Sara Gideon
Prior offices
Maine House of Representatives District 48
Elections and appointments
Personal
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Sara Gideon (Democratic Party) was a member of the Maine House of Representatives, representing District 48. She assumed office on December 5, 2012. She left office on December 2, 2020.
Gideon (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Maine. She lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Gideon served as speaker of the House from 2016 to 2020. House Democrats nominated her for the speakership. She won the majority of votes for the nomination in a three-way race between Gideon, Rep. Gay Grant, and Rep. Craig Hickman.[1][2]
She served as assistant majority leader from 2014 to 2016. Gideon served as the vice chairperson of the Freeport Town Council.
Elections
2020
U.S. Senate election
See also: United States Senate election in Maine, 2020
United States Senate election in Maine, 2020 (July 14 Democratic primary)
United States Senate election in Maine, 2020 (July 14 Republican primary)
General election
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Candidate |
% |
Total Votes |
Transfer |
Round eliminated |
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Susan Collins |
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417,645 |
0 |
Won (1) |
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Sara Gideon |
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347,223 |
0 |
1 |
| |
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Lisa Savage |
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40,579 |
0 |
1 |
| |
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Max Linn |
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13,508 |
0 |
1 |
| |
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Tiffany Bond |
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0 |
0 |
1 |
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Douglas Fogg |
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0 |
0 |
1 |
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Ian Kenton Engelman |
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0 |
0 |
1 |
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228 |
0 |
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Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source
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Total votes: 819,183 |
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Democratic primary election
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There were no incumbents in this race. Source
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Total votes: 162,681 |
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Republican primary election
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Candidate |
% |
Total Votes |
Transfer |
Round eliminated |
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Susan Collins |
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87,375 |
0 |
Advanced (1) |
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Incumbents are bolded and underlined. Source
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Total votes: 87,375 |
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
Candidate profile
Biography: Gideon received a bachelor's degree in international relations and affairs from George Washington University in 1994. She worked as an advertising account executive with USA Today. Gideon served as vice chairperson on the Freeport Town Council. She was assistant majority leader of the state House of Representatives from 2014 to 2016. At the time of the election, Gideon served as speaker of the state House.
Key messages
Gideon said she had worked across the aisle. She emphasized that she changed the seating chart in the state House so that Democrats and Republicans were no longer grouped on different sides of the room.
Gideon said her record included protecting insurance coverage for people with pre-existing conditions in Maine, helping control prescription drug costs including capping insulin costs, and passing middle-class property tax relief.
Gideon's ads said Collins had changed during her time in office and that she had been bought by special interests. Gideon criticized Collins' vote for the 2017 tax bill and said she put Social Security and Medicare in danger.
State legislative election
- See also: Maine House of Representatives elections, 2020
Gideon was not able to file for re-election due to term limits.
2018
- See also: Maine House of Representatives elections, 2018
General election
Democratic primary election
Republican primary election
2016
- See also: Maine House of Representatives elections, 2016
Elections for the Maine House of Representatives took place in 2016. The primary election took place on June 14, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was March 15, 2016.[3]
Incumbent
Sara Gideon defeated
Paul Schulz in the Maine House of Representatives District 48 general election.
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Incumbent
Sara Gideon ran unopposed in the Maine House of Representatives District 48 Democratic primary.
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| Maine House of Representatives, District 48 Democratic Primary, 2016 |
| Party |
Candidate |
| | Democratic |  Sara Gideon Incumbent (unopposed) |
ran unopposed in the Maine House of Representatives District 48 Republican primary.
