Rep. Sally Cluchey is serving her second term in the Maine House of Representatives. She is also the outreach coordinator for Bowdoinham Community Connections, a volunteer-based program providing individualized support to residents who need assistance accessing community resources, and is a board member of the Bowdoinham Food Pantry, serving as chair since 2019.
Rep. Poppy Arford is serving her third term in the Maine Legislature. She is a member of the Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services Committee, where she has led bipartisan efforts to improve health care price transparency and study a public option for health care coverage.
Arford previously served on the Brunswick Town Council and on Brunswick’s Sustainability Committee. She was named the 2023 Legislator of the Year by the Brunswick-based Independence Association.
Rep. Nina Milliken is serving her second term in the Maine House of Representatives. She serves on the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee, as well as the House Elections Committee.
Milliken is passionate about confronting the opioid epidemic and holding those who created this crisis responsible, combating violence against women and girls (specifically sexual violence), improving access to legal services for the state’s indigent population and increasing affordable housing across Maine.
Rep. Morgan Rielly is serving his third term in the Maine House of Representatives. He grew up in Westbrook and while at Westbrook High School, he served two years as a student representative on the Westbrook City Council.
Rep. Michel (Mike) A. Lajoie is serving his sixth non-consecutive term in the Maine House of Representatives.
A lifelong resident of Lewiston, Lajoie is a former small business owner and Lewiston Fire Chief who served the city for over 31 years. He graduated from Lewiston High School and Central Maine Vocational Technical Institute and earned his associate’s degree in fire science from Southern Maine Technical College. He is also a graduate of the Androscoggin Leadership Development Institute.
Rep. Melanie Sachs is serving her third term in the Maine House of Representatives. She is the House chair of the Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee.
Sachs grew up in New Sharon and graduated from Mt. Blue High School in Farmington. She received her bachelor’s degree in political science from Bates College in Lewiston and her master’s degree in science and social administration from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
Rep. Matthew Beck is serving his second term in the Maine House of Representatives.
A graduate of State University of New York at Binghamton, Beck worked briefly at a number of radio stations before taking a job first at a local public television station and then at a CBS affiliate.
Matt Moonen is in his sixth term in the Maine House of Representatives, where he currently serves as the Majority Leader. He has previously been a member of the Taxation Committee and the Chair of the Judiciary Committee.
Rep. Marc Malon is serving his second term in the Maine House of Representatives. He sits on the new Housing and Economic Development Committee and the Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee.
Malon grew up in Biddeford, where he lives today with his wife, Jennifer, and their two daughters.
Rep. Mana Abdi is serving her second term in the Maine House of Representatives. She serves on the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee.
Abdi is ethnically Somali, but was born in Kenya and came to the United States when she was 11. She has been living in Lewiston for the past 16 years. She attended the University of Maine at Farmington and earned her bachelor’s degree in political science and international and global studies.
