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Your Vote 2014

For MPBN's Your Vote 2014 live election results, click here.MPBN’s elections compendium is brought to you by AARP, MEMIC and Lambert Coffin.Debates:Click here to watch the 1st Congressional District debateClick here to watch the 2nd Congressional District debateClick here to watch the Senate debateClick here to watch the gubernatorial debateResources:Gubernatorial Race: GridPaul LePage (R)Mike Michaud (D): Profile, Maine Calling interviewEliot Cutler (I): Maine Calling interviewSenate Race: GridSusan Collins (R): Profile, Maine Calling interviewShenna Bellows (D): Profile, Maine Calling interview1st District Congressional Race: GridChellie Pingree (D): Profile, Maine Calling interviewIsaac Misiuk (R): Profile, Maine Calling interviewRichard Murphy (I): Profile, Maine Calling interview2nd District Congressional Race: GridEmily Cain (D): Profile, Maine Calling interviewBruce Poliquin (R): Profile, Maine Calling interviewBlaine Richardson (I): Profile, Maine Calling interviewFor a list of referendum questions, click here.

Maine GOP Comes Under Fire for Campaign Mailer

Maine Public | By Associated Press

Published August 21, 2014 at 2:30 PM EDT

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) _ Maine Democrats are calling on the Republican Party to retract campaign mailers that they say falsely blame gubernatorial candidate Mike Michaud for the loss of jobs at a paper mill.

The mailer says that Michaud's "anti-jobs law'' helped put "hundreds of hardworking people'' out of work. The law that Michaud sponsored in 2002 prevented Great Northern Paper mills from shutting down production so that they could sell the electricity generated by the dams.

Democrats say the law was necessary at the time to protect jobs. It was approved unanimously without a roll call vote in the state Senate, which included Rick Bennett, now chairman of the Republican Party.

In a statement, Bennett says that he and others relied on Michaud's judgment but it turned out to be "misplaced trust.''