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| Maine House of Representatives, District 48 Republican Primary, 2016 |
| Party |
Candidate |
| | Republican | Paul Schulz (unopposed) |
2014
- See also: Maine House of Representatives elections, 2014
Elections for the Maine House of Representatives took place in 2014. A primary election took place on June 10, 2014, and a general election was held on November 4, 2014. The signature filing deadline for party candidates wishing to run in this election was March 17, 2014. The deadline for write-in candidates to run in the primary election was April 28, 2014, and the deadline for non-party candidates to run in the general election was June 2, 2014. The deadline for write-in candidates to run in the general election was September 22, 2014. District 106 incumbent Sara Gideon was unopposed in the Democratic primary. Paul Schulz was unopposed in the Republican primary. Gideon defeated Schulz in the general election.[7][8][9][10]
| Maine House of Representatives District 48, General Election, 2014 |
| Party |
Candidate |
Vote % |
Votes |
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Democratic |
Sara Gideon Incumbent |
63.9% |
3,226 |
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Republican |
Paul Schulz |
31.5% |
1,589 |
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None |
Blank Votes |
4.6% |
231 |
| Total Votes |
5,046 |
2012
- See also: Maine House of Representatives elections, 2012
Gideon won election in the 2012 election for Maine House of Representatives District 106. Gideon defeated Patrick Norton and Melanie Sachs in the June 12 Democratic primary and defeated Benjamin Martin (R) in the general election, which took place on November 6, 2012.[11][12]
| Maine House of Representatives, District 106, General Election, 2012 |
| Party |
Candidate |
Vote % |
Votes |
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Democratic |
Sara Gideon Incumbent |
65.7% |
3,525 |
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Republican |
Jody James |
34.3% |
1,837 |
| Total Votes |
5,362 |
| Maine House of Representatives, District 106 Democratic Primary, 2012 |
| Candidate |
Vote % |
Votes |
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Sara Gideon |
50.9% |
534 |
| Melanie Sachs |
44.8% |
470 |
| Patrick Norton |
4.4% |
46 |
| Total Votes |
1,050 |
2020
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Campaign website
Gideon’s campaign website stated the following:
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- Washington is clearly broken – politicians are too responsive to wealthy donors and corporate special interests, promoting their agendas over the people they were elected to represent. Elected officials are failing to make progress on many of the issues that matter most to Maine people, like lowering the cost of prescription drugs, reducing their tax burden or making health care more affordable, all because special interests hold the power.
- Sara voted to strengthen Maine’s clean elections system after it was weakened by federal courts. In the past year, she worked in the state legislature to pass automatic voter registration to make it easier for Maine voters to participate in our electoral process and banned state lobbyists from donating to legislative and gubernatorial campaigns in Maine.
- Sara is running for Senate to fight for Mainers, not special interests. In the Senate, she’ll work to end the influence of big money on our elections and officials in Washington by:
- Passing a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United;
- Passing the DISCLOSE Act, which would require dark money groups to disclose their donors and crack down on secret spending in our elections, and the Real Time Transparency Act to increase campaign finance transparency;
- Supporting “No Budget, No Pay” legislation so that Congress isn’t compensated if they fail to do the most basic part of their job: passing a budget;
- Banning former members of Congress from becoming lobbyists;
- Refusing any gifts or meals from lobbyists; and
- Refusing any trips paid for by special interests.
- Sara has pledged not to accept any money from corporate PACs in her campaign or as a U.S. Senator, so that Maine people will never have any doubt whose interests she’s representing in the Senate.
- Too many Mainers face impossible choices between affording a trip to the doctor and paying their bills. Sara believes that every single Mainer should have access to affordable and quality health care – it is a basic human right.
- As Maine Speaker of the House, Sara passed bold prescription drug reforms to crack down on big drug companies and their skyrocketing prices and was relentless in her work to expand Medicaid coverage to an estimated 70,000 Mainers.
- She also passed a bill to protect Mainers’ health care coverage so that no matter what happens in Washington, 225,000 Mainers with pre-existing conditions can’t be discriminated against, kids can remain on their parents’ insurance until they are 26, and seniors aren’t forced to pay more for coverage.
- Health care reforms have helped increase access, but there is far more work to be done to lower costs and to make sure that every single American has access to care.
- Sara believes we need to complete the work we started under the Affordable Care Act and in the Senate, she will fight to:
- Expand access to quality and affordable health care to every person including those with pre-existing conditions;
- Allow anyone to choose to buy into Medicare through a newly created public option, while preserving the choice for those who like their private insurance to keep it; and
- Crack down on big drug companies to lower the cost of prescription drugs by allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices, capping out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for seniors, creating a federal drug importation program, and ending pay-for-delay schemes that help keep the cost of prescription drugs high.
