Ann Peoples (D)

Residence: Westbrook

Occupation: Consultant

Political experience: Maine House Legislatures 123, 124, 125.

Q: What do you think the three most important issues are?

A: We have many issues. My top three are, jobs, infrastructure and property tax. All three are specific to the district.

Q: What do you think the solutions are?

A: Jobs: I plan to insist that we sell previously voter-approved bonds to do work that is an absolute necessity to the economic well-being and safety of our residents. That will put many people to work and improving the quality of everyone’s life (roads and bridges, for example)

Infrastructure: That would be seeing our construction folks at work – a biggie for me.

Property tax: I will do my best to keep the state from moving the responsibility and cost of caring for the elderly, disabled and the young from the traditional and well-accepted structure of the state Department of Health and Human Services onto our communities’ property tax. At the state level, not an easy change.

Q: Do you support same-sex marriage?

A: I do support non-traditional marriage, I mean really, whose ox gets gored? Let’s just be fair.

Michael Lawson (R)

The candidate did not respond to phone and email requests for information.

Election 2012