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<h1 class="headline" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.4em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></h1><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0px 0.625em;">great: sometimes one election is all it takes</h2><h1 class="headline" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.4em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul style="margin: 1em 0px;"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; margin: 3.75px 0px 3.75px 7.5px;">So far, it’s a simple fact that Democrat-controlled states are way ahead of Republican-controlled in committing to carbon-free energy and getting it online as <a href="http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxNkE2OwyAMhU9TdkTkp01YsOho2mtEDrgpKpgISKvcfki6GQkZ9B7GvE9DxjnETS0hZbYmjKM1qukvQkrBjOpMPZwHZtP4iIgerFM5rsiWdXJWQ7aBjgZRD-ypALWG_iK1qHu4DLKpm2469_iQ3STlA9g-ZYTVWCSNCt8Yt0DInHrmvKRTez0197IIP6maXAh-wjgjvW0M5JFypYMv_j-FAxmOVK5txQDnuHYIxJfwwcjnAC7xHJGMpZmDD6VqZ32JzT8QN55yOSZm9whS9PXQtOeh7aq66m7i-iNkI8X1du9_21Mn_NxUaZ1Kj37tX2FRLZC9ftW7O-94DrnQGcvuV7J5G5Fgcmi-4PKX9AEibwuqPavDnDF-xUKzgOtqVgaZUJ4kZTDivLqDNh31D3o6mUs" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJxNkE2OwyAMhU9TdkTkp01YsOho2mtEDrgpKpgISKvcfki6GQkZ9B7GvE9DxjnETS0hZbYmjKM1qukvQkrBjOpMPZwHZtP4iIgerFM5rsiWdXJWQ7aBjgZRD-ypALWG_iK1qHu4DLKpm2469_iQ3STlA9g-ZYTVWCSNCt8Yt0DInHrmvKRTez0197IIP6maXAh-wjgjvW0M5JFypYMv_j-FAxmOVK5txQDnuHYIxJfwwcjnAC7xHJGMpZmDD6VqZ32JzT8QN55yOSZm9whS9PXQtOeh7aq66m7i-iNkI8X1du9_21Mn_NxUaZ1Kj37tX2FRLZC9ftW7O-94DrnQGcvuV7J5G5Fgcmi-4PKX9AEibwuqPavDnDF-xUKzgOtqVgaZUJ4kZTDivLqDNh31D3o6mUs&source=gmail&ust=1563648370972000&usg=AFQjCNFNU3lvWz3ltqTJ5mF_96pGFRFKyw">Bloomberg Environment reports</a>.</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; margin: 3.75px 0px 3.75px 7.5px;">Hitting renewable targets is challenging, no matter which way a state capitol leans. Indiana, which saw Democrats win both state houses and the governorship in 2018, “is far from meeting annual interim goals meant to keep it on track for 25% renewable electricity by 2025,” <a href="http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkE2O7CAMhE_T7IgI-V-w6NGbuUZEwJNGTSAC86Lcfpy0hMpgC5fqMxphjelUe8zISoY0O6vk0ItpEsyq1tZjNzKX598EsGnnFaYCbC-Ld0aji-H-IOqRvVSjZbs0UogFBtlq6G3XQW-s0Z3QfW_Y5TLrYh0EAwr-QzpjAObVC3HPj-b5kD90IEBazwBHrkqmN62fqIiBpB5JNmcPyEg3570L0WWuV9p58kOnkDm-NPKMFI7TKETkMXBM2rw5Rr4BIE9kcujFA9_jAYmvUfvLi7krzSSGepRNNzZtVVftt3h-iUlO4vn9M_xrHq3YVlnlspCHeVcmbiypXeNm3vU1XS9Sd5tAzVS3EhyeM4TL0X4Y4gf6zQTPHdQV2AMipE-TwI6TbGtGRjbSyqAsJFiLv8GHW_8ARMqZaA" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkE2O7CAMhE_T7IgI-V-w6NGbuUZEwJNGTSAC86Lcfpy0hMpgC5fqMxphjelUe8zISoY0O6vk0ItpEsyq1tZjNzKX598EsGnnFaYCbC-Ld0aji-H-IOqRvVSjZbs0UogFBtlq6G3XQW-s0Z3QfW_Y5TLrYh0EAwr-QzpjAObVC3HPj-b5kD90IEBazwBHrkqmN62fqIiBpB5JNmcPyEg3570L0WWuV9p58kOnkDm-NPKMFI7TKETkMXBM2rw5Rr4BIE9kcujFA9_jAYmvUfvLi7krzSSGepRNNzZtVVftt3h-iUlO4vn9M_xrHq3YVlnlspCHeVcmbiypXeNm3vU1XS9Sd5tAzVS3EhyeM4TL0X4Y4gf6zQTPHdQV2AMipE-TwI6TbGtGRjbSyqAsJFiLv8GHW_8ARMqZaA&source=gmail&ust=1563648370972000&usg=AFQjCNGzwncxVwzd9LMQbCi_3s36htAaRg">reports Midwest Energy News.