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Is This Our Party Anymore? Maine s Establishment Republicans Who Got Canceled Former Maine Senate President Kevin Raye attended his first Republican convention in 1978 and didn’t miss one until 2016. Former state Sen. Roger Katz, also a lifelong Republican, remembers attending a parade for President Dwight Eisenhower in 1954. But in January, Raye and Katz “got canceled.” Their peers in the Waldo County GOP ratified a resolution that banned Raye and Katz from running for public office as a member of the party. “It’s ironic, isn’t it?” Raye said in a recent phone interview. Ironic because the modern Republican Party has vigorously framed so-called cancel culture loosely defined as societal punishment or expulsion for voicing unpopular ideas as an existential threat to the republic. In this case, Raye and Katz got canceled for announcing their support last fall for President Joe Biden. ....
BANGOR, Maine (Legal Newsline) – A Maine federal judge is skeptical about the likelihood a political action committee and a state lawmaker will be able to convince him to strike down a state law regarding signature-gathering. ....