Real change is in the air
To the editor:
Paul LePage, by far the most-fully qualified of the eight candidates for the Republican nomination for Maine governor swept the Aroostook County Super Cauci over this past weekend racking up 45.6 percent of the vote in an impressive winning plurality. The next closest was Les Otten with 15.8 percent, followed by Susan Collins’s hand-picked choice, Steve Abbott, with just 14 percent.
For those of you with time to follow Maine politics, this is great news for fiscal-social-Constitutional patriots/Christians and conservatives. Mayor LePage has also swept several other county straw polls, including Androscoggin, Knox and Kennebec counties in recent days, and appears (it’s still a tad early to declare) to be the runaway winner in the Maine GOP Caucus Straw Poll for the Republican nomination for Governor. This comes despite the Maine GOP insiders’ (and Collin-Snowe-McKernan-Cohen-Rockefeller machine’s) overwhelming support for career politician, Steve Abbott.
We’ve been telling you for months on our little AM-radio morning show here in The County that the winds of change are blowing, and that conservatives have a real shot at taking back their party from the RINOs and neo-conservatives this year!
Despite decent showings at the three Super Caucus locations, many, many (I daresay most) Aroostook towns — especially those with populations under 1,000, did not caucus over the weekend, and still can do so. We are looking for more conservative delegates to the Maine State Convention on May 7-8th, and more active members for the Aroostook County Republican Committee.
Contact the following people if you would still like to caucus in your town, and/or would like to become a delegate to the State Convention: northern Aroostook, Danny Deveau at 484-1707; central Aroostook, Alex Willette at 689-8332; and southern Aroostook, Steve Martin 532-3635.
Get involved. Otherwise, you have no one to blame but yourself!
Amity
