Mike Michaud makes run for Maine governor official
Source: Bangor Daily News
LEWISTON, Maine In a city that has often supported by him by more than 2-to-1 margins, U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud said Thursday he was officially running to be Maines next governor.
Before a boisterous crowd of about 200 at the Franco-American Heritage Centre in Lewistons Little Canada neighborhood, Michaud said he wanted to return home and serve as governor to end a bitterly partisan climate in Augusta and restore Maines dignity on the national stage.
At his entrance and interjected throughout a speech that lasted for more than 30 minutes, the crowd chanted, We like Mike. Those three words are clearly going to become a campaign slogan as signs and new campaign buttons replicated the motto.
In a speech that was as much an indictment of incumbent Republican Gov. Paul LePage as it was a praise to the working class, veterans and the elderly, Michaud said, Personal and political attacks are standing in the way of progress.
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Goodbye Governor Vaseline.
yup
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)even going to try again? I really hope he does because watching that human skidmark get creamed would be a highlight of my evening on election night.
cyclezealot
(4,802 posts)He is desperately needed in the Congress. What has sold out the interests of the US is give-away trade agreements which has cost the US millions of jobs. Michaud being a principal sponsor of a Fair Trade law replacing so called Free Trade.
He can't do much about this concern from Augusta.
eShirl
(18,494 posts)We all know how that turned out.