House Speaker Sara Gideon and Senate President Troy Jackson suggest BIW it is not meeting job creation and wage requirements in a 2018 law, allegations that the shipyard disputes.
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Maine Voices: Two-pronged strategy needed for Democrats to retake U.S. Senate
In blue states, try an appeal to the greater good; in red ones, encourage long-shot White House hopefuls to aim for the Senate.
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Is Sen. Collins running in 2020? Not yet, officially, but you’d never know it.
Maine’s Republican senator, seen by Democrats as someone they can unseat, is widely expected to seek another term but keeps saying she will decide ‘in the fall.’
Posted inElections, Local & State, News, Politics
PAC that Sara Gideon ran is fined $500 for campaign finance violations in 2016
Gideon, Maine’s House speaker and a 2020 challenger to Sen. Susan Collins, had previously admitted to the violations, but Republicans draw attention to the complaint in a new ad.
Posted inElections, Local & State, News, Politics
Follow the Money in Maine’s Senate race: See who is contributing to Sara Gideon
This searchable database includes all individual contributions to the 2020 U.S. Senate election campaign of Democrat Sara Gideon through Sept. 30, 2019. SOURCE: Federal Elections Commission INTERACTIVE: Julia McCue Use the Search box to find donors, specific towns, employers or occupations. Click on the column heads to sort the data. Donor Town State Contribution Employer […]
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Jim Fossel: Maine Democrats try to keep banning binge going
Bills that would ban plastic straws and vaping could get a spot on the second session agenda alongside strict gun control legislation.
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Out-of-state donors flood Maine’s closely watched U.S. Senate race
In a campaign that could decide control of the Senate in 2020, they make the vast majority of $200-plus donations to Susan Collins and Sara Gideon.
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Democrats hopeful as they bring campaigns for U.S. Senate to rural Sangerville Grange
SANGERVILLE — For a few hours recently, the 115-year-old East Sangerville Grange Hall, one of those classic white clapboard New England structures, stood at the center of what may prove the most important U.S. Senate race in the nation. That mid-October Saturday night marked the first time each of the Maine Democratic Party’s Senate contenders gathered […]
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While Trump rakes in cash, some Senate Republicans lag in 3rd quarter
Fundraising numbers so far suggest that much of the enthusiasm among the Republican base is focused on the president and doesn’t necessarily translate to Republicans running for other offices.
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