TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods (left) welcomed Congressman Mike Michaud (right) to the studio.<\/p><\/div>\n
Michaud served four terms\u00a0in the Maine Senate from 1994 untill 2003.\u00a0 In 2000, Michaud was unamimously elected Maine Senate President.\u00a0 Since 2003, Michaud has served as the U.S. Representative for Maine’s 2nd congressional district.<\/p>\n
Michaud has worked with the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) on many projects, and is\u00a0advocate for more extensive veteran benefits, even serving as Chairman of the Health Subcommittee of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee.\u00a0 Stevoe and Michaud talked about how Maine’s population is 16% veterans, which\u00a0ranks Maine as having the second highest veteran population in the nation.<\/p>\n
Stevoe and Michaud discussed celebrating our nation’s birthday and the great patriotism seen in Maine.\u00a0 They also spoke about the importance of\u00a0having the youth engaged in politics.<\/p>\n
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Maine Congressman Mike Michaud stopped by the TideSmart Talk with Stevoe studio for a brief interview with host Steve Woods. The two bumped into each other at the Eastern Promenade Fourth of July fireworks show, and had the chance to talk democracy and patriotism. They also spoke about the importance of the younger generation being involved, active and interested in politics. 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\/1435"}],"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=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}