Arthur D. Hlavaty

This is not "the State of Maine"; this is Governor Paul LePage, who was twice elected with less than 50% of the vote due to a man named Elliot Cutler who ran booth times as an independent, sucking away votes from the Democrat, Mike Michaud, who would otherwise have won.

Expect the bill in question to go nowhere.

By the way, my girlfriend J., who works at the State House, tells me that Senator Katz's last name is pronounced "Cates".