Ellsworth-Bar Harbor area

Democrat

Dennis S. Damon

Age: 59

Hometown: Trenton

Address: 256 Oak Point Road

Education: BS in education, University of Maine, Orono

Family: Married; three grown children

Occupation: Legislator, property manager

Experience:

Commercial fisherman, teacher, coach, business owner. Served as Hancock County Commissioner from 1993 until 2002. State senator from Hancock County from 2002 to present. Currently chairman of the Joint Standing Committees on Marine Resources and Transportation. Previously chaired Joint Select Committees on Regionalization and Community Cooperation, Property Tax Reform, Maine’s Future Prosperity.

Reason for running: In addition to supporting values that I think are absolutely essential to Maine, such as maintaining and protecting our environment, fostering an education system that will equip us for the future, and providing a health care system that includes all Mainers, I am running because I understand the need and the importance to define and provide the course for Maine’s future economy.

Republican

Mark S. Remick

Age: 47

Hometown: Trenton

Address: 35 Nutting Lane

Education: BS from Springfield College

Family: Married to Traci; three daughters

Occupation: Self-employed business owner

Experience: Twenty years as a public servant: police officer, firefighter and medic. I have been active in community organizations and have served as master in the Masonic lodge, president of the Rotary Club, president of the Senator Hale Hose Company (volunteer firefighters in Ellsworth), moderator of the First Congregational Church and chairman of the minister search committee, and secretary of the Trenton Planning Board. I currently own and operate Storage Plus in Ellsworth.

Reason for running: Maine has an incredible quality of life. The opportunities for ourselves, our children and grandchildren are being eroded by an … intrusive state government. The burdensome tax system and the punitive relationship between the state and the bill payers must be changed. We have the ability to attract good jobs. … Reducing taxes and developing an environment where small business can grow is key to our state.