NEWPORT – Republican attorney Ken Fredette has announced that he is seeking election to the District 33 seat in the state Senate.

Fredette served as a campaign staff member for former Gov. John McKernan and worked in the 1996 Dole for President campaign and other races. He has been a delegate to the Republican National Convention.

Fredette is a Judge Advocate General officer in the Maine Air National Guard, served as chairman of the Board for Sebasticook Valley Credit Union for the past four years, and coached soccer for Newport Junior High School. He said he will walk the entire mid-Maine district during his campaign, as a way of getting out and interacting with the community.

He and his wife, Cyndi, a Newport Elementary School teacher, have two children.