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Holiday break overWinter season gets seriousPage 11

Coffee by Design gets national nod for being coolPage 2

Disclosure gap hides $235M in work tied to officialsPage 3

January 4, 2012 News of The City of Portland Vol. 10, No. 1

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IndexMeetings ........................15Obituaries ........................9Opinion ............................5

Police Beat ......................8Real Estate ....................19Sports ............................ 11

Arts Calendar ................15Classifieds .....................17Community Calendar .....15

Some municipal policies violate Maine’s right-to-know lawBy Mario Moretto and Emily Guerin

PORTLAND — The public’s right to know is described in Maine by the Freedom of Acccess Act, which clearly outlines the rules and obligations for operating an open, transparent government.

For example, a citizen who re-quests a document from a public

Portland mayoral candidates spent as much as $40 per vote

By Randy BillingsPORTLAND — The 15 candi-

dates who hoped to become Port-land’s first elected mayor since 1923 spent more than $300,000 on their campaigns.

Some candidates dug deeper than others to get first-place votes in the opening round of the instant-runoff election, but who spent the most per vote ($40) – and the least ($2.86) – may come as a surprise.

According to 42-day post-elec-

Peaks Island wind plan abandoned, waterfront turbine not producingBy Emily Parkhurst

PORTLAND — Despite initial optimism that Casco Bay would be a good location for wind power, a city waterfront project has pro-duced less energy than expected and a project on Peaks Island has been abandoned because there isn’t enough wind.

This comes as the City Council prepares to act on a wind en-ergy ordinance that would govern where and how wind turbines

‘What ifs’ after mayor reveals cancer surgeryBy Randy Billings

PORTLAND — Mayor Mi-chael Brennan is recovering at home after having a cancerous tumor removed from his intestine.

A press release late on Dec. 29 said surgery was performed the previous weekend at Maine Medical Center and Brennan’s prognosis is “excellent,” although he will continue to be treated for lesions discovered on his liver.

City Hall spokeswoman Nicole Clegg said in the release that Brennan’s surgery involved the removal of a carcinoid tumor from his small intestine.

According to the National Can-cer Institute, the federal govern-ment’s principal agency for cancer

Plunging into 2012

TiM GREEnWAy / FOR ThE FORECASTERShelly Thorp of Harrison, left, and Anita Day of North Fryeburg run from the chilly waters of Casco Bay during the fourth annual Polar Bear Dip at East End Beach in Portland on Saturday, Dec. 31. They said participation in a polar plunge was one of their bucket list items. Entry fees for the noon event and a 5K walk/run earlier in the

morning support the Natural Resource Council of Maine’s work to reduce global warming pollution.

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tion reports filed Dec. 20, Ethan Strimling raised and spend more money than his nearest competi-tor (and eventual winner) Michael Brennan – by more than $30,000.

Strimling’s campaign raised $90,000, and $7,000 came be-tween the Oct. 26-Dec. 13, 2011 period covered by the report.

But the $20.42 that Strimling spent for each of his 4,390 first-round votes is only half of what

Palm Pilots, umbrellas, consultants among campaign expenses

agency may not be charged more than $10 per hour for time spent fulfilling that request. And that fee can only be charged after the first hour.

In spite of this, the Scarborough School Board has a policy allow-ing officials to charge up to $30 per hour. Late last year, the board was prepared to increase the fee to

$50 per hour, but tabled the pro-posal after questions were raised by a reporter from The Forecaster.

The incident prompted an investigation into public right-to-know policies in cities and towns throughout greater Port-land. That investigation revealed that Scarborough isn’t the only municipality or school district to

run afoul of the FOAA.While many area government

officials understand their FOAA rights and responsibilities, some may not uphold their obligation to residents to provide open access to government.

Extralegal feesIn addition to the $10 per hour

cap, state law allows agencies to

charge “a reasonable fee” to cover the cost of copying documents.

But in Freeport, officials charged a resident $28.75 per hour for a request received in May 2010, reflecting the salary of the employee who filled the request.

The resident’s request, for all meeting minutes and agendas

could be installed.There was significant fanfare

when distributor Nelson & Small installed a wind turbine atop DiMillo’s restaurant on Long Wharf. The company installed the turbine free of charge, confident the publicity would be worth the investment.

However, the DiMillo’s turbine has not produced the energy ex-pected.

“It has continued to get remark-

able publicity,” said Steve Hayes, a manager for Portland-based Nelson & Small.

The turbine was installed last summer, and Hayes said a techni-cal glitch has kept it from produc-ing the expected 2,000 kilowatts per hour. Instead of fulfilling 20 to 30 percent of DiMillo’s power needs, the turbine is only produc-ing 5 percent.

research and training, carcinoid tumors typically are slow-growing tumors that originate in the cells of the gas-trointestinal tract.

They rare-ly produce s y m p t o m s in the early stages, but can cause redness in the face or neck, swollen ankles, shortness of breath, rapid heart rate and soreness or fullness in the abdomen if the cancer spreads to another part of the body.

Brennan

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Business that perksCoffee by Design gets national nod for being cool

Emily Parkhurst / thE ForEcastErCoffee by Design owner Alan Spear holds the company’s newest gourmet coffee, part of a new “Harvest Reserve” category of high-quality – and expensive – coffees. The Panama “Geisha”

coffee will be sold in glass jars for $25 per half-pound.

By Emily Parkhurst PORTLAND — Alan Spear and Mary

Allen Lindemann don’t think they look particularly cool.

“I mean, look at us,” Lindemann said, pointing to her simple gray dress and straight, brown hair, pulled loosely back. Spear, her husband, was wearing a black sweater and jeans.

But their business, Coffee by Design, was recently called one of the 10 “Coolest Independent Coffee Shops” in the country by the Zagat rating guide.

The designation was based on customer service by baristas, the atmosphere of the shops and the quality of the coffee served.

Lindemann said those three things define Coffee by Design. The company has had op-portunities to expand beyond its four shops, on India and Congress streets and Wash-ington Avenue, and in the main L.L. Bean store in Freeport – but they don’t want to.

“We don’t want to be huge,” she said. “That’s not our vision.”

Coffee by Design opened 16 years ago at 620 Congress St., after the couple moved back to Maine from Seattle, in the days when Starbucks was still only a Seattle

company and small, independent coffee companies were rare in Portland. Although the original plan was to sell coffee out of a small cart, like many of the Seattle-area vendors, the couple decided a shop would be a better fit for Portland.

“The goal from day one was to provide a great product and great service,” Spear said.

Back in 1994, people in Maine didn’t know all that much about coffee, Spear said. In fact, he hadn’t known much about it until he moved to Seattle. But they were passionate about bringing great coffee east, despite the recession the country was in at the time.

They both admit Starbucks’ rapid expan-sion helped pave the way for small, inde-pendent shops like theirs to find success.

“They created the niche market for all of us,” Lindemann said.

At first, they were buying roasted beans from the West Coast. However, it wasn’t long before Spear started getting into roast-ing beans himself. In 1998, he started the commercial roasting operation at the 67 India St. location. For a while, there was no storefront. It wasn’t until the city ap-proached them and asked them to open a

company designed the space.“We have a great relationship with L.L.

Bean,” Spear said. “What they stand for, we stand for.”

Even though what started as a small dream of a coffee cart in Portland has grown to a nationally recognized company that helped launch the Portland Buy Local movement, Lindemann and Spear said they have no intention of expanding any more than they have.

“Our business is about building relation-ships,” Spear said. “Serving a cup of coffee isn’t unique, but seeing the passion of our roasters, the dedication of our baristas – people are attracted to that.”Emily Parkhurst can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 125 or

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coffee shop there that they did.For seven years, they also operated a

small shop in Monument Square, but sold the operation to Zarra’s, which sold Cof-fee by Design coffees, but was its own independent business until it closed. Coffee by Design’s wholesale market has grown from there, to 450 wholesalers throughout the state.

“We don’t have a salesperson. It’s all just word of mouth,” Lindemann said.

Most recently, they opened a shop inside the L.L. Bean flagship store in Freeport after the company approached them.

“They wanted a Maine-owned coffee company to run the cafe,” Spear said.

Initially, they were just serving coffee up-stairs at a small cafe area, but now, Coffee by Design has a full cafe on the first floor with an entrance on Main Street. Coffee by Design employees work there and the

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Bill, school reporting requirements would bring transparency to restraintsBy Emily Parkhurst

WASHINGTON D.C. — Between a new bill introduced in the U.S. Senate and a U.S. Department of Education request of data from all Maine schools, the restraint and seclusion of students in schools may soon become more trans-parent.

U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, chair-man of the Health Education Labor and Pension Committee, introduced the “Keeping All Students Safe Act” on Dec. 16, 2011. The bill will create minimum standards to protect public and private school students nationwide from “danger-

Disclosure gap hides $235M in work tied to officialsBy Naomi Schalit and John Christie

AUGUSTA — Between 2003 and 2010, the state paid almost $235 million to private organizations run by legislative leaders or the spouses of high-level state officials.

But because of a loophole in state law, not one penny of that spending was ever disclosed to the public in ethics filings.

