On August 28th, we left our campsite in Presque Isle, Maine and drove to Augusta to tour the capitol. We took a self-guided tour and while looking around the Senate Room, we met the President of the Senate, Elizabeth Mitchell. Her office sits right off of the Senate Chamber and she could hear us talking to her secretary about getting some souvenirs and telling her about our trip around the country. All that brought her out of her office and she then spent several minutes with us in the Senate Chambers explaining Maine legislative law and her own personal story of how she became the President of the Senate. Turns out she is Maine’s first female Senate President, was Maine’s first female Speaker of the House and is running for Governor and if she wins will be the first female governor of Maine. We loved talking to her and she even let the kids go up to the front and sit in her chair and bang her gavel. The boys really enjoyed that. She had to leave but she told her assistant to give us a tour of her office too. Libby, yes we’re on a first name basis now, made it our best capitol tour so far in 11 capitol tours.
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