78% of the itemized money from individuals in the 2026 cycle came from donors with an address in Maine. Ranks 1961st of 2,335, where 1st is the highest share. 19 itemized donors.
Only donors who give more than $200 are reported with an address, so this is the share of that itemized money from donors living in Maine, ranked among State House Republicans. Small gifts are not counted either way. Candidates running statewide or for federal office often draw more money from out of state.
At a glance
6 measures against the Maine House. Perkins sits at +0.57 on the CSIP scale, more conservative than 83% of State House Republicans. 50% of the 14 bills Perkins sponsored got out of committee, in the bottom quarter of the Maine House.
The measures on which Perkins sits furthest from the middle of the Maine House, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.
Party unity
Maine House average 95.9% · ranks 4th of 149 · 27 votes against the majority of Maine House Republicans
From Maine, 2026
Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 1961st of 2,335 State House Republicans
CSIP ideology
More conservative than 83% of State House Republicans · ± 0.07
Out of committee
Maine House average 64% · ranks 76th of 96
Itemized, 2026
State House Republicans’ median $33.7K · ranks 1984th of 2,521
Attendance
Maine House average 94.9% · ranks 69th of 149 · 804 roll calls
Peer group: Maine House. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Perkins, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Perkins is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).
What Perkins says
No statements for the ME 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.
Policy
No policy statements for the ME 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.
Ideology
Perkins sits at +0.57 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more conservative than 83% of State House Republicans. Approximate range +0.50 to +0.64, which understates the uncertainty; from 19 donors and 585 roll calls.
CSIP, the lab’s Common-Space Ideal Point, places every official, federal and state, on one left–right scale, estimated from roll-call votes, who gives money to whom, and the text of statements. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it; 0 is the centre of the scale, not a definition of “moderate”.
CSIP ideal point
Approximate range +0.50 to +0.64. From 19 donors and 585 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.
The outlined dot is Perkins, coloured by its side of 0 (blue left, red right, deeper further out); the bar through it is the approximate range (±1.96 standard errors), which understates the uncertainty; the grey ticks below are the medians of Perkins’s groups. 0 is the centre of the scale, not “moderate” by definition.
What this means, and what it doesn’t
The score summarises how an official votes, who funds them and how they talk, relative to everyone else. It does not grade positions as good or bad, and two officials with the same score can differ on any single issue. The ± range is 1.96 standard errors, which understates the uncertainty: scores whose ranges overlap may not differ at all, and even scores whose ranges do not overlap may not differ.
Where Perkins sits
Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale
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| Group | Officials | Median | Share left of Perkins |
|---|---|---|---|
| State House Republicans | 2917 | +0.4 | 83% |
| Maine House | 152 | −0.3 | 91% |
| All State House | 5324 | +0.1 | 91% |
How to read the strips
Every small dot is one official on the same scale, coloured by its own score (blue left of 0, red right of 0, grey at 0, deeper further out) and spread up and down only to keep dots apart; where a group is crowded the dots overlap, and darker patches mean more officials. The large outlined dot is Perkins in every row; the rule is each group’s median. The table under the figure gives the share of each group to the left of Perkins.
Money
Perkins reported $8,625 in the 2026 cycle, 26% of the State House Republicans’ median of $33.7K. State filings report no small-donation total. 78% of itemized individual money came from Maine.
Campaign money from state campaign-finance filings, as aggregates only; the lab never shows an individual donor. Campaigns must report by name every person who gives them more than $200 in a cycle (“itemized”); smaller gifts are reported only as one total (“unitemized”), so donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations describe itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift total, so these figures add up itemized contributions only.
itemized in the 2026 cycle
From 19 itemized donors. State House Republicans’ median $33.7K.
Where the money came from
Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle.
- Individuals (itemized)77 squares$6,625
- PACs and other committees17 squares$1,500
- Party committees6 squares$500
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| Source | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Individuals (itemized) | $6,625 | 76.8% |
| PACs and other committees | $1,500 | 17.4% |
| Party committees | $500 | 5.8% |
What this means, and what it doesn’t
Totals say how much a campaign took in, not how it was spent, and they rise sharply when a seat is up for election; compare cycles with that in mind.
Receipts by cycle
Itemized contributions, 2020 to 2026. The grey line is the State House Republicans’ median for 2026.
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| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| 2020 cycle | $1,512 |
| 2022 cycle | $3,140 |
| 2024 cycle | $2,775 |
| 2026 cycle | $8,625 |
Top donor states, 2026
Itemized contributions by donor state. 78% came from Maine.
- Maine$5,145
- Pennsylvania$1,000
- Massachusetts$480
Small donations
State filings report no total for small gifts.
Not reported in state filings.