An investigation by the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting has determined that the state paid millions of dollars to organizations associated with the following officials:

• Sen. Joseph Brannigan, D-Portland, chairman of the Appropriations and Health and Human Services committees: $98 mil-lion to Shalom House, where Brannigan was executive director. Brannigan is still in the Legislature, but has not been a member

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Bruno, R-Raymond: $35.6 million to Goold Health Systems, where he was president and chief executive officer, and $49 million to Community Pharmacies, where he was a board member of the controlling group. Bruno’s legislative service ended in 2004.

• Rep. Arthur Lerman, D-Augusta, mem-ber of the Appropriations Committee: $14 million to Support Solutions, where he was executive director. Lerman’s legislative service ended in 2006.

• Human Services Commissioner Brenda Harvey: $15.4 million to Mobius, where Harvey’s husband, David Lawlor, was executive director. Harvey resigned as com-missioner in January 2011.

• Workers Compensation Commission

Deputy Director Steven Minkowsky: $21.6 million to Continuum Healthcare, where Minkowsky’s wife was CEO of four facili-ties owned by the group. Minkowsky retired from the commission in February 2011.

The failure to disclose such significant financial connections between the state and high-level public officials limits the public’s ability to hold government officials accountable, said Judy Nadler, senior fellow at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and former mayor of Santa Clara, Calif.

“It doesn’t matter what size your state or your city, you should always err on the side of disclosure, you cannot disclose enough,” Nadler said. “It’s all an effort to allow the

public to have an open and transparent government so they know where the money is coming from and going, who might be in-fluencing decisions and any considerations that might lead a legislator to be unduly influenced.”

Each of the legislators or state officials said they did nothing wrong and that their Statehouse colleagues knew of their over-lapping private and public roles, thereby, they claim, creating a “check” on any pos-sible conflicts of interest.

“I think it was well known. Because I’d been here for a long time, I think everybody knew,” Brannigan said.

“My work as Executive Director of Sup-port Solutions,” Lerman said in an email, “was well known among my colleagues at

ous restraint and seclusion.”An investigation by The Forecaster

found that students all around Maine have been restrained in school, and that school staff sometimes used restraints considered “dangerous” under the state’s guidelines. Documents provided by the parents of three Scarborough elementary school boys showed that school staff restrained the boys nearly 100 times in three years. All three students now attend different schools.

A different version of the “Keeping All Students Safe Act” passed in the U.S. House of Representatives last year, but

was unable to clear the Senate.Also in December, the U.S. Depart-

ment of Education announced its Office of Civil Rights will be requiring all pub-lic and state-operated schools and juve-nile detention facilities to report a variety of data next year, including the number of restraints and seclusions performed on students.

That data will then be made available to the public. Currently, Maine schools do not have to report how many stu-

dents are restrained or put in locked or unlocked seclusion rooms. The Maine Department of Education has indicated in the past it is unaware how many students are restrained in Maine schools.

The state Department of Education, however, is putting the final touches on updates to its rules on restraint and seclusion of school children, which will include school reporting requirements. The updated rules are expected to soon go to a legislative committee.Emily Parkhurst can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 125 or

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Disclosurefrom previous page Loophole conceals officials’ interests in final year in officethe Legislature and others who frequented the State House.”

But Arn Pierson, vice president for pro-grams at Common Cause in Washington, D.C., said that the informal system of leg-islators or executive branch officials being aware of each other’s potential conflicts isn’t good policy.

Citizens, said Pierson, deserve to know this information even more.

“You can’t have a public discussion of whether there’s a significant conflict and whether there should be recusal if you don’t have the information to begin with,” he said.

Only part of one of the cases has been in the public’s knowledge.

In 2000, the Center for Public Integrity, a Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group, revealed state contracts that had gone to Bruno’s Goold Health Systems and that he had crafted legislation that benefited his pharmacy group.

While serving in the Legislature for two terms, CPI’s Ken Vogel reported, Bruno “has used his political power in the Pine Tree State to benefit himself and both com-panies, one of which receives more than $10 million in taxpayer-funded contracts from the state.”

Bruno denied any conflict of interest. The

AUGUSTA — Citizens who want to understand the potential conflicts be-tween private and public interests at the Statehouse aren’t just handicapped by disclosures that don’t disclose much.

There are also the disclosures that don’t even exist.

A loophole in state ethics law means that lawmakers and executive branch officials who leave office between one year’s disclosure filing deadline and the next year’s filing deadline don’t have to file a disclosure for their last year (or portion of a year) in state government.

An example: Rep. Joseph Bruno, R-Raymond, left office at the end of 2004. Staffer Cyndi Phillips of the state Commission on Governmental Ethics had this response when asked for a copy of Bruno’s 2004 financial disclosure:

“Unfortunately, we do not have a disclosure form for Senator Bruno for 2004 because he would not have had to

report until February 2005, when he no longer was in office.”

The disclosure law’s wording is at fault, said Jonathan Wayne, the commis-sion’s executive director.

“It’s written so each legislator has the obligation to do that,” Wayne said. By the filing deadline for Bruno’s last year in office, “Joe Bruno was not a legisla-tor. So under the way the statute was written, we wouldn’t expect to receive a statement for Mr. Bruno in 2004, which was his last year of service.”

It’s the same situation for executive branch officials who leave their jobs. There is no disclosure form on file, for example, for the last month and a half that Kurt Adams served as chairman of the Public Utilities Commission in 2008.

“Kurt Adams was not required to file a statement because he left his position in May 2008 – 11 months before the

reporting deadline,” Wayne said.Wayne wrote that statement in May

2010, adding that he and other members of the ethics commission staff believed this to be a loophole in the law.

“The Commission staff plans to pro-pose some amendments to 1 MRSA 19, including instituting a reporting require-ment for former employees,” Wayne said in an email. “I’m not sure exactly what the proposed requirement will be, but it could be something along the lines of requiring managerial employees to file a statement for the current year upon the termination of their employ-ment.”

That change has yet to be proposed by the commission, but in December 2011, Wayne said it was an option the commission would consider for the next full legislative session in 2013.

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Portland Press Herald and Bangor Daily News picked up the story and editorialized in favor of stronger legislative disclosure laws.

Those laws were never strengthened, and the tally has since mounted millions in taxpayer dollars that have gone to organi-zations affiliated with Statehouse leaders.

There are other legislators who worked for organizations that have received mil-lions in state money, including Spurwink, Rumford Group Home, Little Angels Day-

care, Community Counseling Center and Discovery House. Those legislators were not in influential positions, but the amounts paid to their employers by the state in fiscal year 2006 alone – not included in the $235 million – totalled more than $60 million.

The loophole that allows these potential conflicts to go unreported works this way: state law requires that legislators or high-level state employees report only state purchases of goods or services directly from the individual legislator or a relative, not from a corporation or entity for which the legislator or relative works.

Each year, they fill out a form called “Sources of Income.” Question No. 8 asks: “List each executive branch agency to which you or a member of your immediate family sold goods or services with a value in excess of $1,000 during the time period. Indicate whether you or a family member sold the goods or services. If none, check the box.”

Commissioner Harvey, whose husband was the executive director of a Mid-Coast social services agency that got $5.6 million in state funding during fiscal year 2009, checked “none.” She was legally able to do that because the millions in state money did not go to her or her husband as individuals.

Likewise, Brannigan, Lerman and Bruno each checked “none” in response to the same question on the legislative disclosure forms, where the language is virtually the same as on the executive branch forms.

According to Phyllis Gardiner, an as-sistant attorney general, “The reporting obligation in section 1016-A(7) thus does not appear to encompass goods and services provided to an executive branch agency by a corporation that employs, or is owned by, the legislator.”

So, if hypothetical Legislator Mary Smith is an accountant and performs account-ing services for the state for which she is paid more than $1000, she would have to disclose this under the requirement. But if Smith is the president of Accounting As-sociates, and performed the same work, she would not be required to disclose. Staff at the state Commission on Governmental Ethics, which receives and reviews legisla-tive and executive disclosure statements, confirmed that this interpretation is correct.

“If that’s the limits of it, we’re missing a broad range of significant potential con-flicts of interest,” said Pierson, of Common Cause. “That interpretation is so narrow as

to not make the law useful.”Jonathan Wayne, executive director of

the Commission on Governmental Ethics, said he, too, believes the law may be too limited in scope.

“I think it would certainly be better dis-closure to the public if it were broadened to include organizations, whether non-profit or profit-making, that had a certain relationship to the official,” Wayne said. “I think it’s just good for the public to know if public officials or members of their im-mediate family have significant contracts with the state.”

But Brannigan questioned whether the public would be interested in his business dealings.

“Would they know any more if you wrote it down on a piece of paper that nobody looks at?” he said.

The narrow financial disclosure law is at odds with policy in the state controller’s office, which prepares the annual audit of state finances. Each audit contains a section called “Related Party Transactions,” which details financial transactions between the state and organizations run by high-level legislators, executive branch officials or their close family members.

Neria Douglass, a former Democratic legislator and now the state auditor, said related party transactions are listed because they provide “transparency” about financial dealings between high-level government officials and the state.

“It is a special type of potential conflict of interest or power to exert financial in-fluence at a higher level than that of the ordinary individual,” Douglass said.

