WASHINGTON — Stinging from double-digit election losses among female voters, House Republicans elected a woman to their top leadership team Wednesday in a tense test of gender politics and the clout of the GOP’s power brokers. The election of Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington state to the No. 4 leadership position among House Republicans […]
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Maine GOP chairman Charlie Webster to step down
AUGUSTA — Charlie Webster, chairman of the Maine Republican Party, confirmed Thursday that he will not seek the leadership position when the state committee meets to elect new officers on Dec. 1. “I very much appreciate having had the opportunity to serve as your chairman and to fight for the conservative principles that we hold […]
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District 93 candidate to meet voters in Mexico
MEXICO — Lisa Keim, the Republican candidate for Maine House District 93, will host a meet-and-greet Friday, Oct. 19, at the Mexico Fire Station. Keim will meet voters between 5 and 7 p.m. District 93 includes Canton, Carthage, Dixfield, Mexico and Peru.
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Maine mailboxes fill up as political fliers go postal
LEWISTON — One tells us this guy running for office likes pie. And boy is he good at getting a slice. The only trouble is the photo is of a cheesecake. The other features a field of cows and tells me this candidate has been letting the insurance companies milk money from Maine families. “In […]
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Registration scandals taint election process
Try as they might, election officials have been unable to identify vote-casting fraud anywhere in the United States. But petition signature and voter registration fraud are alive and well, the latter cropping up most recently in Florida. Election officials in 10 counties there have found either suspicious or fraudulent voter registration forms collected by a […]
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Senate hopeful Summers to hold town hall meetings
BREWER (AP) — Republican Charlie Summers is holding a series of town hall-style meetings in his campaign for the U.S. Senate. The first of five of the meetings takes place on Friday at a bank in Brewer. Summers calls the meetings “conversations” with Mainers. He says he will share his views on how to cut […]
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Summers to stump in Oxford
OXFORD — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Charlie Summers will be at the Oxford County Fair on Saturday, Sept. 15, to meet fair-goers. He will also speak to local candidates at the fair about the importance of this year’s election and will be visiting local small businesses on Route 26, including the Village Kitchen, the Big […]
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House candidate in Rockland defends residency despite not living in district
ROCKLAND — The Republican candidate for a local Maine House seat said he plans to remain in the race and is fed up with questions about his residency. Gordon Mank Jr. said Monday evening that even though he and his family have lived since 1999 at the Hospitality House homeless shelter that he and his […]
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Maine Ron Paul backers force vote to condemn national GOP
WATERVILLE — After a series of setbacks at the Republican National Convention last week in Tampa, Fla., the Ron Paul wing of Maine’s Republican Party gained a symbolic victory Saturday. During a meeting from which the media was barred Saturday morning, the Maine Republican Party’s state committee passed four resolutions proposed prior to last month’s […]
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Romney homestretch game plan: Jobs, jobs, jobs
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — His convention behind him, Mitt Romney enters the campaign homestretch with a singular goal: convince Americans disappointed with President Barack Obama that the Democrat is to blame for the stagnant economy and that only he can fix it. “You know there’s something wrong with the kind of job he’s done as […]