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We used to have five manufacturing plants building homes for Mainers

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Rick Bennett, at Maine Governor General Election Debate (Maine Public)

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Why we checked itBennett makes a specific historical claim about the number of factory-built housing manufacturing plants in Western Maine, which is verifiable and used to support his policy argument.
What we foundBennett's own prior legislative testimony explicitly states there were five manufacturing plants in the Oxford Hills district, and independent reporting confirms the broader decline of Maine's manufactured housing industry after the 2008 recession, though no source independently enumerates and verifies each of the five plants by name.
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