Questions will be asked by the maine public key Political Correspondent and a portland rest reporter, another po overton. The four candidates for governor are governor janet mills, a democrat elected in 2018. She served as maine attorney general and District Attorney for androscoggin, franklin and anderson counties. Paul lepage was elected in 2010 and served two terms as governor. Before elected governor, he served as the mayor of waterville. Sam hunkler, an independent, has never served in political office. He is a family physician and served in the peace corps. This debate will last approximately an hour and a half. In the interest of fairness, we will rotate which candidate answers first. We will be addressing topics that you the voters have told us are most important to you. Each candidate has one minute to answer question posed by reporters. When reporters ask a followup question, candidates have 30 seconds to answer. When a candidate needs to get a rebuttal, we allow 30 seconds f
Of the newspapers and maine public. Questions will be asked by the maine public key Political Correspondent and a portland rest reporter, another po overton. The four candidates for governor are governor janet mills, a democrat elected in 2018. She served as maine attorney general and District Attorney for androscoggin, franklin and anderson counties. Paul lepage was elected in 2010 and served two terms as governor. Before elected governor, he served as the mayor of waterville. Sam hunkler, an independent, has never served in political office. He is a family physician and served in the peace corps. This debate will last approximately an hour and a half. In the interest of fairness, we will rotate which candidate answers first. We will be addressing topics that you the voters have told us are most important to you. Each candidate has one minute to answer question posed by reporters. When reporters ask a followup question, candidates have 30 seconds to answer. When a candidate needs to g
Opioid epidemic. She is seeking her fifth term as maines government. Welcome to this debate between candidates for governor of maine. We are coming to you live from the beautiful Franco Center in lewiston. Maine public is presenting tonights debate in partnership with the lewiston sun journal and Portland Pressherald and many questions come from you readers, listeners and viewers of the newspapers and maine public. Questions will be asked by the maine public key Political Correspondent and a portland rest reporter, another po overton. The four candidates for governor are governor janet mills, a democrat elected in 2018. She served as maine attorney general and District Attorney for androscoggin, franklin and anderson counties. Paul lepage was elected in 2010 and served two terms as governor. Before elected governor, he served as the mayor of waterville. Sam hunkler, an independent, has never served in political office. He is a family physician and served in the peace corps. This debate
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Dubois good evening, scott is on assignment, im maurice dubois. The United States took both offensive and defensive action today in response to the worldwide terror threat. That threat had already caused the state department to put out an alert for americans traveling overseas and shut down 19 u. S. Embassies and consulates from east africa across the middle east and in bangladesh through saturday. Today the u. S. Began evacuating nonessential american personnel from the embassy in yemen and fired a drone at suspected al qaeda terrorists in that country. Homeland security correspondent bob orr has details tonight. Bob . Reporter maurice, while the threat remains vague tonight, u. S. Officials insist the danger has not passed. Intelligence analysts increasingly now believe the most likely target of an al qaeda strike is inside yemen. An air force c17 flew into the capital city of sanaa today to evacuate dozens of u. S. Workers from the american embassy. Staffers, including some describe