Maine deserves better,” Eric Small wrote on Facebook. “While career politicians like Chellie Pingree are busy playing D.C.

"I think that I have the ability to talk and communicate—a tactic that has been lost in translation in Washington, D.C.," Eric Small said.

Republican Eric Small, Sanford police chief and a career law enforcement officer, is running against Congresswoman Chellie Pingree to represent southern Maine in Congress.