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Eliot Cutler plans to help independent candidates

Next year will bring a key election for independents in the state: Mainers passed a first-in-the-nation system of ranked-choice voting in 2016 and while it’s stuck in the state’s high court over constitutional questions, it may give non-party candidates a lift in future elections. Under such a system, independent gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler would likely have […]

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Cutler: Future UMS business, law center provides “opportunity to become great”

BANGOR — The University of Maine System on Wednesday confirmed that it has hired two-time former gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler to lead the merger of graduate business programs at its two largest campuses with the University of Maine School of Law. Multiple independent sources announced the hiring last week. Cutler will guide the creation of […]

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Eliot Cutler to oversee merger of UMaine grad programs with law school

ORONO — The University of Maine System plans to hire former gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler to lead the merger of graduate business programs at its Portland and Orono campuses with the University of Maine School of Law, according to multiple sources. System leadership would not confirm the pending hire on Wednesday. System spokesman Dan Demeritt […]

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E. Miller: We need good ideas

I have watched the past three gubernatorial debates and the choice is so clear. I am voting for the man with a good plan and a way to pay for it: Independent Eliot Cutler. I am tired of all the fighting and the bickering. That is all I saw between Michaud and LePage during the […]

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M. Hews: Do the right thing

Cutting through all the negative political ads, sound bites and rhetoric to fully understand a candidate’s positions, policies and plans is critical to voting for and electing the best person to represent the interests of Maine and its citizens. If voters look closely at each gubernatorial candidate’s positions, policies and plans, as I have, it […]

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Republican committeemen say Michaud was not bipartisan on state budgets

AUBURN — A trio of Republicans, including one sitting state representative and two who served with Democrat Mike Michaud in the Legislature in the 1990s, said Friday that Michaud has misrepresented his legislative work on the state budget. Michaud is the Democratic challenger to Republican Gov. Paul LePage. Also in the race is independent Eliot […]