Maine AG Janet Mills to run for Governor.

[bluedigger]

Apparently she has announced that she will run - according to her sister on FB, who is my friend. She would make a great Governor for Maine!

A bit from a profile on her last year:

Mills was elected as a district attorney in 1980, the first female to hold such a post in New England. She elected to the Maine House in 2002. Colleagues remember her as confident and intelligent lawmaker, and as an efficient multi-tasker who would sit in one committee hearing and follow another on her headphones simultaneously.

“She would run up the stairs or down the stairs to weigh in when she thought something would be going south,” said Dawn Hill, assistant Senate minority leader who served in the House with Mills.

When the attorney general spot opened up, Mills was elected in 2008 by the Maine legislature. Although the ballot is private, Hill said she “won by a handy number” with support from Republicans and Independents. While she lost the position two years later when Republicans took over the majority, she was re-elected in 2012.

http://www.rollcall.com/news/influential-women/maines-janet-mills-worthy-foil-lepage

[NYResister]

1. That's fantastic news for Maine.

I can't imagine how humiliating it must be to have LePage as Governor.

[Soxfan58]

2. Yes you can

You have trumpski for president.

[NYResister]

4. true.

But thankfully, I don't have an idiot as Governor as well.

[Pacifist Patriot]

6. I'm a Floridian. Enough said.

[NYResister]

7. my sincere sympathy.

[LBM20]

5. Sorry. Good person but not the kind of candidate who can win statewide AT ALL.

Maine wants OUTSIDER governors these days, not insider Augusta establishment candidates. She is a good person but OLD SCHOOL in a BIG way, and we need NEW BLOOD from the OUTSIDE not just in Maine but in MANY places. She would LOSE the general election in Maine BIGTIME.

[George II]

8. How can you say that? Going back more than 100 years there have only been two "outsider"...

...(assuming you meant Independent) governors in Maine - Angus King for two terms and James Longley for one term, a total of only 12 years.

Going back to 1883 (134 years) republicans have been Governor for only 49 of those years. Without a strong Democratic candidate Maine is doomed to have another four or eight years of republican Governorship.

Instead of merely saying "we need NEW BLOOD", how about naming someone who might fit that description?

[Bleacher Creature]

3. It's too bad LePage is term limited.

It would be great to watch him have to concede. Now he, like Rick Scott and others, gets to take the easy way out.

[Shanti Mama]

9. Rumor has it that Susan Collins may run

Apparently she has told some folks close to her. Bye bye, Senate. Hello Governorship.

[PatsFan87]

10. Coming from a Mainer, if Mills is the Dem. nominee, it'll be Libby Mitchell/Mike Michaud 2.0.

I don't see the state voting for an uncharismatic attorney who's been in politics since Reagan was president. I'm hoping Troy Jackson joins the race. He's a logger from rural northern Maine, the current Senate Minority Leader, and a Bernie superdelegate in a state where Bernie is very popular. His progressive stances will be popular in southern Maine while he'll be able to speak to the more blue collar northern Maine where he'd have hometown advantage.