TURNER – With two of three towns reporting, Joan Bryant-Deschenes led Kenneth Roberts and Sarah Trundy in the race for the seat in House District 96.
With Minot and Turner reporting, Bryant-Deschenes had 55 percent of the vote, Roberts had 31 percent and Trundy had about 14 percent.
Totals were Bryant-Deschenes, 2,371; Roberts, 1,347; and Trundy, 567.
Bryant-Deschenes, with two years of experience in the Legislature, ran on a platform of improving Maine’s business climate, providing educational opportunities, reducing taxes, finding solutions to health care and prescription costs, reducing state spending and providing access to the legal system. She is a small business owner and a lawyer living in Turner.
Roberts, also a resident of Turner, is an instructor and tutor at Central Maine Community College. He promised full-time, responsible, common-sense representation to constituents, with plans to devote his attention to the needs of the residents in his district. His first priority was to guide the Dirigo Health initiative into a successful health care program for Maine.
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