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Committees funded almost entirely by the state's 2 largest electricity providers spent more than $136 per vote to defeat a nonprofit power company proposal, while proponents spent less than $10 per vote on their losing campaign.
Committees funded almost entirely by the state's two largest electricity providers spent more than $136 per vote to defeat a nonprofit power company proposal, while proponents spent less than $10 per vote on their losing campaign.
Maine’s ballot on Tuesday will ask voters to decide whether they want a public takeover of the state's power grid.
The referendum calls for dismantling Central Maine Power and Versant Power and replacing them with a nonprofit utility called Pine Tree Power.
A proposal to create a publicly owned utility by taking over Maine's 2 big investor-owned utilities failed by a wide margin in Tuesday voting.