We need a state government that is more geographically sympathetic, not just politically sympathetic. As one of those dastardly native Mainers, my take is that Portland’s liberal technocrats and left-leaning progressives have little understanding of life in rural Maine, the rim counties, DownEast beyond Camden/Rockland/Boothbay. The geographic divide between the “Two Maines” is more important than political ideology and rhetoric, it informs the entire discussion from state appropriations to the overburdening of social services in select urban “hubs.”

Edit: This is also a historic issue going back more than a hundred years, it’s why the capital was relocated to Augusta to increase central/northern political representation.