- Big corporations and special interests have too much influence over our elected officials in Washington. Politicians are too often looking out for their donors instead of the people they were elected to represent, like when Congress passed a nearly $2 trillion tax break for big corporations and the wealthiest families in America in 2017 – and did little for families in Maine. Sara is not accepting any corporate PAC money in her campaign, because it will always be clear that she is fighting for Mainers, not special interests, in the Senate.
- In the State Legislature, Sara brought Republicans and Democrats together to pass a package of meaningful property tax relief for Mainers. Because of that work, starting in January 2020, more than 300,000 Maine families will receive a check in the mail. She also closed a corporate tax loophole that prioritized out-of-state companies and used that money to give a tax break to hardworking Maine families.
- That’s the kind of leadership that’s missing in Washington, and that’s exactly why Sara is running. No corporation should pay nothing in taxes while families are struggling to make ends meet. In the Senate, Sara will work to roll back the Trump tax cuts and make sure that tax breaks are going to hardworking families in Maine, not corporations and the wealthiest individuals.
- A child’s success should not be determined by their zip code, socioeconomic status or race. Sara believes that each child in this country deserves a high-quality education, including early childhood education. Sara has always been deeply committed to bettering our education system – she was initially inspired to run for the Maine State Legislature after volunteering in schools in her community.
- She also understands the challenges many face in continuing their education beyond elementary and high school, whether it be at a four-year university, or in a technical or trade program. College, community college, trade and technical programs should be accessible for anyone who wants to pursue the next step in their education, but too often cost prevents today’s students from reaching their full potential and preparing for successful careers.
- Sara recognizes that we must address the student debt crisis that forces young people to make impossible financial choices, often before they even complete high school, and leaves them starting their careers with decades worth of debt. Across Maine, countless adults remain saddled with student loan debt, even years or decades after leaving school, dictating the choices they make about their lives every day.
- Throughout her time in the Maine House of Representatives, Sara has worked to expand access to quality education for all students. She passed the Maine Student Bill of Rights to protect students from predatory student loan lenders as Maine student debt reached $6 billion. She also voted to crack down on for-profit colleges and universities in Maine to ensure they meet educational standards and negotiated the 2017 budget that made the largest investment in K-12 education in recent state history, including driving more funds to low-income districts. She expanded access to early childhood education and understanding the vital role teachers play in our kids’ lives, passed legislation to raise teacher pay. Sara’s efforts expanded access to quality education for Mainers across the state and strengthened Maine’s public education systems for future generations.
- Sara knows how important access is when it comes to education – as a senator, she will work to:
- Ensure that every family has the opportunity to receive a high quality K-12 education no matter their neighborhood, family circumstances or race;
- Expand early childhood education and quality childcare opportunities;
- Value teachers and the job they do in the form of higher wages and better benefits;
- Lower the cost of college and tackle the student loan debt crisis to make higher education affordable and accessible for everyone; and
- Expand access to trade, technical and job training programs.
- Climate change is one of the most urgent challenges we face — affecting everything from our public health to our economy. Our natural resources and environment have always been a core part of who we are and how we live in Maine. From our history and heritage to our economy today, stewardship of our woods and waters is deeply important to our livelihoods and our sense of place.
- In Maine, Sara has been a champion for the environment and fighting against climate change. She passed the most aggressive goals the state has ever seen for reducing carbon emissions and increasing renewable energy production, making Maine an example for states across the nation, and jumpstarting our clean energy economy and the good-paying jobs it brings. She also passed landmark legislation improving water quality protections for Maine’s tribes.
