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Why a YES vote on 3 is good for you, your family, your business
and communities throughout Maine

The $47.8 million transportation bond will:

  • Repair and reconstruct highways throughout the state of Maine

  • Support up to 700 well-paying jobs for Mainers

  • Invest in critical rail lines, including in Aroostook, Cumberland and Androscoggin counties

  • Promote business and job growth through strategic transportation investments

Please vote YES on 3 on June 8 to help Maine families and economy! We need the jobs!

Help us get out the YES vote!

Passage of this bond is critical to make vital investments in highways, ports and rail. Please take these steps to help generate support for the $47.8 million transportation bond!

• Write a letter to the editor

Please remember to be concise (under 250 words) and include your daytime contact information. Many papers are only accepting letters until the last week of May because of the volume of mail they are receiving on candidates.

Bangor Daily News
Fax: 941-9476

Fax: 777-3436
 
Fax: 623-2220
 
Fax: 791-6920
 
Fax: 623-2220
 
Biddeford Journal Tribune
Fax: 282-3138
 
Brunswick Times Record
Fax: 721-3151
 
Star Herald, Presque Isle
Fax: 764-7585
 
Ellsworth American
Fax: 667-7656
 
Falmouth Forecaster
Fax: 781-2060
 
Village Soup
- owns four weeklies below:
 
Capital Weekly – Augusta
Fax: 621-6006
 
Herald Gazette – Knox County
Fax: 236-2816
 
Republican Journal – Waldo County
Fax: 338-5498
 
Bar Harbor Times
Fax: 288-5813

 

Transportation
on the ballot

Question 3 (Bond Issue):

“Do you favor a $47,800,000 bond issue to create jobs in Maine through improvements to highways, railroads and marine facilities, including port and harbor structures, and specifying the allocation of $4,000,000 of the transportation bond approved by voters in November 2009 to be used for capital rail purposes?”

Question 3 Voter Fact Sheet: What's in the $47.8 million transportation bond that goes before voters on Tuesday, June 8?

MDOT Fact Sheet

Highway Project List

Request an absentee ballot

Payroll stuffers: Please download these informational flyers and ask your employer to include them with paychecks

OTHER IMPORTANT ISSUES ON THE BALLOT

Questions 2, 4 and 5 are the other job-creating ballot items the MBTA board is urging you to support with a YES vote.

• VOTE YES on Question 2: This bond will create jobs by investing $26.5 million in offshore wind projects, green jobs and energy savings at Maine’s public colleges and universities.

• VOTE YES on Question 4: This bond will stimulate the economy with investments in $23.75 million in R&D, fishing, agriculture, dairy, lumbering and redevelopment of the Brunswick Naval Air Station.

• VOTE YES on Question 5: This bond will invest $10.25 million in Maine’s agriculture industry and water resources. All together, these three bond issues will leverage $97.75 million in federal and other funds.

For more information, visit YesforMaineJobs.com. 

 

 

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