{"id":38485,"date":"2010-12-02T12:42:33","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T17:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=38485"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:22:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:22:24","slug":"press-herald-raye-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/12\/02\/press-herald-raye-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Herald spotlights Maine Senate president Raye &#039;83 and his &#039;passion for politics&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Portland Press Herald<\/em> makes clear that politics and public service are twin passions for Kevin Raye &#8217;83, Maine&#8217;s new Senate president. Reporter\u00a0Rebekah Metzler describes an Election Day moment years ago in rural Washington County, as Raye sat with his grandmother, whose GOP job it was to checked off names of  Republican voters. The local Republican Party chair would occasionally ask how the turnout was going, then return a few minutes later with Republican party members who hadn&#8217;t yet voted. Raye recalls the classic political scene as &#8220;so neat.&#8221;<a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/12\/outingclub-spring2010-8492.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/12\/outingclub-spring2010-8492-400x266.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Alumni are invited to join students, faculty, and staff as the\n90th Anniversary of the Bates Outing Club is honored\nby the Maine Legislature with a Legislative Sentiment\n\nTuesday, January 26, 2010\nMaine State House\nAugusta\n\n9:30 a.m.\nMeet at the Welcome Center\nAt the public entrance to the State House ask the receptionist to\ndirect you to the Welcome Center.\n\n9:45 a.m.\nPhoto opportunity with Gov. John Baldacci\n\n10 a.m.\nReading of the sentiment in the House Gallery by state Rep. Margaret Rotundo (D-Lewiston).  After the reading, the group will continue on to the Senate where they will receive further recognition.\n\n11 a.m.\nChief Justice of the Supreme Court addresses the Legislature\n\nA brief tour of the State House will follow for those interested.\n\n\nAdvance registration is required for this event.\n  Please RSVP by noon on Monday, January 25.\nT o register click on the registration button on the top of this page\nor call Kathleen Bilodeau at (207) 755-5990.\n \nContact Information\nPrimary Contact\nKathleen Bilodeau\n207-755-5990\nkbilodea@bates.edu\n \n \nDate &amp; Location\nDate: January 26, 2010\nTime: 9:30 AM\nLocation: Maine State House\nAugusta\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Raye has long been dedicated to Maine politics, <a href=\"http:\/\/abacus.bates.edu\/pubs\/mag\/00-Winter\/right.html\">serving 18 years  on the staff of U.S. Sen. Olympia  Snowe<\/a><strong>,<\/strong> losing a run for Congress in 2002 and winning a state Senate seat in 2004. &#8220;I&#8217;ve always though public service was a very honorable thing, a good way to serve people and make a mark in life,&#8221; he says. &#8220;From the time I was a little kid I was drawn to it &#8212; I loved politics, elections and government from the time I was old enough to read.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/news\/a-passion-for-politics-ignited-at-an-early-age_2010-11-28.html?searchterm=kevin+raye\"><em>View story from The Portland Press Herald, Nov. 28, 2010<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Press Herald makes clear that politics and public service are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,30,32,195,11009],"tags":[11051,3906],"class_list":["post-38485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-civic-engagement","category-maine-and-new-england","category-news-politics","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87298,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38485\/revisions\/87298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}