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Campaign news and notes
— Poliquin's primary challenger hit the former congressman hard in a digital ad released on Tuesday. Caruso's ad attacks Poliquin on a 2015 vote against a Republican bid to overturn the Affordable Care Act (he voted for other tries) and for saying in a 2010 gubernatorial debate that he backed mandatory background checks on gun purchases (he has a gun-rights record and has been endorsed in past races by the National Rifle Association).
— We're getting into crunch time in the special election for a Maine Senate seat in Hancock County between former Sen. Brian Langley, R-Ellsworth, and Rep. Nicole Grohoski, D-Ellsworth. Senate Republicans' campaign arm exhorted volunteers to close an absentee ballot request gap with Democrats in a Tuesday email to supporters. Grohoski has been touring the Deer Isle area with outgoing Rep. Genevieve McDonald, D-Stonington, this week. |
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What we're reading
— Maine's university system may have to pay nearly $600,000 to the man who *will not* be the next president of its Augusta campus. In related news, trustees closed a $18.6 million budget gap using reserves on Monday, presaging cuts.
— Two advocacy groups say Gov. Janet Mills' administration needs to develop and stand by an LGBTQ-rights curriculum after removing a video explaining transgender identities to young children that became the subject of a Republican attack ad on the governor.
— A judge blocked a Wells motel from evicting long-term tenants on Monday. The state has New England's highest share of renters behind on payments. A fisherman who could not rent on the tony island of North Haven built a houseboat instead. Read our coverage of the housing crisis.
— Lower passenger counts have led the Trenton airport just off Mount Desert Island to lose $850,000 in federal funding. |
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| University of Maine System Chancellor Dannel Malloy (center left) looks at the screen of an iPad just before a system board of trustees meeting is called to order May 23, 2022. (BDN photo by Sawyer Loftus) |
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📷 Lead photo: Former Rep. Bruce Poliquin of Maine's 2nd District waves to a supporter at Dysart's on Broadway in Bangor during a Thursday campaign stop. (BDN photo by Linda Coan O'Kresik)
❌ Corrections: Tuesday's newsletter had two errors. Three faculty senates have taken no-confidence votes on University of Maine System Chancellor Dannel Malloy. A fourth has only supported those three in a letter. Former trustee Samuel Collins was the chair of the chancellor search committee at the time of Malloy's hiring, not the chair of the board of trustees. |
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