THANK YOU everyone who supported and voted for Republican Candidates!

Congratulations to the successful GOP Candidates!

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I encourage you to watch what is passed by the Legislature, signed by the Governor and hold the Democrats accountable for what they do from now on. Seems they promised "affordability", lower taxes, stopping corruption.

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Dear Maine,

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I'm not really sure what just happened but it seems you are saying that you are upset with some things.

1. Cost of Living: Taxes, Healthcare, Fuel oil, Gas, Food and Housing.

2. You are upset with the homeless population in the Cities and the filth and needles

3. You don't like the Job market and lack of industry.

4. You are upset we have nearly the lowest test scores on school testing in the US.

Well I agree, I'm upset about all of that too.

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So let's look at what caused this, who caused this.

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Well let's remember that for the last 8 years the Governor, Janet Mills a Democrat was in office. She had a majority in both Houses of her Democratic Party. For 6 of her 8 years she had Troy Jackson as the President of the Senate. So every bill, every tax, every contract, every policy, every housing decision, every mental health, substance abuse bill, every school standards legislation and power legislation bill that was passed was done by them, the Majority party.

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What did they do? Well they passed a law that hydro power can't be used in a higher percentage than it is, causing Maine to use higher cost Renewable energy, solar, wind and other types over the much lower cost Hydro Quebec offers that are right across the border. They gave millions to investors to build these green energy sites on our fields and by our towns that are hideous and then they charged you for the public policy tax and your electric rates have more than doubled since she took office. We are now in the top 5 for power costs in the USA.

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They raised taxes on income and the sales tax from 5% to 5.5%. Remember they said that was temporary? Now sales tax applies to labor and internet and TV and haircuts...

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The state runs the CoverMe Maine Healthcare exchange and the costs are more than ever before. No bills to lower the price.. I wonder why? Anthem got record profits.... who are they helping?

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Our Fuel oil, Gas and Propane taxes have gone up and up. Yet we are next to refineries in Canada and get our fuel with very little trucking compared to many southern and mid west states that are significantly less cost? Can you say we have some really high taxes?

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Food gets transported by Trucks that pay for Diesel and pay these taxes. The federal government is not helping this either but they don't add to the cost with high taxes. The state does.

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Maine housing programs that we have seen advertised are mostly for immigrants in the state or millions for the homeless population with no requirements on treatment. Where is the legislation to help with low income, middle income Maine families that are struggling with massively high rent?

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Then we have the Cities of Maine that are struggling with drugs, homeless and crime. Even shootings in Lewiston. No legislation to help, only to feed, enable and give methadone. All are bad policy that is not humanitarian and do not help people get services that really help them get independent again. The state stands behind needles and exchanges that further enable bad policy and ultimately death for many people.

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Then there are the job initiatives??? What are they?? Well let's talk about this. If we have high costs to live. High costs for power and fuel and onerous laws that cost employers money, when did we expect the new jobs to come? That's right, they won't. They will go to our neighbor states and elsewhere.

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Finally, we are failing our children. We have gone rogue on plans that are not best practices. We have boys in the girls bathrooms and in girls sports. We must do better.

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So we all seemed to want change!! Yet what did you do????

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YOU VOTED FOR THE SAME PEOPLE IN LARGER NUMBERS! More Democrats in the House and Senate! Janet Mills staff member is now your Governor. ...

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God help us!!! Maine is Responsible for our legislation, taxes and rules. The very ones you just elected are the ones that got us here! I sincerely hope they will see the error in these votes and bills, but I highly doubt that's going to happen.

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I encourage you to watch what is passed by the Legislature, signed by the Governor and hold them accountable for what they do from here and what they did for the last 8 years.

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There are 50 states and not everyone is in the Mess that Maine is. They have the same President Trump and the same gas prices... they have lower taxes, lower fuel costs and better schools. So let's not just pass the buck. What's wrong in Maine if others are successful????

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I think you know... it's time you admit it!!

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I know, the truth hurts, remember tax cuts that were enacted by the federal government like no tax on tips, no tax on overtime were not enacted by our Democrat state lawmakers. Love this state geographically, one of the worst states politically. Wake up Mainers, they are failing us and our children.

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