Despite the shenanigans surrounding the Otten campaign, Senate Republican Leader Kevin Raye will support Otten for governor. “As Maine’s Senate Republican Leader,” said Raye, “I believe that Les Otten embodies the qualities and the vision Maine needs in our next Governor.” Raye believes Otten’s leadership skills and ability to overcome adversity make him an excellent [...]
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Reading the Dem Primary Tea Leaves
Pine Tree Politics analyzed each GOP gubernatorial candidate’s chances of winning their party’s nomination. Matt Gagnon explored possible victory scenarios for the candidates as well as the likelihood of them occurring. In conjunction with Bruce Bourgoine of Dirigo Blue, we have done the same. You may read Bruce’s scenarios here and mine below.
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 [...]
Dems vs. GOP, Greens On Taxes
As we reported earlier, Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap has verified the petition for a people’s veto of the LD 1945 tax reform bill. The time to challenge the verification is closing with no complaints yet. It looks as though the people’s veto will be on the June ballot. Maine Democrats, who authored the bill, [...]
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.
Consequences of the Coalition
by ben goodman on 20. Nov, 2009 in Commentary
Two weeks ago, Second District Congressman Mike Michaud joined 63 members of his own party and 176 Republicans to vote for the Stupak/Pitts Amendment to the Affordable Health Care for America Act.