Corrupt. Elite. Out‑Of‑Touch. Exposed.
Augusta insider Hannah Pingree is a corrupt, out-of-touch elitist — born into a multimillion‑dollar family trust, heir to a millionaire politician, and handed her career by her family and Janet Mills. SRC A1 SRC A2
Then she helped run the state. The Mills‑Pingree Administration oversaw the highest electricity bill spike in America — and Pingree wrote the plan. It put 32 new taxes and fees on working Mainers — with Pingree serving as policy chief. And it worsened the addiction crisis — with the opioid response run out of her own office.
She didn’t climb the ladder like working Mainers. She took the express elevator.
Pingree owns this record. She was inside the administration that produced it — as policy chief, as climate council co‑chair, and as the director of the office that ran the opioid response.
36.3%
Maine posted the largest single‑year increase in residential electricity costs of any state — nearly double second‑place Connecticut, and more than five times the national average.
She wrote the radical climate plan that pushes Maine into expensive green energy mandates that raise your electricity bills.
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Since 2019, Augusta raised, expanded or created taxes and fees at least 32 separate times — cigarettes up 75%, a brand‑new tax on streaming, hospital taxes up 46%.
She was part of the administration — as policy chief for Janet Mills — that implemented the 32 new taxes and fees on working Mainers.
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Reported overdose deaths nearly doubled in the first three years of the Mills‑Pingree Administration, to an all‑time record. Every single county got worse.
Her office ran Maine’s opioid response. Under her watch, reported overdose deaths nearly doubled in the first three years.
“Old money. Old excuses.”
Hannah Pingree is listed as a trustee for an 80‑acre, $2.5 million North Haven parcel held in a family trust — land that can be reached only by boat or plane. SRC A1
Hannah Pingree holds fundraisers with out‑of‑state insider politicians — as reported by her own alma mater’s paper, the Brown Daily Herald, when she kicked off her run for Governor. SRC A2
Her mother, Rep. Chellie Pingree, has disclosed a net worth of roughly $7.2 million. Her mother married hedge fund billionaire Donald Sussman — bringing a fortune, private jet travel that drew an FEC fine, and a 75% stake in the company that owned the Portland Press Herald and other Maine papers. SRC B1 SRC B2 SRC B3 SRC B4
So when Maine’s papers go easy on her, remember who owned them. The New York Times put her squarely in Maine’s political dynasty class. SRC B5
$2,516,800
Trustee on a $2.5M, 80‑acre island parcel reachable only by boat or plane. A1
Her mother’s billionaire husband’s private jet travel drew an FEC fine. B3
A 75% stake in the parent company that owned the Portland Press Herald and other Maine papers. B4
Brown University ’98. Her own campus paper reported she holds fundraisers with out‑of‑state insider politicians. A2
Working Mainers climb. They start at the bottom, they earn every rung, and nobody invents a job for them. Hannah Pingree never had to. Her career was handed to her.
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Janet Mills handed her a job. Now Janet Mills is endorsing her for Governor. Here is what happened during that job.
Largest single‑year residential electricity cost increase of any state in America: 36.3% — nearly double second‑place Connecticut.
SOURCE D1 — The Maine Wire, reporting federal EIA data (Aug. 2025). Comparison bars are scaled to the reported relationships: nearly double Connecticut, more than five times the national average.
This did not happen to Hannah Pingree. She co‑chaired the radical climate council that pushed Maine into expensive green energy mandates — the mandates that raise your electricity bills. SRC D2
She wrote the plan. She pushed the bills. She flew overseas to court offshore wind while Mainers opened their bills. SRC D3 SRC D4
Since 2019, Mills and Augusta Democrats raised, expanded or created taxes and fees at least 32 separate times — with Hannah Pingree serving as policy chief.
Cigarettes up 75%. A brand‑new 5.5% tax on Netflix, Hulu and Spotify. The hospital service provider tax up 46%. Cannabis up 40%. A roughly 173% hike on real estate transfer taxes. Meanwhile state spending grew from about $7 billion to $12 billion — a 65% increase. SRC E1
PINGREE’S RESPONSIBILITY — She was part of the administration, as policy chief for Janet Mills, that implemented these increases on working Mainers. SRC F2
In the first three years of the Mills‑Pingree Administration. Every single county in Maine got worse. Waldo County up as much as 600%.
SOURCE F1 — The Maine Monitor — every county in Maine reported an increase in overdose deaths since 2019.
Maine’s opioid response was run out of Hannah Pingree’s own office. Not a committee she sat on. Not an agency down the hall. Her office. SRC F2
Maine received $83 million in opioid settlement money. As of April 2026, only one‑third had been spent. And for the first three years, no public reporting was required at all. SRC F3
SOURCES F1, F3 — The Maine Monitor, county overdose data · The Maine Monitor, two‑thirds of settlement funds unspent.
The reported numbers are bad enough. But what isn’t talked about is what doesn’t get reported — the drug traffickers operating in our state and the human cost that never makes it into a spreadsheet in Augusta.
Hannah Pingree’s office ran this response. Mainers got a record body count and two‑thirds of the settlement money still sitting there.
Augusta insider Hannah Pingree is a corrupt, out-of-touch elitist — born into a multimillion‑dollar family trust, heir to a millionaire politician, handed her career by her family and Janet Mills.
She didn’t climb the ladder like working Mainers. She took the express elevator. And this is the record she left behind on the way up.
