Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate will make a campaign stop Thursday in Kittery.
The California lawyer and philanthropist Nicole Shanahan will be at the Kittery Community Center on Rogers Road from 4 to 7 p.m., according to Kennedy’s campaign website.
Shanahan will have a Q&A with the audience, and volunteers will be collecting signatures to get the pair on the Maine ballot. Attendees can RSVP online.
Kennedy, a lifelong Democrat, announced last fall that he will run as an independent in the 2024 presidential election. That came after he ran a longshot bid to challenge President Joe Biden for the Democratic Party’s nomination.
Kennedy — who has been characterized as an anti-vaxxer, despite his protestations otherwise — has been closely associated in Maine with the movement against COVID-19 vaccines, with one of his groups, Children’s Health Defense, bankrolling the legal defense of Ellsworth physician Cheryl Nass as she fought a state board’s decision to suspend her license.
Shanahan, who Kennedy named as his running mate in March, founded and leads the Bia-Echo Foundation and was the founder of the patent management firm ClearAccessIP, according to the Associated Press. Her philanthropic work centers around women’s reproductive science, criminal justice reform and environmental causes.
Shanahan has expressed skepticism about childhood vaccinations and concerns about “electromagnetic pollution” from cellphones and “toxic substances in our environment,” the Associated Press reported.
Kennedy previously made a campaign stop in Portland back in November.
