Fellow Cumberland County Republicans,

It's hard to believe that October is here already! Looking back over the summer we can take pride in our County Committee's successful events The 5th Annual Golf Outing and our First Annual Songo River Queen Sunset Cruise.  Both events were very encouraging in their level of participation, our Golf tourney sponsorship challenge was a great success, at the September Committee meeting in Gray we were able to present the town committees that participated, their share of the sponsorship money. The Town of Naples won the competition! Town Chairman Richard Cross was presented with a check for $675! Congratulations Naples Town Republican Committee!!!

We're getting a lot closer to having 100% active committees in all our towns. Baldwin re-organized this summer and Sebago is in the process of re-organizing. Watch this space as we rebuild our town committees into effective political committees!

The Songo River Queen Sunset Cruise was a great fun get together, it was fantastic to see the Republican candidates for governor meeting and talking with all the passengers. As we were disembarking the overwhelming sentiment was "lets do this again next year!" We'll plan it for the weekend after Labor Day again next year.

With the end of September comes the Cumberland County Fair, our county committee has a great presence at the fair thanks to the hard work led by Windham's Tony Oberley. We've made the booth available to Repblican Candidates for Governor and they scheduled time at our booth. Thank you Tony for all your work on the fair.

We've invited the Republican Candidates for governor to our monthly meetings, At our well attended regular meeting held in New Gloucester in September, Les Otten took some time to lay out his vision for Maine's future. Watch this space in the coming months for dates and times for candidates appearances.

We're starting to plan our second Town Chair Summit, we'll be meeting in the beginning of November (just 12 short months before the 2010 elections) and lay out our plans for the year leading up to taking back the Blaine house and doing our part to help take back the Maine House and Senate!!!

We're on a roll to VICTORY in 2010!

All the best,

Rich Cebra

Chairman