainers who were born before OP remember.

Would explain their stupidity.

Not remotely dangerous, doesn't undermine powerline safety at all. What WILL undermine it is having the government run it. Dumbest idea I've seen in a long time.

He's a spokesman for CMP. So definite conflict of interest.

Oh yeah for sure then!!

Anytime a multinational, multi-billion dollar corporation says, "YOU should be against..." it's almost never because they are looking out for our interests.

And I suspect the CMP shills came out in full force.

Is it because you believe the government is too corrupt, and that a foreign corporation will run it better because it is less corrupt?

Do you know what dangerous means? Because there's nothing advocating anything even remotely dangerous in this ad...

I believe it.

I did get lucky with my power today, but of course the storm isn't 100% over and there's still a chance a branch could fall or someone crashes into a pole.