Republican Les Otten today becomes the first 2010 Gubernatorial candidate to begin advertising on television. The campaign has announced that their first 30-second spot will begin airing this morning. Here's the script:
"I’ve spent the last thirty-seven years creating good jobs and solving problems. I started with just four employees and grew a company to over twelve-hundred. I know how to build jobs in Maine. Maine’s next Governor has to be about creating jobs and more jobs. We must save the jobs that are here today. We must attract companies to expand here. As Governor, I’ll be the Job Creator in Chief. In a Les Otten administration, the first thing that people will think about will be jobs."
I'm looking forward to the video of this ad, which may set a new world record by using the word "jobs" seven times in thirty seconds.
We need a Tax Reformer in Chief
No you don't Mr. Ott. Your experience in creating jobs has been as a business owner...and that's the way it should be. The private sector creates the jobs that build the economy and attract new business. When government creates jobs it actually costs all of us because it's either an expanded bureaucracy (Lord help us) or CCC/WPA type work. That's not what Maine or the country needs. We don't ned a Job Creator in Chief; we need a Government Reducer in Chief. We need a Tax Reformer in Chief. That will create the economic environment that will be attractive to new business. Let's make Maine attractive to new business. I've heard Bruce Poliquin as well as Paul LePage talk this way. They get it.