Where itemized donors live
Individuals who gave more than $200, by donor state
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| State | Value |
|---|---|
| Maine | $5,145 |
| Pennsylvania | $1,000 |
| Massachusetts | $480 |
| Alaska | No data |
| Vermont | No data |
| New Hampshire | No data |
| Washington | No data |
| Idaho | No data |
| Montana | No data |
| North Dakota | No data |
| Minnesota | No data |
| Illinois | No data |
| Wisconsin | No data |
| Michigan | No data |
| New York | No data |
| Rhode Island | No data |
| Oregon | No data |
| Nevada | No data |
| Wyoming | No data |
| South Dakota | No data |
| Iowa | No data |
| Indiana | No data |
| Ohio | No data |
| New Jersey | No data |
| Connecticut | No data |
| California | No data |
| Utah | No data |
| Colorado | No data |
| Nebraska | No data |
| Missouri | No data |
| Kentucky | No data |
| West Virginia | No data |
| Virginia | No data |
| Maryland | No data |
| Delaware | No data |
| Arizona | No data |
| New Mexico | No data |
| Kansas | No data |
| Arkansas | No data |
| Tennessee | No data |
| North Carolina | No data |
| South Carolina | No data |
| District of Columbia | No data |
| Oklahoma | No data |
| Louisiana | No data |
| Mississippi | No data |
| Alabama | No data |
| Georgia | No data |
| Hawaii | No data |
| Texas | No data |
| Florida | No data |
itemized donors
People who gave more than $200
from Maine
Of itemized individual dollars
How to read the map
Every state the same size. Darker states gave more itemized money; hatched states had no itemized donors; the outlined state is Maine. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.
Top donor occupations
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
- RETIRED$2,371 8 donors
Top committees
PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.
- DBA MAINE HERITAGE PAC$500
- DIRIGO PAC$500
- ON THE ROAD TO MAINE'S FUTURE$500
- PISCATAQUIS COUNTY REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE$500
Top employers
Itemized, 2026 cycle.
No employers reported.
Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.
Votes
Perkins voted with the majority of Maine House Republicans on 99.4% of party-line votes and missed 2.2% of 804 roll calls. Maine House on average: 95.9% party unity, 94.9% attendance. Across all roll calls, Perkins voted against the majority of Maine House Republicans 27 times.
804 roll calls Perkins could vote on in the ME 2025–26 session, compared with Maine House. Attendance is the share with a vote recorded. Party unity counts only party-line roll calls, where most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides, and is the share of those where Perkins voted with the majority of Maine House Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.
votes against the majority of Maine House Republicans
Party unity 99.4%, Maine House average 95.9%, ranks 4th of 149. 804 roll calls in the ME 2025–26 session.
Attendance and party unity
The thick bar is Perkins, the thin grey bar the Maine House average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.
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| Row | Perkins | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 97.7% | 94.9% |
| Party unity | 99.4% | 95.9% |
What this means, and what it doesn’t
A missed roll call has many causes, from illness to campaigning, so attendance says how often, not why. A vote against the majority can be on procedure as well as substance, and many fall on roll calls where both parties split; the key votes below show the ones that decided something.
Key votes
25 roll calls the lab flagged as key in the ME 2025–26 session
| Party split (yea–nay) | Why it’s key | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 2026 | Nay | With majority | fail | D 64–6 · R 7–59 · I 1–0Democrats 64 yea, 6 nay; Republicans 7 yea, 59 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 nay | close vote · party crossover | |
| Apr 29, 2026 | Yea | With majority | fail | D 11–57 · R 54–12 · I 0–1Democrats 11 yea, 57 nay; Republicans 54 yea, 12 nay; Independents 0 yea, 1 nay | close vote · party crossover | |
| Apr 14, 2026 | LD 555 An Act To Create A Separate Department Of Child And Family Services Acc Maj Ought Not to Pass Rep | Nay | With majority | pass | D 71–4 · R 2–67 · I 2–1Democrats 71 yea, 4 nay; Republicans 2 yea, 67 nay; Independents 2 yea, 1 nay | close vote |
| Apr 14, 2026 | Nay | With majority | fail | D 74–1 · R 13–54 · I 3–0Democrats 74 yea, 1 nay; Republicans 13 yea, 54 nay; Independents 3 yea, 0 nay | party crossover | |
| Apr 14, 2026 | LD 127 An Act To Strengthen Legislative Oversight Of Government Agencies And Programs By Reaffirming The Legislature'S Access To Confidential Records suspension of house rule 515 | Yea | With majority | fail | D 6–69 · R 67–0 · I 1–2Democrats 6 yea, 69 nay; Republicans 67 yea, 0 nay; Independents 1 yea, 2 nay | close vote |
How key votes are chosen
Automatically: a final-passage or override vote where the measure became law, the margin was under 10%, at least 10% of either party voted against its majority, or the bill was among the 25 most mentioned in officials’ own statements. Up to 25 per window, most recent first; five are shown. Bars show yea on the left, nay on the right, per party.
