The ad implies LePage supports banning abortion in cases of rape or incest, but his daughter and a spokesman strongly deny it.
Randy Billings
Staff Writer
Randy Billings is a government watchdog and political reporter who has been the State House bureau chief since 2021. He was named the Maine Press Association’s Journalist of the Year in 2020. He joined the Press Herald in 2012 as the Portland City Hall reporter, where his beat touched on a wide range of topics, including municipal government, immigration, homelessness, housing and social services. Prior to that, he worked at various weeklies as well as business and arts publications. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maine, Orono. He lives in North Yarmouth with his wife and two children and enjoys the outdoors and playing his upright bass.
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Watch: Candidates clash over economy, abortion in Maine gubernatorial debate
Gov. Janet Mills, former Gov. Paul LePage and independent challenger Sam Hunkler faced off for the first time ahead of the November election.
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Prominent donors line up behind governor candidates
Gov. Janet Mills and former Gov. Paul LePage are spending furiously in the final stretch before the election, and getting help from some familiar names.
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Sen. Angus King endorses Gov. Janet Mills’ bid for second term
The independent praises Maine’s Democratic governor for her leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Records show Mills’ and LePage’s nearly opposite views on immigration
While Paul LePage sought to limit the flow of immigrants to the state during his eight years in office, Janet Mills has reversed many of those policies in her nearly four years in office.
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Gov. Mills widens fundraising advantage over LePage
Democratic Gov. Janet Mills holds a more than 2-1 fundraising advantage over former two-term Republican Gov. Paul LePage, and she also is benefiting from millions in spending by outside groups attacking her opponent.
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LePage responds to report about Florida tax exemption as Dems maintain pressure
The former governor told the Press Herald that his wife, Ann, maintained full-time resident status in Florida when he moved back to start campaigning.
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Sen. King co-sponsors bill to protect election workers
The federal bill comes at the urging of 15 secretaries of state, including Maine’s Shenna Bellows, and would provide states with additional resources to recruit, train, retain and protect election workers, while creating federal safeguards to shield election workers from intimidation and threats.
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Republicans attack Mills administration for anti-racism lesson plan
A video posted to the Department of Education website and available to high school teachers includes MAGA and “all lives matter” as examples of covert racism.
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Lobbying group for Maine hunters and gun owners gives Mills an A rating; LePage gets an incomplete
The Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine says Republican Paul LePage, who received an A from the group in 2014, pulled out of the grading process after it pressed for answers about his position on land conservation.