Reply #13: High Turnout on Northern Maine too [View All]

Here we had close to 75%....made for a long night of counting.

The Casino question and the Question 1 brought a lot of folks out. Up here it was mostly the Property Tax/State Aid to Education (Question 1) that did it.

Only good news is that I lost my race for a spot on the Town Council.

The winners were the first two names on the ballot. Which just goes to show how much folks pay attention to the issues. The first name on the ballot was a woman who wants to raise the pay of all the Town workers and provide free recreation to residents of the surrounding towns. All this at a time when the local paper mill is in real danger of closing for good. That mill supplies 35% of the local property tax revenue. Wonder where she'll get the funds for those pay raises and new programs when that happens?