The Right Experience for Maine’s Economic Challenges

If you woke up one morning to find your basement flooded by a broken water pipe, who would you call to fix it? 

Most people would call a plumber.  That’s basic commons sense.  To fix a problem, you hire someone with the training, skills, and experience to competently address the solution. 

You also might look for a proven record of success.  Someone may have been trained to fix pipes and plumbing – they may even have the best intentions of stopping the leak - but that doesn’t necessarily mean they are any good at it. 

As anyone who’s had to do home repairs knows, mistakes can be very costly and cause the problems to get much worse.

In Maine, we wake up each morning to find our budget flooded with deficits, overspending, gimmicks, and gross mismanagement of state resources.  Cuts are made to programs with no regard to their overall success of failure.  Tough reforms are pushed to future legislative sessions. 

For decades, well-intended career politicians have had their opportunity to address Maine’s economic problems, but fundamental mistakes have been made and our problems are much worse. 
Our next Governor must be someone with the training, skills, and experience to competently address our fiscal, economic, and job-related challenges.  He or she should be someone with extensive experience in finance who understands the basics of how an economy works.

My entire professional life has been in the private sector, running, managing, and investing in businesses and creating jobs.  I know the basics of finance and will make the tough decisions to ensure the long-term economic success of our state.

You wouldn’t hire a carpenter to do a plumber’s job – much less a career politician.  It’s time to elect a competent manager to lead Maine. 

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