FORECASTER • May 13, 2020
The effort by Maine’s Republican Party to roll back environmental protection laws was much alive prior to Trump and recognized years ago by former Maine state Sen. and House Majority Leader Harrison Richardson when he stated in a previously undisclosed letter in 1995 to Republican Jeff Butland, president of the Maine Senate: “As a life-long Republican I am very concerned that some of the leadership of the party seems to believe that the way to succeed at the polls is environmental bashing. I think that it is a mistake and a very bad one….the word ‘conservation’ is really an extension of the term ‘conservative.'” When will they ever learn? ~ R. John Wuesthoff, Portland