In Brannigan’s case, she said, “(he) could control an agency that received substantial funding from DHHS, and as a representa-tive, then senator chairing the Joint Stand-ing Committee on Health and Human Ser-vices, and later the Joint Standing Commit-tee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs, he had some control of policies that affected this financial relationship. The notes to the financial statement provide disclosure of a relationship that rises to a level that has potential to affect the financial transactions between the parties.”

But citizens would have a hard time fig-uring out who was involved in such trans-actions if they read the audit without a list of legislators and their committee assign-ments. That’s because the audit contains no

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Halsey Frank

What about the other side of the story?Last month, Portland’s major daily newspaper, The

Portland Press Herald, reviewed its top stories of the year. Many of them were negative stories about Gov. Paul LePage (his remarks about the NAACP, his re-moval of the mural from the walls of the state De-partment of Labor, etc.).

In the same month, the paper ran one front-page, above-the-fold story about how an editor of Forbes magazine disagreed with the governor’s interpreta-tion of the magazine’s rating of our state’s busi-ness climate. It ran another front-page story about how Democratic legislators dis-agreed with the governor’s use of state statistics about the number of welfare recipients versus the number of taxpayers. In other coverage, the paper has been taking up the cause of the director of the Maine State Housing Authority against the state treasurer over the cost of low-income housing.

Meanwhile, the governor and the treasurer have re-sorted to using alternative means to communicate with

the public, including the governor’s capitol-for-a-day visits to communities around the state and the treasurer’s mass emails. I can’t blame them given what the Press Herald has been printing for local news these days.

While it publishes opinion, it does little to dig up and present basic facts about business and government. I really don’t need a newspaper to tell me that Democrats disagree with Republicans or that some author or editor disagrees with the use to which his work is put.

What would be useful is some account of the basic facts. What are the economic indicators for our state versus others? What are their history and current trends? What are the statistics about how many Mainers are paying income tax and how many are on what form of benefit? Assuming they exist and can be accessed, what do MSHA’s records reveal about the cost of the Elm Street Terrace housing project and when that cost was questioned.

In other areas, it would have been nice to know more about all those multi-million dollar budget deficits we used to hear about each year. I don’t ever recall get-ting a satisfactory explanation of them. How about the problem-plagued, multi-million dollar computer system that the Maine Department of Human Services installed? Did the paper ever identify who got the contract and how, what the problems were, and whether they were ever solved? Or was the whole system scrapped in favor of a different one?

Has the paper broken any major story in recent years? The questionable use of funds at the Maine Turnpike Authority was identified by the state Office of Program Review and Government Accountability. The Maine State Housing Authority financing low-income housing at premium housing prices was questioned by the state treasurer. The solvency of our state pension system only got attention after we noticed that most other states were in trouble.

At best, the Press Herald jumps on the wagon after someone else reports the fire. At worst, its coverage is reactionary repudiation of conservative people and ideas. The most irrational and unsubstantiated editori-als, opinion pieces and letters do little more than call Republicans stupid, dishonest nuts.

I am not saying that the governor shouldn’t be more statesman-like. He should. But our state, like the rest of the states, our country, and the world face serious problems. We need information to make good deci-sions about them. We would be better served by a daily newspaper that provides us with information on its news pages and limits opinion, argument and rebuttal to its editorial page.

Halsey Frank is a Portland resident, attorney and former chairman of the Republican City Committee.

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Rousselle’s view from the right is wrong

My heart goes out to Christine Rousselle. Imagine working at Walmart and having to spend “hours upon hours toiling away” serving a “questionable clientele” she considered beneath her dignity to serve.

She was forced to observe alleged misbehavior on the part of some recipients of financial aid. She de-scribes “generations of families” appearing at her cash register to buy food, of all things. She also was subject to rude behavior of people ignoring her while on their cell phones. Can you imagine this happening outside a Walmart?

To what kind of hell was this young woman subject-ed? Customers actually felt sorry for her, that it must be “tough to stand on a mat all day.” Our plucky girl replied, “Well it’s a job,” deni-grating as she may have considered it to be. When a customer sug-gested that women in line ahead of him should be treated to “steel drums and cement,” she remembered “why I vote Republican.” I was unaware the Republican platform has a plank written by Tony Soprano.

She concludes that “something is terribly wrong.” I agree. It is wrong to present gross exaggerations as the norm. It is wrong to impugn those less fortunate

Legislature should reject LePage funding cuts

Gov. LePage’s proposal to cut funding to assisted living facilities such as ours, as reported last week by

The Forecaster’s Amy Anderson, is a penny-wise, pound-foolish plan.

The Chebeague Island Commons, like almost 160 similar providers in Maine, offers care to elders who can no longer live in their own homes. A portion of our costs come from

MaineCare, the program the governor plans to cut by $120 million.

If we are forced to close or reduce services, our residents face untenable options: Move off the island into skilled nursing homes, where the per-day cost of services underwritten by MaineCare is far higher than our cost of providing care, or return to their homes to

with anecdotal accounts colored by personal prejudice. It is wrong to condemn an entire system based on the perceived abuse attributed to an undetermined fraction of its participants. It is wrong to pander to the most self-ish instinct of human nature by seeking scapegoats to advance a political agenda. It is very wrong.

Tom FoleyCumberland Foreside

manage on their own or become dependant on their families. Then, a health crisis will almost certainly re-sult in a trip to the emergency room or hospitalization, where treatment, also underwritten by MaineCare, is even more expensive.

LePage argues the cuts are needed to close a deficit in the state Department of Health and Human Services’ budget. This isn’t eliminating costs, it is simply ensur-ing that the ultimate price for care will be higher. We represent precisely the kind of enterprise the governor claims to support: Mainers helping Mainers, delivering cost-effective services while at the same time offering good jobs in communities that need them.

Our representatives in Augusta need to say no to this shortsighted plan.

Ann Thaxter, presidentIsland Commons Resource Center

Chebeague Island

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Governor’s budget pits Mainers against MainersBy Sen. Joseph Brannigan

Gov. Paul LePage’s recent Department of Health and Human Services budget speaks to the failure of his ad-ministration to create jobs and implement a catalyst for economic recovery. But most importantly, the governor uses this budget just as he did in January 2011 to play Maine people against each other.

This tactic seeks to blame unpopular groups and, in many cases, powerless and unacceptable people in the governor’s perspective.

Last year, when the governor presented Maine’s two-year budget to the Legislature, he pitted the pub-lic against state employees, teachers, and persons on welfare. He cast these groups as the culprits for all of Maine’s economic woes. This budget, as well as the governor’s legislative package, contained no job-creation proposals.

This most recent budget portrays the low-income, the elderly and disabled, veterans, and children as the culprits. The governor’s proposals include eliminating most beds for elderly and disabled residents of private, non-medical institutions, also known as PNMIs.

More than 4,000 residents will be turned out of these facilities with no place to go. There is no plan in the governor’s proposal to help them. PNMI residents have an average age of 81 years, are primarily women, have no home or apartment to which to return, cannot live on their own, and 48 percent suffer from dementia. A significant number are also aged and disabled veterans.

Low-income elderly and disabled also lose financial assistance for prescription drugs and assistance toward payment of their Medicare Part A and B premiums. A total of 72,000 seniors will lose their Medicare Part D co-payments, 21,500 seniors will lose help with their Medicare Part A and B deductibles and co-insurance, and 18,500 seniors will lose all assistance under the Medicare Savings Program.

The governor’s budget also eliminates health insur-ance coverage for 16,000 childless adults with incomes of 100 percent or less of the federal poverty level. In addition, the Parents of Children program is cut by 50 percent. These groups are among the lowest income households in Maine. In addition, there is a popula-tion of homeless veterans who, up to now, have been receiving health care by means of the Childless Adult program, but who lose this access to health care under the governor’s proposal.

The governor’s budget eliminates all state funding for

When Yankees swapOn Christmas Eve, I once again had the pleasure of

being witness to the odd ritual known affectionately (to some) as the Yankee Swap.

Growing up in northern New Jersey, I’d never heard the word “Yankee” associated with holiday gift giving. Sure, I’d heard of Yankee Doodle and the New York Yankees, but these had nothing to do with Christ-mas. Perhaps I’d just led a sheltered life, or perhaps it was because I didn’t live in New England. It may have also had something to do with the fact that Christmas Eve at our house didn’t generally involve a swap-appropriate guest list the size of a football team.

Things changed drasti-cally for me when I joined my late husband’s large, half-Italian, Massachusetts-centric family. Christmas Eve meant a house overflow-ing with people – and we’re merely talking immediate family: parents, brothers, sisters, spouses and an ever-growing array of nieces and nephews. Someone was always pregnant, had recently given birth or was toting along a toddler or two.

The large, bustling family gathered in what could not have been a more traditional and festive Colonial home, and warmed my heart. Laughter, merriment and eggnog were abundant. And then came the Swap – the event everyone anticipated with both joy and trepidation, the cherry on top of the Christmas Eve sundae.

For those not familiar with Yankee Swap, the process goes something like this:

Each participant brings a wrapped, unmarked gift (the value of which must not exceed the predetermined price limit). Guests randomly draw numbers from a hat, and

Head Start, and for 7,000 youth ages 19 and 20 years old – many of whom are foster children with no parents.

Another provision of this budget provides mental health funding exclusively for severe and persistent mental illness. Low-income residents with a lesser degree of mental illness will receive no state assistance for mental health services, and their opportunities to be productive members in our society will be put at risk.

