Mike Turcotte, an adjunct ethics professor at Eastern Maine Community College, says he’s launching an independent bid to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin.
Turcotte, who ran for state Legislature in 2006, says he will make lowering student loan debt a big focus of his campaign.
To qualify for the Nov. 2016 ballot, Turcotte will have to collect 2,000 signatures by next June.
“I will seek volunteers,” he says. “And then, I’ll also do a lot of it myself. I will probably go to all the post offices in the district and stand out and get it. But I also … maybe somebody will, in kind, pay for the service to collect the signatures.”