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Political news and information from the Sun Journal.
Posted inElection 2022, Politics
Meet your local legislative candidates
Candidates running Androscoggin, Franklin, Oxford and nearby counties for Maine House and Senate seats have submitted profiles to the Sun Journal.
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Posted inElection 2022, Maine, News, Politics
The race for governor: This one is personal
While this is the first time their names have been on the same ballot, the enmity between Democratic Gov. Janet Mills and former Republican Gov. Paul LePage goes back more than a decade.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, Politics
Maine politicians scramble to show support for lobster industry
Long seen as emblematic of Maine’s hardworking ethos, lobstering holds an outsized influence on the state’s electorate and politicians from both parties want to show voters that they are on board.
Posted inMaine, Nation / World, News, Politics
Virginia Gov. Youngkin denounces LePage’s words after boosting ex-Maine governor’s campaign
Youngkin denounced LePage’s comments while also suggesting they’d been slips of the tongue that do not reflect the man running a ‘unifying campaign about bringing Mainers together.’
Posted inMaine, News, Politics
Maine elections clerks field ‘frivolous requests’ apparently designed to sow distrust
Copy cat demands for elections data mirror those in other states.
Posted inElection 2022, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, Politics
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin stumps for Paul LePage in Lewiston
Virginia’s first-term governor says Republicans have a winning formula on education: empower frustrated parents.
Posted inElection 2022, Lewiston-Auburn
Mana Abdi unopposed in bid to be first Somali-American legislator in Maine
Republican challenger Fred Sanborn-Silvers withdrew from the race too late for his party to replace him on the ballot.
Posted inNew England, News, Politics
Healey could make history as 1st openly gay Massachusetts governor
Attorney General Maura Healey has won the Democratic primary and Geoff Diehl, a former state representative endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has won the Republican nomination for Massachusetts governor.
Posted inElection 2022, Maine
At least 2 televised debates on tap for 2nd Congressional District candidates this fall
There is some confusion about whether Jared Golden, Bruce Poliquin and Tiffany Bond will each show up for a third one.