</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 3.75px 0px 3.75px 7.5px;">Still, a single transformational statewide election can quickly reverse years of bad policy. Take Maine, for instance.</li><li style="margin: 3.75px 0px 3.75px 7.5px;">Since January, when Democrat Janet Mills replaced Republican Paul LePage in the governor’s seat, it’s been “the most productive session for the environment and clean energy in my 23 years,” <a href="http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlUV1vozAQ_DXwBrKBBPzgB6ImJbo7tWmlSveEjFmIG2Mjf5Smv76GSJZHO5Z3d2Y4czBqc6ezti72FkwrepqVe0QIinta9LjaVbGw7WAAJiYkdcZDPPtOCs6c0Gr7gHAVXyngPSHDrs8KUoUWkBOUQVaSCmOCENrF65SW-V6A4kDhC8xdK4glvTo32yivo-wUzrIsKbeTVsJpk3I9Be6ovoTRagLlQhUGkgCoxGWARi_JwKxLOFOJu0Iyaylc2E8mM6jeSz8ldhFqTGp7S_4xoSDKT0PHpeij_Om81G_4rVl08-Lf_1z-tl37mXT88_AMyw_Zv_58n4fvC3829gMfzqdLlZ8_mveX5spm9T8Wq3oSNqmyfFflRYrT4ojqAyIZQfXxVD7lUYGmMUut76xj_LYqig2dmZv4Da-v4-rsRgdj24CTD9rvLSjWSegfnrtHSJuH7j4DVbBYCc6BeZAhiIpkBY7DoF6Hlor2YGD0cgtKbfcvoeynWA" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlUV1vozAQ_DXwBrKBBPzgB6ImJbo7tWmlSveEjFmIG2Mjf5Smv76GSJZHO5Z3d2Y4czBqc6ezti72FkwrepqVe0QIinta9LjaVbGw7WAAJiYkdcZDPPtOCs6c0Gr7gHAVXyngPSHDrs8KUoUWkBOUQVaSCmOCENrF65SW-V6A4kDhC8xdK4glvTo32yivo-wUzrIsKbeTVsJpk3I9Be6ovoTRagLlQhUGkgCoxGWARi_JwKxLOFOJu0Iyaylc2E8mM6jeSz8ldhFqTGp7S_4xoSDKT0PHpeij_Om81G_4rVl08-Lf_1z-tl37mXT88_AMyw_Zv_58n4fvC3829gMfzqdLlZ8_mveX5spm9T8Wq3oSNqmyfFflRYrT4ojqAyIZQfXxVD7lUYGmMUut76xj_LYqig2dmZv4Da-v4-rsRgdj24CTD9rvLSjWSegfnrtHSJuH7j4DVbBYCc6BeZAhiIpkBY7DoF6Hlor2YGD0cgtKbfcvoeynWA&source=gmail&ust=1563648370972000&usg=AFQjCNGbdjFld41UmzcQ95k6d1wiDryxkA" style="font-weight: 400;">a green advocate tells The Christian Science Monitor,</a> adding, “Not just 23 years. Ever.”</li><li style="font-weight: 400; margin: 3.75px 0px 3.75px 7.5px;">Two-termer LePage “slapped a moratorium on wind turbines and viewed renewable energy, as one critic put it, as ‘an existential threat’ to the state’…promoted fossil fuels, vetoed clean energy bills, tried to tear up environmental regulations, was alone among Atlantic coast governors to court offshore drilling, refused to issue voter-approved conservation bonds, and sought to tax vast protected forestland or open it to development,” the Monitor reports. </li><li style="font-weight: 400; margin: 3.75px 0px 3.75px 7.5px;">Since Mills took office in January, and with Democrats controlling both houses of the state legislature, Maine has enacted laws “to nearly eliminate carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, expand solar and offshore wind, promote electric vehicles, and distribute 100,000 heat pumps. It became the first state to ban foam food containers and the third to ban single-use plastic bags. It also prohibited offshore oil and gas drilling, stiffened river and lake water protections, threw out Mr. LePage’s appointees, and established a new office to help plan for climate change,” reports the Monitor.