Issues

  • Improving Health Care for Maine People and Small Businesses: Governor Mills understands that having access to high-quality affordable health care can not only keep people healthy, but it can save lives. That's why she's expanding access to health care and trying to make it more affordable for Maine people and small businesses.
  • Building a Stronger Economy: Governor Mills is focused on building an innovative, forward looking economy that provides good-paying jobs across the state. Through her Maine Jobs and Recovery Plan, she's made historic investments in what people need, like high-speed internet, child care, and housing.
  • Protecting Maine's Environment, Advancing Clean Energy: From rising seas to warming temperatures to deadly natural disasters, our climate is changing in dangerous ways that will have profound implications for our people, for our economy, and for our state. Governor Mills is building a clean energy economy that creates good-paying jobs around the state and reduces Maine's dependence on expensive, harmful fossil fuels by using homegrown, renewable energy sources.
  • Strengthening Education, Supporting Teachers, and Charting a Brighter Future for Students: As the daughter of a long-time public-school teacher, and as someone who raised five daughters who attended public schools in Maine, Governor Mills firmly believes that every child should have the same shot at success in Maine, regardless of their family circumstances and regardless of their zip code.
  • Modernizing Maine's Infrastructure: The success of Maine's middle class depends on investing in the things they need every day, like safe roads and bridges, accessible child care, and affordable high-speed internet. Governor Mills is committed to modernizing Maine's outdated infrastructure to better serve both residents and visitors.
  • Spearheading Unprecedented Efforts to Expand Broadband: In today's world, access to affordable, high-speed internet is as fundamental as electricity, heat, and water. If we want a strong economy and thriving state, we've simply got to have it. That's why Governor Mills has focused on expanding affordable, high-speed broadband across the state, especially in rural areas.
  • Making Sure that Families in Maine have a Home to Call Their Own: A home is more than brick and beams. Home is where we raise our kids, where we sit at the kitchen table paying bills and helping with homework, where we sleep safely every night. Governor Mills is committed to making sure that every person in Maine has a home to call their own.
  • Providing Stability and Security for Maine's Working Men and Women: The daughter of a county lawyer and a public school teacher, who had her own paper route as a young child and waited tables as a teenager, Governor Mills was raised to appreciate a hard day's work, which is why she is committed to making sure every worker in the state of Maine is treated fairly.
  • Rebuilding the State of Maine and Tribes' Relationship: Governor Mills is committed to healing the divisions of the past and to forging a new relationship built on mutual trust and respect.
  • Honoring Maine's Veterans: The daughter, sister, and niece of Maine veterans, Governor Mills recognizes the service and sacrifice of Maine's Veterans and is fighting for them, just as they fought for us.