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An Economic Campaingn

An Economic Campaingn

After yesterday's key filing deadline passing, that means there's less than three months until the primaries. "The Democratic, Republican and Green Independent candidates for governor are outlining their plans for what some political experts see as the top issue facing the next governor - Maine's economy."Look foreword to seeing six party canidates on the ballet. Running are three Republicans, one Green Independant, and two Democrats."Over the next four years, I think, the economy is probably going to be No. 1," predicted James Melcher, a political scientist at the University of Maine at Farmington. "There's a lot of anxiety" on that front, he said, as job losses make headlines." Points in which Govenor Baldaci makes for his re-election term would be an expanding job market, expanding Pine Tree Zones (tax breaks to business that create jobs for depressed areas), an increase in state school aide, and $1 billion dollars in research and development of innovations. The innovations that Baldacci would like to create would be telecommunting jobs. The sole Democract opponent, Christopher Miller, knows that the economy is the main issue for the state but thinks that we need to "change the way the economy works."

Maine Today
Staff Writer Paul Carrier
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/060316govrace.shtml

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