jackalope
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Oh Jack I hate to tell you this but go and pickup any West End Newspaper or the Portland Phoenix or The Hill Newspaper and you will find plenty of ad's on local political folks.
Beside in Portland it's pretty well know who belongs to what party ask me and I can tell you if what party that person belongs to.
And your correct most local election in Maine don't have party affiliation the reason for that is when Maine became a State they took a few good Mass. laws one being local elections wouldn't be muddy up by party affiliation. Maine isn't the only New England State that does this so does NH,VT,Mass,RI, ask yourself what is the commen thread in these States.
I only started really caring when the Greenies took over the school board and started going nuts. I find it absolutely frustrating that there's no party affiliations. I mean, at one point there were ONLY Dems and Greenies on the school board (and I think city hall). Yes, this is a Democratic town, but there are enough Republicans that they would have had a seat had their affiliation been identified. The year that happened, I made it a point to find out the Republican candidate for school board, and voted for her. She didn't win, but I tried.