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Republican Gov. Paul LePage, left, and Democratic House Speaker Mark Eves, right. BDN file photos by Ashley Conti.

Republican Gov. Paul LePage, left, and Democratic House Speaker Mark Eves, right. BDN file photos by Ashley Conti.

You’ve got several opportunities to hear the competing budget visions of Gov. Paul LePage and Democratic leaders this week.

  • Belfast: LePage will hold a town hall meeting on his budget at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 28, at the University of Maine Hutchinson Center.
  • Scarborough: House Speaker Mark Eves and Senate Minority Leader Justin Alfond, the top Democrats in the Legislature, will pitch their alternate vision at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 28, at Camp Ketcha.
  • Machias: LePage will hold a town hall meeting on his budget at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 29, at the Rose M. Gaffney Middle School.

LePage has been on his whistle-stop budget tour for several weeks. Tuesday’s event in Scarborough marks the Democrats’ second public forum on their “Better Plan for Maine,” after last week’s town hall in Bangor.

Questions from the audience will be taken at all three events.

Mario Moretto

About Mario Moretto

Mario Moretto has been a Maine journalist, in print and online publications, since 2009. He joined the Bangor Daily News in 2012, first as a general assignment reporter in his native Hancock County and, now, in the State House. Mario left the BDN in 2015.