FARMINGTON — The Franklin County Democratic Committee (FCDC) will convene for its monthly meeting from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday, April 8, at the Mallett School. At the March meeting, Congressional Candidates addressed a record number of attendees. The candidates answered questions on topics ranging from the economy and healthcare to gun violence and immigration. […]
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Democrats seeking Poliquin's House seat try to gather votes at Bates
LEWISTON — Taking the stage at Bates College on Thursday, a quartet of 2nd District Democratic congressional hopefuls sounded pretty friendly with one another and not too different in their stances on the issues of the day. They basically like unions, want to expand the Medicare system to cover everyone, support greater measures to deal […]
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Maine Democrats call for defense of Mueller's investigation of Trump
Though President Donald Trump called a special prosecutor’s probe “a total WITCH HUNT with massive conflicts of interest” in a Monday morning tweet, Maine Democrats vying for a seat in Congress this year uniformly back Special Counsel Robert Mueller. “Mueller must be allowed to finish the investigation for the sake of our democracy,” said Jonathan […]
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Androscoggin County Democrats meeting LEWISTON — An abbreviated meeting of the Androscoggin County Democratic Committee will be held at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 22, at Bates College. The meeting will address plans for the 2018 Maine Democratic Party’s biennial convention in Lewiston from May 18 to 20. The business meeting will be followed at 6:30 p.m. […]
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Who are the Republicans fighting?
I write in response and comment to Thomas Shields letter of March 15, “Democrats making things difficult.” Shields spends the first two paragraphs pontificating over the Democrats’ set of values and “… the blocking of nearly every bill offered and nearly every nomination made by President Trump.” I would again ask Shields, why was he […]
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Democrats making things difficult
Do the Maine Democrats have the same values as the Congressional Democrats? Are the Maine Democrats favoring sanctuary cities, open borders, a weak military, bountiful welfare programs and a universal health care system that will require heavy tax revenues? Congressional Democrats apparently follow only one program currently, which is to block nearly every bill offered […]
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Profile: Adam Cote hopes to transform Maine as its next governor
AUBURN — Standing in the modern Main Street office of the marketing-savvy The Brand Collective, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Adam Cote pointed to a grim locale on the far side of the globe to explain why he should be the next Blaine House occupant. Only recently retired from the Maine Army National Guard, the 44-year-old energy […]
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Have Democrats overplayed their Trump hand?
It turns out that, with apologies to Nancy Pelosi, Republicans really did have to pass the tax bill so people could find out what’s in it. The GOP has made gains on the generic congressional ballot in recent weeks, with warmer feelings about the tax plan contributing to the upward trend. The improving numbers at […]
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Maine Examiner shows Jason Savage’s interest in news
AUGUSTA — For $74 and some off-the-clock sweat, Republican Party Executive Director Jason Savage says he created and ran a once-secretive online newspaper that did not have ties to the state GOP. The party itself told the Maine Ethics Commission it did not know anything about who operated Savage’s Maine Examiner until Democrats filed a […]
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Pollard gets help from the Dalai Lama for his U.S. Senate bid
After declaring his intention to run for a U.S. Senate seat shortly after sunrise atop Cadillac Mountain at Acadia National Park, Democrat Benjamin Pollard took an even more unusual step for an aspiring politician. He jetted off to India for a month to see the Dalai Lama. Pollard said Thursday that he needed to work […]