Maine Democrats vying to succeed Janet Mills won’t embrace her relief checks

Maine Democrats vying to succeed Janet Mills won’t embrace her relief checks

None of the five Democrats vying to succeed Gov. Janet Mills have endorsed the $300 relief checks she is pushing for in her final state budget. Three of them — former state public health chief Nirav Shah, former clean energy executive Angus King III and former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson — said the state should not use surplus money for the checks to roughly 514,000 people. All five backed a millionaire tax that lawmakers tacked onto the…