PAC spending on state Senate races     

    
              
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Under $5,000
 
  
   
$5,000 – $20,000
 
  
   
$20,000 – $50,000
 
  
        



    



    






      
$50,000 – $100,000
 
  
   
$100,000 – $200,000
 
  
   
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It’s no secret that national Democrats aren’t doing much to help Cynthia Dill, the Democratic candidate running for the U.S. Senate.  Nonetheless, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has spent significantly on ads slamming Republican Charlie Summers. The most recent one is posted above (advance apologies for the poor sound and unsteady hand; the DSCC isn’t […]

 Manchester resident Canyon Lloyd said Thursday that he attended the rally for President Barack Obama at Veterans Memorial Park because the president supports education. Most importantly, Lloyd said, the president supports Pell grants. Lloyd, who moved from Anchorage, Alaska, five years ago, now attends Hesser College in Manchester. He said that the president’s support for […]

Project Vote Smart, a national nonpartisan organization, issued a sharp rebuke to a Republican group for “blatantly twisting” the organization’s candidate survey to bash a Democrat running for state Senate in District 6. Adelaide Kimball, a spokeswoman for Project Vote Smart, said Tuesday that the Maine Senate Republican Majority Political Action Committee manipulated Democratic candidate […]

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has released its third ad attacking Angus King, the independent candidate for the U.S. Senate.  The new 30-second spot hits familiar notes — King’s fiscal management — and uses the same tone from its previous ads (fire up the harpsichord!). However, it also drops a subtle, sympathetic reference to Gov. […]

Gov. Paul LePage has been relatively quiet in Maine lately, but he was in Delaware Tuesday to help the Republican gubernatorial candidate there raise money.  According to news reports, Republican Jeff Cragg could use the help.  Cragg has raised just $60,000 in his bid to unseat Democratic Gov. Jack Markell, according to the News Journal. Cragg […]

Charlie Summers, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, is hosting a media event on Wednesday to discuss the potential impacts of looming mandatory cuts — or sequestration — to defense spending. The round table will also double as a fundraising event for his campaign. The media is invited to attend the early portion of […]

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The national libertarian organization Cato Institute has given an ‘A’ to Gov. Paul LePage and three other governors.  The group, part of a national network of free-market non-profits that attempt to influence policy making, praised LePage for signing into law a tax cut package that reduced the individual rate from 8.5 to 7.95 percent, “simplified […]

 Click here to listen Monday’s chat with WGAN 560 hosts Mike Violette and Dennis Bailey in which we discuss Gov. Paul LePage’s recent radio address, Sunday’s profile of pollster Scott Rasmussen, potential battleground legislative races and give a nod to the World of Warcraft dust-up.