Posts Tagged ‘Leadership’

RELEASE: Independent Candidate Eliot Cutler Begins TV AD Campaign

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

JANUARY 13, 2010
CONTACT: TED O’MEARA
207.699.4401
ted@cutler2010.com

INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE ELIOT CUTLER BEGINS TV AD CAMPAIGN

PORTLAND — Independent candidate for Governor Eliot Cutler launched his first television ad today, becoming one of the first candidates in a crowded field to go up on television.

The 30-second spot, entitled “Independence, Strength, Leadership” is designed to introduce Cutler to voters through images that reinforce his childhood in Bangor, his extensive political and business experience, and his plan to lower the cost of living and doing business in Maine. The new spot echoes a five-minute biographical video now on the campaign website at www.Cutler2010.com.

“Maine people are fed up with partisan politics. I hear that everywhere I go,” Cutler said. “We made a very conscious decision to go up on television early because we want people to know that this year there is an alternative – that there is a true independent — a real reform candidate — in the race who isn’t beholden to party bosses or special interests.”

The ad will run over the next two weeks on stations in Portland, Bangor and Presque Isle. In addition to raising awareness of his candidacy, Cutler said that by beginning his television adverting this early he also wants to send a clear message that he is a serious candidate with a well-funded and well-organized campaign and that he is in this race to win it.

“Two out of the last five Maine governors have been independents,” Cutler noted, “and everything I have seen and heard so far in this campaign tells me that Maine people are eager for another one. The political parties and their many candidates may get a lot of the attention between now and the primaries in June, but we are going to be there every step of the way, working day and night to take my message that Maine Can Work to every corner of Maine.”


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Cutler 2010 30 second television ad script

With over 20 candidates for Governor… what does Maine need to work?

Independence.

Eliot Cutler: an Independent, not beholden to political parties or special interests.

Strength

Eliot Cutler: experience at the highest levels of business and Government…making tough choices.

Leadership

Eliot Cutler: a strategy to lower the costs of living and doing business in Maine.

Independence. Strength. Leadership.

Eliot Cutler. Independent for Governor. Maine can work.

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BLOG: Government VFM

Monday, September 14th, 2009

I am a trustee, a director, of a group of mutual funds that invests billions of dollars in bonds issued by state and local governments.  I just spent a long and difficult day in a meeting in which we reviewed those investments and the finances of the states and cities that have issued those bonds.  Times are tough all over America.  Everyone is looking for VFM — value for the money.

The Maine Sunday Telegram fired a shot across the bow of Maine’s gubernatorial candidates yesterday, and voters should pay close attention to how those of us who want to be governor respond.  The editors want to know how we propose “to change the size and scope of state government to adequately meet [Maine's] needs.”   That’s a hard question, but it’s the right question.

The next 10 years will comprise the single most critical decade in Maine’s history, one filled with both risk and promise.  We must respond to two great challenges.

First, we need to create thousands of new jobs and restore growth and incomes by literally rebuilding the foundations of our economy.  We need to get Mainers working again.

At the same time, we have to resolve an enormous structural budget deficit by reducing state spending by hundreds of millions of dollars.  We will need to make far-reaching changes in the way we govern ourselves and deliver public services in Maine so that Maine works right again.

We’re not alone.  Most states are facing the same kinds of challenges, some with deficits that are even proportionally bigger than ours.  But no other state has the same tradition of solving difficult problems with grit and ingenuity that we have.  No other state has Maine’s unique civic culture that leads us to compromise and solution far more often than to loggerheads and division.  No other state has Dirigo (I lead) as its motto.

Dirigo needs to mean something in Maine again.  Once it does, we can put Mainers back to work, make Maine work right again and show America how to fix government.

The editors are right.  This campaign will be a leadership test, as it should be.

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