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Federal judge rejects Max Linn’s effort to run in Maine Republican primary

A federal judge on Friday rejected a request by supporters of Max Linn to declare that Secretary of State Matt Dunlap violated the law when he rejected nominating petitions bearing their signatures and disqualified Linn from the June 12 Republican U.S. Senate primary. The ruling killed Linn’s hopes to run against state Sen. Eric Brakey […]

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Max Linn files federal lawsuit to be counted in Republican Senate primary

AUGUSTA – Last week, disqualified U.S. Senate hopeful Max Linn took his campaign to the streets by dotting Maine’s landscape with political signs. Now, he is turning to the courts – once again – in hopes of legitimizing his candidacy. On Monday, Linn’s campaign announced that 14 supporters had filed a lawsuit in U.S. District […]

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Max Linn’s campaign signs have migrated to New Hampshire

AUGUSTA – A Republican U.S. Senate candidate who failed to qualify for Maine’s June primary elections is getting flak for illegally placing campaign signs not in Maine but in neighboring New Hampshire. City offices in Dover, New Hampshire, received a handful of complaints about campaign signs for Max Linn popping up at busy intersections and […]

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Max Linn can’t be candidate for U.S. Senate, Maine’s top court rules

The state’s Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday affirmed a lower court ruling that invalidated the candidacy of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Max Linn, a financial planner who lives in Bar Harbor. Linn’s campaign appealed a decision by Kennebec County Superior Court Justice William Stokes, who ruled that Maine Secretary of State Matt Dunlap was correct […]

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Max Linn aides call for state fraud probe of campaign’s election paperwork

Two men at the heart of the scandal that caused Republican U.S. Senate candidate Max Linn’s campaign to self-destruct said Wednesday that Attorney General Janet Mills ought to find out who committed fraud in Linn’s signature-gathering process. “I will go talk to the attorney general myself. I hope there’s justice here,” Matt McDonald, a strategist […]