Age: 42

Birthplace: California

Occupation: Initiator and former executive director, Maine Discovery Museum; Child protection lawyer, special prosecutor for drug task force

Address: Bangor

Education: Bachelor’s degree in government and international relations, University of Notre Dame, foreign study in Ireland; law degree, Hastings College of the Law

Experience: Legal counsel to Maine Senate; special prosecutor for a drug task force; assistant attorney general; state representative two terms, state senator one term; organized and led effort to create $4.5 million children’s museum in Bangor

Top three priorities if elected:

. Strengthen Maine’s economy through improved infrastructure, both traditional such as roads, bridges and airports, and cutting-edge such as research, development, ecotourism and cultural tourism.

. Expand Medicaid to cover prescription drugs. Expand Medicaid and Medicare eligibility. Advocate strongly for universal health care. Address crisis of state’s high child obesity rate.

. Repeal offset provision unjustly applied to educators, state workers. Seek 40 percent federal funding for special education. Eliminate high-stakes testing that doesn’t increase learning.

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