“I drafted the petition and enlisted a group of 25 volunteers to circulate it,” said Cynthia Dill, a Portland lawyer, politician and a Cape Elizabeth resident since 2003. Volunteers included former Cumberland Country District Attorney Stephanie Anderson, a 19-year Cape resident, and Councilor-elect Tim Reiniger, who faced a vote recount this week, after the Forecaster’s deadline.

“I initially tried to convince the Town Council, through advocacy, that approving these housing amendments was a grave mistake,” Dill said in an interview this week. But many members of the council “signaled at every step of the way that they were going to just plow this thing right through,” she said.

“People have increased their wealth by living in Cape Elizabeth,” said former state senator and town resident Cynthia Dill. "And so therefore, we all know that if we want to help people, we need to help them get in the housing market instead of lining the pockets of private developers and serving a very low-income clientele that doesn't reside here.”

“In a case that has as a central premise the defendants are keeping information unlawfully secret, they want the court to keep the litigation secret,” Dill wrote in her response. “The plaintiff has no intention of discovering or offering into evidence anyone’s personnel history except his own and any rights of confidentiality are his to waive if he wishes.”

The Maine Attorney General's Office asked the judge to dismiss most claims in a whistleblower lawsuit that says a state trooper was retaliated against for objecting to police surveillance practices. “This would be the case that says, look, if you’re going to take this money and you’re going to do this job to collect this data, you have to abide by the Privacy Act,” attorney Cynthia Dill said. “How much more notice do these people need that they are in fact obligated to comply with the Privacy Act?”

Let the history books reflect that it was the courage and tenacity of Lynne Nash who first awoke the state of Maine to the epitome of bad governance.

On September 26, 2020 Cynthia hosted Inside Maine on WGAN about online sports betting and why Stoolies and others can’t bet on their favorite teams in the Pine Tree State.

The COVID pandemic has brought lots of people into the stock market — some are doing really well, such as El Presidente, some are losing their shirt. You don’t want to miss this interview.

Okafor is a lawyer, business owner, mother of 3 kids and wife — plus the first person of color and immigrant (from Nigeria) to serve on the Bangor City Council. Does she want the monument of Estevan Gomez to come down?