KENNEBEC JOURNAL • September 23, 2020
After a lifetime as a Republican, I switched parties to vote for my friends Janet Mills and Jared Golden in the Democratic primary. And after the primary, I didn’t return to the Republican Party because today our Republican president has repealed more than 100 environmental protections for everything from our rivers to our national parks. Shameful. When I was a Republican activist, we were the conservation leaders. Let’s hope we elect legislators in November who will return the Legislature to the good old days when it was fun to hang out in Augusta. ~ George Smith