1st District Candidate Promises Nonpartisan Politics If Elected

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As Darlene Curley makes her way through an Augusta pizza restaurant in early October, it's as if she is swimming upstream, hearing one complaint about President Bush after another from the lunch crowd.

There are complaints about the deficit, about the Iraq War, about oil and gas prices, and tax breaks for the rich. The 51-year-old Republican candidate for Maine's 1st District seat, now held by Democrat Tom Allen, doesn't defend the president, and in fact takes pains to delineate her views from those of the Bush administration.

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1st District Candidate Promises Nonpartisan Politics If Elected

For Curley, a nurse and teacher who has served two terms in the Maine Legislature representing part of Scarborough, being a Republican means standing on two key principles: a limited government and limited spending.

And she pledges to ...

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