Sara I Gideon was born on December 4,1971 and is an American politician who served as the Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives.
15 Facts About Sara Gideon
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Sara Gideon's father, a pediatrician, is from India and her mother, a nurse clinician, is a second-generation Armenian American.
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Sara Gideon is the youngest of four siblings, one of whom, Melanie, is a novelist.
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Sara Gideon graduated from East Greenwich High School in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, in 1989.
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Sara Gideon served as an intern for US Senator Claiborne Pell.
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Sara Gideon worked as an advertising account executive at USA Today.
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Sara Gideon served until 2012, and was the council's vice chair beginning in 2011.
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Sara Gideon was a member of the Legislature's Joint Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology.
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Sara Gideon sponsored legislation to block the Quebec power company Hydro-Quebec from spending money to influence a referendum of a controversial proposed power line project in Maine.
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In 2019, Sara Gideon faced an election ethics complaint for accepting reimbursements for her personal political donations from her own PAC.
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On June 24,2019, Sara Gideon announced her candidacy in the 2020 Senate election to challenge incumbent Republican Susan Collins.
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Sara Gideon ran against Betsy Sweet and Bre Kidman in the ranked-choice Democratic primary election.
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Sara Gideon supports allowing Medicare to negotiate lower prices for prescription drugs, and a prohibition on pharmaceutical company "pay to delay" agreements.
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Sara Gideon has been endorsed by Planned Parenthood Action Fund and NARAL.
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Ben Sara Gideon is a medical malpractice and personal injury attorney at Sara Gideon Asen LLC.