There is a substantial cost that is not taken into con-sideration in the governor’s budget. Nearly 4,500 jobs will be lost, including jobs in hospitals, doctor’s offices, residential treatment facilities, laboratories, and many other health related facilities. There will be a loss of state income and sales tax revenues as a result of these job losses. When more than 65,000 individuals lose their

MaineCare health insurance, they will end up in emer-gency rooms or foregoing treatment until they require the most expensive care. The result will be substantial increases in health insurance premiums that working people will have to absorb.

The governor and DHHS prepared this budget in iso-lation, without consulting any of the groups adversely impacted by this budget. Instead of working with all stakeholders to make more efficient use of Medicaid, the Administration chose to divide Maine people against each other and blame the “unfortunate” for the problems of the state.

There are far better solutions. I will vote against the budget in its current form, and I will urge all my col-leagues to vote against it.

State Sen. Joseph Brannigan, a Portland Democrat, is serving his sixth term representing District 9, which in-cludes parts of Westbrook and Portland.

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select gifts from the pile in that order.The person who draws No. 1 picks a gift (that is not

their own) and opens it for all to see.That’s when the otherwise loving relatives will begin

plotting which gift they will eventually try to rip from another loving relative’s grasp.

The person who draws No. 2 then chooses a gift and opens it, and must decide whether to keep it or swap it for the first player’s gift. Each person in order then se-lects a present, opens it and decides whether to keep it or swap it for any other gift someone has already opened.

This continues until all presents have been chosen. Finally, the person who picked first gets to choose from all the gifts or keep what he or she has already received. In the end, the gift you are holding is the gift you take home (unless you steal one from someone else and/or cut a deal).

This may all sound like festive holiday fun, but things can go very wrong.

First, there is the price ceiling.Many people take this “upper limit” as the amount

of money they should spend on the gift. Other people stay as far from this number as possible. This is when trouble begins to brew, because really, who wants to go home with a $5 Snuggy if they have contributed a $25 pair of cashmere socks?

And then there’s the issue of some gifts not appear-ing as valuable as they really are. A crass remark about some people “being so cheap” in reference to our

thoughtfully chosen set of Williams-Sonoma marshmal-low roasting sticks (with telescoping handles!) nearly caused me to throw the Yule log at a particular sister-in-law one Silent Night. This was, of course, the same relative whose own Swap contribution was something she’d picked up for 20 American cents while on vacation

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A right-left primer for 2012If you have followed the Republican presidential

primary debates, the congressional budget debacles, the war of words waged nightly between Fox News and MSNBC, the editorials in local, state, and national publications, the letters to the editor and online comments engendered by local newspaper reports, the demonstrations pro and con on President Obama’s progressive agenda for the United States and Gov. LeP-age’s conservative agenda for Maine, and the warring partisan websites from which tea party conserva-tives and Occupy Wall Street progressives get their self-affirming information, you know all too well that America is polarized to the point of national paralysis.

Here’s what con-servatives think of liberals:

Liberals are people ruled by emotions. They are tender-hearted, warm and fuzzy people who can’t stand to see anyone suffer. They think large state and federal governments are the only way to relieve suffering. In order to enable the state to care for all the people, liberals support high, confiscatory taxes and what amounts to a socialist society, a nanny state in which housing, health care, educa-tion, employment, and food are all supplied by the government.

Liberals detest free-market capitalism, because competition guarantees that some people will be winners and others will be losers. They believe that

profits are evil because they exploit workers and reward owners. Liberals blame the wealthy for the current economic crisis, but what they refuse to understand is that wealthy, successful people are job creators. Liberals are tree-huggers who value owls and newts over economic prosperity. If they had their way, guns and hunting would be outlawed.

Liberals have created a welfare state that has destroyed individual incentive and turned genera-tions of poor people and illegal aliens into wards of the state guilty of rampant welfare fraud. They bus immigrants, poor people, and students to the polls in a campaign of voter fraud designed to maintain their grip on power.

Liberals are hypocrites. They hate America. They are essentially unpatriotic communists.

Here’s what liberals think of conservatives:Conservatives are people ruled by prejudice. They

are basically racists trying to drag America back into a past they liked and understood. They are hard-hearted, cold, selfish people who don’t care what happens to anyone else as long as they are comfortable. They think both the state and federal governments are the enemy. If they had their way, there would be no public health, public educa-tion, public housing, public employment, or public assistance. People would just have to take care of themselves.

Conservatives love free-market capitalism, be-cause they mistakenly confuse economic success with human value. Conservatives blame the poor for the current economic crisis, but what they refuse to understand is that wealthy, powerful people are actually to blame. They do not create jobs, they just create generational wealth for themselves. Conser-vatives are eco-terrorists who would cut down and kill every living thing in nature if it meant personal profit. They are all antisocial gun nuts prone to violence.

Conservatives would create a police state ruled by rich, powerful individuals and corporations. They would impose the death penalty for all manner of crimes, build fences with gun towers along every state and federal border, and turn everything from education and health care to national defense over to for-profit corporations.

Conservatives are hypocrites. They hate America. They are essentially unpatriotic fascists.

So what ever happened to wise, public-spirited, experienced leaders who take a moderate, problem-solving approach to government and put the public interest ahead of personal and partisan gains? No wonder Americans despair of ever climbing out of the hole this country has dug for itself. Extremism in defense of liberty is getting us nowhere.

Only 48 percent of Americans say they see anyone running they think would make a good president. President Obama’s job approval rating is hovering around that same 48 percent. And Con-gress’ approval rating just hit an all-time low of 11 percent.

Looking ahead to the 2012 elections, therefore, what I see these numbers and this extreme polariza-tion in American civic life adding up to is a recogni-tion on the part of the general public that Obama is their only moderate choice and that the extremists in Congress simply have to go.

Come November, I predict Obama will be re-elected, a lot of tea party congressmen will be find themselves back out on the street, and Democrats will regain control of the Maine Legislature.

That would be a happy New Year.Freelance journalist Edgar Allen Beem lives in

Yarmouth. The Universal Notebook is his personal, weekly look at the world around him.

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shopping at a marketplace in India.I’ve seen parents use their children as decoys to keep

their loot – placing the coveted 1995 Santa Beanie Baby into a toddler’s hands so no one would dare claim it.

(That one didn’t work on Drew and me and we took it anyway. The kid started crying, but we thought his parents needed to be taught a lesson in Yankee Swap etiquette. Grow up, or go home.)

Yankee Swap is not for the faint hearted. It may sound innocent, but remember, those Yankees have been known to be thick-skinned, fearless. And cheap.

As always, swap responsibly and use protection. You only get one year to recuperate.

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12/26 at 6 p.m. Hadelyn Richardson, 20, of Portland, was arrested on Forest Avenue by Officer Dan Aguilera on a charge of unlawful trafficking in drugs.

12/26 at 9 p.m. Zouhair Adam Bouzrara, 50, of Portland, was arrested on Forest Avenue by Officer Kali Hagerty on charges of operating under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident.

12/27 at midnight Melissa Pike, 34, of Portland, was arrested on Congress Street by Officer Michael Bennis on a charge of theft.

12/27 at 5 a.m. Sophea Va, 22, of Biddeford, was arrested on Hill Street by Officer Christo-pher Kelley on a charge of refusing to submit for arrest or detention.

12/27 at 8 a.m. Ronald Wayne Spiller, 63, no address given, was arrested on Oxford Street by Officer Daniel Knight on a charge of assault.

12/27 at 10 a.m. David Timothy McGlash-ing, 57, of Portland, was arrested on Preble Street by Officer James Keddy on a charge of public drinking.

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12/27 at 5 p.m. Charles P. Bird, 25, of Portland, was arrested on Jackson Street by Officer Jacob Titcomb on charges of theft and unlawful possession of scheduled drugs.

12/28 at 9 a.m. Robert Rankin, 21, of Port-land, was arrested on Oxford Street by Officer Daniel Knight on a charge of obstructing public ways.

12/28 at 11 a.m. Raymond Davies, 20, of Portland, was arrested on Monument Square by Officer Daniel Knight on a charge of criminal trespass.

12/28 at 11 a.m. Russell R. Solak, 34, of Portland, was arrested on Cumberland Av-enue by Officer Kristan Steele on a charge of violation of conditional release.

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12/28 at 4 p.m. Peter Wing, 49, no address given, was arrested on Cumberland Avenue by Officer Jay Twomey on a charge of public drinking.

12/28 at 10 p.m. Adam Omar Issa Hassan, 38, of Portland, was arrested on Dow Street by Officer Christopher Dyer on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon.

12/29 at 6 a.m. Loc T. Trinh, 41, of Portland, was arrested on Boyd Street by Officer James Keddy on a charge of assault.

12/29 at 1 p.m. Michael Benjamin Airington, 22, of Portland, was arrested on Casco Street by Officer Stephen Black on charges of assault and burglary of a motor vehicle.

12/30 at 1 a.m. Nicole Anne Etchie-Wood, 24, of Portland, was arrested on Forest Av-enue by Officer Thomas Kwok on a charge of disorderly conduct.

12/30 at 2 a.m. Jonge A. Torres, 24, of Port-land, was arrested on Mayo Street by Officer Christopher Coyne on a charge of criminal threatening.

