Article: WATHEN DROPS OUT OF GOVERNOR'S RACE

PAUL CARRIER
Portland Press Herald (Maine)
11-27-2001
Friends and advisers agree that his background as a judge left him politically naive.

Portland Press Herald (Maine)
Tuesday, November 27, 2001
Edition: Final
Section: FRONT
Page: 1A
By PAUL CARRIER Staff Writer

AUGUSTA-- Mainers will never know if Daniel Wathen had a lot to offer as a candidate for governor, because his brief flirtation with the campaign ended Monday when he pulled out of the race for the Republican nomination. The reason? An acute case of political naivete.

Wathen's departure, which came seven weeks after he stepped down as chief justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court to seek the Blaine House, triggered another round of ...

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