Love Maine Radio With Dr. Lisa Belisle

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree moved to Maine in the 1970s, and after graduating from College of the Atlantic, she and her husband started a small farm on the island of North Haven. In the early 1980s, she started a knitting business that grew to ten year-round employees, producing knitting kits and books that were sold in hundreds of stores across the country. She was elected to the Maine Senate in 1992. After serving four terms, including two as Senate majority leader, she went on to become the national president of Common Cause. In 2008, Pingree was elected to Congress to serve Maine’s 1st District, and she was the first woman ever to be elected to represent this district. Pingree is a member of the House Committee on Appropriations and has gained national recognition for her leadership on food and agriculture reform, improving assistance programs for veterans, supporting coastal communities, and other issues important to Maine and the nation.  Hannah Pingree was elected for four terms to the Maine House o