12/30 at 4 a.m. Robert Edward Allan, 26, of Cape Elizabeth, was arrested on Congress Street by Officer Christopher Dyer on a charge of refusing to submit to arrest or detention.

12/30 at 7 p.m. Steven A. Look, 45, of Port-land, was arrested on Short Street by Officer Charles Libby on a charge of assault.

12/31 at 7 p.m. Ronald Reynolds, 26, of Portland, was arrested on Forest Avenue by Officer Bethany Edwards on a charge of violation of a protection from abuse order.

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He was born in Portland on April 2, 1936, a son of Thomas and Caroline Pay-son. When he was very young, the family moved to Yarmouth where they remained for nearly 70 years.

Educated at North Yarmouth Academy and Maine Central Institute in Pittsfield, Payson followed in his father’s footsteps and earned a bach-elor of arts degree at Bowdoin College in 1958.

Throughout the years, Bowdoin Col-lege and the classmates he met there remained special to Payson, and he regularly attended alumni functions and sporting events, especially women’s basketball.

Shortly after graduation, Payson en-listed in the U.S. Navy. After Officer Candidate School in Chicago, Ill., he served in the Pacific Ocean on the U.S.S. Bennington. While that ship was docked in the Philippines, Payson met the love of his life, Susanna Divinagracia. They were married in 1962 and returned to the United States shortly afterward. He left active duty and entered the U.S. Naval Reserves until his retirement in 1986, rising the the rank of commander.

After working for a short time in Boston, he began his life’s work as a teacher. He taught for five years at North Yarmouth Academy and later moved to Pine Grove Mills, Pa. to earn a Master’s degree in Mathematics at Penn State Uni-versity. From 1972 until 1997, he taught all levels of mathematics at Ramapo Se-nior High School in Spring Valley, N.Y. He also coached soccer, basketball and math league.

He was known for his generosity, com-munity spirit, forgiving nature and love and support of his family.

A lifelong Red Sox fan, Payson was passionate about baseball and served as an umpire during four decades in both Maine and New York, officiating at all levels of recreational and scholastic competition.

In 1963, he attended the Al Somers (now Harry Wendelstedt) Umpire School with the intention of working his way to major league umpiring, but decided instead to commit to local competition to remain close to his family. He rose to president of the Rockland County (New York) Umpires Association and served in this capacity until retiring in 1996.

His commitment to baseball culmi-nated in recognition from the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame, which presented him with its President’s Award in 2011.

An active member in St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in Yarmouth, he loved singing in the choir. His faith guided him in all his decisions and supported him through the ups and downs of life.

Payson is survived by his wife of 49 years, Susan D. Payson; sons Albion Little Payson II of Congers, N.Y., and Benjamin Nicholas of Williamsburg, Va.; daughter Teresa Landor of Bartlett, Ill.; sisters Helen Brown Seager of Sudbury, Mass., Penelope Hart Simkin of Seattle, Wash., Caroline Cushman Payson of

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Carmona raised $14,150, mostly from out-of-state supporters, and spent about $12,800. But he only received 317 first-place votes, which means he spent about $40.38 per vote.

Brennan spent $11.25 for each of his 5,240 first-round votes. He raised $41,000 through Oct. 25, and saw a big bump in fundraising in the closing days of the cam-paign, raising about $18,500 from Oct. 26 to Dec. 13.

City Councilor Nicholas Mavodones also saw an uptick in fundraising from Oct. 26 to Dec. 13. After raising $46,000 through Oct. 25, Mavodones raised an ad-ditional $10,300 in the closing days of the campaign.

Mavodones received 1,516 first-place votes in the opening round and finished

third. He spent $18.98 per vote.The most frugal candidate was John

Eder, a former state representative, who raised and spent only $775 – the least of any candidate. Eder’s 271 first-place votes in the opening round only cost about $2.86, but he came in 12th.

Richard Dodge wasn’t too far behind Eder’s per-vote total. Dodge, who raised $2,235, received 670 first-place votes in the opening round, which works out to only $3.30 a vote.

City Councilor David Marshall, mean-while, was the most frugal of the top-tier candidates. The fourth-place finisher raised $14,400, and spent all but $15 of that. Mar-shall received 1,516 first-place votes in the opening round, and spend $9.49 per vote.

Fifth-place finisher Jed Rathband’s cam-paign raised $30,300, including $2,800 in the final days of the campaign. He was the only candidate to have an independent PAC

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Also missing is information from Elizabeth Holton, who was re-elected to the School Board. Holton as of last week had not filed either an 11-day pre-election report or the 42-day post-election report.

Philbrick said Holton plans to file for an exemption, because she didn’t raise or spend any money. Failure to do so could result in fines.

In the mayor’s race, City Councilor Jill Duson more than doubled her fundraising in the final days of the campaign. Duson raised about $5,000 before the election, but

raised $5,700 in the closing days.Duson’s fundraising ace in the hole?

Her godson, Michael Odokara-Okigbo, a lead performer for the Dartmouth Aires, the a capella group that finished second on NBC’s nationally televised “The Sing Off.”

Odokara-Okigbo performed a fundraising concert for Duson on Oct. 29 at Portland High School. That concert grossed more than $4,700, although Duson had to pay $475 to rent the auditorium. Her per-vote cost was $12.26.

With all this talk about money some can-didates raised, there was one candidate who didn’t raise a single penny: Peter Bryant. But that didn’t stop the 10th-place finisher from spending $5,075, which works out to $13.82 for each of his 367 first place votes in the opening round.

Per-vote costs for other candidates were

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Holiday break over, winter season gets serious(Ed. Note: For the complete

Cheverus-Marshwood boys’ and Deering-South Portland girls’ basketball game stories, please see theforecaster.net)

By Michael Hoffer

The preliminaries are over and the winter sports season is about to ramp up dramatically.

Last week featured a mix of hol-iday tournament and regular sea-son action. Now, it’s back to work for everyone on the hardwood, ice, mats and in the pool. The indoor track and skiing seasons are about to get underway as well.

Here’s a glimpse:Boys’ basketball

As 2012 dawns, you could make the argument that the two best Class A boys’ basketball teams in the state reside in Portland.

Defending regional champion Cheverus was expected to come back to the pack after returning just one starter this winter, but the Stags extended their regular season win streak to 24 games with a 59-40 home victory over dangerous Marshwood Friday. Cheverus (which won its one holi-day tournament game, 53-40, over Yarmouth) was playing without senior standout Louie DiStasio, but it turned out it didn’t need him.

The Stags improved to 6-0 by racing to an early lead, fending off a second quarter Hawks’ come-back, then putting the game away with a 21-7 run late in the first half and into the third quarter.

Cheverus senior James Kapotha-nasis hit some early baskets to get things started and led the way with 13 points. Senior Shawn Grover and junior Michael Flaherty each had 10 and senior Cam Olson eight.

“Coming into practice, we knew Louie wasn’t going to be able to play, but we have a bunch of players who can play well,” said Kapothanasis. “Everyone hustled and helped each other out. I was hot early on. When I missed a couple, I was looking for my teammates. Everyone ran the floor great. When you miss a shot, you know Grover will be there. We’re good at catching and shooting. Everyone’s confident with their shots.”

“I’m not going to say that we don’t need Louie because he’s a great player, but this just goes to show that we can play without him,” said Olson. “We’re a team. I think it just showed all the other teams that we can play together and win as a team. Marshwood’s a great team, but we took it to them today.”

The Stags (first in the latest Western Class A Heal Points

TIm Greenway / For The ForecasTerDeering junior Marissa MacMillan swats away a South Portland shot during

last week’s 46-32 victory.

standings) had a regional final rematch at Bonny Eagle Tues-day, host Sanford Friday and go to Scarborough Tuesday of next week.

“The schedule gets tougher now, but we’re starting to embrace what we’re doing,” Cheverus coach Bob Brown said. “If we play like this, we’ll be pretty good.”

Deering has lived up to pre-season billing and has been every bit Cheverus’ equal. The Rams won their lone holiday tourna-ment game, 58-32, over Spruce Mountain, then held on to edge host Bonny Eagle in a rematch of last year’s playoff loss, 57-55, in overtime. Deering improved to 6-0 behind 21 points and a clutch block in the waning seconds from junior Labson Abwoch.

The Rams (second in the Heals) were home with Kennebunk Tues-day, have a tough test at South Portland Friday and return home Tuesday of next week to face Bid-deford.

Deering is at Cheverus Jan. 13.The other two city teams have

been pretty impressive as well.Portland played a countable

game last Tuesday, winning at Gorham, 46-36 (sophomore Matt Talbot led the way with 11 points),

to improve to 4-2. The Bulldogs then played three holiday tourna-ment contests, falling to Susan Wagner of New York (42-38) and Greely (59-37) before defeating Moore Catholic of New York, 62-58.

Portland (fifth in the Heals) was at Biddeford Tuesday, hosts Windham Friday and plays at Ken-nebunk next Tuesday.

In Western C, Waynflete takes a 5-0 record and the No. 2 rank-ing in the Heals into Wednesday’s home showdown with defend-ing Western B champion Cape Elizabeth. After going to Fryeburg Friday, the Flyers visit Sacopee Tuesday of next week.

