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LePage Liquor Lead Has Forgotten History with Big Tobacco

by admin March 12, 2013 Ethics

In February of 2012, Gerald T. Reid was appointed the Director of the Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages & Lottery Operations, a bureau of the Department of Administrative & Financial Services. Reid has become the architect for Governor Paul LePage’s proposal to rebid the state’s wholesale liquor contract and use the proceeds to issue a revenue [...]

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Former Bangor Representative Who Lost in 2012 Seeks Rematch

by Blaine January 23, 2013 Election 2014

Former State Representative Douglas Damon filed papers today registering as a candidate for House District 16 in 2014. Damon represented district 16 in the 125th Legislature, but lost his re-election bid to John Schneck in November. Schneck received 59.24% of the vote to Damon’s 40.76%.

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Maine Legislature may reconvene due to LePage’s vetoes

by Mkazas April 17, 2012 Appropriations

On April 14, 2012, Governor LePage line-item vetoed two items in the recently passed supplemental budget due to his belief that the budget did nothing to restructure the welfare system. Now the Legislature has to decide whether it will reconvene to deal with LePage’s vetoes. Even before the supplemental budget was taken up by the [...]

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