Votes most often with
The colleagues who voted the same way as Perkins most often
- Reagan PaulR762 shared votes97%
- Jim WhiteR785 shared votes97%
- Mike LanceR743 shared votes97%
- Irene GiffordR748 shared votes97%
- Shelley RudnickiR775 shared votes97%
Votes least often with
The colleagues who voted the same way as Perkins least often
- Lori GramlichD781 shared votes7.8%
- Charles SkoldD710 shared votes7.9%
- Laurie OsherD743 shared votes7.9%
- Kristi MathiesonD750 shared votes8.5%
- Marc MalonD763 shared votes8.8%
How to read the agreement lists
The share of roll calls both members voted on where they voted the same way, among colleagues sharing at least 50 such votes. High agreement with members of the other party is common on routine votes.
Full voting record
ME 2025–26 session, loads in batches
Legislation
Perkins sponsored 14 bills in the ME 2025–26 session; 4 became law. Cosponsored 64 others. 50% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Maine House average 64%; 76th of 96).
The bills Perkins sponsored and cosponsored in the ME 2025–26 session, from the official bill records, and how far each got: introduced, referred to or acted on in committee, passed one chamber, passed both, became law. A bill counts at every stage it has reached, so the blocks only shrink to the right.
Bills by stage
Counts for the ME 2025–26 session
Show the data
| Role | Introduced | In committee | Passed one chamber | Passed both chambers | Became law |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 14 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 4 |
| Cosponsored | 64 | 64 | 40 | 29 | 14 |
How to read the blocks
Ink blocks are bills Perkins sponsored, ochre blocks bills Perkins cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.
of sponsored bills got out of committee
Maine House average 64%. Ranks 76th of 96.
Cosponsorship partners
Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Perkins, by number of shared bills in the ME 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.
- Donald Ardell27
- Scott Cyrway24
- Bob Nutting20
- David Haggan19
- Matt Harrington18
What this means, and what it doesn’t
The score is the share of sponsored bills that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, with at least 5 sponsored bills, ranked within the peer group. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position in the chamber as well as effort. Cosponsorship partners are the five colleagues who share the most of Perkins’s bills; the toggle shows more.
Bill list
Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest
| LD 208 | An Act To Eliminate The 72-Hour Waiting Period On Firearm Purchases | Cosponsor | Apr 9, 2026 | Passed both chambers | Crime and Law Enforcement(model) | Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) Apr 9, 2026 |
| LD 1009 | An Act To Restore Full Civil Rights To Possess Firearms To Persons Previously Convicted Of Certain Nonviolent Felony Crimes | Sponsor | Apr 9, 2026 | Passed both chambers | Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues(model) | Died in Possession of the Senate when the Legislature adjourned Sine Die and was PLACED IN THE LEGISLATIVE FILES. (DEAD) Apr 29, 2026 |
| LD 2157 | An Act To Prohibit The Unauthorized Use Of Drones On Or Over The Premises Of Correctional Facilities And Jails | Sponsor | Mar 25, 2026 | Became law | Crime and Law Enforcement(model) | Signed by Governor Apr 13, 2026 |
| LD 1609 | An Act To Prevent The Participation Of Individuals And Companies Linked To Federally Recognized Criminal Organizations In The Medical And Adult Use Cannabis Programs | Cosponsor | Mar 25, 2026 | Became law | Crime and Law Enforcement(model) | Signed by Governor Apr 3, 2026 |
| LD 1416 | An Act To Require The Department Of Health And Human Services To Immediately Take Custody Of Persons Sentenced To Mental Health Facilities That May Not Include County Or Regional Jails | Cosponsor | Mar 17, 2026 | Passed one chamber | Health(model) | Died in Possession of the Senate when the Legislature adjourned Sine Die and was PLACED IN THE LEGISLATIVE FILES. (DEAD) Apr 29, 2026 |
Online
A site that changed 1 time in 90 days. Perkins’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.
The lab crawls Perkins’s official and campaign websites (weekly for Congress, monthly for the states) and keeps every page’s text, so changes can be read later; it also records social accounts and describes the images Perkins posts with a vision model.
Websites
- 1
pages crawled
1changes in 90 days
How to read the counts
“Pages crawled” is the size of the site at the last crawl; “changes in 90 days” counts pages whose text differed from the previous crawl. Sites change for many routine reasons, such as new press releases, so a high count is not by itself notable.
