Maine Moms Demand Action, the organization that has been collecting signatures to place a citizen-initiated referendum on the November ballot to require criminal background checks on all gun sales in Maine, has announced that they have hit their goal and will be submitting their petitions to the office of the Secretary of State later today. […]
Things are looking pretty good for raising the minimum wage in Maine these days. Bangor just passed an increase to go into effect in 2017 and Portland’s increase to $10.10 an hour will go into effect next month (although a local Green Party referendum to increase the wage higher and faster was defeated). Maine now […]
It’s amazing how quickly we’ve become acclimatized to some of the truly horrendous things Maine Republican elected officials now say on social media.
The reporting staff of the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel have continued to ignore Rep. John Picchiotti’s long series of racist and anti-muslim Facebook posts. A story following his re-election to the Town Council in Fairfield last week still only refers to the one post that initially attracted public attention and notes that he apologized […]
John Picchioti, a Republican state representative from Fairfield, apologized yesterday after it was revealed that he had published the text of an incendiary anti-Muslim chain letter in a public post from his personal Facebook account. “I apologize for the offensive post that appeared on my Facebook page. I received the message in an email and […]
Question 1 on Tuesday’s ballot would be a big step forward for accessible and accountable elections in Maine. “By passing Question 1 we can return control of our elections to the hands of Mainers, restore faith in our political system and protect the fundamental principle of having a government that is truly of, by and […]
Emily Cain and Joe Baldacci, the two Democratic congressional candidates in Maine’s Second District, seem to be squarely focused on Republican Congressman Bruce Poliquin, whom they hope to face next November, with less attention or criticism spared for each other. “We’ve got to get rid of Bruce Poliquin. He’s bad for Maine people, he’s bad for […]
In my column in the Press Herald over the weekend, I discussed the very public way in which Maine Second-District Representative Bruce Poliquin has championed the interests of Wall Street, both in his votes and in a series of videos his staff have posted of the proceedings of the House Financial Services Committee. It’s weird […]
In an interview with Fox News on Sunday, Lewiston Mayor Bob Macdonald finally explained who exactly he was targeting with his plan to publish the names and addresses of Mainers who receive public assistance. When Fox and Friends host Tucker Carlson mentioned Somali immigrants, Macdonald denied that they were his focus and instead claimed that […]
I was surprised and pleased to hear Second-District Representative Bruce Poliquin’s statement to Maine Public Radio last week on Planned Parenthood. Sure, he used the opportunity to repeat some of the worst lies about the organization promoted by anti-abortion rights activists, but at least he said he would vote against the attempt to strip away […]
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