Previous Offices Held
Served two nonconsecutive terms representing Maine House District 149 (2004–2006, 2010–2012). Unsuccessfully sought House District 146 seat in 2022 and 2024; also lost Maine Senate bids in 1988 and 2020 and Maine House bids in 1990, 1992, 1998, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018. Spent one year as chair of Ogunquit’s Charter Review Commission.
Top Three Priorities
1. Address crisis in affordable housing 2. Improve and subsidize education/job & technical training 3. raise adequate revenues for any expansion of
Why are you running?
Few candidates have my life experience and education to do the work of a legislator.
What is one way Maine is on the right track? What is one way the state is on the wrong track?
Right track: Maine has increased use of measurable criteria for service goals Wrong track: Maine has yet to pay for services without financially overburdening lower-income families
As one of several dozen legislators in your chamber, how would you make a measurable difference for your constituents?
Examples: see Maine Townsman June 2012, Maine Conservation Voters 2012 Scorecard, AFL-CIO 2012 Scorecard, NFIB 2012 Scorecard, Maine Association Planners.
Surveys show the economy is the top concern of voters. What is a specific proposal addressing Maine voters’ economic anxieties that you’d work to make law?
I would work to restore use of pre-constructed housing and protect designated parks to other uses and mixed-use zoning wherever there is municipal treatment.