A new adventure

This week I became the campaign director for Peter Mill's run for governor of Maine!

He's the smartest politician I've seen in a long time. I've long admired Peter's ability to comprehend issues, navigate through them, and develop a plan to fix them. He's the type of Republican that can get elected in Maine. And he's representative of the traditional Republican party, before it got hijacked by social issues.

In her book It's My Party Too, Republican Christine Todd Whitman makes a distinction between traditional conservatives and social fundamentalists. I joined the Republican party because I'm for conservative fiscal policy and less government. But I've been increasingly disenfranchised by my party as it's gotten waylaid by social fundamentalists.

While I agree on many of the issues of social fundamentalists, their agenda seems to result in increasing both government spending and government intervention in our personal lives. I reject both.

The worst part is the self-righteousness that social fundamentalists seem to get drunk with. I reject that too. (Extremist politics seems to be prone to self-righteousness, doesn't it?)

I like Peter's blend of fiscal conservatism and social libertarianism. That's the kind of leadership Maine needs. Peter has great experience running his own business. He also has experience working in state government. So he's uniquely suited to avoid rabbit trails other candidates would be prone to run down. If you listen to some candidates, you'll hear campaign promises that couldn't possibly be fulfilled within the Maine constitution. Peter won't be distracted that way.

He has the courage and integrity needed to lead Maine.

And I'm honored to be able to help him become the next governor of this great state!