AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine’s outgoing firebrand Republican governor has railed against his perceived opponents with fury and gusto over an eight-year term marked by profanity-laced controversy and a failed impeachment attempt. The four candidates running to succeed the governor who calls himself “Donald Trump before Donald Trump became popular” are promising a more collaborative approach. […]
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Candidates for governor field questions on health care, the economy, workforce and education
Education and the economy dominated a forum Wednesday with the four candidates for governor, the first time all appeared together in weeks. At the Portland Regional Chamber event, Republican Shawn Moody pushed backed against an ad campaign criticizing him for saying that public schools are “overfunded.” Moody said he thinks schools need to “operate efficiently,” […]
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Terry Hayes promises to restore civility to State House
AUGUSTA — Her grandmother’s living room door was always open, but on that cold, early February afternoon in 1970 it was closed. From behind it came the muffled voices of their grandparents, aunts and uncles, discussing what to do with the six children, effectively orphaned days earlier when a jack failed, crushing their father under […]
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Democrats bring in $7.5M for campaigns; Republicans, $4.3M
Maine Democrats are soundly outraising Republicans in campaign contributions this election season, bringing in a total of $7.5 million to the Republican’s $4.3 million, according to the latest campaign finance reports. Unenrolled candidates have raised $4.3 million, bringing the total campaign contributions by all state candidates this election season to $16.1 million with six weeks […]
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Alan Caron’s unusual path to the race for governor
FREEPORT — He’d heard his mother crying behind the closed bedroom door one too many times. She had had a child out of wedlock 18 years earlier. The church had excommunicated her. He was the child. Several of his friends had private grievances of their own with the Catholic clergy of Waterville, then a powerful […]
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Governor candidate Caron made nearly $1 million last year; Moody’s income is under wraps
Three of the four candidates in the race to be Maine’s next governor released copies of their state and federal tax returns at the request of the Portland Press Herald on Friday, and independent candidate Alan Caron reported the highest income, $912,952, in 2017 and paid $190,193 in state and federal taxes. Republican Shawn Moody, […]
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Republican National Committee offers support to Shawn Moody
AUGUSTA — Touting Shawn Moody’s background as a “self-made man,” the Republican National Committee on Tuesday issued a statement of support for the Republican candidate in the race to be Maine’s next governor. Moody, a Gorham businessman and auto-body entrepreneur who made millions in the auto-recycling business and now heads a chain of 11 auto-body […]
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Janet Mills releases economic ‘action plan’
AUGUSTA — Gubernatorial candidate Janet Mills unveiled an “action plan” Tuesday that would create a “one-stop shop” for businesses, provide no-interest loans to help hire new employees and lure former or new Mainers to the state with tax incentives. In the first of several anticipated policy rollouts, the Democratic nominee said her plan aims to […]
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Democratic PAC pouring money into governor's race
A Democratic Party-backed political action committee targeting Maine’s governor’s race has topped $1 million in spending, most to oppose Republican candidate Shawn Moody. It’s part of a coordinated nationwide effort to sway races that could flip congressional redistricting power back to the Democrats. A Better Maine reported spending $343,805 on the governor’s race in recent […]
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Janet Mills’ mission: Break yet another glass ceiling
FARMINGTON — In the summer of 1948, Margaret Chase Smith had reason to celebrate. The four-term congresswoman had just defeated a former governor and the sitting governor to win the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate, which in those days meant she was all but certain to become the first woman to serve in both […]