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Richard Ward, a candidate for Bangor City Council, sums up what his approach will be as a council member on his campaign signs: “Ward Not Woke.” In other words, instead of being focused on economic development or supporting our schools or making Bangor a home to be proud of, he’ll apparently be focused on cultural battles related to gender, immigration, etc.

In remarks before the city council earlier this summer, Ward suggested that if the city didn’t buy pride flags there’d be monies for solving homelessness and drug addiction. He claimed that people voted for ICE taking our neighbors, in spite of the Maine Immigrant Legal Aid Project’s report that many of

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