Issue Position: Government Reform

Issue Position

Leading voice for Term Limits at both federal and state levels
Supports campaign finance reform to remove big corporate money, foreign involvement, and lobbyists.
Supports Balanced Budget Amendment
Advocates for popular election of our Attorney General, Secretary of State, and Treasurer
Proposing new rules for the Legislature to make system fairer and allow more participation by people.
Track record as a uniter who has earned respect across the aisle. When the 2000 elections left a 17-17-1 partisan tie in the Maine Senate, crafted a power-sharing agreement that worked for everyone. Unanimously elected President of the Senate.
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"I believe in government of the people, by the people, and for the people. As a legislator and a private citizen, I have been an outspoken voice for change, for wresting power from the bureaucracies and big corporations and bringing government back to the people. I have never shied to stand up to powerful interests, whether it was the House Speaker whose top aides were caught ballot tampering or it is the foreign corporations interfering in our elections to try to force the CMP Corridor."

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