Attorney General Janet Mills won Maine’s 2018 Democratic gubernatorial nomination after unofficial ranked-choice counts from the state were released Wednesday, defeating attorney Adam Cote and five others after last week’s elections.
Good morning from Augusta, where a potential attempt to repeal Maine’s recreational marijuana law has already sparked some pushback.
Gov. Paul LePage said Wednesday that he’s willing to deploy the Maine National Guard to the southern border, breaking with other Republican governors in New England who’ve said they would withhold troops over the Trump administration’s policy of s eparating children from their migrant parents.
The Legislature began chipping away at its unfinished business on Tuesday in the first day of this year’s special session.
Republican lawmakers and President Donald Trump searched anxiously Tuesday for a way to end the administration’s policy of separating families after illegal border crossings, with their focus shifting to a new plan to keep children in detention longer than now permitted — but with their parents.
A state judge has ordered Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s administration to file paperwork to expand Medicaid as voters demanded despite an ongoing appeal, and the governor vowed to fight the order Monday.
LePage’s administration is seeking comment on wind energy development, but LePage and his staff aren’t saying who is on an advisory panel after disclosing in a lawsuit that it was formed in May.
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins on Sunday called the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy of pressing criminal charges against immigrants and separating children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border “inconsistent with American values” and “traumatizing” to children.
Good morning from Augusta, where we’re playing the waiting game.
The Legislature will return next week for a special session over the objections of Gov. Paul LePage, who accused House Republicans who are typically loyal to him of “giving in because it’s an election year.”
