In regard to a letter to the editor blaming Eliot Cutler and his campaign manager, Ted O’Meara, for the re-election of Gov. LePage in 2014 (“Cutler, campaign manager gave us LePage in 2014,” June 12), I respectfully disagree.
Those who voted for Eliot Cutler were the ones who put LePage back in the Blaine House. One week before the election, both the Portland Press Herald and the Bangor Daily News projected that Cutler was going to receive less than 10 percent of the vote and that the difference between Mike Michaud and LePage was a few percentage points.
Armed with that information, they chose to throw their vote away. Cutler received approximately 8 percent of the vote and LePage won by approximately 5 percent of the vote.
When a candidate wins an election and we don’t like the results, remember how we voted. This is a very important lesson that will loom large come November.
Kevin L. Piccone
Portland
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