Girls’ basketballOn the girls’ side, defending

Class A state champion McAuley hasn’t missed a beat, although the Lions did run into a speed bump from out of state.

After winning their first five games this winter with ease, McAuley faced Winnacunnet of New Hampshire in a holiday tournament game last Monday. Winnacunnet was riding an 80-game win streak and is the five-time defending Granite State champion. Winnacunnet broke the game open in the middle quarters

and went on to a 63-45 win. The Lions got 10 points, five rebounds and two steals from sophomore Allie Clement, nine points and six boards from sophomore Olivia Smith and eight points and five rebounds from junior Molly Mack.

After downing Class B Wells, 67-42, in another holiday tourna-ment game Tuesday, McAuley returned to league play Friday at home and dominated Biddeford, 60-19, behind 17 points and 15 rebounds from senior Alexa Cou-lombe, 12 points from Smith and 10 points and nine steals from Clement.

The Lions (6-0 fifth in the Western A Heal Points standings) was at Windham Tuesday (see theforecaster.net for game story), goes to rival Deering Friday and returns home next Tuesday to meet Massabesic.

After starting the season with successive losses, Deering has won five straight and has risen to the No. 3 spot in the standings. Last week, the Rams did not play in a holiday tournament, instead competing in two league games.

Last Wednesday, Deering hosted South Portland and forced seven Red Riots’ turnovers in the first quarter as junior Marissa Mac-Millan scored four points and grabbed seven boards to help the Rams build a 13-4 lead. Deering never looked back and despite a late South Portland surge, rolled, 46-32.

MacMillan led everyone with 12 points and 11 rebounds and got plenty of help from the likes of seniors Emily Cole (nine points), Maura Densmore (seven points) and Ella Ramonas (six points, six rebounds, three steals) and junior Chelsea Saucier (eight points, six

rebounds, four steals).“We wanted to play the game

right,” MacMillan said. “We ran plays right, played defense and boxed out and played together as a team.”

“We’re definitely acting more as a team,” said Saucier. “We just needed to get on the same page and work together. We’ve worked in practice on defense. We wanted to make it hard on (South Port-land) with our pressure.”

The Rams then knocked off visiting Bonny Eagle, 50-35, in a playoff rematch Friday. Deering got 17 points from MacMillan and 15 points and 17 boards from Ramonas to improve to 5-2. The Rams were at Kennebunk Tuesday, host McAuley Friday and go to Biddeford Tuesday of next week.

“We’re still finding our identity,” Deering coach Mike Murphy said. “(The girls) have to believe in themselves and that they’re pretty good. Going forward, we’ve got to keep in mind that we have to play defense.”

Cheverus fell from the ranks of the unbeaten last week, 59-49, at Marshwood. Senior Alexandra Palazzi-Leahy had 14 points and junior Brooke Flaherty 10 in defeat. The Stags (5-1 seventh in the Heals) go to Sanford for a playoff rematch Thursday and host undefeated Scarborough Tuesday. Cheverus is at Deering Jan. 13.

Portland is still seeking its first victory. The Bulldogs fell to Cape Elizabeth and Winnacunnet in the holiday tournament, then dropped a 60-37 home decision to Gorham Friday to fall to 0-7. Senior Angie Reali had a team-high 15 points. Portland (17th in the Heals) was at Biddeford Tuesday, goes to Windham Friday and welcomes Kennebunk next Tuesday.

In Western C, Waynflete played two holiday tournament games, losing to Greely, 47-27 (despite 17 points from junior standout Martha Veroneau), and Windham, 51-35 (Veroneau had 22 points). The Flyers took a 3-2 mark and the No. 7 ranking in the Heals into a game Wednesday night at Cape Elizabeth. Waynflete is home against Fryeburg Friday and Old Orchard Beach Tuesday.

HockeyThe Cheverus and Portland

boys’ hockey teams took part in the Maine High School Hockey Invitational last week.

The Stags lost to Tewksbury, Mass., in the only score reported, 3-1. Cheverus takes a 3-1 mark and the No. 8 ranking in the West-ern Class A Heal Points standings into Thursday’s game at Cape Elizabeth.

TIm Greenway / For The ForecasTerCheverus senior Shawn Grover goes in for an emphatic slam dunk during

last week’s win over Marshwood.

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The Bulldogs dropped a 9-0 decision to Newington/Berlin N.H., in their lone re-ported holiday tournament game. Portland (0-5 and 15th in the Heals) was home with Yarmouth Monday, visits Kennebunk Sat-urday and plays at Class B state champion York Wednesday of next week.

On the girls’ side, Portland took a 5-2 mark (and the No. 4 ranking in the West Region) into Monday’s game at Gorham. The Bulldogs are home with York Thursday and Scarborough Saturday.

Cheverus fell to 3-4 (and fifth in the West) after a 5-0 home loss to Scarborough

Saturday. The Stags were home with York Monday, host Biddeford Wednesday, go to Scarborough Saturday and visit Biddeford next Wednesday.

SwimmingDeering’s swim teams were in action

last week, at Falmouth. The Rams won the boys’ competition, 85-55. The girls lost, 86-84. Deering swims at Cheverus Friday.

McAuley is at Cape Elizabeth and Waynflete swims at Portland Friday.

WrestlingThe wrestling season resumes Wednes-

day when Portland hosts Westbrook. Deering is at Nokomis Saturday.

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However, Hayes said hopes the com-pany will be able to resolve the glitch. In the meantime, 15 other companies have expressed interest in installing the roof-top devices.

“Some are hesitating right now, because it’s only a 14-year payback,” Hayes said.

For other devices, like solar panels, the payback in energy savings that cover the cost of the installation is as little as two years.

Like solar panels, maintenance required by roof-top turbines is low, Hayes said, and they are not likely to generate the contro-versy that can accompany a large propeller-style turbine.

In fact, Hayes said, when the city’s in-spector went to check out the DiMillo’s turbine after it was installed, he had to call and ask where it was.

“He couldn’t find it,” Hayes said. “People don’t see it, don’t notice it there.”

The company has conducted tours to show people the DiMillo’s turbine, and nearly every time, the tour leader has to point out the turbine because people can’t see or hear it, he said.

On Peaks Island, meanwhile, residents who utilized technology provided by Ef-ficiency Maine to test wind resources on city-owned conservation land in the middle of the island have determined the wind just isn’t there.

“The test results suggested that at the height we tested and at the location we

tested, we didn’t have enough resource,” said Sam Saltonstall, who heads up the Peaks Environmental Action Team.

The group collected data for a year at a height of 100 feet, and the University of Maine analyzed the data. Saltonstall said the location was not ideal in several ways, particularly because it is not the highest point on the island. Also, he said, the tur-bine would have to be higher than 100 feet to reach the wind speeds necessary to make it worthwhile, something that would disrupt the views of many people on the island.

Saltonstall said the turbine would never have powered island homes. Instead, it would have reduced the amount the city pays for electricity for Peaks Island School and other municipal buildings.

“When we started, we knew the Casco Bay wind resource wasn’t as good as fur-ther up the coast, but we thought it was worth testing,” Saltonstall said.

He said now the PEAT group is focusing on helping people insulate and seal their homes to save energy.

On Wednesday, the City Council is scheduled to hold a workshop on a wind energy ordinance that would regulate the installation of turbines in the city.

It contains height restrictions and setback requirements, and would likely prevent any of the large propeller-style turbines from being installed on the peninsula.Emily Parkhurst can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 125 or

[email protected]. Follow her on Twitter: @emilyparkhurst.

$11.46 for Markos Miller, $10.14 for Chris-topher Vail, $5.32 for Charles Bragdon, $19.19 for Hamza Haadoow and $25.50 for Jodie Lapchick.

Consulting costsFour of the top six finishers hired politi-

cal consultants – in some cases, at a heavy price.

Mavodones shelled out $29,000 to get advice from Mach3Media, while Strimling paid Baldacci Communications nearly $20,400 for its expertise. Each candidate paid an additional $14,200 and $8,800 in salaries, respectively.

Duson used more than $5,800 in consult-ing services from 19 Oaks in South Port-land. Her reports indicate she still owes the

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firm more than $2,000.Rathband, meanwhile, received consult-

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Neither Brennan nor Marshall hired con-sultants, but did pay their campaign staffs $7,500 and $7,000, respectively.

Getting the word outBrennan may have been the only candi-

date to run television commercials, spend-ing nearly $11,000 for ads on two stations.

But Rathband took his message to the big screen. His reports indicate a $356 ad pay-ment to Patriot Cinemas, which operates the Nickelodeon. He also ran radio ads, which were funded by an independent PAC.

Brennan and Strimling spent the most on direct mailings, $33,300 and $29,000, respectively, while Rathband spent more

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After being asked about the charge by a newspaper reporter, officials in Freeport gave the resident a refund of $28.13.

The Freeport Town Council is working on a draft of a public documents policy, and until it’s completed, town staff said the town would follow Maine FOAA law.

In Brunswick, the Town Council adopted a policy in 2006 that allowed the town to charge for inspection of public documents if the research to find the files or the time needed to view them is “lengthy,” or if it requires removing an employee from his or her routine duties. In that case, the policy allows the town to charge a fee equal to the employee’s hourly wage.

