WCSH-TV6 • November 19, 2020
In Maine, we like to think that our politics and government still work and have not been ruptured by partisan fury, and it may be we’re not kidding ourselves, at least not entirely. Brownie Carson [former executive director of the Natural Resources Council of Maine] knows the State House inside and out, and he thinks the legislature and governor are, by and large, serving the people of Maine well. Having decided to give up a safe seat and not run for re-election, Carson can afford to be candid. And at a time when Washington is gripped by dysfunction and obstruction, he feels pretty upbeat about Augusta. “It’s been a really good experience for me,” he says, “because I now see that the legislature does function.”