David Farmer

After losing his legal counsel and deputy chief of staff, Gov. John Baldacci has made several staff changes.

Current Communications Director David Farmer will take over as deputy chief of staff, replacing Ryan Low. Low was appointed Commissioner of the Department of Administrative and Financial Services. Farmer will be responsible for moving the governor’s initiatives through the Legislature, and also be the liaison to the Finance Authority of Maine, MaineHousing and the Maine Municipal Bond Bank.

An individual from the Brunswick area was arrested yesterday for sending a threatening e-mail to members of the Maine delegation.

The e-mail threatened one delegate specifically, but mentioned a number of other names of delegation members, said David Farmer, spokesman for Gov. John Baldacci. It was directed at the delegate and did not mention Barack Obama.

Baldacci was one of the people to whom the e-mail was sent, however it went into the spam folder, Farmer said.

For all most people know, there could be remnants of “John loves Olympia” etchings in the furniture in the Governor’s office. It has, after all, been around since John McKernan was governor from 1987 to 1995.

Current Gov. John Baldacci isn’t replacing it, but it is time for a touch up, said communications director David Farmer Wednesday.

Soon, the furniture will be shipped off the Maine State Prison’s upholstery shop to be repaired.

At the prison, the upholstery program is federally certified. The money prisoners earn while working there goes toward reimbursing the state for room and board expenses, and also to paying victim restitution and child support.