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January 20, 2011

Three more tapped for state posts

By The Mainebiz News Staff

Gov. Paul LePage has nominated three people to top posts in agriculture, health and human services and the workers' compensation board.

LePage yesterday tapped Mary Mayhew, a current member of his transition team as senior policy adviser, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a press release from the governor's office. Mayhew spent 11 years as vice president of the Maine Hospital Association, and said at a press conference that she plans to undertake a thorough review of the department's operations, MaineToday Media reported. She is the first woman nominated for a Cabinet post, and women's lobby groups had criticized the governor for not selecting more women. At the press conference, LePage said the inability to attract women to Cabinet positions was a result of salary limits, saying, "I have been rejected more by women in the last two weeks than in four years of high school and six years of college, and it's all about money."

Also nominated was Waldo dairy farmer and former state legislator Walter Whitcomb as commissioner of the Department of Agriculture. Whitcomb has owned Springdale Jerseys Inc. for 32 years and served six terms as a Maine representative.

And nominated for the executive director post of the Maine Workers' Compensation Board was lawyer Paul Sighinolfi, currently the head of Bangor law firm Rudman & Winchell's workers' compensation practice group. All three nominations will require legislative review.

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