</li><li style="font-weight: 400; margin: 3.75px 0px 3.75px 7.5px;">Maine was one of 7 states where Democrats pried governor’s seats from Republicans in the 2018 election, out of 13 where Republicans were considered vulnerable, and lost none, <a href="http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkEtuwyAQhk8TdrHAkBgWLFI1uYaFYeyg8rAA1_XtC46EZoZhHj-fVgWWmA65xlzQliGN1sh-uGMhMDKSGcJvHNk8zgnAK-tkSRugdZuc1arYGM4GTDh6S0aYuDPKBo6pGGZ-p5MRfJ4ZNYIyIVDbMqrNWAgaJPxCOmIA5OS7lDVf6OPSv-rZ973TIXQ6-nprw6sjpMWimjU6W6zONVQeUtUR8tWAjzpVRfq6xDo4xHRtnVdvTYHkW7UNBv66d_EO2aZZ4IHwnt44ZR3p2BM_vrDoBX48X8M3vTDsl77L25SL0j9NDUpyVcXrH9Jel8bjTFccY_V-C7YcIwQ1OTAfUuWD9vx5OVaQAfbsoFRNn2TFx0XPCKqLTKwjgzSQYNnciTec9h9OwI3M" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkEtuwyAQhk8TdrHAkBgWLFI1uYaFYeyg8rAA1_XtC46EZoZhHj-fVgWWmA65xlzQliGN1sh-uGMhMDKSGcJvHNk8zgnAK-tkSRugdZuc1arYGM4GTDh6S0aYuDPKBo6pGGZ-p5MRfJ4ZNYIyIVDbMqrNWAgaJPxCOmIA5OS7lDVf6OPSv-rZ973TIXQ6-nprw6sjpMWimjU6W6zONVQeUtUR8tWAjzpVRfq6xDo4xHRtnVdvTYHkW7UNBv66d_EO2aZZ4IHwnt44ZR3p2BM_vrDoBX48X8M3vTDsl77L25SL0j9NDUpyVcXrH9Jel8bjTFccY_V-C7YcIwQ1OTAfUuWD9vx5OVaQAfbsoFRNn2TFx0XPCKqLTKwjgzSQYNnciTec9h9OwI3M&source=gmail&ust=1563648370972000&usg=AFQjCNHAHMPQppLtBP_oAfSE0XV8zA4qMg">as CNN reported last fall.</a>Republicans picked up one seat, Alaska, that had been held by an independent.</li><li style="font-weight: 400; margin: 3.75px 0px 3.75px 7.5px;">“Before the election, just [just??] 42 percent of Americans were represented by Democratic governors,” CNN noted. In January, that rose to 53 percent.</li></ul></h1><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div>
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A state lawmaker in Maine has introduced a bill that would affirm climate change denial as free speech in the state, and shield deniers ? notably Exxon Mobil ? from prosecution by the state’s attorney general.
Republican Rep. Lawrence “Larry” Lockman introduced LD 771, titled “An Act To Protect Political Speech and Prevent Climate Change Policy Profiling” earlier this month, at the behest of Jonathan Reisman, a self-described “prominent ‘denier’” and associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of Maine at Machias.
Lockman has earned a reputation in the state house as a polarizing political figure. In 2014, he faced down calls for his resignation after comments surfaced in which he argued men should be able to rape women if abortion is legal.
