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Jordan Wood of Round Pond sent this letter to the Lincoln County News to remind everyone about the kind of legislator Lydia Crafts has been....
In remembrance of a violent insurrection that took place on January 6, 2021, this letter was submitted to local outlets as penned by LCDC Chair Chris Johnson....
The Lincoln County Democratic Committee met on November 18, 2021 via Zoom. Our guest speaker Rep. Seth Berry provided an update on Our Power’s initiative asking voters to replace Maine’s two investor-owned corporate utilities, Central Maine Power and Versant, with a new nonprofit consumer-owned utility called the Pine Tree Power Company. Rep. Charlotte Warren also briefly introduced the Protect Maine Elections citizen initiative. The video replay is available here along with a copy of the presentation, some notes and links....
The Lincoln County Democratic Committee met on October 21, 2021 via Zoom. Our guest speaker Brian Colleran, of Alna, who recently served as a consultant to the Maine Reapportionment Commission, and is now a senior director for the Maine House Democratic Campaign Committee, gave a presentation regarding the redistricting changes that have been approved based upon the 2020 census data. The video replay is available here along with a copy of the presentation, some notes and links....
The Lincoln County Democratic Committee met on March 18, 2021 to hear about H.R.1, For The People Act and other pending voting rights legislation from Hon. Shenna Bellows, Maine Secretary of State, and Will Hayward, Advocacy Program Coordinator, Democracy Maine. The video is available as well as resources and links related to the topic....
This open letter was submitted to our Congressional representatives as penned by Chair Chris Johnson and signed by 165+ (and counting) Lincoln County+ voters. It's also been submitted and published to local outlets....
The three U.S. Senate Democratic candidates were invited to an informal Q&A during our May monthly meeting. Bre Kidman and Betsy Sweet were able to attend. Learn more about these candidates before casting your July 14 primary vote! Here's the video....
So much must change. The president is an international embarrassment, a mean-spirited, pathological liar, and a domestic threat to our Constitution. GOP leaders put party above country, listen to money instead of constituents, and ignore science. Income inequality has made the wealthiest few even richer by stealing opportunity from everyone else. Climate change is now a crisis that demands decisive action....
The LCDC met on March 21, 2019. Maine State Representatives Holly Stover and Chloe Maxmin provided a Legislative Update. Watch it here....
Were I blissfully unaware of American politics and its cast of characters, I might consider this to be a work of fiction in the style of Toole’s “Confederacy of Dunces.”...