Brewer speaks with MPBN about LePage’s call to elect based on tax, welfare reform
The Maine Public Broadcasting Network spoke with Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, for a report about Gov. Paul LePage telling people who attend his town meetings to choose their legislative candidates based on their views on welfare and tax reform. Brewer said LePage’s effort could be used to ensure the election of Republican primary candidates who are dedicated to the governor and the party’s tax and welfare reform goals, according to the article. “I think it has the ability to be effective in both a primary and a general election setting,” Brewer said. “He made it very clear that if voters agree with him they should send people to the Legislature who also agree with him. And the governor very much recognizes that if he’s going to get his policy goals accomplished in the time remaining he has as governor, he needs a Legislature that is more agreeable with him, and I think he is going to do everything he can to try and get that Legislature.”