I’m confused.
On the front page Aug. 27, the Portland Press Herald published a big write-up announcing that billionaire and environmentalist Tom Steyer is setting up a major political operation in Maine as part of his $50 million campaign against Republicans who dispute the science and impacts of global climate change (“Billionaire Tom Steyer’s climate-change group aims to influence Maine election”).
According to the article, “The NextGen Climate operation will produce sustained activity that far exceeds the typical involvement by outside groups that work to influence Maine elections.”
Yet in a Maine Voices column on the editorial page of the same day’s paper (“Time for Mainers to push back against big-money dominance of elections”), Jill Ward, vice president of the board of directors of the League of Women Voters of Maine, states, “Big money from a small handful of wealthy sources drowns out the voices of everyday voters, and it threatens our democracy. … In a system that values donors over voters, democracy loses.”
Very interesting.
Kay Havener
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