FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JANUARY 20, 2010
CONTACT: TED O’MEARA
207.699.4401
ted@cutler2010.com
INDEPENDENT ELIOT CUTLER ASKS CONTRACTORS TO HELP HIM TEAR DOWN BARRIERS TO REBUILDING MAINE
PORTLAND – Independent candidate for Governor Eliot Cutler today asked Maine’s leading general contractors to join with him in tearing down the barriers that keep jobs and incomes out of Maine.
“In order to rebuild Maine, we must tear down the walls — the barriers to investment — that have been built around our state, ” Cutler told members of the Associated General Contractors of Maine at a forum for gubernatorial candidates. “You know better than anyone that the first step in rebuilding is to get rid of what’s broken and beyond repair.“
Cutler told the contractors that two walls have been built around Maine: the first is a wall of high costs – including high energy costs, high healthcare costs and high government costs – that make Maine uncompetitive with most other states. The other wall, he told the contractors, is a “wall of no” that is put up by opposition groups anytime someone proposes a major infrastructure project in Maine.
“Help me tear down these walls,” he said.
Cutler’s candidacy is centered around lowering the cost of living and doing business in Maine. His plan for rebuilding Maine’s economy calls for lowering the cost of electricity, lowering the cost of healthcare and lowering the cost of government. More information about his plans for Maine can be found at www.cutler2010.com.
Cutler also told AGC members that he is the only candidate with construction company experience. He is a former counsel to Skanska USA, the U.S. subsidiary of Skanska AB (www.skanska.com), a major worldwide construction company based in Sweden. Cutler was also the first American, and only the second non-Swede, to sit on Skanska AB’s board of directors. He also founded a successful national law firm that focused on job-creating infrastructure projects such as airports, highways and other major public facilities.
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