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- ↑ "House Legislative Record of the One Hundred and Eighteenth Legislature of the State of Maine". Maine Legislature, 1996.
- ↑ Nick Sambides, "Katahdin region Democrats to caucus in Millinocket on Sunday". Bangor Daily News , February 20, 2012.