That’s despite a 2003 amendment to Maine’s FOAA that states government agencies and officials may not charge citi-zens for inspection of documents.

Town Manager Gary Brown said he has never charged anyone to view a document, and noted that while the town’s policy al-lows an employee to charge for inspection, it doesn’t mandate it.

“I’m confident that we never charged anybody to have an employee monitor the inspection of the records,” Brown said. He called the policy “poorly written” and “probably inconsistent with the (state) statute.”

Brunswick isn’t the only local govern-ment that claims it doesn’t adhere to its own public information policy. Most mu-nicipalities and school districts said they rarely consult their policies or charge for simple, day-to-day requests, such as copies of meeting minutes or agendas.

’Clumsy’ languageUnder Maine’s FOAA, government

agencies are obligated to provide all requested information that falls under the public’s right-to-know. If they are go-ing to deny a request, they must explain why. Either way, they must respond to a request “within a reasonable amount of time.”

But Scarborough’s School Department policy has language that suggests depart-ment employees don’t have respond to some kinds of requests at all.

The department’s policy states: “The law does not require the School Depart-ment to use staff time and resources to compile data or respond to lengthy re-quests for information.”

Jane Wiseman, a Scarborough School Board member, said the sentence was “only (in the policy) to protect from excessive workloads,” not to suggest the School Department isn’t obligated to respond to complicated requests.

Scarborough administrators also in-sisted they have never used the policy to deny a request for information.

Additionally, there is no language in the FOAA to protect government agencies from “excessive workloads.” Instead, the act specifies how agencies should deal with lengthy or complicated requests: They must give a cost estimate to the requester ahead of time if fulfilling the request will cost more than $20, and may collect payment in advance if fulfill-ing the request will cost more than $100.

But the language in Scarborough’s School Department policies is so fuzzy

that open government advocates can’t determine exactly what it means.

Mal Leary, president of the Maine Freedom of Information Coalition, said the language about compiling data is too ambiguous, because it could be in-terpreted to mean either creation of new documents (which the agency is not re-quired to do) or simply collating multiple documents (which is required).

If a resident asks for a group of sev-eral records, and the School Department determines it doesn’t have to respond because collecting those records is “com-piling,” that’s wrong, Leary said.

“This could have a chilling effect,” he said. “They should reconsider that policy if people could misinterpret it.”

Sigmund Schutz, an attorney with Preti Flaherty in Portland and a director of the New England First Amendment Coalition, said there is no question about whether the FOAA requires compilation. If a person asks a school department for more than one document, even if the documents are unrelated, the department must comply.

“If that’s a clumsy way of saying they’re not going to create documents for people, that’s one matter,” he said. “But the statute requires compilation. They are required to do that.”

South Portland’s school policy is the same as Scarborough’s, but adds that the district is obligated “simply to produce records for public inspection.”

That qualifier is key in avoiding am-biguity, said Harry Pringle, an attorney with Drummond Woodsum in Portland, which represents the school district. He said that by stating the district will pro-duce records, it’s clear that “compilation” means creating new documents or offer-ing analysis, neither of which is required by state law.

“If you were to stop that sentence after

‘request for information,’ than it might be confusing,” Pringle said. “The intent is to say we’re not required to go ahead and do anyone’s research for them.”

Pringle also pointed to the state’s Free-dom of Access Act FAQ, which explains the rights of citizens to public documents and meetings. He said the FAQ is crucial because it’s difficult to craft a policy that will never be misunderstood by anyone.

“Confusion is in the eye of the be-holder,” he said. “Most public officials are trying to do the right thing.”

An imperfect law?Several local governments – Cape

Elizabeth, Freeport, Yarmouth, North Yarmouth, Bath, Topsham and Che-beague Island – receive so few requests for information that the municipalities have no public access policies at all.

But in Falmouth, near-constant re-quests for information – many from one resident – have prompted the town to familiarize itself with the public access law and adopt a protocol for fulfilling requests for information.

Nathan Poore, Falmouth’s town man-ager, said that over the last two years, “hundreds and hundreds” of hours of staff time have been dedicated to fulfill-ing requests for a sprawling nature of information – receipts, contracts, public transportation records, emails and credit card statements.

Poore said he agrees with the spirit of the law: providing open access to govern-ment. But he said Falmouth complies at a loss because the $10 per hour cap doesn’t reflect the true cost to the town.

Understanding the burden that some FOAA requests can have on small towns, the Right to Know Advisory Committee, which makes policy recommendations

to the Judiciary Committee of the Maine Legislature, has issued a draft report recommending the hourly rate limit be raised to $15.

Judy Meyer, committee member and vice president of the Maine Freedom of Information Coalition, said high-level town officials, or a town attorney, often end up responding to complex requests.

The fee increase, therefore, “gets at some of that concern that these requests, when they’re burdensome, really impact operations in town offices,” said Meyer, who is managing editor of the Sun Jour-nal in Lewiston.

Another proposed change to Maine’s FOAA law would require an agency or official to tell a requester how long it will take to comply with a public records request. Although the estimate is not binding, the agency or official must try to comply.

That requirement could cause further problems in Scarborough and South Portland, where policies say the towns don’t have to respond at all to lengthy or complicated requests.

The Judiciary Committee will hear the Right to Know Advisory Committee’s recommendations on Jan. 10.

Mario Moretto can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 106 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter:

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When called that morning by reporter Emily Parkhurst, Brennan said “I don’t have anything to tell you about that right now.” When asked if he thought it was the public’s right to know if he were sick, Brennan repeated that he did not have anything to say.

The mayor did not confirm or deny that he had cancer. He said only that The Forecaster would “find out about it the way everyone else does.”

On Thursday, Dec. 29, at 5:33 p.m., City Hall spokeswoman Nicole Clegg released the following statement:

Mayor Brennan Undergoes Treatment for Cancer, Prognosis Excellent

PORTLAND, Maine: Today, City of Portland Mayor Michael Brennan shared news that over the weekend he underwent surgery to remove a car-cinoid tumor from his small intestine. Mayor Brennan sought treatment for recent stomach cramps two weeks ago, during which the tumor was discovered. The tumor was successfully removed and Mayor Brennan will seek additional, non-invasive treatment for lesions found on the liver. Due to the nature of this type of cancer, no chemotherapy or ra-diation will be necessary and according to his physician, his prognosis is excel-lent. Prior to this diagnosis, Brennan had received an excellent bill of health from his primary care physician during his annual exam in August.

“I am extremely grateful to my pri-mary care practitioner, surgeon, nurses

According to the city’s press release, Brennan received a clean bill of health during his annual medical exam in August. But he began to experience stomach cramps about two weeks ago, which led to the can-cer diagnosis.

In response to the limited information contained in the city’s press release, an NCI information specialist, who is not a medical professional, said treatment options vary for carcinoid tumors that spread to the liver. They include chemotherapy, radiation, liver transplants, radio-frequency and blood treatments.

Depending on the location, severity and treatment of the cancer, five-year survival rates vary from 61 percent to 31 percent, according to the NCI representative.

Clegg said Brennan would not undergo chemotherapy or radiation, but called his long-term prognosis is “excellent.” She said Brennan hopes to return to work next week in a limited capacity.

If Brennan is unable to return, City Councilor Nicholas Mavodones Jr., who was appointed mayor pro tem at Brennan’s inauguration Dec. 5, will chair City Coun-cil meetings and attend any other official events on the mayor’s behalf.

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But that provision could be waived by a vote of four councilors “for health reasons or other good cause.”

If the seat is declared vacant, a special election would be held to fill it within 127 days, according to the charter.

Mavodones said he last spoke with Bren-nan before the mayor had surgery. He said Brennan seemed to be taking his diagnosis as well as one could in that situation.

“His spirits were good,” Mavodones said. “Thank God he’s gone through the surgery well.”

In the city press release, Brennan took the opportunity to use his situation to pro-mote “barrier-free” access to health care for everyone.

“Lack of health insurance should not force anyone to make a choice between a visit to their primary care physician and gro-ceries or child care or heating oil,” he said.

Brennan said one in four Mainers do not have health insurance, and elected officials have a moral responsibility to develop policies and strategies to make high-quality care, including preventative and diagnostic services, available to everyone.

“My personal story illustrates the fun-damental need all Mainers have to be able to access the health care system when they need to,” he said. “If I had waited or left this disease untreated, both the health con-sequences and cost of treatment would have been significantly greater.”

Brennan, 58, was elected in November. He is the city’s first popularly elected mayor since 1923.

The City Council’s next regularly sched-uled meeting is Wednesday, Jan. 4.

Brennan’s disclosure comes 9 days after newspaper inquiry

and other medical professionals who provided me with exceptional care and I thank them for their treatment and the compassion they extended to me and my family,” stated Mayor Brennan.

“Cancer can be an extremely fright-ening diagnosis and I am fortunate to not only have a treatment plan with a very positive long term prognosis but as an insured American have barrier free access to the health care system. My personal story illustrates the fundamen-tal need all Mainers have to be able to access the health care system when they need to. If I had waited or left this disease untreated, both the health con-sequences and cost of treatment would have been significantly greater.”

