Angus King III

Office Sought: Governor

District: All

Towns Served: All

About Angus King III

Angus King III has spent the last three decades working on innovative ways to solve problems and make people’s lives better — building affordable housing for thousands of people across six states, and delivering clean energy across the country and around the globe. He’s spent his career creating jobs and leading teams that made a difference in the world. 

Throughout his career, King has led teams focused on innovative solutions at the intersection of policy and business, where private sector solutions solve complex community problems. His work helped create better homes for low-income families, create low-carbon home-grown energy, all while creating jobs and bringing people together to create solutions that last. His work is focused on applying common sense to common ground, leading with a bias for action, and being accountable for the dollars and results. Most recently in Maine, that meant building a digester that turned manure into clean energy to heat Maine homes. 

Outside of work, he has been a leader in his community through board work focused on supporting our most vulnerable citizens and protecting the woods and waters of Maine, and spending as much time as he can outside, hiking, hunting, fishing and paddling, usually with his wife Cricket, their two kids and Snowy the dog. 

He knows that with a fresh perspective and a different approach—with a focus on common sense on common ground, we can build a better Maine.  More information about Angus and his campaign for governor is available at www.AngusforGovernor.com.

Platform Issues:

I’m focused on building a better Maine. Life has become too expensive for too many here – housing, energy, healthcare – and wages simply haven’t kept up. As Governor I’ll have a relentless focus on helping people breathe a little easier, starting with energy, housing, healthcare, and economic development. 

• On energy, we can stop these big increases, and then start to bring down costs, by insisting on efficiency, fairness, accountability and better deals for Maine families. 
• On housing, we can add more homes and lower costs, through urgency and focus on the task, help where it’s needed and less friction when it’s not, and innovations in finance, design, materials and manufacturing. 
• In healthcare, we have to think differently about how we make it better for patients and caregivers, with better public health, transparency and innovations that lower drug prices and allow doctors to focus on patient health not paperwork. 
• Finally, we need to deliver higher wages and a stronger workforce. Let’s keep what’s special and fix what’s slow. We need to think in decades, but respond in days. Maine should be where natural capital meets innovation on things like life sciences, materials, the ocean and fiber economies.

Priorities in Office

In four years, we’ll bring costs down and build a better, stronger Maine:

• More housing will be more affordable
• More kids graduate ready for the real world— with the training, education, or job opportunity they need to build their future right here in Maine.
• It will be easier to create jobs, and government will be responsive when you need it, and not in the way when you don’t
• We’ll have a healthcare system that is more stable, accessible and affordable. 

I know it can be done if we focus on the challenges and hopes we have in common.