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Maine: Maine Democratic Party

Fri, 11/14/2008 - 14:18

Dem staffers in state head to Minnesota, Georgia

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

Staffers for the Maine Democratic Party and the Tom Allen campaign are headed to Minnesota and Georgia, where U.S. Senate contests are still undecided.
Two staffers from the Allen campaign are going to Georgia, where a runoff election is slated between incumbent Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) and Jim Martin (D-Ga.)
Ten staffers from the party are going to Minnesota, where a recount is occurring in the race between Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) and Al Franken (D-Minn.)

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Sun, 11/02/2008 - 17:45

Legislative race IE spending reaches $606K

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

With two days to go before Election Day, outside groups have spent $606,961 in independent expenditures on Maine legislative races.

The biggest spenders are the Democratic and Republican parties and their respective campaign committees.

Democrats have spent $351,665 between the Maine Democratic Party, the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee and the House Democratic Campaign Committee.

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Thu, 10/30/2008 - 15:40

Dems withdraw complaint against GOP

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

The Maine Democratic Party has withdrawn its complaint against the Maine Republican Party regarding an independent expenditure made on behalf of their executive director, Julie O’Brien, who is running for the Maine House.

They brought the complaint before the Ethics Commission earlier this week, alleging a conflict of interest.

The commission meeting that had been scheduled for Friday morning to hear the matter has been cancelled.

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Wed, 10/29/2008 - 17:49

Collins: It’s too soon to determine Stevens’ fate

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

The Maine Democratic Party blasted a statement by U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Bangor) that she would not call on Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) to step down. Stevens was convicted this week on seven counts of violating federal ethics laws.

Many of her Republican colleagues, including Presidential candidate John McCain, have called on Stevens to step down as senator and abandon his reelection bid.

Rebecca Pollard, communications director for the Maine Democratic Party, demanded today that Collins take a stand.

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Thu, 10/23/2008 - 11:34

Independent expenditure week

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

Lots of independent expenditures have been made in legislative races in the past week. Here’s a peek at some of the expenditures by outside groups, as filed with the Ethics Commission.

 

The Maine Democratic Party spent $900 each on the following ten candidates for literature and postage. The expenditure was filed Wednesday.

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Wed, 10/22/2008 - 14:49

New McCain/RNC robocall goes out to Mainers

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

TPMElectionCentral notes another robocall received by at least one Mainer from Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s campaign and the Republican National Committee.

This call features former Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani accusing Democratic candidate Barack Obama of being soft on crime.

The script, according to TPM:

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Thu, 08/28/2008 - 12:53

Knutson: They told me to talk for two more minutes

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

Wednesday night, Maine was in front of the world for a couple minutes during the roll call vote.

At first, it didn’t happen. Only a few states were going to go before New York, where Clinton would suspend the nominating process, and then to the Illinois delegation who would officially nominate Obama for President.

Maine wasn’t one of them.

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Thu, 07/17/2008 - 15:44

Democratic Party to appeal Hoffman case to Maine Supreme Court

By Politicker Staff

The Maine Democratic Party will appeal to the state Supreme Court in its case against the Secretary of State's office over the inclusion of Herbert Hoffman on the November ballot in the U.S. Senate race.

In a statement, the party gave two reasons for pursuing an appeal:

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Mon, 06/30/2008 - 23:52

Dems take Hoffman challenge to court

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

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Wed, 05/28/2008 - 16:27

Extreme Makeover: Maine Democrats edition

By Megan Stewart, Politicker.com Reporter

The Maine Democratic Party campaign organization, Victory 2008, revealed its new look yesterday with a completely revamped logo, slogan, and website.

Seeking to "capture the spirit of change," Maine Democrats switched their slogan to "change begins with me in Maine" and opted for a logo with a twist on the words Maine Democratic Party: the ‘e' in "Democratic" is backwards.

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