jj of monroe, ME nice job of reporting.....so whose the board of pesticicde control member?????report abuse

Chris of Brunswick, ME Let’s hope the Senate rejects the nomination of Jack Cashman who has NO qualifications for the job – except of course he’s a Baldacci crony and for Senate Democrats that’s all that seems to matter. Cashman seems to have been selected because highly paid attorneys for public utilities would easily bamboozle him. In other words Cashman has NO experience in the law and NO experience regulating public utilities, the two most critical skills to be a PUC Commissioner – what a joke quite frankly.

However when Cashman’s nomination came before the Utilities and Energy committee in the legislature, only Rep. Herbert Adams, D-Portland, and Rep. Lawrence Bliss, D-South Portland, voted against Cashman. Both Adams and Bless spoke strongly against Cashman’s nomination, while Republicans on the committee seemed to view Cashman’s total lack of qualifications for the PUC as a strong plus!

In conrast to Cashman’s total lack of qualification, PUC Commissioner Sharon Reishus worked as a PUC staff analyst from 1991 to 1998 and then from 1998 until her appointment to the commission. Then Reishus worked at the Cambridge Energy Research Associates as director of North American Power. The other PUC Commissioner is Vendean Vafiades, a former chief judge of Maine's District Court and former chief deputy attorney general and counsel to the University of Maine System.report abuse