{"id":2850,"date":"2015-01-19T17:04:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T17:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=2850"},"modified":"2015-11-12T16:10:48","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T16:10:48","slug":"mike-michaud-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/mike-michaud-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 117: Former U.S. Congressman Mike Michaud"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show:<\/strong>\u00a0117
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0January 17
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Amy Fried, Ph.D.
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

U.S. Congressman Mike Michaud was raised in Medway, Maine and is the second of six children.\u00a0 After graduating from Schenck High School in East Millinocket, he followed in his\u00a0family\u2019s footsteps\u00a0and began work at the Great Northern Paper Company (GNP).\u00a0 He worked for GNP for over twenty years, and after noticing the pollution of the Penobscot River near his home, decided to run for and was elected to the Maine House of Representatives in 1980.<\/p>\n

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Host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe, Steve Woods (left) welcomed former U.S. Congressman Mike Michaud (right) to the studio.<\/p><\/div>\n

Michaud served seven consecutive terms in the House, and then ran for Maine Senate in 1994. \u00a0Michaud served four terms\u00a0in the Maine Senate from 1994 until 2003.\u00a0 In 2000, Michaud was unanimously elected Maine Senate President.\u00a0 Since 2003, Michaud served as the U.S. Representative for Maine\u2019s 2nd congressional district. \u00a0Michaud ended his 12 years in Congress on January 3, 2015.<\/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\u2019 Affairs Committee.\u00a0 Stevoe and Michaud talked about how Maine\u2019s population is 16% veterans, which\u00a0ranks Maine as having the second highest veteran population in the nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former U.S. Congressman Mike Michaud was recently in the TideSmart Talk with Stevoe studio to catch up with host Steve Woods. The two discussed Michaud’s plans for the future, as well as his recent gubernatorial race. 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\/2850"}],"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=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}