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Maine: Peter Bowman

Tue, 11/11/2008 - 11:15

Democratic leadership elections: Senate president

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

AUGUSTA – Sen. Libby Mitchell (D-Vassalboro) was nominated as Senate President by her colleagues in the Democratic caucus Monday. The nomination will next go before the full Senate. She was nominated by Sens. Joe Perry (D-Bangor) and Seth Goodall (D-Richmond).

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Tue, 11/11/2008 - 11:10

Democratic leadership elections: Majority leader

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

AUGUSTA – Sen. Phil Bartlett (D-Gorham) was elected as majority leader in the Maine Senate Monday. He was nominated by Sen. Peter Bowman (D-Kittery).

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Mon, 11/03/2008 - 15:32

GOP must defend three tossup seats to win Senate majority

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

 

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Mon, 11/03/2008 - 15:29

Senate District 1: Bowman v. Andrews

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

Editor’s note: PolitickerME.com has attempted to break down the state Senate races.

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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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Wed, 10/29/2008 - 10:59

Targeted legislative races for independent expenditure spending

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

As follows are the top Republicans and Democrats targeted by independent expenditure spending.

The dollar figure represents the total amount spent on behalf of the candidate mentioned combined with the funds spent in opposition to his or her opponent.

If the candidate’s opposition is running under the Clean Elections Act, then he or she is entitled to matching funds.

 

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Mon, 09/29/2008 - 11:18

Party committees spend $7,293 on behalf of state Senate candidates

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

[img_assist|nid=2799|title=Peter Bowman|desc=State Sen. Peter Bowman (D-Kittery) is running for re-election in District 1. Official photo.|link=none|align=left|width=150|height=221]The Maine Democratic State Committee and the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee have filed their latest round of independent expenditure reports.

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Mon, 09/22/2008 - 17:59

State legislative race news

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

Some recent news in state legislative races:

 

Tipping analyses Senate races

Mike Tipping, who operates the blog MainePolitics.net, began writing a weekly column for Downeast Magazine’s Web site a month ago.

For the past three weeks, he has profiled state Senate races.

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Thu, 01/24/2008 - 09:58

Big Battle Brewing in Senate District 1

By Wally Edge

Deb McDermott, writing in Seacoast Online, landed a great scoop this week when she broke the story on the decision by Republican Mary Andrews to run for her old Senate seat against democratic incumbent and first term Senator Peter Bowman. Mrs. Andrews did not run in 2006, and that seat became a crucial democratic pick-up in the evenly divide Senate, where Democrats have a one seat advantage over the Republicans.

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