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If this week doesn’t show you how much we need to take back the Maine Legislature, I don’t know what will.

After publicly announcing he would not bring back the bill aimed at ranked-choice voting in Maine’s Presidential election, Senate President Troy Jackson went and did it anyway. Jackson lied and brought the RCV bill back at the end of a special legislative day, which was called only for votes on a series of bond bills.

Once again, Troy Jackson sold the people of Maine a huge lie. Even Gov. Janet Mills didn't want him to bring the bill up.

If the bill goes into effect, local property taxpayers will be on the hook to pay for massive new election spending. Democratic leaders have admitted they don't have a way to pay for it. So much for the Democrat claims they want to help lower property taxes.

This is a sad example of what our government has become under one-party rule.

Welfare benefits for illegal immigrants are handed out as emergency measures while a nursing home funding bill hangs in limbo.

Virtually all of Maine’s available funds were spent on an $8 billion state budget loaded with giveaways to special interests, but our roads and bridges didn’t receive a penny of the new spending.

Instead, Democrats say we have to borrow to fix our roads.

Legislative Democrats, led by Senate President Troy Jackson and Speaker Sara Gideon have rammed through one radical piece of legislation after another. They have spent the cupboard so bare that we have to borrow to fix basic infrastructure.

Because they elected their own "people" to our constitutional offices, there are no checks and balances in Augusta.

There is one way to fix all of this – elect Republican majorities in the Maine Legislature.

We need to end the lies, the extreme legislation and the blatant disregard for the traditions and values of Maine people.

Right now, today, we have a new way for you to chip in.

This link will take you to a form where you can chip in any amount, right now, and it will be split between the three teams working day-and-night to take Augusta back.

By chipping in right now, you will be showing the Maine GOP, and the House and Senate Republicans that you have our backs. Today, you can send a message that you want conservative leadership and that you’re willing to be the change Augusta needs. We must hold Democrats accountable and vote them out next year!

Thank you for all that you do.

Sincerely,

Dr. Demi Kouzounas