THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
MERCI BEAUCOUP!!
Tonight… Folks tonight…was not a win for any particular group… it was not a win for any particular ideology or any particular faction… Tonight was a win for the State of Maine and our future!
You know my story – I was homeless at the age of 11, I had to work hard to put myself through high school and college with some help from caring others.
Now having been homeless at the age of 11 I am on the doorstep to the Blaine House in Augusta. This is the story of the American Dream. However, that dream is going to be lost in Maine if we don’t begin to tighten our belts in state government and live within our means, if we don’t reform welfare so we value the hard work I did to get to where I am today and if we don’t create jobs in Maine, now.
Tonight… Tonight… is the beginning of that change!!
I want to acknowledge and thank the other candidates who were in this race. They all have some good ideas I have heard along the way and I look forward to incorporating those into my administration when I am elected your Governor. Now we must re-double our efforts.
I can just hear them now… I can hear the other party – they have spent years scaring the people of Maine into believing that Republicans don’t care about them.
But this room is full, FULL of average, everyday Maine people and this guy right here who was homeless at the age of 11 is here to say we have more in common with you then they do and we are here to fix Maine’s broken government.
As I said tonight was not a win for any particular group… it was not a win for any particular ideology or any particular faction, tonight was a win for Maine.
So together, as one party, united in our common purpose, let’s go forth.
Let’s go forth and create a new day for Maine.
TOGETHER WE CAN CHANGE MAINE!!
