Democrats said that the apparent fizzling of the right-to-work bill showed that such legislation doesn’t have a place in Maine.

Sen. Justin Alfond, D-Portland, said Republicans were using the budget process as a “smokescreen” to explain their abandonment of the right-to-work bills.

“I think they don’t have the votes,” Alfond said. “I think Mainers, especially elected Mainers here, recognize that … this (legislation) is something that’s been imported to Maine. This isn’t a problem here.”

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