“If a woman has [the right to an abortion], why shouldn’t a man be free to use his superior strength to force himself on a woman?” Lockman wrote. “At least the rapist’s pursuit of sexual freedom doesn’t [in most cases] result in anyone’s death.”
[Maine State Representative Lawrence Lockman gives a speech at the ]University of Southern Maine in this undated file photo.
Reisman told The Huffington Post in an email Wednesday that the bill was drafted and submitted at his request in an effort to stymie Maine Attorney General Janet Mills, whom he says “has a serial record of abusing the 1st Amendment.”
It’s unclear how the bill further protects free speech beyond what’s already guaranteed under the First Amendment. A question to that effect from HuffPost went unanswered by Reisman.
According to an analysis by the Portland Press Herald, the legislation is clearly intended to hinder Attorney General Mills, who has expressed her support for a civil suit. Along with 17 other Attorneys General, Mills wants an investigation into Exxon Mobil for potentially defrauding investors and the public with false statements on climate change.
“Here the Attorney General has made quite clear that she believes that opposition to the climate change policy of the Obama administration is a criminal offense,” Reisman told the Press Herald. “Her investigation is attempting to criminalize political speech that they disagree with.”
Reisman elaborated on his position in an op-end sent to HuffPost, arguing that Mills is gagging free speech as defined by the Citizens United Supreme Court case in 2010. The case effectively classified financial contributions as free speech, opening the floodgates for corporate interests to pour money into political campaigns.
The bill would also prevent Maine from taking a person’s “climate change policy preferences” into account when purchasing goods or services or in awarding grants or contracts.
“This bill is a head scratcher,” Oamshri Amarasingham, advocacy director at the ACLU of Maine, told HuffPost. “All it seems to do is protect speech that is already protected by the First Amendment.”
“If Rep. Lockman has heard from anyone who was denied a government job because of their position on climate change, he should send them our way.”
Lockman emphasized to the Associated Press that his bill isn’t only about protecting climate change deniers. It would also protect the free speech of people concerned about climate change. 
For example, he said, “I don’t want to see a Republican state attorney general issuing subpoenas for the records of progressive or liberal think tanks or public policy groups to chill their free speech.”---<div id="mw-content-text" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" lang="en"><div class="mw-parser-output">Janet Trafton Mills (born December 30, 1947, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmington,Maine" title="Farmington, Maine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Farmington, Maine</a>) is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Attorney General" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Attorney General</a> of the US state of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine" title="Maine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Maine</a>. She was first elected by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine_State_Legislature" class="mw-redirect" title="Maine State Legislature" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Maine State Legislature</a>on January 6, 2009, succeeding <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.Steven_Rowe" title="G. Steven Rowe" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">G. Steven Rowe</a>. Her second term began on January 3, 2013, after the term of Republican <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Schneider(politician)" title="William Schneider (politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">William Schneider</a>. She is the first woman to hold the position of State Attorney General in Maine. Prior to her election, she served in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine_House_of_Representatives" title="Maine House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Maine House of Representatives</a> representing the towns of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmington,Maine" title="Farmington, Maine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Farmington</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry,Maine" title="Industry, Maine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Industry</a>.<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><div class="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="background: none; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: 0px; display: inline; line-height: 1.3;">Contents</h2>  [<a role="button" tabindex="0" class="togglelink" style="background: none; cursor: pointer;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_T.Mills#Political_career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1Political career</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_T.Mills#Personal_life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Personal life</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_T.Mills#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_T.Mills#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Political career[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Janet_T.Mills&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Political career" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Mills was an Assistant Attorney General from 1976 to 1980, prosecuting homicides and other major crimes. In 1980, she was elected District Attorney for Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford Counties, a position to which she was re-elected three times. She was the first woman District Attorney in New England.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_T.Mills#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a>In 1994, Mills was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress in the Democratic primary.Mills was elected to the Board of Directors of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine_Women%27s_Lobby" title="Maine Women's Lobby" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Maine Women's Lobby</a> in 1998.