FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MARCH 2, 2010
CONTACT: CELESTE VIGER
207.699.4401
celeste@cutler2010.com
EDMUND S. MUSKIE, JR. IN MAINE TO CAMPAIGN WITH INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR ELIOT CUTLER
PORTLAND, Maine – Independent candidate for governor Eliot Cutler will be joined by the son of former Maine Governor, U.S. Senator and U.S. Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie for three days of campaigning around the state, beginning Wednesday, March 3rd. Edmund S. “Ned” Muskie, Jr. will accompany Cutler, a former key legislative aide to the elder Muskie at campaign stops in Waterville, greater Portland and Rockport.
“I am delighted that the son of my mentor—one of the most prolific and influential legislators of the 20th Century—will join me for a few days on the campaign trail,” said Cutler. “In addition to his extraordinary political legacy in Maine and nationally, Ed Muskie had a profound impact on my professional life and my approach to public policy. Whether he was leading the effort to enact landmark environmental legislation or trying to bring fiscal discipline to government spending, Ed Muskie at his core was a reformer and that is what motivates me to run for governor.”
“I have known Eliot Cutler all of my life,” said Ned Muskie. “Whether as an aide to my father working on environmental legislation or through his service as chairman and a member of the board of visitors of the Muskie School of Public Service, Eliot brings a deep understanding of issues of critical importance to Maine and a commitment to make Maine a better place. I look forward to traveling the state with Eliot as he campaigns to be Maine’s next Governor.”
Ned Muskie, a resident of suburban Washington, D.C., is the youngest child of the late Senator and his wife, Jane.