- Taking bold and immediate action on climate change at the federal level is one of Sara’s top priorities. Sara is committed to:
- Rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement;
- Investing in the clean energy economy;
- Setting aggressive goals to move to a completely clean energy system powered by renewables;
- Modernizing and upgrading our transportation and energy grid infrastructure;
- Overhauling our transportation system;
- Setting the carbon emissions reduction goals needed to slow climate change; and
- Ensuring that nominees to fill key environmental positions in the administration are qualified individuals who will work to protect our environment and fight climate change, not put the interests of the fossil fuel industry first.
- Sara is proud to be endorsed by the League of Conservation Voters and the National Resources Defense Council.
- Despite Maine’s hard-working people, innovative ideas and wealth of natural resources, household incomes fell more here than any other state last year. Even with full-time jobs, families are struggling to afford the rising costs of housing, education and health care, and Maine’s rural communities have been hit particularly hard.
- Across the state, Maine’s small businesses are the engines of our economy, but this year, business owners and workers are facing unprecedented challenges as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
- Politicians in Washington should champion hardworking Mainers, not corporate special interests. Sara believes we can do better for Maine families and small businesses and will fight for Maine’s jobs and economy in communities across the state by:
- Prioritizing the needs of small businesses in our economic recovery and ensuring coronavirus relief for small businesses is distributed quickly and effectively to small businesses, not big corporations and special interests;
- Creating and expanding job training programs to give workers the skills they need to attain good paying jobs and address shortages in our skilled workforce;
- Investing in infrastructure development and technological advancements like rural broadband, which will help create the jobs of the future and revitalize rural communities in Maine;
- Raising the federal minimum wage to make a difference for thousands of hardworking Mainers;
- Incentivizing workers and young families to stay in Maine;
- Ensuring that we have fair trade policies that help Maine’s traditional industries, like logging and lobstering, which are essential to tens of thousands of jobs and to coastal and rural communities across the state; and
- Rolling back the Trump tax bill that was a massive giveaway to corporations and the wealthy, and making sure that tax breaks are going to the hardworking Mainers and small businesses that drive Maine’s economy.
- In Maine, Sara expanded job training and education programs to help Mainers get good-paying jobs and address the skilled worker shortage in the state. Sara also passed a universal paid time off policy, worked to protect and help grow essential industries in the state, like lobstering, shipbuilding and logging, and fought for workers by defending and strengthening collective bargaining rights.
- In the face of partisan attacks on the right to choose and with states across the country passing restrictive abortion bans in an effort to undermine and ultimately overturn Roe v. Wade, it’s more important than ever to elect leaders who will always protect a person’s right to make their own health care decisions.
- Sara is a strong and vocal advocate for protecting and expanding access to reproductive care. In Maine, Sara led the legislature to pass laws ensuring that every Mainer — no matter their income level or where they live in the state — has affordable access to reproductive care. Decisions about health care should always be made between a woman, her family, and her doctor, and Sara will always fight to protect that right.
- In the Senate, Sara will fight back against any attempts to attack or defund Planned Parenthood, and will work to roll back the dangerous Title X gag rule, which has impacted Maine Family Planning and Planned Parenthood clinics that provide comprehensive health care to Mainers in rural communities and across the state. Sara will also work to put an end to the Senate confirming judicial nominees with dangerous anti-choice records to courts across the country — including to the Supreme Court.
- Sara is proud to be endorsed by Planned Parenthood Action Fund and NARAL.
- Maine has been hit harder by the opioid crisis than most states around the country – it has devastated families and communities all over the state. More opioids were distributed per person in Penobscot County, Maine than in any other county in New England and four of the top five counties in New England for opioid distribution per person were Maine counties. Since the beginning of the crisis, overdoses have taken the lives of thousands of Mainers, and are having a multi-generational impact on our state. Sara knows that we have to tackle this crisis head on, and that big pharmaceutical companies must be held accountable for their role in this crisis.
- Sara has been at the forefront of efforts to combat the opioid crisis in Maine. In the State House, she passed legislation to expand addiction treatment and prevention programs and to give law enforcement the tools they need to fight the epidemic. When former Governor Paul LePage vetoed bills to address the opioid epidemic, Sara brought Democrats and Republicans together to override his vetoes because it was the right thing to do for Mainers.
