Welcome to Generation Rowe! 

Young voters know that we aren't the next generation.  We're today's leaders and we're changing things now. that's why we're working to elect Steve Rowe as our next Governor.

We know that Steve listens to the concerns of young people.  We know that Steve cares deeply about the people of Maine.  And we know that Steve is the person to help us unleash Maine's full potential and give all people the opportunity to realize a brighter economic future in Maine.

On this page, you will meet members of Generation Rowe, hear why they're supporting Steve and learn how you can get involved.  We need your help today to make sure every young person has their voice heard and can find their economic future in Maine. 

Together, we can make Steve our next Governor!  

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Meet Some of Generation Rowe!

Steve Butterfield:

I have worked in Maine politics for literally my whole life – in fact, my parents met while working on campaigns back in the ‘70s. In 27 years, and especially since I was elected to the Maine State Legislature in 2008, it has been my pleasure to know great and honest leaders in Maine - but Steve has a special and impeccable integrity and character. Steve is a leader who, first and foremost, listens to those around him – and more importantly, he HEARS them, values their input. His public service in Maine has been widely praised for its inclusiveness, its values, and its effectiveness. As Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives, he took on the drug companies to fight for cheaper prescription drugs for Mainers and built new opportunities for business and job growth. As Maine’s attorney general, he led the nation’s attorneys general in fights to hold big tobacco and predatory lenders accountable, to preserve our environment, and to emphasize early childhood education – a cause Steve passionately defends to this day. He believes deeply in what he knows is right, and I’ve seen his unflagging dedication to these causes from up close. Through all of it, he has been a dedicated husband and father and a mentor to many who have known him. I’ve had the privilege to get to know Steve over the past few years and it’s an honor to call him my friend. I hope you join the campaign and get involved so we can all have the honor of calling Steve our Governor.

Deena Metzler:

I'm supporting Steve because he has always been a dedicated and passionate advocate for those whose voices are not usually listened to in politics such as women, youth and the non-affluent.

Kaitlyn Cunningham:

I support Steve because he wants to protect Maine's future while making an effort to expand the opportunities we have here.

Ben McCall:

Maine is in desperate need of strong, innovative, leadership which can stimulate our economy, create quality jobs, and keep young people like us here to work and live. Steve Rowe not only has the skills to create this change but the enthusiasm and commitment to work day after day until the job is done. Maine needs Steve Rowe in order to create a better tomorrow.

Will Nelligan

As Americans, we witnessed for nearly a decade how decisions by a President affect the lives of people around the nation, and around our great state. Now, with a new President and a new course for our country, I believe we need to continue Maine's proud tradition of visionary leadership by electing Steve Rowe as Governor next November. Steve, more than any other candidate in this race, understands the problems of working and middle class families, of the elderly and the dispossessed, of refugee and immigrant populations, of the sick and the down-on-their-luck. He will be a force for those people - for all Maine people - in Augusta, and around our state. Generating jobs and educational opportunities, defending our natural resources and preserving our unique history for posterity, fighting for the causes Mainers care about the most; that is intrinsic to Steve, and that is certainly what he will bring to the governor's chair. As a young person, as a 17-year-old who believes passionately in a government that functions for the people that need it the most, I wholeheartedly endorse Steve as an insightful leader, a compassionate legislator, and a brave attorney general. As a member of the generation that will inherit this state as our own, as a member of the generation of children and grandchildren that will raise further children and grandchildren across our 16 counties, I wholeheartedly endorse Steve Rowe as the best choice for Governor, indeed the only choice for Governor, who will work every day to defend the way Maine should be. 

Lindsay Rowe

I am Steve's daughter and I am supporting him for governor not only because he’s my dad but because I have the opportunity to see every day how much he loves Maine and how committed he is to making it a better place for young people to live.  Growing up, I learned many things from my dad… things like what integrity is and what it means to lead by example… but one of the most important things he taught me has been the value of public service.  When he says he feels honored to have been able to serve the people of Maine as a legislator, Speaker of the House and Attorney General for the past sixteen years, he means it.  I know that he will be the governor that the state of Maine needs and deserves.

David Morse

I want Steve to be our next governor because I believe he has the ability and the insight needed to address our State's greatest challenges and to foster its even greater potential. He is a person who looks to find the sources of problems so that lasting changes can be made, rather than continuously trying to manage their effects. Our world, national, and state economies are rapidly evolving, and Steve is the candidate Maine needs to lead us into a future where Maine is an important contributor to the greater global economy, and where young Maine people can start great careers and prosper.

Chace Jackson

It was December of 2002, and my father had just been elected to his first term in the Maine House of Representatives. Our family was in Augusta for the legislative swearing-in ceremony that was to happen the next day, a Wednesday. That evening, though, was the biennial legislative banquet that was a welcome of sorts to all the new legislators.

I went along with my father to that dinner, and, as I recall, we were unfashionably late. That’s not to mention that I had been asleep in the car and so my hair was badly matted to one side. This was complimented by the hiking boots, jeans, and a bright red tee-shirt I wore. I was eleven and had just begun to grow facial hair at that time. I was nothing short of scruffy looking. Dad had a leather jacket and what were probably Dickey work pants on; the great contrast between our attire and the suits and ties of the several hundred other people at the party was nothing short of a chasm.

We walked through the maze of tables, adorned with cloths and wine glasses, name tags and fancifully folded napkins. Most tables had not a chair to spare at them, and the ones that did were beside people who didn’t much seem interested in our company. Then, as occasionally now, those people stared at us in a way that once prompted my father to say, “They look at us like we don’t belong here.”

There was one table with several spare seats at it and a man who had half-stood from his chair to wave us over. He welcomed us to the table and shook our hands. He spent the evening talking to my father and I, as well as the others at the table, in an even and indiscriminate manner. He asked Dad what issues had made him run for the legislature, and expressed sympathy and comradeship towards those causes.  He even spent a lot of time talking to me, asking me questions about myself and my impressions of Augusta as a political entity. To this man, who was Maine’s Attorney General, it didn’t matter we were quite possibly the most insignificant people at the dinner. This man was Steve Rowe.

He showed me that night, the night that was my introduction to not only Augusta, but to politics in general, that it was accessible. I realized because we came from humble beginnings and we were humble people, we could be just as much a part of our democratic process as anyone else. Steve’s heartfelt conviction that democracy truly is rule for the people, by the people was transplanted into me forever more.

I could have left that evening feeling as though some of those people were right when they looked at us like we didn’t belong. But I didn’t. I have Steve to thank for that.

I’m supporting Steve for Governor of Maine and will be voting for him next year because he champions the causes that need to be. His fights and polices, whether to lower prescription drug costs or to promote small business, have been aimed at those who need them most, those of the demographic that is the dynamo of our state: the middle class. As governor, Steve’s commitment to these people will be unwavering.

As young people, we are lucky to be coming of age in an era where such titans of democracy and fighters of the good fight exist, whether it be in last year’s national election, or next year’s gubernatorial.

I am supporting Generation Rowe because we are backing an exciting candidate who has new ideas and promises for the future of Maine and its young people. We all share a belief in him and his ability to make Maine a better place to learn and grow. I have never known a politician to look me in the eye and really make me feel like he cared about what I had to say, until I met Steve."