By Katelin Walling
The primary election for governor is coming up June 8. There are a lot of candidates vying for your vote for the next Governor of Maine, so we decided to compile a list of the candidates and their platforms to help readers become more informed. Today we're featuring Bruce Poliquin. Check back later today to get a glimpse of Steven G. Rowe and Leslie Otten.
Bruce Poliquin
Republican
Georgetown
- Help struggling families by creating new, better-paying jobs
- Build a new positive attitude toward business development and jobs
- Reverse out-migration of young workers and families
- Provide competent, common sense management
- Make education an economic development priority
- Reduce administrative costs
- Redirect savings into classrooms
- Institute innovative learning reforms without additional spending
- Complete and upgrade the electric power grid
- Explore ways to import cheap, clean, renewable power from Canada
- Support development of alternate sources
- Allow competition among insurance companies to lower premium costs
- Reduce spending on social services to national averages
- Provide incentives for healthy, independent behavior
- Lower taxes to help struggling families
- Lower taxes to attract business investment and jobs
- Maintain reasonable safety nets
For more information visit Bruce Poliquin's website.
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