Month: June 2015

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Dear Friends and Neighbors,

Many of you have contacted me over the past few days with concern about Governor LePage’s recent vendetta threatening the funding of a charter school and ill-tempered remarks suggesting shooting a cartoonist and the execution of legislators.

Most of those contacts advocated that the legislature respond …

Dear Friends and Neighbors,

In the early hours of this morning, against many significant odds, your legislature enacted a state budget.

Briefly, I just want to let you know that in my view, while this budget has all the hallmarks and flaws of compromise which must be expected from a divided government, I beleive that …

June 13, 2015

Dear Friends and Neighbors,

As you may know, it’s been a very busy few weeks in the legislature.  Through the previous two weekends, I have worked closely with the Appropriations Committee as they finalized their recommendation on the biennial budget, a document which will require much compromise to gain the necessary support …