BANGOR DAILY NEWS • September 15, 2021
Central Maine Power’s campaign effort is beginning to resemble its all-out lobbying blitz in the Legislature of late as it dispatches operatives from across the political spectrum ahead of a referendum challenging its $1 billion hydropower corridor. The August announcement that CMP had hired Adrienne Bennett — who was a spokesperson for former Gov. Paul LePage and opposed the corridor during an unsuccessful Republican primary run in the 2nd Congressional District last year — to lead a new political committee opposing Question 1, made her the latest in a pro-corridor coalition of lobbyists and other politicos. Corridor backers have dominated the spending war so far, spending four-fifths of more than $42 million spent going back to 2019 in a public campaign over the project.