Fighting for Maine taxpayers

As campaign director for Mills for Maine, I've been at a lot of Republican events and have been able to listen to all the Republican gubernatorial hopefuls.

One thing that makes Peter stand out from the others is that, where they're saying what they will do at the state level, Peter's the only one that can show what he has done. In Peter's latest email, he says:

Last week I delivered the Maine Senate Republican Radio Address. Once again Baldacci is trying to borrow money to pay for his current budget. He did this in 2003 when he tried to permanently sell off the state's liquor business. He did it again in 2005 when he tried to borrow $447M by selling off the Lottery for 14 years. We stopped him both times, the latter with the well-known "Don't Mortgage ME" campaign.

Now he wants to borrow money from future taxpayers to fund a longevity benefit to the most senior members of the public unions, to those who helped get him elected, to those who will work on Democratic campaigns in 2010. None of the younger people in the unions, those with families, will be able to share in this benefit. What does this say about the Democrats' priorities?

Peter led the fight in 2003. Peter led the "Don't Mortage ME" fight in 2005. He even stood up to the unions in 2008...and won.

Now Peter's standing up to Gov. Baldacci's attempt to benefit union cronies.

Given his record, I bet he'll win this one too.

And that's why he's the right Republican to be governor of Maine. The other candidates can say what they want, but Peter's the only one with a successful track record of a 15-year battle to bring fiscal responsibility to state government. He's already saved hundreds of millions of dollars for Maine's tax payers.

He'll do that even more when elected Governor.

You can hear Peter's entire Republican radio address here on the MillsForMaine.com site.

While there, you can also sign up to receive Peter's email updates:
http://www.millsformaine.com/join.