Wendy Pieh Announces Candidacy for the Maine House of Representatives, District 90

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Wendy Pieh, Candidate for Maine House District 90 at (207) 529-5747 or wpieh@lincoln.midcoast.com

BREMEN, ME, February 4, 2020 – Wendy Pieh, of Bremen, is announcing that she has filed with the Secretary of State to run as a candidate for the Maine House of Representatives, District 90.

It’s the best job I ever had. For six of the eight years I served in the Maine House of Representatives, I was the House Chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry and also served two terms on the Joint Standing Committee on Marine Resources. I knew that by working hard, and by working together, we could make policy that really made a difference for Maine citizens.”

Growing up on a small farm in Ohio, Pieh’s family struggled to make ends meet. When she was ten, her father accepted a better paying job outside Birmingham, Alabama. The horrors of segregation, sit-ins and fire hoses, church bombings, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Selma march instilled in Pieh a commitment to making a difference, to making things better.

Growing up, Pieh found strengths in herself that helped people come together. After working in leadership positions with Outward Bound in Minnesota and Canada she accepted a position as the executive director of the Outward Bound School in Lesotho, southern Africa, a school that was working with South African corporations to prepare for the end of apartheid.

It was in Africa that she met her husband, Dr. Peter Goth, who is an emergency physician. He practices in the ER and teaches emergency medicine as the medical director at the Critical Care Training Institute. Goth brought Pieh to Maine in 1990. They have a daughter who works as a nurse at Maine General Hospital in Augusta, and a son who lives with his family in Ithaca, New York. They raise North American Cashmere goats and Katahdin sheep at Springtide Farm in Bremen. Like everyone else from away, Pieh likes to say,

I got here as soon as I could.”

With a master’s degree in organization development, and a background in education, business, and agriculture, Wendy has developed the skills that have made her a strong and dynamic leader. She built her own company, Changes Consulting, and has served as a Selectman in Bremen for fifteen years. She has been the Chair of the Selectmen for the last twelve years.

Please contact Wendy with thoughts or questions, and/or if you would like to participate in her campaign: (207)529-5747, wpieh@lincoln.midcoast.com, or stop by Springtide farm at 123 Rial Herald Rd, Bremen.