Republicans plan caucus
The Aroostook County Republican Committee will be facilitating caucuses for central Aroostook cities and towns that have not yet caucused this coming Saturday, April 23, at the Caribou Inn and Convention Center at 1:30 p.m.
“This will be the second of several caucus events throughout the County,” said Hayes Gahagan, former Aroostook state senator and recently elected chairman of the Aroostook County Republican Committee.
“We were in northern Aroostook last month and facilitated caucuses in Fort Kent and Frenchville; this month we’re in central Aroostook; next month, we’ll be in southern Aroostook,” said Gahagan. “We’ll continue this monthly cycle to facilitate growth and expansion of Republican town and city committees throughout the County.”
“All politics is local,” said Gahagan, “the Aroostook County Republican Committee has a goal to build down and organize in communities and neighborhoods to seek out traditional small-government conservatives at the grass-roots level who understand that we must control state spending and taxation.”
Like the northern Aroostook regional caucus last month, Hayes said these caucus events will draw out people willing to take a stand for smaller, less expensive government, less taxes, less spending, individual rights and free enterprise.
The caucus events will follow monthly meetings of the Aroostook County Republican Committee and the “County Connections” luncheon featuring business and government leaders from Augusta and around the County. This month’s speaker will be Robert Clark, executive director of the Northern Maine Development Commission.
“The Aroostook County Republican Committee is an all-volunteer organization,” said Gahagan. “We provide an opportunity for tax-paying citizens to join together to promote conservative ideas and ideals within the Republican party. A recent example of our grass-roots activity is www.BuyTheMural.com whereby we’re raising voluntary contributions to allow the governor of Maine to reimburse the Department of Labor so the state of Maine can take full and clear title to the controversial labor mural — without any federal strings attached!”
For more information on regional caucus events or County Connections, contact Gloria Duncan, secretary, Aroostook County Republican Committee, at acrcsecretary@gmail.com.
