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Voters in House District 37 (Winterport, Stockton Springs, Searsport, Prospect, and part of Frankfort) have a clear choice for whom to support as their state representative on Nov. 5, Scott Cuddy.
Scott exemplifies many of the values voters want in an elected official: a deep commitment to public service, integrity, honesty, empathy for the challenging situations people can face in their lives, genuine humility, hard-working, accessible, principled, and solution-oriented. He also has an admirable commitment to justice, to a better relationship between Wabanaki Nations and the State of Maine, to workers and the labor movement, to the environment, and all marginalized groups that some would attack Scott instinctively defends.
I worked closely with Scott in the Wabanaki Alliance Tribal Coalition. For more than a year, he chaired the coalition’s field team, helping us to prepare for events and organizing people to contact their legislators. He was dedicated, effective, and encouraging in the role — in every way an exemplary leader.
I’ve known Scott’s family for a long time, having worked with his father in the 1990s and very early part of this century. Anyone who was fortunate to have worked with Kevin Cuddy, an accomplished lawyer and respected judge, knew him as an extremely fair, generous, judicious, and wise individual. Scott had the opportunity to learn from his father’s example, and I believe voters in House District 37 will be well served electing Scott Cuddy as their voice in the Maine House of Representatives.
John Dieffenbacher-Krall
Executive Director
Wabanaki Alliance
Old Town
