WASHINGTON (AP) — Coverage of post-election developments (all times EST): GOP reps nominate Ryan as U.S. House speaker Updated 2:17 p.m.: Speaker Paul Ryan unanimously won his GOP colleagues’ votes for another term at the helm of the House on Tuesday. He told fellow Republicans he had President-elect Donald Trump’s support, and heralded “the dawn […]
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Gov. Paul LePage wants statewide support to put referendum on ballot
AUGUSTA — GOP Gov. Paul LePage says southern Maine and out-of-state money have too much influence on what referendum questions appear on the ballot. In his weekly address, LePage said he will submit legislation asking lawmakers to amend the state constitutional to require ballot campaigns to gather a proportion of signatures from each county. Right […]
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Analysis: How New Balance stepped into a political firestorm
Last week, not even a full 24 hours after President-elect Donald Trump earned that title, a senior official for the shoe company New Balance invoked his name in an interview. “The Obama administration turned a deaf ear to us and frankly, with President-elect Trump, we feel things are going to move in the right direction,” […]
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No On 1 campaign collecting signatures for marijuana vote recount
PORTLAND — Campaigners who oppose Maine’s move toward legalized marijuana are entering their final full day of collecting signatures to force a recount. The No On 1 campaign needs to collect 100 signatures by 5 p.m. Wednesday to bring about the recount. A spokeswoman for the Maine Department of the Secretary of State says a […]
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Poliquin only Republican from New England in U.S. House
When the next Congress convenes in the nation’s capital in January, the only New England Republican among them will hail from Maine. The sole GOP holdout in the U.S. House among the region’s 21 members will be U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin, whose northern Maine district re-elected him by a wide margin last week to a […]
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Donald Trump names Priebus, Bannon to senior White House roles
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump made his first two key personnel appointments on Sunday, one an overture to Republican circles by naming GOP chief Reince Priebus as his White House chief of staff, the other a shot across the bow of the Washington establishment by tabbing Breitbart news executive Stephan Bannon as chief strategist and […]
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Marijuana industry worried about how Trump administration will act
The legal-weed industry that celebrated victories in eight states last week is now warily eyeing the coming Trump administration. Four words stoking angst at the moment: Attorney General Rudy Giuliani. The former New York City mayor is just one of several people floated as potential picks, but his fervent anti-marijuana stance has made him a […]
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Donald Trump voters in rural Maine wanted change
Goodrich sat at a local coffee shop, laughing with a group of men decked in blaze orange shirts about elite media’s failure to see Trump’s widespread support in communities roiled by the loss of manufacturing jobs. Trump’s victory made history in Maine, the nation’s whitest state, where the more rural 2nd Congressional District sent one […]
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Gov. Paul LePage touts Trump win, thanks veterans in special service
JAY — Gov. Paul LePage told members of the New Life Baptist Church during a special Veterans Day service Sunday that he is “hoping and praying” Donald Trump will make good on his campaign promises. The governor talked about his support of the president-elect and praised veterans, servicemen and first responders for service to their […]
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Gov. Paul LePage eyes delay on marijuana laws
Whether Mainers will get to toke up without worrying about the police may depend on President-elect Donald Trump. Gov. Paul LePage told a Portland radio station he “will be talking to Donald Trump about it” because he’s not sure if the new administration is going to enforce a federal law prohibiting the use of marijuana. […]