Janet Mills wins race to succeed LePage as Maine's next governor
Source: Bangor Daily News
PORTLAND, Maine — Attorney General Janet Mills will be the state’s first female governor after Tuesday’s election, giving Democrats their first electoral victory for a statewide office since 2006 and putting them in a position to roll back the conservative legacy of Gov. Paul LePage.
Nobody has been a bigger LePage foe than Mills, the middle child in one of Maine’s famed political families. Her father was a U.S. attorney and an ally of Margaret Chase Smith, the legendary Mainer who was the first woman to serve in both houses of Congress.
Mills, 70, of Farmington is the oldest person to ever be elected Maine governor, according to the Maine Law and Legislative Library. She has spent nearly half of her life in public service and became Maine’s first female district attorney in 1980 and the first female attorney general.
With 53 percent of precincts reporting results to the Bangor Daily News early Wednesday morning, Mills held 49.8 percent of the vote to 44 percent for businessman Shawn Moody, a Republican who promised to carry on LePage’s legacy. Moody conceded the race to Mills early Wednesday. The Bangor Daily News and Decision Desk HQ called the race shortly afterward.
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