Health care entrepreneur Jonathan Bush, cousin of former President George W. Bush, announced his campaign for governor of Maine in Belfast last night.

Speaking to a group of supporters, Bush said he’ll run his campaign on promises of economic development and cutting wasteful state programs.

He blasted Gov. Janet Mills for being too soft on violent crime and substance abuse.

“All of these laws fit into a culture of defeat, a culture where leaders think their charge is to equitably divide means shrinking economic pie. These people have just assumed the economic pie cannot get any bigger,” he said.

Bush launched his campaign at the athenahealth operations center in Belfast — the health care tech company he founded — but stepped down as CEO in 2018 after allegations emerged that he assault

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