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News and notes
The Motor City Madman is in our pages arguing for Sunday hunting.
— Archconservative rocker Ted Nugent wrote a Bangor Daily News Op-Ed on Friday arguing that Maine's new right to food should allow Sunday hunting.
— Nugent is the public face of Hunter Nation, a Kansas-based group funding a Maine lawsuit making this argument and lobbies aggressively to liberalize hunting laws across the country. Here's your soundtrack.
— The group is out in front of others in trying to revoke the Sunday hunting ban here, including the Sportsman's Alliance of Maine, which supports Sunday hunting in but opposed the most recent legislative bid to enshrine it.
Here's how the TV ad battles are aligning in Maine's big races.
— Gov. Janet Mills was the first top-tier candidate to go live TV ads during Maine's 2022 general election cycle this week, matching nearly the exact time that she went up four years ago after emerging from a large Democratic primary.
— The Maine Republican Party has already reserved $3.9 million in advertising time, though none has been used yet. That would dwarf 2018 levels and signifies an unprecedented level of spending on a state election.
— If past is prologue, we will see Golden up soon, since his first 2020 run began on Aug. 4. Poliquin began advertising Aug. 10 in 2018. |
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What we're reading
— Big-name Maine politicians are ducking questions on whether Biden or Trump should run again for president in 2024. Rep. Chellie Pingree, a Democrat from the 1st District, was the only one to support a Biden run.
— Here's what huge abortion-rights turnout in Kansas could mean for Maine's 2022 elections.
— Maine doctors are hearing more from patients worried forever chemicals are making them sick. The conversations are not always easy.
— Versant Power is proposing a $10.50 average monthly rate increase starting next summer, an idea that Mills immediately opposed. |
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| 📷 Mindy Powell of Spruce Head puts a temporary tattoo on 2-year-old Ezra Thorne of Thomaston on Thursday at the Maine Lobster Festival in Rockland. (BDN photo by Abigail Curtis) |
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