Hallelujah! How sweet it is!
We watched history being made late Tuesday night into early yesterday morning.
To me, the most exhilarating part of the MAGA landslide was the death blow it landed on the lying, dying Fake News media who hate Trump and hate America. Their credibility was already in the proverbial toilet before the giant flushing sound on November 5, 2024. Good riddance to them. They will never again determine the outcome of a national election in the United States.
Sadly, the populist, America First landslide that swept the country didn’t quite reach Maine, although it appears that the Democrats will have smaller majorities in both chambers of the Legislature. In any event, we’re stuck with the loathsome Gov. Millstone for another two years.
The truth is that Maine will benefit enormously from having Donald Trump back in the Oval Office. I expect the porous southern border will be secured within days (maybe hours) of Trump taking the oath, and the foreign invasion will end.
Maine under Millstone will continue to be a magnet for illegal immigrants, but there will be a much smaller pool of them to attract here to take advantage of the free housing, healthcare, and education Maine offers unvetted border-crashers.
In the meantime, we have our work cut out for us in 2025. Maine First Project will continue to target local school board races across the state, and we will build on the successes we had this year and last. In the process, we are building a bench of prospective candidates for legislative races in 2026 and beyond.
In the latest round of school board contests, our team helped Maine First candidates win three of the four seats we targeted on November 5th. Those seats are in MSAD 11 (Gardiner and Randolph) and MSAD 46 (Dexter).
Michelle Tucker of Gardiner was an outstanding candidate who finished first in a four-way race in a left-leaning zip code. She knocked on doors relentlessly and showed up to speak at candidate forums as well as school board meetings. She didn’t flinch from tackling controversial issues, and she handled the ignorant, hostile Fake News reporters from the decrepit Central Maine Morning Sentinel like a pro.
Thanks to the generosity of our donors, Maine First Project paid for two rounds of hard-hitting direct mail, and our volunteers made more than a thousand phone calls.
The “closer” was this full-size slick that landed in 1,800 mailboxes in Gardiner the weekend before election day:
Full disclosure: I have talked multiple times to the parents of the student pictured above, who was savagely beaten by a much bigger male student. She is on the mend.
The 12-member MSAD 11 school board was 11 to 1 in favor of trans madness at the beginning of the year. That knuckle-head majority has been whittled down to 7 to 5 in the wake of last week’s election, which included Maine First candidate Barry Manning winning in Randolph.
In Dexter, Maine First candidate Judy Sauders won a seat on the MSAD 46 school board. Maine First Project sent over a thousand pieces of mail to voters the week before election day:
We’re looking forward to the New Year when we will have a target-rich environment of woke school boards to sift through. Let me know if there’s a particular school board in your neck of the woods that needs some cleaning up.
Together, we will make education great again in Maine, one school board seat at a time.
Hon. Lawrence Lockman
Maine House of Representatives, 2012-2020
Co-founder & President
Maine First Project