Here are the facts:

1) A prominent newspaper in New York City noted Maine ranks among the top 3 states in the nation for employment ratio growth since the recession under Governor LePage.

2) Since Gov. LePage took office the number of new, private sector jobs in Maine is up by 22,100. Over 20,000 new private sector jobs have been created under Gov. LePage.

3) Maine’s unemployment rate is at its lowest level since 2008 and it has never been above the national average under Gov.LePage like it was for a time under Baldacci and his party.

4) Under Baldacci and his party, who endorsed Michaud, Maine’s unemployment rate peaked at 8.4 percent in each month from December 2009 to March 2010. Today, under Gov. LePage, it stands at 5.6 percent.

5) According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2010 under Baldacci and his party, Maine ranked 48th in the nation for the wage growth, In 2013, under Gov. LePage, Maine ranked 6th!

6) The people of Maine are working! Working age people, who can work and who are working is over 61 percent, one of the highest employment to-population ratios in the whole of the United States.

The facts are Michaud or Cutler would turn back the hands of time to the 30-plus years of career politician governing! The negative ads talk about how Gov. LePage is an embarrassment to Maine? It is more embarrassing for Maine to not have been a productive State in the last 30 plus years under Baldacci’s party. Gov. LePage gets things done and sometimes it takes straight talk, talk that shocks people into listening! It is every person’s duty to seek out the facts to what Gov. LePage is doing for the State of Maine, and not to listen to false, out of context, soundbites from his opponents!

Governor Le Page is NOT a career politician, he is a man of the people for this Great State of Maine! Let’s PLEASE keep the momentum going to a better Maine!

P.S. Maine deserves to hear both sides of the story!

Martha Tetrev
Woolwich