Social accounts
Images Perkins posted
No images from Perkins’s posts have been described.
About the descriptions
Written by a vision model and may be wrong. Open the post to see the original. Five are shown; the toggle shows the rest.
State floor speeches
58 turns, Jan 31, 2023 to Mar 17, 2026
Floor speeches
Transcribed from chamber video or captions by the lab. They are not classified for kinds of statement.
Methods and sources
How this page was made. Profile built Oct 28, 2026; site last built Oct 28, 2026. Every number on the page is computed from the sources listed here, by the same rules for every official; nothing is written by hand.
The headline
The headline is the measure on which Perkins is most unusual among Maine House, chosen by one rule for every official of every party. The candidates are the rate of each kind of statement and of extreme labels, party unity, attendance, the small-donor share, the in-state share and total receipts of the latest cycle, the share of sponsored bills that got out of committee, talk-to-bills agreement, and the CSIP score’s place within the party group.
The builder ranks every measure within the same peer group the page compares it with, and writes each official’s percentile: the share of the group below the value, ties counting half, so 0.5 is the median and a value shared by many never ranks first. A measure’s score is how far that percentile sits from the median (0 in the middle, 0.5 at either end), and the highest score leads if it is above 0.25, outside the middle half of the group. Scores within 0.03 of each other are a tie, broken in this order: votes against the party majority, kinds of statement, ideology, roll calls missed, small donations, in-state money, legislation, agreement, extreme labels, receipts.
A measure counts only with at least 200 statements, 100 roll calls or 5 sponsored bills behind it and a peer group of at least 10. Two things never lead: high party unity or attendance, where most members sit, and a high rate of a kind of statement backed by fewer than 10 statements. When nothing qualifies, the headline is a neutral fact instead: statements classified, or years in office. The wording always names the direction (“in the bottom 5% of …”, “votes against the majority of …”).
Identifiers
- Profile id
- 1793f579-da58-422f-bc22-36da20ce246c
- Open States
- ocd-person/1793f579-da58-422f-bc22-36da20ce246c
Bulk files with the same data for every official:
Freshness of this profile’s data
- What politicians sayOct 27, 20261 days agoMembers of Congress: tweets since 2017; press releases, newsletters and floor speeches since 2022. State legislators: tweets since May 2024. Governors: tweets since January 2025. Labels from an LLM classifier.
- Roll calls (state)Oct 21, 20267 days agoOpen States floor roll calls, 2019 on (none for AK and MO).
- Bills (state)Oct 28, 2026todayOpen States bills and sponsors, 2019 on; stages from roll calls.
- Campaign money (state)no dateState campaign-finance agencies, 2019 on; aggregates only.
- Ideology (CSIP)Oct 25, 20263 days agoCommon-Space Ideal Points (CSIP), current validated run.
- WebsitesOct 25, 20263 days agoWeekly crawls of federal sites since April 2026; monthly state crawls since June 2026.
- State floor speechesOct 21, 20267 days agoState floor speech turns (published transcripts and captions), 2020 on; not LLM-classified.
How the measures work
- What politicians say
- Every post, press release, newsletter and congressional floor speech is read by a language model and marked for personal attacks, policy criticism, policy discussion, bipartisanship and credit claiming. A statement can be in several. Rates are shares of statements in the window. The methods paper.
- Extreme labels
- A statement has an extreme label when it calls a politician, party or policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who the label is aimed at.
- Policy areas and agreement
- Statements and bills share 25 Congressional Research Service policy areas (state bills are assigned by a language model). Agreement is 1 − Jensen–Shannon distance between the two distributions, shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
- Ideology (CSIP)
- Common-Space Ideal Points place federal and state officials on one left–right scale, estimated jointly from roll calls, campaign contributions and the text of statements, with standard errors. Only a validated run is shown. The methods paper.
- Campaign money
- Campaigns report by name only donors who give more than $200 in a cycle; smaller gifts are reported as one total. Federal totals and the small-donor share come from the FEC’s financial summaries of each campaign committee. Donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations cover itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift totals, so state figures are itemized only. The lab never publishes donor names.
- Votes and key votes
- Attendance, party unity and the count of votes against the majority of an official’s own party come from roll calls (Voteview for Congress, chamber records for the states). Key votes are final-passage or override votes that became law, were decided by under 10%, saw at least 10% of a party vote against its majority, or concerned one of the 25 bills most mentioned in officials’ statements.
- Peers and ranks
- Comparisons are with the same party, chamber and level (for example House Democrats); state legislators are compared within their state and chamber for votes. Every comparison names its group. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; tied values share the average of their ranks, and the percentile is the share of the group below the value, ties counting half.
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