Maine’s latest progressive sensation, Democrat candidate for US Senate Graham Platner, was interviewed on Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar on Thursday.  However, despite the exterior facing facade of the Platner campaign, the interview with Breaking Points has, perhaps inadvertently, shown some light on whats happening inside of his campaign.…

Spanish energy conglomerate, and Central Maine Power’s parent company, Iberdrola, is selling its assets in Mexico and exiting that nation’s energy market completely. Cox, another Spanish energy company, has agreed to pay $4.2 billion plus additional future payments for projects started by Iberdrola but will now be completed by Cox. …

An analysis of Maine’s registered inactive voter data found that, from June 2022 to November 2022, the total number of inactive voters statewide went from 2,562 to 216,035; an increase of over 213k inactive voters, or over 8,000%, within just 5 months.…

After the Maine House voted to take the state out of the National Popular Vote Compact on May 20^th (TMP Write-Up), the Maine Senate finally had there turn to vote on LD 252.…

Following concern with how federal authorities are now enforcing immigration law, South Portland Representative Deqa Dhalac introduced LD 1971, An Act to Protect Workers in This State by Clarifying the Relationship of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies with Federal Immigration Authorities.

According to the bill’s summery, LD 1971 would:…

Maine’s alignment with the National Popular Vote Compact (NPV Compact) is back in the legislature this session with LD 252 – An Act to Withdraw from the National Popular Vote Compact. The move to join had been debated in Maine’s legislature multiple times before finally being adopted, without the Governor’s signature, in 2024.…

Information related to Sec. Bellows and ballot access for Donald Trump in Maine can be found here.  Sources are listed chronologically from the released/published date.  Links, when possible, will be archived from the original.  The original web address is located at the top of the archived page.

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There are at least 16 different cannabis themed bills up for debate in the upcoming legislative session.  Of the 14 carry-over bills from the 1^st regular session, two are proposing changes to the current recreational cannabis taxation formula and another proposes the creation of a Maine Medical Cannabis Commission.…

Maine’s November 7th election will have 8 referendum questions.  One through four are proposed citizen initiatives and five through eight are proposed amendments to Maine’s constitution.

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According to reports from the Governor’s Newsroom, from June 26th to July 19th, Governor Janet Mills signed 92 bills into law.  Combined with the previous 465 bills signed during this session, the total number of bills signed into law by Governor Mills has reached 554.…

LD 165 , A bill sponsored by Rep. Bridgeo (D-Augusta), would see the governor’s current $70k salary increase to $125k. The proposed 44% increase would be in addition to the bill’s creation of a $40k annual expense account for the governor as well.…

Gov. Janet Mills gave her State of the State Address to the Maine Legislature this past Tuesday.  Rebranded as a “State of the Budget Address”, this was Janet’s third such address to the state’s legislature since first taking office in 2019.  Below is the full transcript of the address.…

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The Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety voted to move forward with LD 1307, which, as it’s currently written, would effectively be a full repeal of the 2011-2012 act making consumer fireworks legal in Maine.…

Sponsored by Representative Pierce of Falmouth and referred to the Committee on Veterans & Legal Affairs, LD 1779 is designed to do 3 separate things. The first two relate to possession of ballots and municipal clerks and has significance that will likely be explored in the future, but its the third thing involves rules around municipalities owning their own electronic voting equipment.

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The Committee on Health and Human Services recently held a public hearing for LD 867, an emergency bill prohibiting mandatory covid-19 vaccinations in the state.  If passed, covid-19 vaccination mandates would be forbidden for 5 years, starting from when the emergency use authorizations were first enacted, to allow for safety testing and investigations into possible reproductive harm.…

At the End of TMP Podcast #7 – Maine Election Process Part 1, I mentioned 3 documents Id be using for Part 2 and that because it would be some time before Ill pull a show together for Part 2, I would put these up in the meantime for anyone wishing to see them.  They are….
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The Secretary of State’s office has released the certified results from the Senate District 14 Special Election showing Democrat Craig Hickman as the winner.…

Governor Mills declared a special election for Senate District 14 to be held March 9th.  There are two candidates running for the vacated position; Republican William Guerette and Democrat Craig Hickman. …

Despite defeating her main competitor, Democrat Sara Gideon, by 8.5 % in the November 3rd election, Susan Collins avoided an Instant-Run Off by only .4 percent. Her 50.42% majority victory is a far cry from her 2014 re-election bid when she carried 67% percent of the state-wide popular vote and got over 60% of each county’s popular vote.…