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Maine: John Robinson

March 29, 2009 - 07:30 pm
NEWS FEED: Bangor Daily News

Child porn stats shock lawmakers

By Mal Leary

AUGUSTA, Maine — Rep. Emily Cain, D-Orono, the co-chair of the Appropriations Committee, said she had trouble sleeping the night after hearing that the amount of child pornography being downloaded from the Internet in Maine has increased 208 percent in one year.

“The impact of that presentation was incredibly strong on our committee,” she said. “It is very scary, particularly because it affects the lives of children.”

State police Sgt. Glenn Lang, supervisor of the State Police Computer Crimes Unit, told lawmakers the number of times a video or pornographic picture of children is downloaded to a computer in Maine went from 14,951 times in 2007 to 43,530 times in 2008.

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Wed, 11/19/2008 - 01:29

General store sign takes bets on Obama

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

A Standish general store reportedly had a sign up soliciting bets on when president-elect Barack Obama would be assassinated, the Associated Press reported.

An AP writer reported seeing the sign, and the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department reported hearing a complaint.

Although the owner of the store has taken the sign down and denies it ever existed, the matter has been reported to the Secret Service.

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Fri, 11/14/2008 - 20:07

Leadership election video: Phil Curtis

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

Rep. Phil Curtis (R-Madison) was elected assistant minority leader in the House over John Robinson (R-Raymond) and Stacey Fitts (R-Pittsfield).

See below for video of his speech.

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Fri, 11/14/2008 - 20:03

Leadership election video: John Robinson

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

Rep. John Robinson (R-Raymond) ran for assistant minority leader in the House against Phil Curtis (R-Madison) and Stacey Fitts (R-Pittsfield), with Curtis prevailing.

Also, Rep. Josh Tardy (R-Newport) ran unopposed for his second term as minority leader. Regrettably we were unable to get video of Fitts or Tardy.

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Thu, 11/13/2008 - 14:19

Leadership candidate: John Robinson

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

Maine House Republicans will elect their leaders this afternoon. We have put together brief bios of each of the candidates, taken from the legislative record.

 

 

John Robinson

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Tue, 11/11/2008 - 12:33

House to elect leaders Thursday

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

Republicans and Democrats in the Maine House will elect their respective leaders Thursday.

On the Democratic side, Rep. Hannah Pingree (D-North Haven) will likely be unopposed for House speaker.

For House majority leader, Reps. Gary Connor (D-Kennebunk), John Piotti (D-Unity) and Sharon Treat (D-Hallowell) have all announced intentions to run.

It is a five-way race for majority whip between:

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