INTERVIEW BY PAIGE S. MACKINNON
KIMBERLY ROSEN, MAINE STATE SENATOR, DISTRICT 8
On where she came from: …like a lot of young people… you work hard, but here, of course, I picked potatoes, … I’d go to school during the day and then I was a certified nurse’s aid from three to eleven. The work ethic that I learned here and here on the pond really helped me be a strong person…be willing to put in long hours and long days knocking on doors, meeting people. That was a lot of effort.
On confidence: One of the questions, when they were interviewing me, was “If you had it to do over again like high school, right after high school, what would you do differently?” I just said, “I wish I’d had more confidence.” When I got out of high school I wish I’d just had someone, a mentor to say, you know, “you can do this.“
On August 10th, I had the privilege of interviewing Senator Kimberly Rosen at her camp on Pleasant Pond in Island Falls, Maine. Senator Rosen has served eight years in Maine’s House of Representative and six years in the Maine State Senate, and this year she is seeking reelection to the Maine Senate. Currently, she serves on the Legislature’s Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee as well as the Conduct and Ethics Committee.