- Sara knows that our leaders in Washington must act to tackle the opioid epidemic and save lives. Sara supports a comprehensive approach that includes:
- Expanding access to affordable addiction treatment;
- Creating bridge programs to ensure that people have access to treatment at the moment they’re ready;
- Funding education and prevention efforts, as well as public health research; and
- Holding big pharmaceutical companies accountable for their role in the crisis.
- Sara believes that all Americans deserve equal rights, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity. She knows that each person’s identity and lived experience is both valid and valuable, and everybody is deserving of a seat at the table in discussions about our future as a country. Standing with the LGBTQ+ community has always been at the core of Sara’s work in Maine, and she is dedicated to doing everything she can to reach full equality for all.
- As Speaker, Sara led the passage of landmark legislation banning conversion therapy in the state, making Maine the 17th state in the country to prohibit this harmful and dangerous practice. Under Sara’s leadership, the State House also banned the so-called “gay and trans panic defense,” which has been used to excuse violent hate crimes against members of the LGBTQ+ community, and passed a law to explicitly define gender identity under the Maine Human Rights Act, which protects Mainers from discrimination. Last year, Sara wrote and passed landmark legislation putting health care protections for transgender individuals into Maine state law.
- As a Senator, Sara will be a champion for all people, and fight for the LGBTQ+ community by:
- Championing the Equality Act, because every person in this country deserves equal protection under the law;
- Supporting the Safe Schools Improvement Act in the Senate to help ensure schools are safe spaces for all students to learn and banning bullying and harassment against students based on sexual orientation or gender identity;
- Ensuring that all qualified and patriotic Americans, regardless of their gender identity, can sign up to serve in our armed forces;
- Outlawing the dangerous practice of conversion therapy, which does untold damage to LGBTQ+ youth;
- Supporting the Every Child Deserves a Family Act in the Senate to ban discrimination against potential foster or adoptive families and LGBTQ+ parents; and
- Defending the right of every LGBTQ+ American to access healthcare, free from discrimination, by pushing for the removal of recent anti-LGBTQ+ regulations.
- The oldest state in the nation, Maine is home to seniors and retirees who count on the benefits they earned through a lifetime of hard work. Sara believes in keeping the promises we have made to them.
- Maine seniors have paid into Social Security and Medicare, using these programs to plan their retirement and future. That’s why Sara will always fight to protect those benefits and fight against irresponsible giveaways to corporations that jeopardize them. In the legislature, she restored a low-cost drug program for nearly 2,000 Maine seniors and championed the release of $15 million in senior affordable housing bonds held up by Governor LePage. She also fought to increase reimbursements for the caregivers who take care of seniors.
- Nearly a quarter of Mainers are on Medicare — significantly more than the national average. Sara will fight against any efforts to cut funding or benefits from Medicare, to change Medicare as we know it, or to turn it into a voucher system. She’ll also work to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices to lower costs for seniors and to cap out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for seniors on Medicare Part D.
- Social Security is too often the only income standing between seniors and poverty. Sara understands how essential Social Security is to Maine’s seniors and their quality of life. She will always be a fierce advocate for protecting the benefits they worked hard to earn and depend on in retirement.
- More than 20 million veterans across our country have made sacrifices to keep us safe and have fought to protect our values. Sara believes that the best way to honor their service is to work together to preserve everything they risked their lives for, and to make sure that they and their families have access to quality health care and services they’ve earned.
- Maine is home to 127,000 veterans. In the State House, Sara worked to identify gaps in services and benefits provided to our state’s veterans so that veterans can access the services they need. She increased homelessness prevention efforts for Maine veterans, passed a law improving mental health care for Maine’s veterans, and created systems in Maine’s universities and community colleges to help students who are veterans.
