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Thursday, July 13, 2006

Maine: Is 50/50 major party split really a balance?

From Kennebec Journal: ...Indeed, when freshman Rep. Barbara Merrill of Appleton dumped her Democratic Party affiliation earlier this year -- she's currently running as an independent candidate for governor -- it left the House in a 73-73 partisan tie.
That caused a bit of indigestion for a few hours until an earlier Democrat-to-independent crossover, Rep. Joanne Twomey of Biddeford, rejoined her old party and restored a one-vote majority status to the Democrats. ...
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1 comment:

Zebster said...

Thanks Nancy, you saved me the trouble of posting it. I know Josh...he was a client of mine and the best friend of a good friend of mine, but he's a staunch Republican who's a much better golfer and attorney (in that order) than a reformer for sure.