There’s still a long time until Election Day, but Democrats have a big gap to make up if they hope to catch up with the campaign finances available to U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin, the two-term Republican from Maine’s 2nd District. Half a dozen hopefuls on the Democratic side have taken in more than $300,000 so […]
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Where are you, Rep. Poliquin?
Hmmm. Given that Rep. Bruce Poliquin is a sitting U.S. representative and also running for re-election for his 2nd District seat, doesn’t it seem strange that he, again, is not concerned about the fact that his constituents need to be able to reach him? A new sign on the window of his Lewiston office states […]
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Bruce Poliquin touts fundraising as Dems seek to challenge incumbent
Republican U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin’s campaign is touting his fundraising numbers as Democrats announce plans to challenge him. Poliquin political adviser Brent Littlefield says Poliquin raised nearly $450,000 in the last three months and ended September with over $1.5 million in cash on hand. Littlefield said Poliquin will file new campaign finance reports this week. […]
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Angus King pushing measure to speed pipeline permits
To help expand the nation’s natural gas pipelines, U.S. Sen. Angus King is pushing a controversial measure to streamline the permitting process required for new projects. King, a Maine independent, introduced a bill recently with U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., in a bid to speed up the process for approving pipelines across the country. “This […]
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Democrats charge Bruce Poliquin is in NRA's pocket
U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin, R-Maine Democrats hoping to unseat U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin are taking aim at the financial backing the Maine Republican has received from the National Rifle Association. Their assault follows publication of a chart this week in The New York Times that contained a striking statistic: Poliquin has received more NRA campaign […]
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Democrats target Bruce Poliquin in new advertising blitz
Democrats are taking aim at Maine’s two-term Republican congressman, Bruce Poliquin, with an advertising blitz that got underway Thursday. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee assailed Poliquin and 10 other GOP lawmakers it considers vulnerable in the wake of a House vote in May for a failed health care overhaul that critics said would have stripped […]
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Maine lawmakers urge aid for hard-hit Puerto Rico
Speaking on the floor of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, Maine’s Angus King said the nation has been socked during the past several weeks by repeated hurricanes that have devastated many communities. King, an independent, said the suffering on Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands is particularly acute because the U.S. territories are islands where […]
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Jared Golden, Bruce Poliquin spar over protections for Equifax, others
LEWISTON — On the heels of perhaps the largest-ever breach of consumer privacy by the data collection and monitoring firm Equifax, which recently announced that records connected to 143 million people may have been stolen by hackers, addressing how the government deals with credit agencies has suddenly become a hot campaign issue. Congressional candidate Jared […]
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Susan Collins says whoa: Bills would ban people from eating cats, dogs and horses
Faced this summer with whether to allow the slaughter of horses for meat, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins said nay. Collins, a Maine Republican, is among a bipartisan group of senators who hopes to bar permanently any horse slaughterhouses in the country as well as exporting horses for human consumption. “Horses hold a special place in […]
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Questions for Poliquin
MoveOn invited Rep. Bruce Poliquin to attend a small “town hall” gathering in Norway on Aug. 31, but he did not attend. It was organized specifically for local residents to have a chance to speak with him. I have questions I hoped he would answer: If he doesn’t believe that every U.S. citizen has a […]