Merle Parise

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Merle Parise
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Elections and appointments
Last election

November 8, 2022

Education

Associate

University of Maine, Orono, 1972

Bachelor's

University of Southern Maine, 2004

Graduate

Columbia University, 2006

Personal
Profession
Natural resource manager
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Merle Parise (Republican Party) ran for election to the Maine House of Representatives to represent District 46. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.

Biography

Merle Parise earned an associate degree from the University of Maine at Orono in 1972, a bachelor's degree from the University of Southern Maine in 2004, and a master's degree from Columbia University in 2006. His professional experience includes working as a natural resource manager and forester. From 2009 to 2013, Parise worked for the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service in Afghanistan. During his service, he received two U.S. State Department Meritorious Service Awards. Parise is an honorary member and past president of the Rotary Club. He has also served with the Newcastle Food Pantry and the Appeals Board of Newcastle.[1]

Elections

2022

See also: Maine House of Representatives elections, 2022

General election

General election for Maine House of Representatives District 46

Incumbent Lydia Crafts defeated Merle Parise in the general election for Maine House of Representatives District 46 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Lydia Crafts
Lydia Crafts (D) Candidate Connection
 
65.0
 
3,693
Image of Merle Parise
Merle Parise (R)
 
35.0
 
1,988

Total votes: 5,681
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Democratic primary election

Democratic Primary for Maine House of Representatives District 46

The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Lydia Crafts in round 1 .


Total votes: 957
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Republican primary election

Republican Primary for Maine House of Representatives District 46

The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Merle Parise in round 1 .


Total votes: 321
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2020

See also: Maine House of Representatives elections, 2020

General election

General election for Maine House of Representatives District 90

Lydia Crafts defeated Merle Parise in the general election for Maine House of Representatives District 90 on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Lydia Crafts
Lydia Crafts (D)
 
64.9
 
4,024
Image of Merle Parise
Merle Parise (R) Candidate Connection
 
35.1
 
2,176

Total votes: 6,200
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Democratic primary election

Democratic Primary for Maine House of Representatives District 90

The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Lydia Crafts in round 2 . The results of Round are displayed below. To see the results of other rounds, use the dropdown menu above to select a round and the table will update.


Total votes: 1,783
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Republican primary election

Republican Primary for Maine House of Representatives District 90

The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Merle Parise in round 1 .


Total votes: 587
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Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

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2020

Candidate Connection

Merle Parise completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Parise's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Currently owner and operator of MJP Forestry a Natural Resource Consulting Business. Highly knowledgeable and dedicated professional with extensive experience in change management and capacity building, project management, political analysis, and representing local landowners and municipalities. He is, furthermore, in partnership with his wife as the owner and operator of a sheep and horse farm in Newcastle.

Spent from 2009- 2013 working in support of our troops in Afghanistan working for the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service

Volunteer member of the US Peace Corps in Mexico 2007-2009

Paul Harris Fellow, member and chairperson of the Newcastle Planning Board for ten years and currently a member of the Appeals Board. Past Director and President of the Planning alliance of the Damariscotta River Estuary Project. Which successfully promoted sustainable commercial aquaculture development.

Tri Chair fro Damariscotta Sesquicentennial Celebration

  • Support efforts to sustain Medicaid and Medicare
  • Maintain funding for Police and improve conditions for our prisons and jails staff
  • Defend tax abatement's for forest owners, farmers, and fishermen
Taxes, educations, natural resource management and climate variability.
John Adams and Theodore Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt and his land stewardship. John Adams for his courage to do the correct thing.
The writings of John Adams, Guns Germs And Steel by Jared Diamond, The World is Flat by Friedman, Living in the Environment by Miller, Homer Dixons writings on environmental scarcity and many others.
Listen, knowledge of topical local issues, ability to join and form coalitions. A sense of compassion.
I am a moderate conservative who has worked with sophisticated budgets involving operations within change management and capacity building scenarios. The outcome was a positive feedback of improved services and increased funding. I support equal pay and rites for all people, among other things, sustaining Medicaid, tax abatements for farmers, timberland owners, and fishermen. I have substantial training working within organization where I formed coalitions to inform, train, and promoted sustainable government and agriculture.

Championed NATO counterinsurgency strategy both in the field and the province's capital of Meymaneh, Afghanistan.

• Awarded the Norwegian Service Medal, and NATO Service Medal
• Acting USDA Director to NATO Regional Command North

Traveled to Mexico as a representative of the US Government with the US Peace Corps and :

• Established climate risk evaluation program using experimental theories and new approaches (NASA Goddard Space Institute Climate Model) and presented it at University of Colima and in Guadalajara to the Mexican Federal Consejo Nacional de Areas Protegidas.
• Launched livelihood erosion and sediment control program that employed 40 people annually.
• Developed timber type inventory within ArcGIS framework and instructed park employees on dendrology and field measurements.
• Assisted in execution of Integrated Pest Management program to combat the pine bark beetle.

Built a Natural Resource Consultant Company and have assisted the State of Maine Legislature on issues such as timber trespass and timber management.
A sustainable budget and outstanding service to my constituents.
The Hunt for the Red October by Tom Clancy. My Father worked for Admiral Rickover and supervised construction of Nuclear Submarines
Indiana Jones. It was my nick name in Afghanistan.
No. One should have an idea of the process works. After all this is a republic and our elected officials vote how they think.
supporting a sustainable economy as it relates to sustainable natural resources.
Yes, of course, we must work together and form ideas and coalitions to support our ideas to deal with issues.

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Footnotes

  1. Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 11, 2020


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