When you walk into the voting booth this November 7th, there will be a whopping eight referendum questions for your consideration – and a few of them have enormously high stakes for Maine and for our future.
Hello, this is Governor Janet Mills and thank you for listening.
Now I don’t feel the need to weigh in on every question, but there is at least one that I am pretty concerned about – Question 3, An Act to Create the so-called Pine Tree Power Company.
In its simplest terms, Question 3 would force CMP and Versant to sell their assets to a new public power authority, called Pine Tree Power, through eminent domain.
Proponents of Question 3 use slick slogans like “Maine, not Spain” and poll-tested talking points about returning power to the people.
Sounds good, right? Well, journalist H.L. Mencken once said, “For every complex problem there is an answer that is…
