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  Vote on Tuesday, Nov 3^rd (or earlier by absentee ballot). Polling places and times by town: (Click here for the issues.)

  Town	Voting Place	Voting Address	Time
  Appleton	Town Office	2915 Sennebec Rd	8-8
  Camden	Public Safety Bldg	31 Washington St	8-8
  Cushing	Fire Station	38 Cross St	10-8
  Friendship	Hahn Center		10-8
  Hope	Town Office	441 Camden Rd	10-8
  North Haven	Town Office	Town Office Square	10-8
  Owls Head	Community Bldg	224 Ash Point Dr	10-8
  Rockland	City Hall	270 Pleasant St	8-8
  Rockport	Town Office	101 Main St	8-8
  Saint George	Town Office	3 School St	10-8
  South Thomaston	Municipal Bldg	125 Spruce Head Rd	10-8
  Thomaston	Legion Hall	10 Watts Ln	10-8
  Union	Town Office	567 Common Rd	10-8
  Vinalhaven	Town Office	19 Washington School Rd	9-8
  Warren	Masonic Hall	103 Camden Rd	10-8
  Washington	Town Office	40 Old Union Rd	10-8

• Climate Action Day, Saturday Oct 24th. Local events in Camden and Belfast. See our calendar for details.
• Rep. Andy O'Brien (Hope, Appleton) discusses LD 290 here, an act to allow out-of-state health insurance companies into Maine. Why are Republicans opposed to consumer protection laws and insurance industry regulation?
• Senate committee votes for Health Care Plan. Maine's Senator Snowe is the only Republican in favor. Will she vote in favor on a floor vote? Analysis here from the Washington Post 10/13.
• Working Girls performance on 10/30 in Camden to benefit Midcoast for Marriage Equality's; No on One campaign. See our calendar for details.
• Our last KCDC meeting was Tuesday, October 13 at Stella Maris House, Rockland. The agenda is here. Meeting report real soon now.
• Obama Health Care Plan. Maine Democratic Committee's Julian Federle sent us this document (114 kb pdf) to back up your arguments in support of the President's plan.
• Rep. Michaud clarifies his health care position in this set of communications (164 kb pdf) sent to us by his chief of staff, Peter Chandler.
• Organizing for America, local phone bank for Health Reform. Every Wednesday evening: 6:00 - 8:00 p.m., 101 Chestnut Street, Camden. See the Calendar for details.
• Single-payer advocate Dr. Phil Caper participated in our KCDC healthcare forum in the spring. Recently interviewed by WERU, Dr. Caper speaks beyond the sound bites and narrow vision of current politics when he lists what needs to be done to truly solve the healthcare crisis:
  • Provide affordable access
  • Restructure the method of compensating providers (i.e. not fee-for-service)
  • Get rid of for profit culture in healthcare
  Listen to the interview here.
• Energy Forum September 30^th. See the Calendar for details.
• Senator Snowe on heath care. The New Yorker (09/21) says, ...in the filibuster-hobbled Senate the fate of reform may come down to the whims of a tiny handful of preening moderates from states that are mostly empty of people, notably the Democratic chairman of the Finance Committee, Max Baucus, of Montana, and Olympia Snowe, Republican of Maine. ... Here's the New York Times video interview (09/17) with her nibs.
• Steve Rowe cookout, Wednesday, Sep 16^th. Details here.
• New Health Care Rallies scheduled. See our Calendar.
• Our last KCDC meeting was Tuesday, September 8^th. Hugh Magbie elected Chair. More details rsn. The agenda is here.
• 5 Myths about health care around the world. This 8/23 Washington Post article caught our eye when it was reprinted recently in the Bangor Daily. It arms you with facts about how other nations handle heath care. Maine libraries will have Reid's new soon-to-be published book, The Healing of America.
• David Brooks comments (NYT 09/03) on the current health reform mess: ...efforts to expand coverage marched ahead, but efforts to fundamentally reform the system got watered down.
  
  Instead of true reform we got a series of bills that essentially cement the present system in place...