This Maine candidate went from a Democrat to a Republican tied to Paul LePage

This Maine candidate went from a Democrat to a Republican tied to Paul LePage

Ben Midgley’s mother brought him to the Kennebunk town hall when he was 18 to help him register to vote. “Sign this. You’re a Democrat,” he recalled her saying in a Friday interview. He remained a Democrat for 27 years while embarking on a career that saw him lead Planet Fitness and then launch in 2009 the company behind the multinational Crunch Fitness chain. Those career moves took him to California’s Contra Costa County near San Francisco and…