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1 October
5:13 pm

when she was speaker, my colleague, Hannah, left a seven hundred and fifty million dollar debt to be paid off and, again, was to hospitals.

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Bobby Charles, at Maine Governor General Election Debate (NEWS CENTER Maine)

5:13 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific dollar figure attributed to a named political opponent's tenure as speaker — a serious charge that is directly verifiable against legislative financial records.
What we foundThe hospital debt left during and after Pingree's speakership is a real and documented issue, but the $750 million figure overstates the amount attributable to that period, with authoritative sources consistently placing the debt at approximately $484–$490 million in total, a figure that also spans multiple governors and legislative sessions before and after Pingree's tenure.
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