I respectfully disagree with the lady who claims Republican state Senate nominee Eric Brakey will stand up for Mainers rights as he did for the Maine Sportsmens Alliances purported right to carry a concealed weapon without permit or background check.

Brakey is a professionally-trained actor who came to Maine in 2012 to direct the failed presidential campaign of libertarian Ron Paul.

Two years later, Brakey, an out-of-state political opportunist with lots of out-of-state money, ran and won a seat on the Maine state Senate.

In the past 10 years, Brakey has run for state Senate in 2014 , U.S. Senate in 2018, U.S House Representatives in 2020 and later that year, Maine secretary of state. And here we are in 2022, and he is once again running for state Senate.

During his time as the co-chair of the Legislatures Health and Human Services Committee, Brakey demonstrated little or no concern for the rights of abused and neglected children, and supported former Gov. Paul LePages efforts to cut funding for Child Protective Services and Public Health Services. Not a peep came out of his mouth when Riverview Psychiatric Center lost its accreditation because of poor management and mistreatment of patients, including tasing.

The Maine Sportsmens Alliance gave Brakey an A+ for supporting the rights of a minority of people who want to carry concealed weapons, but he gets an F+ from me for disregarding the rights to health and welfare of Mainers he failed to represent.

Patrick EisenhartLewiston

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