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On November 12, 2011, Rep. Hinck announced his candidacy for the United States Senate seat then held by Olympia Snowe. [67] Hinck collected over 2,000 signatures and appeared on the ballot for the Democratic Primary. [68] Hinck lost the primary to State Senator Cynthia Dill, finishing in third place of the four contestants.

Portland City Council

In November 2013, Hinck won a seat on the Portland, Maine City Council and was sworn in on December 2. [69] Hinck defeated Portland attorney Wells Lyons, receiving 7,101 votes, 58 percent of those cast, while Lyons received 5,171 votes, or 42 percent. [70]

For one year, Hinck chaired the Portland City Council's Energy & Sustainability Committee. Under his leadership in 2016, Portland: 1) committed to the construction of Maine's largest municipal solar power installation; [71] 2) joined the fewer than two dozen municipalities in the United States that require energy building benchmarking of large commercial and residential buildings; [72] and 3) committed to replace all of Portland's old street lights and changing them out for new energy-efficient LED units. [73] [74] In 2015, working with then Mayor Michael Brennan, Hinck was instrumental in assuring passage of a measure that for the first time set a minimum wage in the City of Portland higher than the statewide minimum. [75] [76] [77] The new minimum wage of $10.10 an hour went into effect on January 1, 2016, and rose to $10.68 per hour on January 1, 2017, though the sub-minimum wage for service employees who receive tips was not increased, a carve-out that Hinck vocally supported. [78] With the increase, Portland went from having the sixth lowest minimum wage in country as a function of the area cost of living to the nation's twelfth highest minimum wage. [79] [80] (In 2016, Maine voters passed a ballot initiative raising the minimum wage statewide to $12 by 2020; the statewide minimum wage became higher than Portland minimum wage as of January 1, 2019, making the city ordinance effectively moot. [81] ) In 2014, Hinck also played a lead role when Portland adopted an ordinance requiring a 5 cent fee on all disposable plastic and paper bags provided at supermarkets, grocery stores and other retail shops. [82] [83]

Hinck was defeated on re-election by Pious Ali. The two candidates agreed on many issues, but Ali advocated for a bond to renovate the city's four most run-down elementary schools while Hinck supported an alternative plan that entailed a request for partial state funding. Ali won with 63 percent of the vote, while Hinck received 20 percent and a third challenger, libertarian Matthew Coffey, received 17 percent. [84]

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