AUGUSTA, Maine — Two former state senators and a former legislative aide are among those selected to serve on the state staff of U.S. Sen.-elect Angus King, it was announced Saturday.
The Maine independent’s office said the regional representatives will be key to staying in touch with constituents of the newly elected senator, who will be sworn in on Jan. 3. They’ll work under the guidance of state Director Edie Smith, who was the field director for King’s 2012 campaign.
Among the seven new regional representatives are former Republican Sen. Christopher Rector of Thomaston, a businessman in retail art and picture framing, ice cream and real estate management; former Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Schneider of Orono, who has worked in business development and has been a member of numerous nonprofit boards; and Travis Kennedy, former chief of staff in the Maine House Democratic office.
The other new staffers are Bonita Pothier of York County, former Biddeford mayor and former teacher; businessman Ben Tucker III of Androscoggin County, who worked on King’s campaign; Gail Kezer, who served on Brunswick’s School Board, and Sharon Campbell of Presque Isle, a longtime staffer for U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, who will be succeeded by King.
King, who has been announcing his staff members during the past few days, also named additional appointments to his Washington staff.
They include Scott Ogden of Monmouth, who currently serves as Snowe’s deputy press secretary and becomes King’s press secretary; Margaret Williams of Rockport, deputy press secretary; Christopher Rauscher of Maine’s midcoastal area, legislative assistant; and Aisha Woodward of Sedgwick, legislative assistant.
Elizabeth Schneider of Orono
You must be kidding.
Tell me, How does King differ from a Democrat?
Answer He doesn’t.
The difference is that he got elected.
Notice all the nose rings in public lately
Many of us have been saying this for years, but none listened.
He hired Chris Rector! He’s about the farthest thing from a Dem. after the war he waged on the working people in Maine.
He did openly what democrats have been doing for decades.
Are you talking working people or unions?? Which one is it, it can’t be both
Here we go again! Maybe you aren’t one of the working people so you wouldn’t know the difference anyhow.
King, a mildewed remnant of average intellect, demonstrates that he is capable of high-level adjudication befitting the current strain of social progressives that are epidemic in Washington this year. The upside, however, for many Mainers is that his pompous and annoying ramblings at the Bag and Sugarloaf Inn will not be missed one iota.
Go for the gold Agnus…………….
He will go for the gold alright. LOL
yours , mine and ours
I wonder what laws he will get passed this time to line his pockets.
How do you find out what Angus King thinks is a desirable enough college education for the federal government to pay for it. He campaigned and said he supported that kind of aid but never provided specifics. I need to make my kid do what Angus wants her to do so that she can go to college. She has a couple of interests but I told her those had to go on the back burner unless Angus supported her decision. He is, after all, her King.
At the bottom of the story the BDN selected “Similar Stories” and all are about rape and murder. Hmmmm
Now he has a second chance to destroy the State.
Angus and Cutler will get rich off his one term in office.