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  • Meeting Women’s Campaign Forum candidates was inspiring
  • July 5, 2010
  • A while ago I made a quick train trip – always fun for me – down to NYC to appear as one of four featured candidates at a Women’s Campaign Forum event. It was so inspiring to meet these other candidates and hear about their campaigns.
    One is a pharmacist and out lesbian, running for State [...]

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  • Women’s Campaign Fund credited for “brave” endorsement
  • June 26, 2010
  • From the FireDogLake website…..
    The Women’s Campaign Forum was brave enough to take the leap…will FDL be?
    The Women’s Campaign Forum, a sizable DC organization promoting women in politics in a transpartisan way, endorsed their first Green candidate in Lynne Williams, a respected Maine attorney for environmental and other causes and former gubernatorial [...]

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  • I’m certified as a Clean Election candidate
  • June 4, 2010
  • I have received notice that I have been certified as a Clean Elections candidate by the Maine State Ethics Commission, having turned in 189 validated qualifying contributions. This is great news and will give me the funding to run a fabulous campaign.
    I am now also featured on the Women’s Campaign Forum website, as an endorsed [...]

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  • Women’s Campaign Forum Endorsement
  • May 4, 2010
  • I am very pleased to have received the endorsement of the D.C. based Women’s Campaign Forum, for my State Senate race. The WCF is the oldest, national non-partisan political committee of its kind, and endorses only women who support reproductive health choices for all.
    It provides technical assistance, financial support and great contacts. Hopefully [...]

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  • I’ll be the Green Party’s candidate in State Senate District 28
  • March 28, 2010
  • The Maine Green Independent Party’s Legislative Recruitment Committee did an excellent job this year, and will have 18 Legislative candidates on the November ballot. All of these candidates, as well as many volunteers, worked hard to collect nomination signatures to make this happen.
    One of those candidates was Michael Good of Bar Harbor, who filed as [...]

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  • The Wearing of the Green Tea Party Vote
  • March 17, 2010
  • On St. Patrick’s Day I joined Jill Stein, Green Rainbow Party Candidate for Governor of Massachusetts and Laura Wells, Green Candidate for Governor of CA, on an Internet radio show to discuss “The Wearing of the Green Tea Party Vote,”as we discussed how vital a New Green ReGrowth Vote will be this election year.
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  • I am withdrawing from the gubernatorial campaign
  • March 15, 2010
  • Dear Supporters,
    I am announcing today that I am suspending my campaign for governor, and will instead focus my energies towards building up our party by helping to elect Green Party candidates for state, county and local office.
    Despite having more than 60 volunteer petition circulators working on my behalf, we fell short of the required 2,000 [...]

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  • Celebrating International Women’s Day
  • March 9, 2010
  • Monday, March 8, was International Women’s Day. I participated in a radio show about that topic and about marriage equality along with Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate for Governor in Massachusetts. You can listen to the show here by click on the black play button below.
    Also please consider sharing this among your communities using [...]

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  • Williams urges support for seafood processing facilities
  • March 6, 2010
  • ROCKPORT — Candidates for governor stressed the importance of the state’s fishing heritage at a Friday forum, but differed on how best to help one of the state’s oldest and most important industries.
    Candidates were asked what they would have done to help save a cannery from closing in Prospect Harbor, how strongly they would advocate [...]

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  • Praise for the voters of Deer Isle
  • March 2, 2010
  • Congratulations to the Town of Deer Isle for being the first community in the nation to vote in favor of a resolution calling on Congress to ‘Bring Our War $$ Home.’  They took this brave action at their annual town meeting Monday night, voting on a warrant article introduced by Veterans for Peace and CodePink.
    The [...]

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