Our series of Your Vote 2012 interviews continued with Jon Courtney, a Springvale resident, the Maine Senate Majority Leader, and the Republian candidate for the 1st Congressional District seat in the November Election.

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Republican Jon Courtney of Springvale is hoping to swap his seat in the state Senate, where he is majority leader, for one in the U.S. House of Representatives this fall. Tonight we continue our series of candidate profiles with a look at Courtney's qualifications for the job. While he acknowledges that unseating Democratic incumbent Chellie Pingree will be a challenge, Courtney says Maine's 1st Congressional District does not automatically belong to the blue party.