A political action committee aligned with House Speaker Paul Ryan is seeking to bolster the re-election bid of two-term U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin in Maine’s sprawling 2nd District. The Congressional Leadership Fund, a Republican super PAC, announced this week it was opening five offices in hotly contested GOP-held districts across the country, including Poliquin’s. By […]
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DARE students share their lessons; encouraged by Poliquin
Fifth-grader McKayla Collins of Rumford Elementary School reads her essay, titled “Taking a Stand,” at the DARE graduation Tuesday in Muskie Auditorium at Mountain Valley High School in Rumford. (Bruce Farrin/Rumford Falls Times) Fifth-graders try to catch one of the DARE Frisbees tossed their way during Tuesday’s DARE graduation at Mountain Valley High School in […]
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Posted inLetters, sj-web
Tax breaks go to the big guys
My congressman, Bruce Poliquin, is always talking about wanting to help small business owners. What my small business in rural Maine needs is customers, not tax breaks. Few small businesses, such as mine, pay much in corporate taxes because we are making very little in profit. Almost everything goes back into the business. The biggest, […]
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Local sap houses visited during 35th Annual Maine Maple Sunday
REGION — During the 35th Annual Maine Maple Sunday, producers explained production methods to scores of visitors. True Mountain Maple owners Mark Prentiss and Kim Roberts of Industry participated for the first time. They built their sap house two years ago, adding a new evaporator last year. “Everybody does it differently. That’s what is so […]
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Bruce Poliquin spars with Democrats over immigration
U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin took aim at each of his four Democratic challengers Friday for their support of Maine’s immigrants. In a post on Facebook, the two-term 2nd District Republican from Maine said that “illegal immigration is still illegal. We are a country of immigrants, but we are also a Nation of Laws. People entering […]
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Poliquin has made his choice
I am disappointed in Congressman Bruce Poliquin’s decision to vote for a GOP tax plan that does not reflect the best interests of his constituents. Rather than attending to the needs of Mainers, Poliquin has chosen to support a bill that will give tax breaks to the wealthy while slashing Medicare and Medicaid programs that […]
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Vote Poliquin out of office
The Sun Journal front page story, “Poliquin calls for new state quarters” (March 17) prompts this letter. Bruce Poliquin usually lays lower than low (recall his infamous duck toward a ladies’ bathroom), while quietly voting to immiserate our neighbors and enrich his Wall Street friends. This feel-good bill, endorsing female representation on small currency, seems […]
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Poliquin 'stress test' financial bill passes House
For U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin, it is the little things that count. The sorts of bills often ignored. The stuff that is not flashy. The second-term Republican from Maine’s sprawling 2nd District convinced the House on Tuesday to pass easily a measure that would exempt most non-bank financial institutions from the stress tests required under […]
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Poliquin calls for new state quarters to honor American women
To honor American women, Republican U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin is teaming up with a California Democrat on a proposal to create a new series of 56 quarters that would feature a woman on the obverse picked by each state and territory. “Our great nation was built and shaped by courageous, pioneering and bold women,” Poliquin […]
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Bruce Poliquin presses for more federal aid for Maine's opioids crisis
Despite facing one of the most serious opioid problems in the nation, Maine collected only 40 cents of every $100 allocated by the federal government under a $1 billion federal program approved in 2016 to assist states trying to deal with the crisis. For some, including U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin of Maine, that doesn’t seem […]