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_T.Mills#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a>In 2002, Mills was elected to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine_House_of_Representatives" title="Maine House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Maine House of Representatives</a> as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic Party of the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Democrat</a>. During this time, she served on the Committees of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judiciary" title="Judiciary" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Judiciary</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Justice" class="mw-redirect" title="Criminal Justice" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Criminal Justice</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriation(law)" title="Appropriation (law)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Appropriations</a>. She had been elected to her fourth term when the Joint Convention convened in December 2008 to elect the new <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Attorney General" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Attorney General</a>. Out of several candidates, Mills was elected and became the 55th Attorney General of Maine on January 6, 2009. When Republicans gained control of the Maine Legislature in 2010, Mills, a Democrat, was not reelected to another term. In January 2011, she was elected vice chair of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine_Democratic_Party" title="Maine Democratic Party" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Maine Democratic Party</a> in January 2011.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_T.Mills#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a> She joined the law firm <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Preti_Flaherty&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Preti Flaherty (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Preti Flaherty</a> in February 2011 as a lawyer with the firm's Litigation Group in its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusta,Maine" title="Augusta, Maine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Augusta, Maine</a> office.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_T.Mills#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a> When Democrats regained control of the Legislature in the 2012 elections, she was again chosen to be Attorney General, resigned as vice chair of the Maine Democratic Party,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_T.Mills#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a> and took the oath of office as Attorney General on January 7, 2013.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_T.Mills#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a> She was re-elected to her position on December 3, 2014, despite the Maine Senate coming under Republican control.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_T.Mills#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine_Republican_Party" title="Maine Republican Party" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican</a> Governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_LePage" title="Paul LePage" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Paul LePage</a> is opposed to Mills being Attorney General, due to many disputes between them over the legality of some of LePage's policies.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_T.Mills#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a> On January 28, 2015, LePage requested that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine_Supreme_Judicial_Court" title="Maine Supreme Judicial Court" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Maine Supreme Judicial Court</a> give its opinion as to whether it is legal for the Governor's office to need the permission of the Attorney General's office to retain outside counsel when the AG declines to represent the State in a legal matter. LePage did so after two instances of Mills declining to represent LePage in matters which she determined had little legal merit, though she approved his requests to have outside lawyers.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_T.Mills#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a> On May 1, 2017, LePage filed a lawsuit against Mills, asserting that Mills has abused her authority when refusing to represent the state in legal matters, or taking a legal view contrary to that of the LePage administration. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_T.Mills#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a>On July 10, 2017, Mills announced that she would be seeking the Democratic Party nomination for Governor of Maine in 2018.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_T.Mills#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Personal life[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Janet_T.Mills&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Personal life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>Mills was married to Stanley Kuklinski, with whom she has five stepdaughters and three grandsons. Kuklinski died due to the effects of a stroke on September 24, 2014.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_T.Mills#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a> She resides in Farmington, Maine. She is also the sister of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Mills(American_politician)" title="Peter Mills (American politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Peter Mills</a>, the former Maine State Senator and gubernatorial candidate.<h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">References[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Janet_T.Mills&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><div class="reflist columns references-column-width" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.3em; column-width: 30em; list-style-type: decimal;"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_T.Mills#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a> }<cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.maine.gov/ag/about/message.shtml" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Office of the Maine AG: Biography of Attorney General Janet T. 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Retrieved 2017-02-06.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanet+T.+Mills&rft.atitle=Office+of+the+Maine+AG%3A+Biography+of+Attorney+General+Janet+T.+Mills&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.maine.gov&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.maine.gov%2Fag%2Fabout%2Fmessage.shtml&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_T.Mills#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a> }<cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jc4gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hGoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1322,3862028&dq=maine-women%27s-lobby&hl=en" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">"Mills elected to Maine Women's Lobby board"</a>. Sun Journal. December 22, 1998.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanet+T.+Mills&rft.atitle=Mills+elected+to+Maine+Women%27s+Lobby+board&rft.date=1998-12-22&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Sun+Journal&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.google.com%2Fnewspapers%3Fid%3Djc4gAAAAIBAJ%26sjid%3DhGoFAAAAIBAJ%26pg%3D1322%2C3862028%26dq%3Dmaine-women%2527s-lobby%26hl%3Den&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_T.Mills#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bangordailynews.com/2011/01/24/politics/portland-lawyer-chosen-as-maine-dems-chairman/" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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