The following was written by Dudley Gray, an old friend and fellow wind warrior who is still fighting the good fight.  He submitted it to The Maine Wire:

Subject: Fwd:When will we ever learn?

Thirty years of Democrat power, interrupted only once, has left Maine
in a sorry state. A chronological lesson of failure is necessary to
explain just how badly Maine residents have been represented.

Besides closing the Maine Yankee nuclear power plant, Governor Angus
King caused our two public utilities, CMP and Bangor Hydro, to divest
their generating assets, primarily power dams. This law, enacted in
1999, caused the sale of the utilities to the  Spaniards and the
Canadians, respectively.

These actions between 1995 and 2003 set the stage for the widespread
adoption of wind and solar farms on a large scale, without any benefit
to Maine ratepayers. (Please keep in mind that electricity rates were
8.4 cents per KWH in 1995)   Governor King left incoming  Governor
Baldacci a 1.1 billion dollar structural deficit.

Then, Governor Baldacci, current vice-chairman of Avangrid, the
Spanish subsidiary of Iberdrola, owner of CMP,  gave us the Expedited
Wind Law, which destroyed our mountaintops, ridges, and vistas, still
without any benefit to Maine ratepayers. Governor Baldacci's crowning
achievement was to hand the incoming Republican Governor
Paul LePage an even bigger 1.3 billion dollar structural deficit.
Governor LePage challenged this travesty by freezing hiring,
eliminating no-show jobs, cutting expenses,  renegotiating the state
liquor contract, and repaying Maine hospitals 750 million in
MaineCare bad debt.

He left office in 2019 and gave Governor Mills a 167.8 million dollar
surplus, which she and the Democrat legislature have squandered
beyond belief. As Janet Mills leaves office to run against Sen. Susan
Collins, she hands the next occupant of the Blaine House a 949 million
deficit. We desperately need a conservative Republican Governor and
legislature to stop the bleeding; otherwise, the state will end up
statistically bankrupt like Washington County.

Lastly, Maine has over 400 grid-scale wind turbines and over 2 million
solar panels in 141 separate solar farms, while at the same time
electricity rates are nearing $.30 per kilowatt hour. Somebody needs
to explain the benefit to Maine's own, and also who got rich on these
two scams, besides two of our aforementiond Governors.