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Sen. Richard Bennett: Hydro-Quebec shouldn’t get say in Maine elections
The CMP Corridor may be a good deal for foreign-owned corporations, but it is a terrible deal for Maine.
By Sen. Richard. A. Bennett
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The Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel recently ran a mendacious, wrong-headed diatribe by Scott Strom (“Don’t put a muzzle on Canadian trade partners,” column, May 11). His column was unnecessarily personal, and he completely missed the mark as to why I introduced a bill this session to prohibit foreign governments from meddling in our citizen-initiated elections.
My bill, L.D. 194, is hardly an attempt to “muzzle” anyone. The bill simply says that, as a company owned by a foreign government, Hydro-Quebec should not be allowed to electioneer in this state. And to be clear, prohibiting electioneering is not the same thing as prohibiting speech. Even if my bill passes and it absolutely should because we have a dangerous loophole in our law that Hydro-
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