PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • March 1, 2021
In Maine rich libertarian fossil fuel money went into the failed candidacy of 2nd Congressional District Republican Dale Crafts. It continues money through the Cato Institute to the Maine Policy Institute and the state chapter of the American Legislative Executive Council, to which some right-wing, climate change-denying Republican state legislators belong. We have to stop the fossil fuel industry’s involvement in Main politics or suffer the same fate as Texas, where power and profits take precedence over our right to vote and the quality of everyday life. ~ Patrick Eisenhart, Lewiston