- In the Senate, Sara will make sure that the high-quality services our veterans have earned are available to them. Whether it is G.I. Bill benefits, quality health care at the VA, including access to mental health and women’s health services, or job training and education, Sara believes that we have to fight for those who have risked their lives to protect us.[13]
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2012
Gideon stated that her platform included job creation, affordability, elder interests, education, fundamental fairness, and the environment.[15]
Campaign donors
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| Year |
Office |
Result |
Contributions |
| 2018 |
Maine House of Representatives District 48 |
✔ |
$4,315 |
| 2016 |
Maine House of Representatives, District 48 |
✔ |
$8,900 |
| 2014 |
Maine House of Representatives, District 48 |
✔ |
$4,639 |
| Grand total raised |
$17,854 |
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Source: Follow the Money
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2018
2016
Gideon won re-election to the Maine House of Representatives in 2016. During that election cycle, Gideon raised a total of
$8,900.
| Maine House of Representatives 2016 election - campaign contributions |
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| Top contributors to Sara Gideon's campaign in 2016 |
| Maine Association Of Realtors | $750 |
| Texas Instruments | $375 |
| Maine Education Association | $375 |
| Wishcamper, Carol | $375 |
| Retail Association Of Maine | $375 |
| Total raised in 2016 | $8,900 |
| Source: Follow the Money |
2014
Gideon won re-election to the Maine House of Representatives in 2014. During that election cycle, Gideon raised a total of
$4,639.
| Maine House of Representatives 2014 election - Campaign Contributions |
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| Top contributors to Sara Gideon's campaign in 2014 |
| Public Fund | $4,239 |
| Sweet, Julian Lockwood | $100 |
| Silin, Steven | $100 |
| Lowe, Rachel | $100 |
| Kagan, Julie | $100 |
| Total Raised in 2014 | $4,639 |
| Source: Follow the Money |
2012
Gideon won election to the Maine House of Representatives in 2012. During that election cycle, Gideon raised a total of
$5,565.
| Maine House of Representatives 2012 election - campaign contributions |
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| Top contributors to Sara Gideon's campaign in 2012 |
| Public Fund | $5,065 |
| Bigos, Michael T | $100 |
| Total raised in 2012 | $5,565 |
| Source: Follow the Money |
Committee assignments
2019-2020
Gideon was assigned to the following committees:
2017 legislative session
At the beginning of the 2017 legislative session, this legislator served on the following committees:
2015 legislative session
At the beginning of the 2015 legislative session, Gideon, as Assistant Majority Leader, did not serve on a standing committee.
2013-2014
At the beginning of the 2013 legislative session, Gideon served on the following committees:
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2019
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2018
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2017
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2016
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2015
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2014
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2013
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2012
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Personal
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Gideon is married and has children.[16]
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- ↑ Portland Press Herald, "Democrats pick Freeport’s Rep. Sara Gideon to be next speaker of Maine House," November 19, 2016
- ↑ Bangor Daily News, "Freeport Democrat Sara Gideon nominated as Maine’s next House speaker," November 18, 2016
- ↑ Politics1.com, "Maine," archived December 31, 2015
- ↑ Maine Secretary of State, "2016 Election Results," accessed December 20, 2016
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Maine Secretary of State, "List of Candidates who have filed for the June 14, 2016 Primary Election," accessed March 20, 2016
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Maine Secretary of State, "Tabulations for Primary Elections held on June 14, 2016," accessed August 11, 2016
- ↑ Bureau of Corporations, Elections & Commissions, "List of Primary Candidates," accessed May 8, 2014
- ↑ Bureau of Corporations, Elections & Commissions, "List of Non-Party Candidates," accessed June 2, 2014
- ↑ Bureau of Corporations, Elections & Commissions, "Primary Election - June 10, 2014," accessed December 5, 2014
- ↑ Bureau of Corporations, Elections & Commissions, "General Election - November 4, 2014," accessed December 5, 2014
- ↑ Maine Secretary of State, "2012 Candidate List," accessed May 14, 2012
- ↑ Maine Secretary of State, "Tabulations for Elections held in 2012," accessed March 19, 2014
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Sara Gideon’s 2020 campaign website, “Priorities,” accessed October 7, 2020
- ↑ [Citation no longer available]
- ↑ Campaign website-Bio (dead link)
