When former Senate Minority Leader Paul Davis, R-Sangerville, left office in 2006 due to term limits, it didn’t seem likely he’d return to the Statehouse.

He said he looked forward to fishing and hunting. He’s retired, and seemed tired of the grind of politics. While serving as Senate Minority Leader, Democrats tried to lampoon Davis for constantly saying “no” by depicting him as a flannel shirt wearing country bumpkin in an Internet ad.

Yet it seems Davis is hoping to make a comeback, this time in the House of Representatives.

“It took me quite a little while to come to it,” he said, saying that unfinished work is driving him to run.

“They’re still spending too much money,” he said. “They need somebody down there to remind them.”

Davis is running for the seat currently occupied by Rep. Jim Annis, R-Dover-Foxcroft, who can’t run again because of term limits. The district covers a portion of PIscataquis County, including the towns of Atkinson, Dover-Foxcroft, Medford, Milo, Sangerville, Plantation of Lake View and the unorganized territory of Orneville Township.