“With nearly one in four Mainers liv-ing without health insurance, it’s clear to me that we have a moral responsibil-ity to develop policies and strategies that ensure that everyone has access to high quality care including prevention and diagnostic services. The simple truth is that tens of thousands of Americans will find themselves in the same situation today, tomorrow, or the next day and they should be afforded the same level of care I have been fortunate enough to receive. Lack of health insurance should not force anyone to make a choice between a visit to their primary care physician and groceries or child care or heating oil.”

Mayor Brennan was released from Maine Medical Center yesterday and is recovering comfortably at home. He in-tends to return to City Hall next week on a limited basis until he is fully recovered from the surgery.

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Tuesday 1/10Historic Maine Storms, 1:30 p.m., Ocean View Community Room, 20 Blueberry Ln., Falmouth.

Wednesday 1/11Public input meeting addressing protection of water views, 7 p.m, Falmouth Town Hall, 781-5253 ext. 5335.

Thursday 1/12Basic computer training, 1-3 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monu-ment Square, Portland, 871-1700, registration required.

Business After Five, 5-7 p.m., Zone 3 Fitness, 71 U.S. Rt. 1, Scarborough, free for members, $15 non-members, portlandre-gion.com or 772-2811, register by Jan. 11.

Friday 1/13WAMM Adult Rock Camp, runs through Jan. 19, $200, 18+, Break-water School, 8596 Brighton Ave., Portland, maineacademyofmod-ernmusic.org or 899-3433.

Saturday 1/14eReader Workshop, 10 a.m., Peaks Island Branch Library, 766-5540.

Psychic & Crystal Fair, 11 a.m.-4 p.m, Leapin’ Lizards, 123 Main St., Freeport, 865-0900 or leapinliz-ards.biz.

Dining OutSaturday 1/7Baked Bean Supper, 5-6:30 p.m., 20 Mill St., Yarmouth, adults $8/ kids $5/ kids under 5 free, 846-4724.

Baked Bean Supper, 6:30 p.m., Tri-angle Club of Casco Lodge #36, 20 Mill St., Yarmouth, adults $8/chil-dren 5-12 $5, 846-4724 or 846-9506.

Bean Supper, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Stewart P. Morrill Post 35, 413 Broadway, South Portland, 799-3997 or 767-0874.

Public Supper, 4:30-6 p.m., Cape Elizabeth United Methodist Church, 280 Ocean House Road, Cape Elizabeth, $7.50 adults/$4 children/$20 family.

Sunday 1/8Breakfast, VFW Post #832, 8:30 a.m.-10 a.m., 50 Peary Terrace, South Portland, 767-2575.

Friday 1/13Chowder Lunch, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., South Freeport Community Church, 98 South Freeport Road, $8.

Saturday 1/14Chowder meal, 4:30-6 p.m, First United Methodist Church, 179 Ridgeland Ave., South Portland, 767-2688, $8.

Garden/OutdoorsNature Programs run Sundays at 2 p.m. through Jan. 29 at Wolfe’s Neck Woods State Park, Freeport, free with admission, 865-4465.

Wednesday 1/4Extending the Temperate Hik-ing Season, 7 p.m., Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church,

Greater PortlandAuditions, Wednesday 1/4Musica de Filia Girls’ and Women’s Chorus, 6-7:30 p.m., musicadefilia.com or 807-2158.

Southern Maine Children’s Cho-rus, auditions, 5-7 p.m., open to children 12 and under, Corthell Hall, USM Gorham, usm.maine.edu/music.

Saturday 1/7”Wiley the Hairy Man” audtitions, looking for children ages 8-17, 3:30-5 p.m., Children’s Museum and Theater, 142 Free St., Portland, kitetails.org or 828-1234 ext. 247.

Monday 1/9Musica de Filia Girls’ and Women’s Chorus, 4-6 p.m., musicadefilia.com or 807-2158.

Books & AuthorsTuesday 1/10Charlotte Beacon author discus-sion and book signing, 12 p.m., Falmouth Memorial Library, 5 Lunt Road, Falmouth, falmouth.lib.me.us or 781-2351.

Wednesday 1/11McKay Jenkins book discussion, 12 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700.

ComedySaturday 1/14B-RAD Comedy Blowout, 8 p.m., Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Port-land, $12, 899-3993.

FilmWednesday 1/42012 Winter Documentary Se-ries, 5:30 & 7 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Port-land, call for more dates and times, 871-1700.

MusicThursday 1/5Chiharu Naruse and Robert Dan, 11:15 a.m., First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, 425 Congress St., Portland, 775-3356.

Friday 1/6Jerks of Grass, 7:30 p.m., St. Lawrence Arts, 76 Congress St., Portland, $12 advance/$15 door, stlawrencearts.com

Sunday 1/15The Rossini Club Concert, 3 p.m., Cathedral of St. Luke, 143 State St., Portland, $10 suggested donation, 797-8318.

Theater & DanceFriday 1/6AXED! An evening of one-acts

about Lizzie Borden, runs through Jan 8, shows at 8 p.m., 2 p.m. show on Jan. 8, Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd. $12/$10 students and se-niors, lucidstage.com or 899-3993.

Swing Dance, 7 p.m., North Deering Grange, 1408 Washington Ave., $10, [email protected] or 653-5012.

Sunday 1/8”The Wandering Beggar,” 6 p.m., Congregation Bet Ha’am, 81 Westbrook St., South Portland, $10, 879-0028.

Wednesday 1/11”Good Luck,” 1 p.m., second show Jan. 12 at 7 p.m., $10 adults/$8 students, Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland, 899-3993.

Friday 1/13”Defenders of the Funny,” 8 p.m., Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Port-land, $10, 899-3993.

Saturday 1/14”Tap, Tap, Jazz,” 4 and 7 p.m., Maine State Ballet Theater, 348 U.S. Rt. 1, Falmouth, $15, 781-3587 or mainestateballet.org.

Saturday 1/21”Tap, Tap, Jazz,” 4 and 7 p.m., Maine State Ballet Theater, 348 U.S. Rt. 1, Falmouth, $15, 781-3587 or mainestateballet.org.

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Getting SmarterSaturday 1/7Integrative Art & Music Classes, Cricket Hunt School, through Feb. 11, $185, 865-9696 or [email protected].

Tuesday 1/10Brazil: Emerging Economic & Po-litical Power, 7-9 a.m., Portland Country Club, 11 Foresdie Road, Falmouth, $25 members/$35 non-members, registration required, wacmaine.org.

Saturday 1/14Getting Financially Fit in 2012, 10 a.m.-12 p.m., Institute for Fi-nancial Literacy, 260 Washington Ave., South Portland, 221-3663, registration required.

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names and in some cases contains mistaken references to legislators, as in this example:

“The State of Maine pays a local com-pany as a provider for mental health and in-dependent living services through the Main-eCare program. The Executive Director of the Company also serves as House Chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services in the Maine Legislature. During fiscal 2010, the State paid $15.1 million for these services; $5.1 million from the General Fund and $10.0 million from the Federal Fund. At June 30, 2010, the State owed $189 thousand to this vendor.”

The section above, Douglass said in an email, should refer to Brannigan, the Senate chairman of the Committee on Health and Human Services. But it cites the “House Chair” of the Committee on Health and Human Services, who was Rep. Anne Perry,

Disclosurefrom page 4

D-Calais.“There was a typo/mistake in the finan-

cial statement notes for FY 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, which stated that the House Chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services had related-party transactions with the State of Maine,” Douglass wrote. “The note should have identified the legislator as the Senate Chair, not the House Chair.”

Likewise, the Related Party Transaction mistakenly notes for fiscal years 2008-2010 that “a family owned company” in which “a House Representative on the Utilities and Energy Committee” was a principal had provided $24.4 million worth of “road reconstruction” services. The legislator was Michael Thibodeau, R-Winterport – but his family sold the company in October 2007.

“It appears he should not have been included in the disclosure for those years,” said Douglas Cotnoir, deputy state control-ler.

Senate President Kevin Raye, R-Eastport, said he was surprised to learn the disclosure law failed to include businesses affiliated with a lawmaker or executive branch of-ficial.

“It almost strikes me that it’s an oversight or somehow wasn’t anticipated,” Raye said. “I would have thought we already were disclosing this.”

Raye said he would consider introducing legislation to fill the disclosure gap.

“I think it would be in keeping with the spirit of the disclosure law,” he said. “I’m perfectly comfortable with including this aspect under the existing law.”

Naomi Schalit and John Christie are senior reporters for the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, a nonprofit, nonpartisan journalism organization that provides in-depth reporting as a public service to its Maine media partners. The e-mail address is [email protected]. The website is pinetreewatchdog.org.

Spendingfrom page 12

than $2,300 on mailings.Strimling was the only candidate to spend

money for polling – about $3,700. He also spent more than $15,000 on campaign literature, besting Rathband’s $11,300 and Brennan’s $7,300.

Mavodones spent about $5,000 on cam-paign literature, while Marshall spent nearly $4,000.

Duson only spent $1,780 on literature, but she was the only candidate to buy cam-paign buttons.

Marshall, meanwhile, also made some unique campaign purchases: $235 for Palm Pilots, $20 on umbrellas, and $25 on flashlights.

Rathband, meanwhile, made a $333 donation to the Root Cellar, a Christian charity that works with inner-city youth in Portland and Lewiston, to close out his campaign account.

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