November 02, 2024
CANDIDATE PROFILE

Senate District 27

Dover-Foxcroft area

Democrat

Susan D. Mackey Andrews

Age: 59

Hometown: Dover-Foxcroft

Address: 3 Shore Road North

Web site: sue4senatedist27.com

Education: BS magna cum laude in education from University of Massachusetts at Amherst; graduate studies in education and developmental pediatrics.

Family: Married to Fred Andrews; two adult daughters

Occupation: Founder and president of Consulting Group LLC, a woman-owned small Maine-based business, working nationally supporting states and territories to provide quality services for families and very young children, especially those with developmental delays or disabilities.

Experience: president, Pine Tree Hospice board of directors; co-chairwoman, Womancare Capital Campaign Committee; co-founder, Community First; co-chairwoman, Regional School Unit 18 Regional Planning Committee; appointee, Charter Commission for Dover-Foxcroft; advocate at state and national levels for families and young children ages 0-5 with disabilities, 0-5 early childhood systems and for senior citizens.

Reason for running: The voice of rural Maine has long been silent in Augusta. I advocate for local schools and for more good jobs to rural Maine and to keep the businesses we have now. We need greater accountability and support a state government that is lean, but not mean, by promoting accountability and transparency – at the state, local and individual citizen levels.

Republican

Douglas M. Smith

Age: 61

Hometown: Dover-Foxcroft

Address: 208 Vaughn Road

Education: BA, political science-international affairs, and two years graduate study in economics, University of Maine; juris doctor degree, University of Maine School of Law

Family: Married to former Cartha Palmer; two adult children

Occupation: Tree farmer; retired attorney after 31 years of practice; retired judge of probate with 27 years’ service

Experience: Two years in state Senate; 1970-76 in Maine House (served four years on Appropriations Committee, among others); 27 years as Piscataquis County judge of probate; has been in business for his entire adult life, including a law practice that concentrated heavily in business matters.

Reason for running: Maine has a state government and economy that is off-track and needs leadership from people who have a background in business and economics and who understand how to improve our business climate, which requires reining in the size of the state government, reducing Maine’s nearly highest-in-the-nation income tax, reforming our health insurance laws to cut the cost for consumers and employers, and streamlining state regulatory processes to make them simpler and less costly.


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