Larrabee Seniors--Live and Kicking!

According to the American Journal, about twenty-five residents of Larrabee Village boarded a bus this morning en route to Augusta to protest Governor Baldacci's proposed cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services. To listen to the public hearing they were planning to attend, click here and click on the "Appropriations & Financial Services" link to the left. State Senator Joseph Brannigan (D-Cumberland) is the only Westbrook representative on either the Joint Standing Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs or the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services Committee.

The meeting just started, and it sounds like there's a full house.

- John C.L. Morgan

Your State Senators in (Scintillating) Action

Not sure of what your State Senator sounds like, or even what he looks like? Well, click here, here, here, and here, to see Westbrook's state senators, Phil Bartlett (D-Cumberland) and Joseph Brannigan (D-Cumberland), in scintillating action.

- John C.L. Morgan

P.S. I should also add that our sister site, RiverbankRepublic.com, has links to the live audio and/or video feeds from the Maine House of Representatives, Maine Senate, and the legislature's Joint Standing Committees.

Bartlett To Seek Re-Election

According to PolitickerMe.com, State Senator Phil Bartlett (D-Cumberland) will seek re-election to the State Senate for a third term in November. Representing Westbrook in the senate's sixth district, State Senator Bartlett is the third incumbent representing Westbrook to file paperwork with the Ethics Commission as of January 18. State Representatives Tim Driscoll (D-Westbrook) and Ann Peoples (D-Westbrook) have also filed for re-election, but State Senator Joseph Brannigan (D-Cumberland) remains as the only incumbent representing Westbrook in Augusta who has not yet filed papers for re-election with the Ethics Commission.

According to the folks at Politicker, Bartlett earned re-election in 2006 with 8,781 to 6,690 win.

- John C.L. Morgan

Peoples to Seek Re-Election

According to Jessica Alaimo over at PolitickerME.com, State Representative Ann Peoples (D-Westbrook) will run for re-election to the Maine House of Representatives District 125 seat. She is seeking her second consecutive term.

For those keeping score at home, this news means both of Westbrook's Democratic incumbents (Tim Driscoll, House District 126 is the other) in the Maine House are looking to be sent to Augusta again. Westbrook's State Senators, Phil Bartlett (D-Cumberland) and Joseph Brannigan (D-Cumberland), have yet to announce their intentions to seek re-election, according to Ethics Commission filings.

Peoples won her 2006 race by a 1,894 to 1,549 margin, according to the Politicker.

- John C.L. Morgan

Driscoll Will Seek a Third Term

According to the web magazine PolitickerME.com, State Representative Tim Driscoll (D-Westbrook) will seek re-election to his seat representing Westbrook's House District (H.D.) 126 in the Maine House of Representatives in November 2008. Driscoll, per the Politicker, will be seeking a third consecutive term in Augusta and was re-elected in 2006 by a 1,742 to 1,048 margin.

Based on Ethics Commission filings as of December 31, the Politickers' roster of announced State House and Senate candidates does not include Driscoll's housemate, Representative Ann Peoples (D-Westbrook, H.D. 125). Nor does it contain the names of Westbrook's two State Senators, Phil Bartlett (D-Cumberland, S.D. 6) and Joseph Brannigan (D-Cumberland, S.D. 9). Challengers to any of the seats are also absent.

Considering today is the first legislative session of the year, it's still very early; November is still some ten months away. Nevertheless, a little update for the political junkies out there.

- John C.L. Morgan