27 YEARS.
ONE PARTY SWITCH.
ZERO CHANGE.
Not just a Democrat. A San Francisco Bay Area Democrat. For 27 years. Before casting your ballot on June 9th, Maine conservatives need to know the record.
READ THE FILE ↓27 Years as a California Democrat
Ben Midgley was a registered Democrat for 27 years — including the years he lived in Contra Costa County in the San Francisco Bay Area, one of the most left-wing regions in the United States. He only switched to Republican in 2015. That is not a lifelong conservative who drifted. That is a San Francisco Bay Area Democrat who recently changed his registration.
That is not a lifelong conservative who drifted.
That is a San Francisco Bay
Area Democrat who recently changed his registration.
He Spent 14 Years Franchising a DEI Brand
As CEO of a national fitness franchise operation, Midgley spent 14 years selling a brand built on DEI marketing, drag queen fitness classes, and a diversity philosophy he personally championed in dozens of public interviews. Every franchise sold came with the brand's DEI-based philosophy as a contractual brand standard.
DEI MARKETING
Midgley built and franchised a brand whose identity was inseparable from diversity, equity, and inclusion marketing — embedded into every franchise as a contractual brand standard, not a suggestion.
DRAG QUEEN FITNESS CLASSES
Drag queen fitness classes were a signature feature of the brand Midgley spent 14 years building and selling to franchisees across the country.
HIS LEGACY
In March 2023, Midgley's company hired a VP whose role specifically included "a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion." He called this culture his legacy.
Every franchise sold came with the brand's DEI-based philosophy
as a
contractual brand standard.
He Says He'll Repeal RCV.
Then Why Is He Manipulating It?
Midgley claims he opposes ranked choice voting. But right now, today, he is actively cutting backroom deals with other candidates to direct their supporters to rank him second and third.
He is not opposing RCV. He is manipulating it — using the same system championed by Augusta Democrats to engineer an outcome the voters did not choose.
If he is willing to manipulate RCV as a tool to get ahead in a primary, why would anyone believe he would dismantle it as Governor?
pawns to be traded."
Ranked choice voting was designed and championed by Maine Democrats like Secretary of State Shenna Bellows as a tool to dilute conservative power. Midgley is now using that exact same playbook — making deals, trading votes, and engineering a second-ballot outcome to stop the candidate Maine conservatives chose.
His actions tell you everything his words will not. He is not fighting the system. He is using it.
Augusta is broken. It's time to send a conservative fighter to fix it —
not a
pro-DEI California Democrat.
Same Old Augusta.
Different Name.
Ben Midgley isn't an outsider shaking up the establishment. He is the establishment — the Augusta insiders, the weak liberals, the political class that's been disconnecting Maine from its own values for years.
He is a pro-DEI California Democrat using the Democrats' own ranked choice voting system to manipulate a Republican primary. His words say one thing. His record says another.
Bobby Charles isn't part of that machine. He's the conservative fighter running to dismantle it.
- 27-year San Francisco Bay Area Democrat
- 14 years building a DEI franchise brand
- Cutting backroom RCV deals right now
- Augusta establishment insider
- Proven Maine conservative
- Outside the political machine
- Fighting the RCV system, not using it
- Running to fix Augusta, not join it
"Augusta is broken. It's time to send a conservative fighter to fix it, not a pro-DEI California Democrat."
Maine Needs a Governor
Who Was Never On The Other Side.
Learn about Bobby Charles and what he's fighting for.
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