I want to bring to the reader’s attention the fact that three former chairs of the Maine Republican Party have “enthusiastically endorsed” Kamala Harris for president.
In a recent article in the Bangor Daily News opinion section, Robert A.G. Monks, Ken Cole, and Ted O’Meara, said that “Trump’s MAGA Republican Party is unrecognizable to us.”
In the past both parties were civil to one another, believed in the rule of law, and had the best interests of Maine and the nation in their hearts, even when they disagreed on policies, the three said.
But much of the leadership of today’s Republican Party “has joined the cult of Trump,“ they said, and “will care little for what we have to say. But we also know that the Republican Party in Maine is still home to many honest, hardworking, principled people who — more than any party label — want what is best for our state and nation. We hope that they will join us in supporting Harris for president.”
The three former Maine Republican Party chairs pointed out that many former Republican leaders are endorsing Harris, and more than 100 high-ranking Republican officials from past administrations have signed a letter calling Trump “unfit to serve again as president, or indeed in any office of public trust.”
Wendy Ross
Wiscasset
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