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2016 Maine State Senate Election
The 2016 Maine State Senate election was held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, with the primary election being held on June 14, 2016, to elect the 128th Maine Senate. Voters in all 35 districts of the Maine State Senate will elect their senators. The election coincided with the elections for other offices, including for President, U.S. House and the Maine House of Representatives. Results summary Incumbents defeated in primary election * Linda Baker (R-District 23), defeated by Guy Lebida (R) Incumbents defeated in general election * Chris Johnson (D-District 13), defeated by Dana Dow (R) * John Patrick (D-District 18), defeated by Lisa Keim (R) Open seats that changed parties * Peter Edgecomb (R-District 1) didn't seek re-election, seat won by Troy Jackson (D) * Michael Willette (R-District 2) didn't seek re-election, seat won by Michael Carpenter (D) * Earle McCormick (R-District 14) didn't seek re-election, seat won by Shenna Bellows (D) * Linda Baker (R-District 23 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Party (United States)
The Green Party of the United States (GPUS) is a federation of Green party, Green state political parties in the United States. The party promotes green politics, specifically environmentalism; nonviolence; social justice; participatory democracy; anti-war; anti-racism. it is the fourth-largest political party in the United States by Voter registration in the United States, voter registration, behind the Libertarian Party (United States), Libertarian Party. The direct predecessor of the GPUS was the Association of State Green Parties (ASGP). In the late 1990s, the ASGP, which formed in 1996, had increasingly distanced itself from the Greens/Green Party USA (G/GPUSA), America's then-primary Green party, green organization which had formed in 1991 out of the Green Committees of Correspondence, a collection of local green groups active since 1984. In 2001, the GPUS was officially founded as the ASGP split from the G/GPUSA. After its founding, the GPUS soon became the primary natio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governing (magazine)
''Governing'' is a website, edited and published in Washington, D.C., that covers state and local government in the United States. Originally a national monthly magazine, it was published in print from 1987 to 2019. It covers policy, politics, and the management of government enterprises. Its subject areas include government finance, land use, economic development, the environment, technology, and transportation. History For most of its life, ''Governing'' was published by Washington, D.C.–based Congressional Quarterly, Inc., a subsidiary of the Times Publishing Co. of St. Petersburg, Florida. In 1994, ''Governing'' acquired its primary competitor, ''City & State ''City & State'' is a political journalism organization based in New York City. The company publishes a weekly magazine covering politics and government in New York City and New York State that is distributed to New York State legislators, co ...'' magazine, and that publication was merged into ''Governing.'' In 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eloise Vitelli
Eloise A. Vitelli (born 1948) is an American politician from Maine, who served as the majority leader of the Maine Senate The Maine Senate is the upper house of the Maine Legislature, the state legislature (United States), state legislature of the U.S. state of Maine. The Senate currently consists of 35 members representing an equal number of districts across the st ... from 2021 to 2024. Vitelli was first elected to the Maine Senate in a 2013 special election, but lost her re-election bid in 2014. She was re-elected in 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022. Vitelli began working as an entrepreneurship trainer in the early 1980s and was the director of program and policy for New Ventures Maine for 38 years. She became the Assistant Senate Majority Leader in December 2020, and Majority Leader in February 2021. Early life and education Vitelli was born in 1948 in Trenton, New Jersey, the third of five children. Her father was a college professor and her mother was an art teacher. Vitelli gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shenna Bellows
Shenna Lee Bellows (born March 23, 1975) is an American politician and a non-profit executive director. On December 2, 2020, the Maine Legislature elected her to serve as the 50th Maine secretary of state. She was executive director of the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine between 2018 and 2020, and she served as the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Maine between 2005 and 2013. Bellows was the Maine Democratic Party nominee in the 2014 United States Senate election in Maine, and was defeated by incumbent Republican Susan Collins. In 2016, she won election to the Maine Senate, and she served until resigning in 2020 when she became a candidate in the legislative election for secretary of state. On December 28, 2023, Bellows ruled that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump would be barred from the Maine primary ballot due to his conduct during the January 6 United States Capitol attack, pending an appeal. In the aftermath of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earle McCormick
Earle L. McCormick Jr. is an American politician and retired teacher. McCormick served as a Republican State Senator from Maine's 21st District, where he represented part of Kennebec County, including Hallowell and Gardiner. McCormick graduated from Gardiner High School in 1961."Airman Promoted" ''Daily Kennebec Journal'', Augusta, Maine, volume CXLII, number 132, June 3, 1967, page 3. He received a bachelor's degree in meteorology from and a master's degree in meteorology from graduated from the |
