In this week’s Pulse: A 2022 gubernatorial race that's expected to shatter state spending records, consumer-owned utility effort falls short – for now, Run Troy Run is officially done, a new bill aimed at campaign spending reporting, and what's coming up next week in the Legislature.
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In this week’s newsletter: The politics of the public power proposal; Maine Chamber steps away from anti-public power group; Gov. Janet Mills frets property tax increases.
As Maine lawmakers fast-track a bill that would replace Central Maine Power and Versant Power with a so-called public utility, Gov. Janet Mills is stepping up her calls to the legislature to look more closely at the proposal before attempting to send it to voters in November.
In a wide-ranging interview on Maine Public s Maine Calling program, Mills expressed a range of concerns about a 13-page bill that would effectively force the state’s two electricity providers to sell their assets and be replaced by a consumer-owned non-profit controlled by an elected board. Mills, a Democrat, didn’t say definitively that she would veto the proposal, but she made several comments that suggest that she views it as not ready for primetime, much less ready for Maine voters.
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In this week’s newsletter: The governor’s historic education funding proposal; the Maine State Chamber of Commerce organizes anti-public power group; pandemic-induced gas tax losses; the anti-vax side hustle; no more guests for a GOP state lawmaker; and the national media’s obsession with Jared Golden’s tattoos.
Gov. Janet Mills sounded almost triumphant when she announced a change to the state’s next two-year budget that will pump an additional $187 million into local schools. I think it s a mission accomplished for the state of Maine that we ve finally reached that goal, she said. We ve tinkered with it for years and we ve never gotten close. And we re not only close today, we ve gotten there.