Time for something fun – and yes, this was a political event.
Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in In The News | No Comments »By Jessica Alaimo PotlitickerMe.com Reprinted from Article April 18, 2008 Beer, dancing, drag queens and bicycles. For the Portland League of Young Voters, it was an ideal way to raise awareness about alternative transportation. The Portland League of Young Voters held their biannual ReEmergence "DANCEPORTATION ReEvolution" event Thursday night. The event attempts to fuse culture with [...]
Congressional race has forum in Augusta
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 Posted in In The News | No Comments »By Susan M. Cover Kennebec Journal Reprinted from Article April 08, 2008 AUGUSTA -- There are 80,000 veterans in the 1st Congressional District. Candidates hoping to win that seat in Congress worked hard Monday to appeal to that voting bloc. Yet many of the issues have universal appeal. The candidates running for the 1st Congressional District talked about health [...]
Candidates Dispute Affordable Housing Claims
Monday, March 31st, 2008 Posted in In The News | No Comments »Reprinted From an Article in The West End News http://thewestendnews.com/3-08.html During the March 26th candidate's forum at the Space Gallery, former state senator Michael Brennan asked state senator Ethan King Strimling if he would oppose legislation that would divert funding from the Housing Opportunities for Maine (HOME) Fund in order to finance a tax break for developers who [...]
1st District candidates take aim at each other
Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in In The News | No Comments »By KEVIN WACK Portland Press Herald Reprinted from Article March 27, 2008 1st District candidates take aim at each other Election 2008: The U.S. House race gets more heated as seven would-be representatives question their foes -- regardless of affiliation. The race to represent southern Maine in Congress took a contentious turn Wednesday during a debate that featured pointed [...]
Strimling, Brennan tout endorsements
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008 Posted in In The News | No Comments »By Kevin Wack Staff Writer Portland Press Herald March 18, 2008 A couple of endorsement notes from the First Congressional District campaign trail: * Ethan Strimling, who represents Portland at the State House, has gotten endorsements from numerous members of the city's Democratic Party establishment, including former mayors Nick Mavodones and Peter O'Donnell, and Cumberland County Sheriff Mark Dion. The [...]
Brennan Ledue Submits Signatures
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in In The News | No Comments »By Jessica Alaimo PotlitickerMe.com Reprinted from Article April 22, 2008 Both Congressional candidate Michael Brennan and Senatorial candidate Tom Ledue, both Democrats, turned in their signatures to the Secretary of State's office last week, making their campaigns official. Ledue's Democratic opponent U.S. Rep. Tom Allen also turned his signatures in last week. In the First Congressional District, Democrats Stephen [...]
Brennan, Strimling spar over Iran
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 Posted in In The News | No Comments »By Kevin Wack The Portland Press Herald Reprinted from Article March 05, 2008 Iran may have just become an issue in the race for Maine's First District congressional seat, as the Democratic candidates vie for the anti-war vote. Yesterday, Michael Brennan's campaign sent out an e-mail attacking a bill - up for public discussion this afternoon in Augusta - [...]
Who Do You Love
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 Posted in In The News | No Comments »By Kevin Wack The Portland Press Herald With John Edwards expected to drop out of the presidential race this afternoon, I thought I'd post the Democratic congressional candidates' views on their party's presidential candidates.
Politicians Begin Jockeying To Vie For Allen’s Seat
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007 Posted in In The News | Comments OffFrom the Portland Press Herald, May 9, 2007: Brennan, a former Senate majority leader in the Legislature who now works at the Muskie School of Public Service and teaches at the University of New England, said he supports an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, universal health care, improved access to higher education and a [...]
Brennan Ready to Fill Allen’s Seat
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 Posted in In The News | Comments OffFrom Associated Press, May 8, 2007: Within minutes of Democratic Rep. Tom Allen's announcement that he's running for the Senate, the first of several Democrats waiting in the wings to try to fill his empty seat announced he was ready to run. Michael Brennan of Portland, former Democratic leader in the Maine Senate, said he'd already [...]