Michael E
SS ''Michael E'' was a cargo ship that was built in 1941. She was the first British catapult aircraft merchant ship (CAM ship): a merchant ship fitted with a rocket catapult to launch a single Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft to defend a convoy against long-range German bombers. She was sunk on her maiden voyage by a German submarine. Description ''Michael E'' was built by William Hamilton & Co Ltd, Port Glasgow. Launched in 1941, she was completed in May of that year. She was the United Kingdom's first CAM ship, armed with an aircraft catapult on her bow to launch a Hawker Sea Hurricane. The ship was long between perpendiculars ( overall), with a beam of . She had a depth of and a draught of . She was measured at and . She had six corrugated furnaces feeding two single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of . The boilers fed a 443 nominal horsepower triple-expansion steam engine that had cylinders of , and diameter by stroke. The engine was buil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Willette
Michael J. Willette is an American realtor and politician in Maine. Willette represented District 5 in the Maine House of Representatives, which was part of Aroostook County from 2008 to 2012. He is a resident of the town of Presque Isle. Willette was first elected in 2008 as a Democrat. He was re-elected in 2010 as a Democrat but switched affiliations to the Republican Party prior to being sworn in. He is a realtor by profession. In 2012, he was targeted by the Maine Democratic Party and, as of a week prior to the election, the Democratic Party and outside groups had spent tens of thousands of dollars on ads against Willette. That same year, Willette was defeated for re-election by Democrat Robert Saucier. In November 2014, he faced former Maine Attorney General Michael E. Carpenter for Senate District 2. Willette is a United States Army veteran of Operation Desert Storm. He also served for one term on the School Committee of MSAD 1. He is the father of State Representativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Troy Jackson (politician)
Troy Dale Jackson (born June 26, 1968) is an American logger and politician from Allagash, Maine who served as president of the Maine Senate from 2018 to 2024. A Democrat, Jackson represented Senate District 1, representing northern Aroostook County, including the towns of Fort Kent, Madawaska and Caribou. He is currently running for Governor of Maine. Jackson started in politics during the 1998 logging blockade along the Canadian border, protesting the illegal hiring of Canadian workers over Maine loggers, inadequate wages and poor working conditions. Eventually, Jackson was elected to the Maine House of Representatives, where he served three terms before being elected to the State Senate in 2008. After Democrats gained the majority in the 2018 election, Jackson was chosen to be Senate President. In addition to his service as Senate President, he also served as Senate Majority Leader and Senate Minority leader. He first ran for office as a Republican, was first elected as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Edgecomb
Peter Edgecomb is an American politician from Maine. Edgecomb represented District 1 in the Maine Senate. He previously represented District 4 in the Maine House of Representatives, which was part of Aroostook County. He resides in the city of Caribou. He is a Republican and was first elected to the House in 2004. He was re-elected in 2006, 2008 and 2010 and was unable to run again for re-election in 2012 due to term limits.Peter Edgecomb bio Maine.gov In 2014, Edgecomb was elected to the Senate from District 1. He announced he would not run for re-election in 2016. Edgecomb graduated from the in [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Keim
Lisa Keim is an American politician serving as a Republican member of the Maine Senate from the 18th district. She was first elected to office in 2016. Following her re-election in 2022, Keim was chosen to be the Senate assistant minority leader. Early life and education Keim holds a Bachelor of Science in leadership and marketing from the University of Southern Maine. Career Keim was elected to the Maine Senate in 2016. During her tenure, she served as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a member of the Senate State and Local Government Committee. As chair of the Judiciary Committee, Keim managed a working group to study Maine's legal aid system. She has also served as co-chair of the national Future of Work Task Force for the Council of State Governments The Council of State Governments (CSG) is a nonpartisan, non-profit organization in the United States that serves all three branches of state government. Founded in 1933 by Colorado state senator Henry W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Patrick (Maine Politician)
John L. Patrick (born March 25, 1954) is an American politician and mechanic who served as a member of the Maine Senate from 2010 to 2016. Career A resident of Rumford, Patrick graduated from nearby Mexico High School in 1972 and worked in the NewPage Paper Mill in Rumford for 29 years. While working as a journeyman mechanic the mill, Patrick eventually became president of the United Paperworkers Union Local 900. He also served on the board of directors of the Maine AFL-CIO. He was first elected to the Maine House of Representatives The Maine House of Representatives is the lower house of the Maine Legislature. The House consists of 151 voting members and three nonvoting members. The voting members represent an equal number of districts across the state and are elected via ... in 2000. He served in the house until he was unable to run again due to term-limits. He instead ran for the seat vacated by Sen. Bruce Bryant. He won both his 2010 Senate campaign with 68% of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
