{"id":2586,"date":"2014-04-10T12:29:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T12:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=2586"},"modified":"2015-11-16T18:45:10","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T18:45:10","slug":"ron-usher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/ron-usher\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 106: Maine Political Veteran Ronald “Ron” Usher"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show:<\/strong>\u00a0106
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0April 5
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Ronald “Ron” Usher
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Ronald \u201cRon\u201d Usher is currently running for the\u00a0Maine State House\u00a0in District 16.\u00a0 Usher\u00a0was born and raised in Westbrook, Maine.\u00a0 Usher comes from a large family with five brothers and two sisters.\u00a0 One week after graduating from high school, Usher joined the United States Navy and served from 1957-1959.\u00a0 Usher told Stevoe how while in the Navy he worked on two different\u00a0aircraft carriers and that they were like “floating cities” where you would never know everyone onboard.<\/p>\n

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Host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe sat down with Maine Political Veteran Ronald “Ron” Usher to hear about\u00a0his experiences in Maine public service.<\/p><\/div>\n

After the navy, he attended the University of Southern Maine.\u00a0 Usher is retired from the paper industry.\u00a0 Usher also served as a volunteer for the Westbrook Fire Department from 1962-1975.<\/p>\n

Usher was on the Westbrook City Council from 1970-1976.\u00a0 He has served for 12 years in the Maine State Senate.\u00a0 Usher and Stevoe talked about what campaigning was like\u00a0back in the “early” days and how he had handed out flyers to every door.<\/p>\n

Usher ran in the 2012 election for Maine House of Representatives District 131. Usher ran unopposed in the June 12 Democratic primary and was defeated by Donald Marean (R) in the general election, which took place on November 6, 2012<\/p>\n

Usher served as Vice Chair of the Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Advisory Council.\u00a0 During his time with the Fish and Wildlife Committee he sponsored the Safe Hunters Course, as well as helping to institute the lottery.\u00a0 He was also on the committee for the Department of Marine Resources.\u00a0 Usher\u00a0is a lifetime member of the Sportsmans Alliance of Maine (SAM), as well as Co-Chair of the United Way.\u00a0 He also belongs to AARP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maine political veteran Ronald “Ron” Usher came by the TideSmart Talk with Stevoe studio to discuss campaigning and his experience in Maine public service. The two also discussed the reapportionment of districts and how things have changed in Augusta. Usher also gave his views on Maine’s infrastructure, density and economy. 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\/2586"}],"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=2586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}