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Maine: Arlen Specter

March 3, 2009 - 08:31 am
NEWS FEED: MainePolitics.net

Maine GOP Chair Weighs in On Steele, Limbaugh

By Mike

Charlie Webster, the new chair of the Maine Republican party was quoted in an NPR piece yesterday on the Steele-Limbaugh brouhaha over who is the leader of the Republican Party. Webster praised Steele, but also defended the independence of Maine's Republican senators.

Charles Webster, chairman of the Republican Party in Maine, is a fan of both Steele and Limbaugh.

"Steele is an impressive guy," says Webster, who reported that there was a "mini revolution" among state party members when they learned that their three RNC members did not plan to vote for Steele for party chair.

"There was huge support for him up here," he said.

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February 11, 2009 - 03:41 pm
NEWS FEED: Turn Maine Blue

NYTimes on Snowe, Collins

By Gerald Weinand

Yesterday the New York Times had this story about Maine's two senators and their role in the negotiations around the stimulus:
Senators Susan Collins and Olympia J. Snowe are not close friends, but they have plenty in common. They both represent Maine. They share a centrist ideology. They are proper and genteel. And they can drive their Republican colleagues to distraction.

Much to the dismay of their fellow Republicans and to loud applause from Democrats, the two senators from Maine have put President Obama on the precipice of winning passage of an $800-billion-plus economic recovery plan rejected by almost everyone else in Congress who shares their party affiliation.

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February 7, 2009 - 11:43 pm
NEWS FEED: MainePolitics.net

Collins, Snowe Support Compromise Stimulus Package

By Mike

It appears a modified version of President Obama's stimulus package will pass the senate tomorrow with the support of Senators Snowe, Collins and Pennsylvania Republican Arlen Specter.

The new package includes a raft of spending cuts drawn up by Collins and Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska. The full list can be found in excel format here.

Head Start has been cut in half. K-12 education spending has been cut heavily, as has the higher education infrastructure money, but the pell grants have been spared. The biggest cut was to the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund which is meant to preserve vital services in states with budget deficits, like Maine.

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