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Maine: U.s. Senate

March 20, 2009 - 08:00 pm
NEWS FEED: Bangor Daily News

Bill retools write-in candidate laws

By Kevin Miller

AUGUSTA, Maine — Last fall, Stockton Springs resident Joseph Greenier ran as a write-in candidate for a state Senate seat on the platform that every vote should count.

But more than four months later, Greenier still isn’t sure how many votes he truly received in his unsuccessful bid for the State House. That’s because clerks in several towns never tallied or reported the ballots cast for write-in candidates.

“As a write-in candidate, I ran because they have to change for the positive,” Greenier said Friday in support of a bill to retool Maine’s write-in candidacy laws.

Write-in candidates for state or national offices already are required to declare their candidacy with the Secretary of State’s Office within three business days of an election.

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March 5, 2009 - 08:10 am
NEWS FEED: Turn Maine Blue

Open Thread

By Gerald Weinand

Good morning.

The PPH has this story about earmarks that the Senate has include in the omnibus spending bill, and how much of it will be coming to Maine:

The $410 billion spending bill debated by the U.S. Senate on Wednesday includes about $21 million for some 45 projects in Maine, ranging from potato research to buying land for conservation.

I'm not opposed to such spending as a rule, only as to how the funding is to actually be used. But I point to this article for two reasons: first, the online comments will be really fun to read, and second - $21 million is only 5 thousands of a percent of the total bill.

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Tue, 11/04/2008 - 22:24

Collins: ‘I’m looking forward to 6 more years

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins has just claimed victory in her re-election bid against U.S. Rep. Tom Allen.

“Our nation faces so many serious challenges. It is going to require working across party lines and putting aside partisan politics to solve our problems. That’s what I’ve done, and that’s what I pledge to do,” she said.

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Tue, 11/04/2008 - 22:15

Allen concedes

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

U.S. Rep. Tom Allen has conceded in his U.S. Senate bid against Sen. Susan Collins.

She is giving her acceptance speech now.

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Tue, 11/04/2008 - 21:27

Pingree, Summers and Collins in high hopes

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

PORTLAND -- Parties are well underway in Portland for 1st Congressional District candidates Chellie Pingree and Charlie Summers, and U.S. Sen. Susan Collins.

A couple exits down 295, Democrats are gathering for U.S. Rep. Tom Allen, hoping that the national media organizations are dead wrong.

So far, only five percent of the precincts have been tallied, according to the Bangor Daily News.

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Tue, 11/04/2008 - 20:24

CNN, NBC call Senate race for Collins

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

CNN and NBC have both projected that Sen. Susan Collins will win the U.S. Senate race. She was challenged this year by U.S. Rep. Tom Allen.

Allen has not yet arrived at his party at the Wyndham Hotel in South Portland. Some polls are still open.

“We think that’s very premature,” said spokeswoman Carol Andrews. “I don’t know of any reputable exit polling being done in the state. I know we won the early vote by 10 points, and people are still voting in Portland.”

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Mon, 11/03/2008 - 22:37

Last day on the trail: Tom Allen

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

BANGOR -- U.S. Rep. Tom Allen (D-Portland) spent his last day on the campaign trail in Biddeford, Portland, Waterville and Bangor Monday.

His final stop was in Bangor, where he mingled with volunteers at a phone bank at the Democratic Party offices downtown.

Allen said it has been a long campaign – nearly two years – but a great experience.

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Mon, 11/03/2008 - 21:20

Closing statements: Tom Allen

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

In the final days before the election PolitickerME.com caught up with the candidates and asked them to provide a closing statement on video for our readers.

Here we spoke with Senate candidate and U.S. Rep. Tom Allen (D-Portland).  This was filmed during a campaign stop in Bangor Monday.

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Mon, 11/03/2008 - 21:18

Closing statements: Susan Collins

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

In the final days before the election PolitickerME.com caught up with the candidates and asked them to provide a closing statement on video for our readers.

Here we spoke with U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Bangor). This was filmed in Bangor Monday morning as she boarded her bus for a day of campaigning in The County.

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Mon, 11/03/2008 - 14:44

Collins County-bound on final campaign day

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Bangor) is spending her last day on the trail in The County, with campaign stops in Cyr Plantation, Van Buren, Grand Isle, Madawaska, Fort Kent and Caribou.

She will spend the night at her parents’ house in Caribou, where she grew up, before journeying down to Portland for Election night – with several stops in between.

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