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The Democratic Party did not control the state legislature between 1847 and 1911. [1] The Maine Republican Party supported Theodore Roosevelt during the 1912 Republican presidential primaries against President William Howard Taft. The Maine Progressive Party was founded by Roosevelt supporters on July 31, 1912, at a convention in Portland, Maine.
Michael Tipping is an American writer, activist, and politician from Maine. A Democrat, Tipping serves in the Maine State Senate representing District 8. He grew up in Orono, Maine and attended Orono High School and Dalhousie University, working as a progressive activist on several statewide referendum questions and for an initiative to clean mercury pollution from the Penobscot River.
Pattangall was appointed Associate Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court (by the Republican administration) in 1926, but only broke with his party over President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, to which he became bitterly opposed. He ultimately joined the Republican Party and soon after was appointed Chief Justice (1930–35).
Maine has had two independent governors: James B. Longley (1975–1979) and Angus King (1995–2003), who currently serves in the US Senate. Maine state politicians, Democrats and Republicans alike, are noted for having more moderate views than many in the national wings of their respective parties. Maine is an alcoholic beverage control state. [1]
Progressive Democrats already have identified a list of issues where they hope to influence the party platform, including calling for filibuster reform in the Senate, declaring a national climate ...
2 Platform. 3 Polling. 4 Campaign. ... 2012 and 2016 Green Party presidential candidate Butch Ware ... She received 1.07% of the vote in Maine, ...
The Progressive Party, popularly nicknamed the Bull Moose Party, was a third party in the United States formed in 1912 by former president Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the presidential nomination of the Republican Party to his former protégé turned rival, incumbent president William Howard Taft.
WASHINGTON — Top House progressives will unveil a sweeping agenda Thursday to lay down a marker for the policies they’ll push next year if Democrats win the 2024 election, from a higher ...