Portland: Ethan- Health care needs to be fixed.
by Stephanie O'Brien, on Friday, January 25
Dear Ethan, I have been stewing all day and have finally sat down to share a few thoughts. I am so angry at our health care system right now. So please, when you get elected to Congress I hope you will work on health care because as a registered nurse, ...
Portland: Ethan Takes a Winter Plunge for Caring Unlimited
by Darlene Huntress, on Wednesday, January 9
Last Tuesday, on New Years Day, I watched Ethan join hundreds of seriously brave people at Gooch's Beach in Kennebunk to participate in Caring Unlimited's Annual Atlantic Plunge. That's right, plunge, as in plunge into the icy cold Atlantic Ocean. In January. In Maine. I was there and let me ...
All Towns: Neighbors Helping Neighbors
by Ethan Strimling, on Friday, December 14
Dear Friends, Your help is needed today and it could make a difference where it matters this holiday season. I'd like to ask for your help- but not for this campaign. So many Maine people are struggling right this very minute. One group that is especially hard-hit is our senior ...
Saco: Helping Maine's Working Families
by Cathy Coffman, on Friday, December 7
We are beginning a winter with potentially record high oil prices, reduced federal heating assistance, high gasoline prices, and shortages already showing up in our food banks. Maine legislators need to do more to help Maine’s working families survive and get behind LD 1697 (An Act to Ensure Fair Wages) ...
East Boothbay: Maine Needs Focus on Economic Realities
by Betsy Wells, on Friday, December 7
I was motivated to write this response to Senator Ethan Strimling's and Representative John Tuttle's article by the sentence that begins their last paragraph. "Income inequality not only threatens the economy but our democracy." I visited my grandson's American History class recently. They were studying the political antecedents to the ...
All Towns: Defend our Middle Class
by Ethan Strimling, on Friday, December 7
Dear Friends, This year, for the first time in a decade, Congress finally passed an increase to the federal minimum wage. A higher minimum wage is a positive step towards reducing the disastrous income inequality in America, but it’s only a first step. Between 1997 and 2007, the prices of ...
Portland: Strimling earns support for diligence, wage plan
by Tim Curran, on Friday, December 7
I have known Ethan Strimling for more than 10 years and was part of the Portland West board of directors that hired him as executive director in 1996. Beyond the exemplary work that Ethan has shown at Portland West in regard to bottom-line discipline, community commitment and focused determination to ...
Mount Vernon: Strimling earns support for diligence, wage plan
by Wil Tibby, on Friday, December 7
For a democracy to thrive, there must be the opportunity for economic equality -- for all of the citizens. This is one of the salient hallmarks of what Maine, and indeed America, is all about. That is the way it is supposed to be, but today the rich are getting ...
Portland: Campaign Update, Dec. 4th: Keeping it real in Maine
by Corey Hascall, on Tuesday, December 4
Dear friends, Welcome winter! I hope everyone stayed safe in our first big snow storm of the season. If this storm took you by surprise- don't you worry. We'll have plenty more opportunities to practice our storm survival techniques. Ethan Strimling for Congress is Keeping it Real in Maine We ...
Portland: Campaign Update, Nov 13th
by Corey Hascall, on Tuesday, November 13
Dear friends, You've probably already heard that Senator Ethan Strimling spent most of this last legislative session in Augusta fighting for income and property tax relief for Maine families. What you probably haven't heard is Senator Strimling's floor speech on the final day of session: One Vote. In ...
Portland: Campaign update, Oct. 30
by Corey Hascall, on Tuesday, October 30
Dear friends, Welcome to another fun edition of the Ethan08 weekly campaign round-up. But before we get into all of that, we have some very important business to take care of first. Let's pay homage to our home team, and World Series Champions- how about those RED SOX! A New ...
Portland: Campaign update, Oct. 24
by Corey Hascall, on Wednesday, October 24
Dear friends, Could this gorgeous autumn get any better? The Ethan08 team has been busy talking to Maine people at fall events all over the district; Harvestfest in York (special thanks to Jim Bartlett and Susan Christmas for showing us around, and the Harvie family for clipboarding), at the lasagna ...
Limington: Working Women Support Ethan
by Nancy Bunting, on Tuesday, September 25
Dear friends, As working-women, we are concerned about this economy. It's getting harder and harder to make ends meet and there's no relief in sight. We're concerned about the gap between the rich and poor which has grown so wide in the past six years. We're concerned about an administration ...
Yarmouth: Ethan Strimling Puts the Environment Ahead of Politics
by Leon Gorman, Roger Berle, on Wednesday, September 19
Dear Friend of the Environment, Living and working in Maine has created in many of us a profound commitment to Maine's natural resources. We know the health of Maine's environment is critical to our future - from outdoor recreation to logging and lobstering, from tourism to biotech and farming. It ...
Portland: Ethan Strimling Fights for Maine Workers
by CJ Betit, on Monday, September 10
Dear friends, For the past three years, Senator Ethan Strimling has been the Senate Chair of the Labor Committee. During that time he has led efforts to raise the minimum wage, expand unemployment benefits for laid off Mainers, and provide for workers who are injured on the job. He has ...
Windham: Strimling Walks the Walk
by Senator Bill Diamond, on Friday, June 8
Dear Friends, State Senator Ethan Strimling talks the talk, walks the walk, and actually has something to show Maine people at the end of the day. Ethan's actions make the lives of Maine people better. As Ethan's colleagues in the Legislature, we have watched him work for years. Find out ...
Augusta: Ethan Represents Maine Values and Maine's Future.
by Dale McCormick, Rosemary Baldacci, on Tuesday, May 29
Dear Friends, This year, we have a unique opportunity to get behind a person with an unparalleled track record of standing up when we need him. Someone who will, without question, be an activist on issues of civil rights in the United States House of Representatives. That person is our ...
Cape Elizabeth: Stand With Ethan for Maine's Future
by Bobby Monks, on Thursday, May 24
Dear Friends, On Sunday, with nearly two hundred supporters packing the room, I had the privilege of standing behind State Senator Ethan Strimling as he announced the formation of his Congressional Exploratory Committee. If you weren't there- I wish you had been. The feeling that something new and exciting is ...
All Towns: Walk With Me
by Ethan Strimling, on Sunday, May 20
Dear Friends, Today I'm announcing the formation of a committee to explore the possibility of entering the race for the United States Congress from Maine's First District. I'm also unveiling an exploratory web site so that you can learn a little bit more about me, where I come from, and ...