I am writing today to ask that you consider voting for Paul LePage in the Republican primary for governor. I do not work for his campaign in any way, but as a young Mainer I am very concerned about the future of this state.
Paul has a track record of cutting taxes and spending as the current mayor of Waterville. Working with an entirely Democratic council, Paul lowered taxes 5 out of his 6 years in office (the first year they stayed the same), increased the town’s rainy day fund from 1 million to 10 million, and Waterville received a credit upgrade from A- to A+ by Standard and Poor’s.
Paul also has a track record of creating jobs in the private sector. As the CEO of Marden’s, he knows what it entails to be a low cost leader in the Maine business environment.
He has a compelling life story, which you can read on his website, http://www.lepage2010.com/. The bottom line – he got himself off welfare and has a plan to reform the system.
Maine needs a Chris Christie. Maine needs someone with the strength and conviction to make the tough decisions in order to balance our state’s upcoming 1 billion dollar shortfall. As we begin to see the demise of the liberal welfare state in Greece, we need to ask ourselves, Do we really want to maintain the status quo?
Let’s do something different. Let’s elect Paul LePage in June, and then again in November.
Thank you,
William Martin
Livermore Falls
Lepage gets my vote. A politician who has real world experience and has solved difficult problems where others have failed.He seems like just the guy to clean up this mess in augusta created by the dems over the last 30 plus years. He speaks clearly and his ideas on how to fix our problems are good ones. What a refreshing face in augusta he would be standing up the the old guard dems .What a sight it would be to see him look at a guy like the ballot stuffer from eagle lake in the eye and saying: :”the well is dry john, the party is over, sorry”!
Thanks for writing that Will,
i was hoping to fine time to write one myself.
LePage for governor!!!
LePage has good ideas, can work with Democrats asd he has done in the Waterville City Government, and he has backbone. He’ll get it done.
You say you don’t work for his campaign, but the editorial sounds just like an AD? As a life long republican, I would urge others to really look at Lepage and what he has accomplished. On the surface it may look good, but the deeper you dig, you will see that he is not the person to help out Maine. Like many town officials around the State, (when schools were still getting money from the State) town officials lowered schools budgets and passed the savings onto the towns by lowering the taxes. In essence, the Waterville School system lowered taxes in Waterville, not Lepage. Now we are seeing the outcomes of that thinking (with hundreds of employees in education loosing there jobs around the State now that the State is running out of money). Lepage has gotten his way in Waterville, by bullying behavior, which in some cases may not be bad, but in Augusta, this behavior would earn Lepage more enemies than friends. In my opinion, If Lepage was elected Govenor, we may end up with lower taxes, but nobody would be able to pay their lower taxes because they wouldn’t have jobs (especially if they are in education or state employees).
Chris, do you read many editorials at election time?
look at any paper and you will see many endorsement letters, for both parties, and they all consists of short points and/or stories.
only Dennis Haszko post letters about the opponent, and not the person he supports.