ICYMI: Maine Dems Chair, Bev Uhlenhake, Shares Party’s Plans for Local Organizing

In case you missed it, today the Bangor Daily News published a new opinion piece by Maine Democratic Party Chair, Bev Uhlenhake. Uhlenhake highlights the Maine Democratic Party’s successes reaching voters in the 2022 election cycle, the importance of year-round organizing, and the Party’s plans to build upon the progress they’ve made in 2023, 2024, and beyond.

Bangor Daily News: For Maine Democrats, every year is an election year

By Bev Uhlenhake, Maine Democratic Party Chair
March 15, 2023

Key Points:

• Democrats were successful in Maine in 2022 due, in large part, to diligent organizing and highlighting a vision that puts Mainers first.
• Nearly all Maine cities and towns will hold elections between now and the end of 2023.
• The Maine Democratic Party is committed to supporting local candidates running on Democratic values with bottom-up organizing and year-round support.
• Over the last few years, Democrats have been focused on balancing school budgets, tackling our state’s housing crisis and bringing relief to Mainers struggling with rising costs.
• By contrast, Republicans have grown more extreme than ever, concerned instead with threatening Americans’ reproductive freedoms, restricting voting access, baselessly targeting the LGBTQ community and banning library books.