Brewer quoted in MPBN report on Maine Green Independent Party, primaries
Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, spoke with the Maine Public Broadcasting Network for the report, “Maine Green Party opens some primaries to all independent voters.” At the Maine Green Independent Party’s recent state convention, the party decided to welcome all unenrolled Maine voters to help decide nominees in gubernatorial and legislative contests, according to the report. Brewer said the “Greens have been on the decline in Maine,” and opening the party primary to independents could help. “The Green profile would seem to have a relatively natural constituency here in Maine,” he said. “They’ve been in a lower profile recently. In my opinion that doesn’t mean they have to stay that way.”