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Date	Time	Place	Description
Tuesday, April 01, 2008	10am-1pm	Telephone Conference Call	PAC Study Committee Meeting. Next meeting of the Study Committee for LWVME's study on Money in Politics: PACs in Maine. Call 622-0256 or email lwvme@gwi.net for more information or to join the conference call meeting. Read more about our PAC Study.
Saturday, April 05, 2008	10am-1pm	Pine Tree State Arboretum 153 Hospital Street Augusta, ME 04330	PAC Study Interviewer Training. Volunteers will be trained to schedule and conduct in-person interviews on PACs in Maine with past and present legislators, party leaders and others. Interviewers will work in pairs. Trainer: Alison Smith. Brown bag lunch. Visit PAC Study or e-mail lwvme@gwi.net for more information.
Saturday, April 05, 2008	3-4pm	WERU-FM 89.9 Blue Hill 102.9 Bangor Web Streaming at WERU-FM	Democracy Forum: Civil Service & Political Appointments. Expert guests discuss the history of the professional civil service at the federal level and the interplay between the civil service and political appointments and presidential priorities. Guests: Paul Light, NYU Wagner's Paulette Goddard Professor of Public Service; and George Krause, professor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh. Read more about this project and find past programs archived online.
Monday, April 21, 2008	2:00-3:30 p.m.	8 Gurnet Road Brunswick, ME 04011	LWVBA Book Group @ Brunswick Bookland Café. Inheritance of Loss, the 2006 winner of the Booker Prize, by Kiran Desai, born in India and educated at Bennington and Columbia. Coffee, tea and goodies are available for purchase. Please come whether or not you have had time to finish the book. As you are reading, think of one question that you would like the group to discuss. Consider how this book relates to the Immigration Study that the League of Women Voters is in the midst of completing.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008	12-2pm	14 Loon Cove Lane Trenton, ME 04605	LWV-Downeast Book Group. This month: Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy, Charlie Savage (2007). Brown bag lunch. Come even if you haven't finished the book. RSVP and for directions: 664-0696.
Thursday, May 01, 2008	7:00 to 8:30 p.m.	Morrell Room Curtis Memorial Library 23 Pleasant Street Brunswick, ME 04011	Address by Jonathan Wayne of Maine Ethics Commission. Jonathan Wayne, the Executive Director of the Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices, will address the League of Women Voters of the Brunswick Area in the Morrell Room of the Curtis Memorial Library on Thursday, May 1, at 7:00 p.m. His topic will be the regulation of Political Action Committees (PACs) in Maine. Mr. Wayne welcomes questions from the audience during his presentation. The public is welcome to attend.
Saturday, May 03, 2008	3-4pm	WERU-FM 89.9 Blue Hill 102.9 Bangor Web Streaming at WERU-FM	Democracy Forum: Separation of Power / Balance of Power. This month's program is on constitutional checks and balances and whether recent trends have strengthened the executive branch relative to the other two. Guests: Charlie Savage, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy and Neil Kinkopf, co-chair of the Issue Group on the Separation of Power and Federalism at the American Constitution Society. Read more about this project and find past programs archived online.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008	7-9pm	Ellsworth City Hall Auditorium 1 City Hall Plaza Ellsworth, ME 04605	Public Forum on Light Pollution with Peter Lord. Learn how outdoor lighting is changing our view of the night sky here in Hancock County. Free of charge. Co-sponsored by LWV-Downeast and the local chapter of the Sierra Club.
Saturday, May 17, 2008-Sunday, May 18, 2008		Hampton Inn & Suites 900 Post Road Wells, ME 04090	Quad States Leadership Development Seminar. Four workshops are planned for the day and a half-long event: Advocacy and LWVUS Positions, Candidate Debates and Forums: Membership Strategies; and Conducting a League Study. Attendance is open to all members who are interested in learning more about how the League works. Here's more information.
Sunday, May 18, 2008	12-3pm	Pier 77 Restaurant 77 Pier Rd Kennebunkport, ME 04046	LWVME Annual Meeting. LWVME will hold its annual meeting on May 18 beginning at 12:30 p.m. at Pier 77 Restaurant in Cape Porpoise. All League members are invited to attend. RSVP at 622.0256 or by e-mail to lwvme@gwi.net.
Wednesday, June 04, 2008	12-2pm	76 Riverside Lane Ellsworth, ME 04605	LWV-Downeast Book Group. This month: Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Kline (2007). Brown bag lunch. Come even if you haven't finished the book. RSVP and for directions: 664-0309. The LWV-Downeast Book Group meets the first Wednesday of every other month.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008			Primary Election in Maine. Primary elections for U.S. Congress and Senate and for Maine State Legislative races.

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