Eliot Cutler, a lawyer, peddles his plentiful platitudes but says nothing of substance.
Mike Michaud, high school graduate, is winding up 12 undistinguished “back bench” years in Congress. He spent 29 years with a major paper company as a forklift operator. Voters should ask why, in 29 years, his employer never saw any potential in Michaud other than as a forklift operator.
Republican Gov. Paul LePage, a modern-day “Horatio Alger,” worked his way through school and holds an MBA degree.
Successful in the business world and as mayor of Waterville, he gained a reputation as a “turnaround guy” – that is, someone who could take an ailing enterprise and restore it to health. He doesn’t suffer fools gladly, and he can be blunt.
There you have it. Do you think Maine needs a lawyer, a forklift operator or a “turnaround guy”? Sounds like a “no-brainer” to me.
Porter D. Leighton
Falmouth
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