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The 2006 U.S. Senate election for the state of ''' Maine ''' will be held November 7 , 2006 . The incumbent Senator Olympia Snowe is seeking re-election to a third term. Concurrent Senate Elections will be held in 32 other U.S. States .

Snowe, who was elected to both of her previous terms by approximately 2 to 1 margins, and has never lost an election. By contrast, her Democratic opponent in the 2006 election, regardless of which of the two candidates wins in the primary, will be someone who has never been elected to political office. Snowe is expected to be easily re-elected.

While Democrats have hoped that Snowe would retire rather than run in 2006, her approval rating of close to 80 percent has given her no reason to consider that. {Link without Title} .

The filing deadline for major party candidates was March 15, 2006. The primary is on June 13, 2006. {Link without Title}


REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES


Did not qualify:


DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES

  • Jean Hay Bright announced her candidacy in May 2005. Well-known in Maine for her decades of political activism, Hay Bright was previously an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination to the House in 1994 and the Senate in 1996 . A writer and former investigative reporter with three books and hundreds of published columns under her belt, she is an outspoken, progressive, pro-choice, anti-war, pro-labor, pro-environment candidate.


A former board member of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA), Hay Bright owns and operates a commercial organic farm with her husband David Bright in Dixmont, Maine. She was a founding member of the Maine Progressive Caucus in 2004, and was on the original Board of Stewards for the Good Life Center, the last homestead of authors Helen and Scott Nearing in Harborside, Maine, serving from 1995 to 2003.

  • Eric Mehnert, an attorney with a legal practice in Bangor, Maine announced his candidacy in October 2005. His platform includes: Initiating policies that strengthen and protect the employees and owners of small business while fighting excesses of corporate greed, such as exporting jobs overseas; continued learning opportunities and training programs for all Maine citizens, especially those displaced or just returning to the workforce; protecting the coastline and preserving working waterfronts; extending access to health care and prescription drugs, particularly for low income seniors and families; providing education from Head Start through college that prepares children to compete in the Information Age; developing a progressive environmental program insuring access to natural resources for all Maine's citizens, and at the same time ensuring maintaining the proper balance for all the forest users from the lumber industry to the environmentalists and the sports men and women who enjoy this priceless asset; Fighting for Civil Rights so that no person or population is disenfranchised; commitment to a strong defense policy, and maintaining the strength of the armed forces, while ensuring that troops are deployed only for legitimate national security and humanitarian issues, with actions which have a clearly defined mission, attainable military objective, and exit strategy; and exploring both renewable and alternative sources of energy.


Did not announce or file
The following names were mentioned as possible candidates:
  • Steven Rowe - Attorney General and former State House Speaker

  • Michael Brennan State Senate Majority Leader, former State Representative, and college professor



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