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Maine News by Jeremy Jacobs

Thu, 12/04/2008 - 18:50

Pingree: Obama cabinet feels like ‘adults are back in charge’

By Jeremy P. Jacobs, PolitickerMA.com Reporter

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. - Congresswoman-elect Chellie Pingree said Thursday that she has been impressed by President-elect Barack Obama's selections for his cabinet.

"It seems like the adults are back in charge, honestly," Pingree told Politicker.com. "I have to tell you, as someone who has waiting a long time for the change in administration it feels a lot like we've put a completely different group of people in charge who, at least in the short run, we're going to have a lot of confidence in their ability to do this."

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Tue, 06/10/2008 - 22:37

Pingree holds off Cote in convincing Democratic primary win

By Jeremy P. Jacobs, PolitickerMA.com Reporter

[img_assist|nid=1788|title=Congressional candidate Chellie Pingree|desc=|link=none|align=right|width=160|height=189]PORTLAND -- In spite of a late charge from Adam Cote, front runner Chellie Pingree captured a convincing win tonight in the Democratic primary for Maine's 1st Congressional District.

With 73 percent of precincts reporting, Pingree leads Cote 44 percent to 26 percent.

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Tue, 06/10/2008 - 21:52

Meister says money played large role in loss

By Jeremy P. Jacobs, PolitickerMA.com Reporter

PORTLAND -- Stephen Meister, the Winthrop pediatrician and Democratic Congressional candidate, said there is one major reason he was never able to catch his competition: money.

"It comes down in the end to money," Meister said. "The television commercials and the radio commercials take hundreds of thousands of dollars and they make a huge difference."

Meister is expected to finish last in the six-way race in the Democratic primary for Maine's first congressional seat tonight. He will likely finish with less than 2 percent of the vote.

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Tue, 06/10/2008 - 16:11

York County voters root for the hometown boys

By Jeremy P. Jacobs, PolitickerMA.com Reporter

[img_assist|nid=1782|title=The scene out in the field in the 1st Congressional District|desc=|link=none|align=none|width=420|height=303]ELIOT -- Here in the Southern most reach of the 1st Congressional District there appeared little doubt about who most of the local Democrats were supporting.

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