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Our problem, as a primary challenge campaign staff, is to convince you there is an issue on the ballot.

The campaign staff for the incumbant has to convince you there is no issue on the ballot.

There is an issue. Torture. At Abu Ghraib. At Guantanamo Bay.

Torture is an ineffective interrogation technique.

Torture is contrary to the discipline prescribed by Congress.

Units of the Maine Guard and individual reservists from Maine have been assigned to Abu Garib and Guantanamo Bay.

The Governor of Maine can order the investigation of torture witnessed by the Maine Guard.

Independent of George W. Bush. Independent of Donald Rumsfeld. Independent of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. Independent of House Speaker Dennis Hastert. Independent even, of Justices Scalia, Thomas, Roberts and Alito.

Because the authority for training the Guard according to the discipline prescribed by Congress is reserved to the States, and that is the plain and unambiguous constitutional limit on the Federal authority over the Guard.

Woodrow Wilson's Congress did not amend the Constitution when the National Defense Act of 1916 was passed. No governor has seen the need to challenge the 1916 Act, but no war since, no foreign war ever, has torture been systematically used by the United States, and the Maine Guard exploited to conceal the torturers.

Any voter enrolled as a Democrat can vote in the June primary. Any unenrolled voter can enroll at the polls and vote in the June primary. Anyone, Mainiac or from away, Republican or Green, young or old, citizen or Somali, can contact us and offer us your time or your money. We need your help to get out our vote. Together we can say "Truth" and make it happen.