Jonathan Fulford: A Person for the People

Jonathan Fulford offers a unique opportunity to set straight many of the policy shifts promoted by Paul LePage and his Tea Party pal in the Senate, Mike Thibodeau. Jonathan Fulford supports the citizens of Waldo County over the interests of large corporations and understands that reducing taxes for the wealthiest results in rising overall taxes for the majority of us.

Sen. Thibodeau runs a political action committee called "Paving the Way for a Prosperous Maine," which, since its inception in September 2011, has received contributions from the American Legislative Exchange Council, a proxy for the Koch brothers and affiliated entities like Pharma, Spectra Energy and the American Chemistry Council.

Thibodeau is also a member of the ALEC Communications and Technology Task Force. ALEC invites ideologues like Thibodeau to legislative retreats where they push their corporate agenda and urge attendees to pass legislation written by corporate lobbyists. These bills pursue an increasingly extreme agenda and lead to partisan gamesmanship so familiar to us with LePage and Thibodeau in office.

These corporations do not have the interests of Mainers in mind, and neither do the elected officials who follow their directives like sheep. It's time for real representation for Waldo County. I will vote for Jonathan Fulford for State Senate because he has a vision for the future of Maine, a future that does not include selling our state to the highest corporate bidder.

John Krueger
Northport