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she said. Prior to arrival, Jeff Barnum of New Vineyard, who was sitting at the bar, said he be more pleased that she ran and won. He believes Mills will bring positive change to the state and the people. was definitely the right person for the Barnum said. is one of the most generous people I neighbor Margaret Gould Wescott said.

Mills was one of the founders of the Maine Lobby, Wescott said. was on the forefront of the rights movement in the whole Wescott said. a big day for this MILLS Continued from Page A1 Mills talks priorities Governor-elect will focus on health care, opioid crisis PORTLAND PRESS HERALD Janet Mills had nearly finished her victory lap, of sorts, through the breakfast crowd at Diner on Wednesday morning when a patron thanked the governor-elect for all of us so much hope and for your are so the woman said as she embraced Mills. A little more than eight hours earlier, Mills had learned she was the last person standing out of a field of gubernatorial hopefuls that once numbered in the dozens. The Farmington resident also became the first woman elected governor in 198-year history.

Speaking to reporters outside a waterfront establishment become a mandatory campaign stop for statewide candidates Mills acknowledged that it all felt somewhat unreal Wednesday morning. Unofficial election results show Mills maintaining an 8-point advantage over Republican businessman Shawn Moody with independent Terry Hayes trailing in single digits. Yet Mills was excited about turning campaign goals into accomplishments when she replaces Republican Gov. Paul LePage on Jan. 2.

care is the No. 1 Mills said, her voice sounding a bit hoarse after a late night. are going to work very hard on Medicaid expansion, No. 1. And the opiate epidemic: got to tackle that now.

No more waiting. lost thousands of lives in the last few years. When nearly 1,000 babies are born last year affected by drugs, we stop. We drag our feet any Transition begins Wednesday kicked off a months-long transition in Augusta that brings a return to Democratic rule of the State House after eight years of the LePage administration and a divided Legislature for the past four. Democrats flipped enough seats to gain control of the Maine Senate and to expand their majority in the House, meaning the Blaine House and Legislature will be in Democratic hands for the first time in nearly a decade.

expect it will be important in getting our agenda accomplished, especially the first priorities of health care the opioid epidemic, renewable energy, and moving the state forward when it comes to renewables and addressing climate Mills said. know we share those principles and I know many Republicans do, too. Those necessarily partisan issues, so I have some hope about getting the agenda The Mills campaign did not release any specifics Wednesday. But if the past is an indication, she is likely to set up an advisory commission to help identify individuals to fill the 15 Cabinet-level department head positions and other appointed slots within her administration. LePage stacked his 35-member transition advisory team in 2010 with members of the business community, which was no surprise given his business background and campaign platform.

Some governors-elect ask department commissioners to stay on into their administration, although several of Cabinet members already have left. Asked about assembling her Cabinet, Mills said she did not have a I am ready to go on day one and ready to start today, getting the best ideas from all of the people of Maine for how to put a new administration Mills said. A true blue wave in Maine Mills, 70, proudly describes herself as a lifelong public servant after eight years as attorney general and a dozen as district attorney for Franklin, Androscoggin and Oxford counties. A member of a prominent political family in the Farmington area, she also served three terms in the Legislature before being elected attorney general for the first time in 2008. She defeated six other Democratic contenders for her nomination in June in the first ranked-choice voting retabu- lation in a statewide election.

On the campaign trail, Mills hit such bedrock Democratic issues as health care, access to abortion and fighting discrimination against the LGBTQ community. And she clearly benefited from a that brought out Democratic and left-leaning voters in droves. Early analysis of voter participation rates by the Portland Press Herald showed high turnout in southern and coastal areas that typically vote Democratic and lower turnout in many rural, more conservative areas of the state. In Portland, largest city, Mills received 78.8 percent of the vote versus 17.1 percent for Moody and 4.1 percent for Hayes. She also captured more than 65 per- cent of the vote in Kittery, South Portland, Freeport, Yarmouth, Brunswick, Camden, Belfast, Orono and Bar Harbor.

Moody, on the other hand, won throughout interior, central and northern Maine. He carried many of the communities around his hometown of Gorham such as Windham, Buxton, Standish, Hollis and Limington with more than 55 percent of the vote. (Interactive maps of town- by-town election results are available at pressherald. The four candidates for governor on the ballot Tuesday Mills, Moody, Hayes and independent Alan Caron, who dropped out last week but endorsed Mills ran largely civil campaigns. With eight years of legislative service plus another eight as attorney general, Mills ran a policy-oriented campaign while pledging to bring a more collaborative and compassionate approach to Augusta than LePage brought.

She made Medicaid expansion, health care and the opi- oid crisis focal points of her campaign. But she also proposed creating a small business accelerator for start-up businesses, improving broadband infrastructure, using grants and loans to stimulate job growth and improving technical education to fill a skills gap. SHAWN PATRICK PRESS HERALD Janet Mills, center, poses for a sel with Leah Burns of South Portland, left, and Doris Santoro of Portland at Diner on Wednesday. Mills to start Medicaid expansion PORTLAND PRESS HERALD Janet Mills showed up at the Medicaid expansion lawsuit hearing in Maine Superior Court on Wednesday morning and said she would implement expansion immediately upon taking office. Fresh off a decisive victory in the gubernatorial election, the Democratic attorney general said she was to to the hearing on a complaint Maine Equal Justice Partners filed against the LePage administration for failing to implement Medicaid expansion.

Mills is a strong supporter of Medicaid expansion, taking the opposite position of outgoing Republican Gov. Paul LePage. Her office filed a brief this fall supporting Maine Equal position that the law must be implemented, but Mills recused herself from participating in the case at the time. She did not speak at the hearing Wednesday but said beforehand that our feet any longer on this is inexcusable at this Medicaid expansion, a key component of the Affordable Care Act, has been approved in 37 states. Utah, Idaho and Nebraska voters gave the thumbs-up to Medicaid expansion in Election Day referendums Tuesday.

Maine voters approved expansion in 2017, but the LePage administration and Maine Equal Justice have been fighting in court for months over implementation. Mills said she will implement Medicaid expansion immediately after she takes office on Jan. 2 using existing state funds. Maine voters approved Medicaid expansion in a November 2017 referendum by a 59-41 percent margin. But LePage, an expansion opponent who has vetoed attempts by the Legislature to expand Medicaid, refused to implement it, arguing that there enough state funding to do so.

Under expansion, the federal government pays 90 percent of the cost of health care for those who enroll under the expansion population, with the state picking up the rest. In Maine, about 70,000 people, mostly low-income adults, would become eligible for Medicaid under the expansion. The state would pay about $50 million and receive more than $500 million from the federal government to pay for the expansion that would cover those earning up to 13 percent of the federal poverty limit: $34,638 for a family of three and $16,753 for a single person. Maine Equal Justice Partners filed a lawsuit this spring when the LePage administration failed to implement expansion, arguing that the administration must follow the voter-approved law. The case has been tied up in court ever since.

James Kilbreth, an attorney for Maine Equal Justice Partners, said Wednesday that the LePage administration was demonstrating and to the people of Maine for refusing to implement the law. LePage administration) have the ability to say, never mind, we like this Kilbreth said..