Richard Bennett, the lone Republican elector voting in the Maine Electoral College on Dec. 19, will, I presume, be casting his one Electoral College vote for Donald Trump.

Prior to the vote, I would like to call his attention to the existence of a 2013 contract that exists between the Trump Organization and the General Services Administration of the United States, which grants a 60-year lease of the Post Office Pavilion in Washington, D.C., a structure now operating as a Trump International Hotel.

What Mr. Bennett may not be aware of, however, is that a condition in the lease precludes a President Donald Trump from having any interest in this property. The following language appears in this lease contract: “no … elected official of the Government of the United States … shall be admitted to any share or part of this Lease, or to any benefit that may arise therefrom.”

I wonder whether Mr. Bennett is still prepared to vote for Mr. Trump, absent the certainty that the Trump Organization will sell its complete interest in this property, including the assignment of the lease, and require that the property be renamed prior to Mr. Trump’s becoming president on Jan. 20, 2017.

Unless Mr. Bennett is in possession of this agreement prior to his electoral vote, he will not in good faith be able to vote for Mr. Trump, and I urge him not to cast that vote.

Mark Berger

Waldoboro

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