{"id":1132,"date":"2013-03-27T19:46:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T19:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2013-03-27T19:46:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T19:46:12","slug":"tom-allen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/tom-allen\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 54: Former Maine Congressman, Author, \u201cDangerous Convictions\u201d, Tom Allen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show:<\/strong> 54
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday, March\u00a023
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Tom Allen
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Mark Gould (Sharky)
\nAssistant Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tom Allen was born in Portland, and he graduated from Deering High School. Allen went on to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, where he received a B.A. in English.\u00a0\u00a0 Allen then won a Rhodes scholarship to Wadham College in the University of Oxford.\u00a0 While at Oxford, Allen became friends with fellow Rhodes Scholar Bill Clinton.\u00a0 After Oxford, Allen went on to Harvard Law School and practiced as a lawyer in Maine.<\/p>\n

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TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods (left)\u00a0was joined in the studio by Former Maine Congressman, Tom Allen (right).<\/p><\/div>\n

Allen\u2019s new book \u201cDangerous Convictions\u201d<\/a> delves into why we must escape the grip of our opposing worldviews and have Congress work in unison towards a common goal.\u00a0 Stevoe and Allen discussed the process of writing the book, as well as Allen’s three pieces of advice for running for Governor.<\/p>\n

Allen\u2019s political career started as a staff member for U.S. Senator Ed Muskie in Washington.\u00a0 Upon returning to Maine, Allen was elected to the Portland City Council in 1989 and then to mayor in 1991.<\/p>\n

In 1996, Allen was elected to serve in the House of Representatives to represent Maine\u2019s district 1 (southern, coastal area of the state).\u00a0 Allen was re-elected five times, receiving more than 55 percent of the vote each time in his district.\u00a0 Allen\u2019s objectives while in office were affordable health care (including lowering the price of prescription drugs), campaign finance reform and raising awareness about our changing climate.<\/p>\n

Allen co-founded, with 17 other bipartisan Senators, the House Oceans Caucus, to stress the importance of the ocean and the crucial role it plays on all aspects of life.<\/p>\n

While Allen was in Congress he served on the Energy and Commerce Committee, the Budget Committee, the Armed Services Committee, and Government Reform Committee.<\/p>\n

In 2008, Allen unsuccessfully ran for U.S. Senate against incumbent Senator Collins. In April 2009, Allen became President and CEO of the Association of American Publishers.\u00a0 His passion for books and the desire to help publishers meet the challenges of a digital 21st century brought him to AAP.<\/p>\n

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Tom Allen, Former Maine Congressman stopped by the TideSmart Talk with Stevoe studio to discuss his new book, “Dangerous Convictions”. Tom described how it took him four years to write and revise his newest book. Stevoe asked Tom if he could impart any wisdom for his upcoming Gubernational campaign. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}