Former Maine GOP Chair Demi Kouzounas hopes to be Maine’s next senator [Video]

Former chair of the Maine GOP, Demi Kouzounas, says she was called on to challenge Sen. Angus King.“I got a phone call from Senator Susan Collins, who asked me to consider running,” she said. “I thought, you know, I’ve always advocated to be involved, to get involved. If you want to make change, you have to have a seat at the table.”The daughter of Greek immigrants, Kouzounas was brought up in Saco, the town she still lives in today.”I’m the oldest daughter born in Maine to legal immigrants,” she specified. “Not speaking English until the age of 6, where my mom and I went to classes to learn English so my mother could be naturalized.” However, illegal immigration is a major issue she hopes to address.”Illegal immigration, I think, burdens the system,” she said.”The other problem I have is with fentanyl. Fentanyl is killing our addicted. Our veterans are homeless …