SUN JOURNAL • November 12, 2020
Among the contenders for a place in President-elect Joe Biden’s Cabinet is U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, a Democrat from Maine’s 1st Congressional District. Pingree is among half a dozen possible choices frequently mentioned to take the helm at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a bureaucratic colossus typically controlled by someone from the Midwest’s Farm Belt. Pingree, 65, an organic farmer who lives on a Gulf of Maine island, would break the mold.