Each week GOPAC will spotlight a candidate running for election. This weeks Candidate in the spotlight is Representative Joshua Tardy. Rep. Tardy is serving his third term in the Maine Legislature representing District 25, which includes Corinna, part of Corinth, Exeter, Newport and Plymouth. Rep. Tardy was elected House Republican Leader by the House Republican Caucus for the 123rd Legislature. As such, he plays a critical role in the Maine Republican Party and tirelessly advocates for Republican principles in the State House. He is up for reelection in 2008.
Representative Joshua Tardy is serving his third term in the Maine Legislature representing District 25, which includes Corinna, part of Corinth, Exeter, Newport and Plymouth. Rep. Tardy was elected House Republican Leader by the House Republican Caucus for the 123rd Legislature. As such, he plays a critical role in the Maine Republican Party and tirelessly advocates for Republican principles in the State House. Rep. Tardy served on the Legislature’s Joint Standing Committee on Taxation during his first term, as well as the Apportionment Commission, the group charged with reconfiguring the House and Senate districts in Maine following the decennial census. He was also named to the Joint Select Committee on Regionalization and Community Cooperation. In his second term at the State House, Rep. Tardy was elected by his fellow caucus members to the post of Assistant House Republican Leader.
Rep. Tardy, an attorney, received his undergraduate degree from the University of Maine in Orono. He received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Maine School of Law in 1993. Upon graduation, Rep. Tardy worked as a litigation associate at the Bangor firm of Rudmen & Winchell. Since 1995 he has been in private practice in Newport and in 2004 became a partner in the firm of Irwin, Tardy & Morris, running the Newport office. The firm also has offices in Portland, Brunswick, and Dover-Foxcroft. Rep. Tardy’s practice includes a wide range of fields, including civil litigation, criminal law, real estate, commercial law, and personal injury. He and his wife, Mary Ellen, are also co-owners of a banquet business in the Newport area called Millennium Weddings & Convention Center.
Rep. Tardy is active in many community organizations including the Masons, Elks, Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine and the Maine State and Penobscot Bar Associations. He is the past Commissioner of Maine Girls AAU Basketball, served as chairman of the MSAD 48 school board, is president of the Nokomis Alumni Association and is a member of the Board of Trustees of Maine Central Institute in Pittsfield, Maine.
Rep. Tardy and his wife, Mary Ellen, reside in his hometown of Newport with their foreign exchange student, Benson.
To Donate to Rep. Tardy's Campaign please send your donations to:
Rep. Josh Tardy
P.O. Box 381
Newport, ME 04953
Phone: 207/368-5858
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