Mike Michaud makes run for Maine governor official

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Source: Bangor Daily News

LEWISTON, Maine — In a city that has often supported by him by more than 2-to-1 margins, U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud said Thursday he was officially running to be Maine’s next governor.

Before a boisterous crowd of about 200 at the Franco-American Heritage Centre in Lewiston’s Little Canada neighborhood, Michaud said he wanted to return home and serve as governor to end a bitterly partisan climate in Augusta and restore Maine’s dignity on the national stage.

At his entrance and interjected throughout a speech that lasted for more than 30 minutes, the crowd chanted, “We like Mike.” Those three words are clearly going to become a campaign slogan as signs and new campaign buttons replicated the motto.

In a speech that was as much an indictment of incumbent Republican Gov. Paul LePage as it was a praise to the working class, veterans and the elderly, Michaud said, “Personal and political attacks are standing in the way of progress.”

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Goodbye Governor Vaseline.

yup

[sharp_stick]

1. Is that asshole LePage

even going to try again? I really hope he does because watching that human skidmark get creamed would be a highlight of my evening on election night.

[cyclezealot]

2. Disappointing

He is desperately needed in the Congress. What has sold out the interests of the US is give-away trade agreements which has cost the US millions of jobs. Michaud being a principal sponsor of a Fair Trade law replacing so called Free Trade.
He can't do much about this concern from Augusta.

[eShirl]

3. I like him, and hope Angus King doesn't endorse Cutler again this time.

We all know how that turned out.