As the race to the Blaine House rolls on, endorsements for candidates continue to grow. In the GOP race, Steve Abbott began the race with a large number of supporters, including Sen. Carol Weston, House Minority Leader Josh Tardy, Peter Cianchette, and Peter Vigue. Bruce Poliquin has gathered many supporters. Recently Poliquin added Brian Petrovek, [...]
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Abbott Starts With Endorsements
We weren’t planning on doing another post today about Steve Abbott‘s gubernatorial roll-out, since we reported last week that he was running, but it’s worth nothing that he’s starting with a lengthy list of endorsements.
GOP Leaders Respond to Budget
Governor Baldacci made his supplemental budget changes public today. The cuts, totaling $438 million, have prompted a response from the Maine GOP’s legislative leaders, Senate GOP Leader Kevin Raye and House GOP Leader Josh Tardy. The two gives kudos to Baldacci for not increasing taxes to meet budget shortfalls. Raye and Tardy are still concerned [...]
Greens Ready To Rumble
Over the past few months the Maine Green Independent Party has locked horns with the Democrats on many issues. The Maine Greens have opposed recent changes to the Maine Clean Election Fund requirements and joined with the Maine GOP in speaking out against the recent tax reforms.
Waiting For The Other Gubernatorial Shoe To Drop
In the Maine gubernatorial race, candidates and observers alike are waiting to see what some of the biggest names in Maine politics decide.
The Republican Gubernatorial Scrum
With Peter Mills filing for Governor as a Republican, and three other candidates already (we fully expect Otten to actually run), the Republican gubernatorial primary could be quite a scrum. We don’t expect it will be the most crowded ever, but it will come close.
War Of Words Over Tax Reform
Even with the Legislature adjourned, we have managed to have an interesting day for tax reform. As we noted earlier, the war of words began with two editorials this morning, one from a Democrat, one from a Republican – and both slamming LD 1495.
Dems On Tax Reform
The Democrats have wasted little time attacking the GOP’s push for a People’s Veto of tax reform. This went out today. We do find it interesting that Mr. Manning used our blog post title from yesterday as his subject – do we have a fan? See full letter after the jump.
Another People's Veto?
Via the ever-informed Susan Cover comes the news that Republicans have filed a People’s Veto of LD 1495, the tax reform plan passed on an almost straight party-line vote in the Legislature (sorry, Peter Mills).
Government Reform, Part 2: More Elections
by augusta insider on 23. Jun, 2009 in Commentary
Maine is the only state in the nation which has only one elected statewide official: the Governor. Right now, the Attorney General, Secretary of State, and State Treasurer are all elected by the Legislature – which really means the majority party in the Legislature. Right now, if something happened to our Governor, the Senate President [...]