Maine Senate Money from outside groups that can spend unlimited amounts on a campaign is pouring into state legislative races much earlier than usual — and at an exponentially higher rate. Spending by party committees and political action committees, known as independent expenditures, reached $365,979 for all legislative races by Sept. 7, according to 60-day […]
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Brakey campaign releases spliced King remarks
LEWISTON — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Eric Brakey of Auburn is criticizing his political rival, independent Angus King, arguing that King equated the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks with recent Russian cyberwarfare during remarks Tuesday. King, speaking at 9/11 remembrance ceremonies in Lewiston and Auburn, told audiences that 9/11 was the start of warfare over ideals […]
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Democrats say GOP newsletters misstate education funding
AUGUSTA — In otherwise-mundane newsletters to constituents, at least four Republican state senators used the same wording to make a claim about education spending that Democrats say is not true. Each of the four wrote in his or her taxpayer-funded mailing, “We made the largest one-time investment in education in the state’s history, putting the […]
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Candidates for Maine governor offer solutions to labor shortage
LEWISTON — Maine voters got their first look at all four candidates for governor on the same stage Monday night during a forum focused largely on workforce development issues. Democrat Janet Mills, Republican Shawn Moody and independents Terry Hayes and Alan Caron offered varying approaches to attracting and keeping young people in a state that’s facing an […]
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Candidate’s forum live blog: Alan Caron, Terry Hayes, Janet Mills & Shawn Moody on workforce development
LEWISTON – The four candidates hoping to be Maine’s next governor are set to appear together for the first time Monday at a forum on workforce development at the Lewiston-Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. Democrat Janet Mills, Republican Shawn Moody and independents Terry Hayes and Alan Caron have all confirmed their appearance at the 4:30 […]
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Shawn Moody: Self-made millionaire runs on authenticity
The Republican who hopes to follow in the current governor’s footsteps banks on his proven entrepreneurial ability and a life story built on success. Editor’s note: This is the first of four weekly profiles on the candidates campaigning for Maine governor. GORHAM — Shawn Moody built an auto repair business from nothing, transformed a junkyard […]
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Jared Golden: From combat to candidate for Congress
The idea of service — military, then political — started at a young age for the Leeds native. Editor’s note: This is the second of four profiles running weekly in the Sunday edition on the candidates for Maine’s 2nd District congressional seat. WILTON — As he walked in the rain during the Wilton Blueberry Festival […]
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Democrats zing Bruce Poliquin for scrubbing ACA repeal from his website
If there’s one issue that Democrats are pounding more than any other in Maine’s increasingly bitter 2nd District congressional race, it’s that two-term U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin voted last year to gut the Affordable Care Act. It’s an issue Poliquin isn’t keen to focus on. Yet his critics, including Jared Golden, Poliquin’s top challenger, said […]
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Lawmaker Larry Lockman behind provocative anti-immigration flyer
A political mailer stoking anti-immigration fears in the House District 55 race is the work of a political action committee run by conservative Republican Rep. Larry Lockman. The glossy, oversized flyer accuses incumbent Rep. Seth Berry, D-Bowdoinham, of voting “to allow the killings to continue in Portland,” referring to two homicides in which immigrants were […]
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Survey: Older Maine voters split support between Janet Mills, Shawn Moody for governor
A poll of older Maine voters commissioned by AARP Maine shows a close race between Democrat Janet Mills and Republican Shawn Moody, each of whom hopes to succeed Gov. Paul LePage. The survey of 804 voters over the age of 50 had Mills holding a 39 percent to 38 percent lead over Moody, with 15 […]