TAMPA, Fla. — Maine Republicans are heading home deeply divided and barely on speaking terms after tensions flared this week in front of thousands of fellow party members and media from around the world.
Kevin Miller
Kevin Miller joined the staff of the Portland Press Herald in 2012 and has worked as a journalist in Maine since 2005. He currently covers state politics, the Maine Legislature and environmental/natural resources issues. A policy wonk, Kevin previously wrote about Congress and federal issues as the Press Herald’s Washington, DC correspondent. Before settling in Maine, he covered state government, higher education and environmental issues for newspapers in Virginia and Maryland. In his spare time, Kevin enjoys hiking, camping, fishing, kayaking, cross-country skiing or doing pretty much anything else outdoors. He lives in Newcastle with his wife, Carissa, and their dog.
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Maine delegates turn out for Romney speech
TAMPA, Fla. — Maine Republicans gathered in Tampa on Thursday night to hear GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney tell voters across the nation what they insist they already know: that he has the business skills, political acumen and personal drive to turn the country around.
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Maine GOP’s disunity cuts into the partying
The Maine Republican Party’s disunity at the Republican National Convention appears to have taken a toll on a tradition among delegations at political conventions: the partying.
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Maine Republicans eager to hear Romney speak
Those gathered in Tampa hope to hear the GOP presidential nominee tell voters his “real solutions,” as well as open up personally.
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Republicans say treatment of Maine’s delegates could hurt party
Members of Maine’s delegation tried to object to the removal of 10 elected Ron Paul delegates, but their microphone had apparently been turned off.
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Maine’s Ron Paul delegates threaten to boycott convention
The action would protest switching 10 of Maine’s elected delegates with Romney supporters, but some Paul allies question the strategy.
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Ron Paul devotees rap establishment
More than two dozen people spoke or performed during the “We are the future” rally organized by the Paul campaign on the eve of a convention to nominate Mitt Romney.
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Mainer, 21, brings rally for Ron Paul to its feet
Ron Paul and his supporters vent their frustration with the Republican Party leadership.
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Snowe, Pingree among 50 wealthiest in Congress
WASHINGTON — Maine is not known as a particularly wealthy state (ranking 35th in per-capita personal income in 2007). But two of the Pine Tree State’s four elected representatives in Washington, D.C., rank among the Top 50 wealthiest members of Congress.
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Washington Notebook: Maine has many riches … so do its reps in D.C.
Republican State Sen. Nichi Farnham has been running — literally — throughout Bangor and Hermon to convince voters in District 32 that she deserves a second term. Geoff Gratwick, her Democratic challenger, has been campaigning on his bicycle.