Sean Faircloth will join Maine’s House of Representatives after he overwhelmingly won yesterday’s special election to fill the Bangor-area seat that State Treasurer Joe Perry left vacant. House Democrats already held a slim majority, but Faircloth’s 71.7% to 28.3% win against Bangor City Councilor Carolyn Fish adds one more. Faircloth previously served in the Maine…
The state will not be able to promptly pay health providers for their care of MaineCare recipients, because Republicans chose, in a reversal, not to support Gov. Janet Mills’ supplemental budget proposal. MaineCare covers about 400,000 people, including half of all Maine children. The short-term budget was set to provide an extra $118 million to…
Maine’s new Democratic Party leaders say under their direction, the party will represent more Mainers in more parts of the state. In his remarks during voting, newly-elected Chair Charles Dingman, of Leeds, stressed the need to build a more equitable future by building collective power against the ultra wealthy who “are trying to have it…
What would you think if I told you an American governor just proposed a budget that cut eligibility for food stamps for people who don’t have US citizenship, underfunded domestic violence treatment and prevention (in a state where thousands are experiencing it), and put new limits on rental assistance for people in danger of being…
Many of us who follow politics know that New England has over the last several presidential elections been something of a Democratic stronghold. Since Pres. Bill Clinton’s victory in 1992 (and with the exception of Pres. George W. Bush in 2000) the Democratic presidential candidate has won every state in New England in every election,…
Two million fewer Democrats turned out in urban areas around the country this year compared to 2020, according to an early New York Times analysis. It appears that many of them felt there was no real value in voting for the Democratic party. Working class Democrats in urban centers stayed home because Democrats in power…
As election results continue to roll in, the process of interpreting those results has begun. This might seem premature, since it could be months before we have an accurate account of who actually voted in states. (Notoriously unreliable exit polls don’t count.) We do already know some things, though. We know that Republicans, led by…