One of the real winners in Tuesday’s election wasn’t on the ballot: Emerge Maine. Emerge is an excellent candidate training program for Democratic women – inspiring women to run and honing their skills to win. Emerge graduates ran for eight seats at the city council and school board level all across Maine including in Lewiston. Of those eight seats, seven Emerge women won. Two Emerge graduates, Isobel Golden and Kristen Cloutier, will serve on the Lewiston City Council this year.

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Shenna Bellows was the 2014 Democratic candidate for United States Senate in Maine. She is the former Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine and is now owner and president of Bellows and Company, a public advocacy consulting firm.