Politics

Maine health care advocates demand to know: Where’s Bruce?

Bill Trommer, of Leeds, Maine, carried a poster of Representative Bruce Poliquin at the end of a protest held outside of his office. Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe

By The Boston Globe

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LEWISTON, Maine — Representative Bruce Poliquin was hard to find the week after casting his vote in Washington to repeal the Affordable Care Act and slash Medicaid spending.

So when 30 or so unhappy Mainers descended on his district office in this old mill town, they brought a 5-foot-tall poster version of the Republican lawmaker and stood him in front of the building where they say the real Poliquin will not meet with them.

“Where is he?” read a poster propped beneath his likeness.

“Not here,” replied the next.

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