Maine: Richard Cleary

Fri, 11/14/2008 - 14:29

Leadership elections video: Majority whip candidates

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

Seth Berry (D-Bowdoinham), who was elected House majority whip Thursday, was up against five other candidates: Cynthia Dill (D-Cape Elizabeth), Herb Clark (D-Millinocket), Richard Cleary (D-Houlton), Mike Carey (D-Lewiston) and Don Pilon (D-Saco).

See below for video of Dill, Clark, Carey and Pilon. Regrettably we were unable to get video of Cleary.

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Thu, 11/13/2008 - 15:32

Seth Berry elected as majority whip

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

State Rep. Seth Berry (D-Bowdoinham) was just elected House majority whip.

In a six way contest between Reps. Cynthia Dill (D-Cape Elizabeth), Richard Cleary (D-Houlton), Mike Carey (D-Lewiston), Don Pilon (D-Saco) and Herb Clark (D-Millinocket), Berry got more than 50 percent of the vote, winning on the first ballot.

We will have more on the election later.

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Thu, 11/13/2008 - 01:49

Leadership candidate: Richard Cleary

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

Maine House Democrats will elect their leaders at 10 a.m. this morning. We have put together brief bios of each of the candidates, taken from the legislative record.

House Republicans will elect their leaders this afternoon, and those bios will be posted later this morning.

Richard Cleary

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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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Mon, 07/28/2008 - 10:36