Governor
Source: nbcnews.com
What does this office do?
- Signing or vetoing bills that become state law
- Proposing the state budget for schools, roads, and health care
- Picking who leads state agencies
Affects: AI Regulation, Healthcare Affordability, Environment and Public Health,
Candidates:
Bobby Charles
LostRepublican
Bobby Charles is a Maine attorney who served as U.S. assistant secretary of state for international narcotics and law enforcement affairs from 2003 to 2005. He earlier worked as a congressional staff director.
Records: Public Safety and Crime Control 1 for
Democratic
Hannah Pingree served in the Maine House from 2002 to 2010 and was speaker from 2008 to 2010, the youngest woman in the country to hold such a post. She then directed Maine's Office of Policy Innovation and the Future and co-chaired the Maine Climate Council.
Records: Environment and Public Health 2 for
John Glowa
LostIndependent/Unenrolled
John M. Glowa Sr. is a retired Maine Department of Environmental Protection environmental specialist and a former appointee to Connecticut's Shelton Conservation Commission.
Records: Environment and Public Health 2 for, Women's Reproductive Rights 1 for
Randy Wilcox
LostRepublican
Randy Wilcox grew up in Presque Isle and has lived in Bangor, Waterville-Augusta, Portland and Nashua, N.H. Wilcox wants to rebuild Maine's economy after decades of lost paper mill and military base jobs.
Rick Bennett
LostUnaffiliated
Rick Bennett is a Maine state senator from Oxford and a former president of the Maine Senate. A longtime Republican, he left the party to run as an independent.
Records: Environment and Public Health 6 for, 1 against, Housing Affordability 6 for, Corporate Accountability 5 for,
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