PRESQUE ISLE – After three terms in the Maine House of Representatives, State Rep. Jeremy Fischer has announced that he would not seek re-election in November.
“After six very rewarding years of public service, the time has come to shift my focus to private life for a period,” Fischer said in a statement.
The chairman of the Legislature’s budget-writing Appropriations Committee, Fischer represents part of Presque Isle.
Fischer noted personal considerations that he and his wife, Sarah, focused on in coming to their decision. The couple was married Aug. 11, 2007 in Presque Isle. During his tenure in the Legislature, Fischer has traveled weekly between his district in Presque Isle and the Capitol in Augusta – a distance of nearly 500 miles roundtrip.
Fischer entered the Maine House of Representatives in 2002 at the age of 22 after unseating an incumbent, becoming the first Democrat to represent Aroostook County’s largest city in the Legislature in over a decade. He was re-elected in 2004 and 2006 by wide margins. After serving his first term on the Education Committee, he secured a position on the Appropriations Committee, which oversees all state expenditures. In 2006, he was appointed as the committee’s chairman. At 26, Fischer was the youngest person ever to hold the position and the first from Aroostook County in half a century.
Presque Isle’s municipal Democratic Committee will meet in July to appoint a replacement for the November ballot.
Rep. Jeremy Fischer
