Vermont gubernatorial candidate Randy Brock is getting blasted for inviting a special guest to his July 18 fundraiser: Gov. Paul LePage.  Brock, who is also a state senator, was the target of scathing press release from the Vermont Democratic Party, according to news reports. The release said the LePage invitation foreshadowed the kind of policies […]

Updated at 3:40 p.m. with statement from Collins’ office. Whoever is running U.S. Sen. Susan Collins’ Twitter account fired off a missive today that they soon wished they hadn’t.  This morning Collins’ tweeted the following about U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., “Good ol’ @SenSanders is always entertaining. Not a huge fan. I’ll give him this, […]

  Fred Horch, the Green Independent candidate who lost to state Rep. Alex Cornell du Houx, D-Brunswick, by 192 votes in 2010, confirmed tonight that he’s seeking his party’s nomination to run again in 2012.  Green David Frans is currently on the ballot to face Cornell du Houx and Republican John Bouchard. However, Horch said […]

Politico published a report Friday which detailed a recent meeting between independent candidate for U.S. Senate Angus King and Beltway lobbyists.  According to the story, which quoted anonymous lobbyists, King essentially told the gathering not to support his campaign if they wanted a firm caucus commitment. King has refused to say which party he’ll caucus with, […]

  A tip of the hat to the folks at Maine Public Broadcasting Network for inviting me to join Thomas College associate professor Emily Shaw for a little post-primary discussion on Wednesday’s Maine Calling call-in show. Shaw and I were joined by MPBN State House bureau chief A.J. Higgins and host Keith Shortall as we […]

State Sen. Cynthia Dill has won the Democratic party nomination for the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, but she still hasn’t received the backing of national Democrats.  According to a report in The Hill, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray was noncommittal about whether the DSCC would financially support Dill in her effort to defeat […]

It’s primary day and most of the focus will be on the Democratic and Republican races for the U.S. Senate, but there’s some interesting developments in a few legislative primaries, too.  The Press Herald has reported that the PACs connected to racino developer Ocean Properties and the state and national real estate agents’ associations have dumped money into Democratic primaries […]

Staff for U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, confirmed today that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will throw the senator an engagement party.  News that Clinton was hosting the get-together was first reported by BuzzFeed. The site reported that guests include other women senators and former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Collins announced […]

(Updated at 9:08 p.m. with comment from Bissinger) The long-awaited campaign finance report for U.S. Senate candidate Bruce Poliquin has been posted by the Federal Elections Commission. I say long-awaited because this is the first glimpse at the people and organizations that are backing Poliquin, who was the only Republican candidate who didn’t file during […]

The Sunlight Foundation, a government transparency organization, has launched a new service that tracks and publishes the tweets deleted by members of congress (or more likely, their staffers). The site, Politwoops, stores the 140-character missives if a member of congress or presidential candidate has second thoughts and attempts to send it to the trash. Politwoops […]