The 4 candidates highlight the support of various backers in city politics, business, arts and education circles.
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Maine Republican congressional candidate Eric Brakey giving away an AR-15 to one lucky donor
Eric Brakey plans next month to hand over a $1,200 gun to someone who signs up to become a monthly donor to his 2nd District congressional campaign.
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Portland voters will decide whether to open up city government to major changes
Several councilors say they don’t want a charter commission but felt legally obligated to put it to voters in response to a petition by supporters of a taxpayer-funded clean elections program.
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Citing ‘vast sums of money’ required, Jon Treacy withdraws from U.S. Senate race
Treacy, who retired from the Air Force as a major general, was among several Democrats hoping to challenge Republican Sen. Susan Collins next year.
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Facebook disables Russian, other misinformation campaigns
The accounts, posing as locals in swing states, followed a similar game plan to election interference efforts in 2016.
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Thibodeau endorsed by 11 former mayors, including 3 who supported Strimling in last election
The announcement comes late in a heated mayoral campaign, with incumbent Ethan Strimling’s campaign trading ethics complaints with a Portland political action committee formed to oppose his re-election.
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Strimling’s campaign and opponents trade ethics complaints in mayoral race
While the complaint by the incumbent’s campaign says Unite Portland failed to file disclosure reports and concealed a consultant’s identity, a group opposing Ethan Strimling’s re-election says his operation failed to report in-kind contributions.
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Business group accuses Portland mayor of misleading supporters by saying he was ‘heckled’
Ethan Strimling said in a fundraising email that business leaders ‘heckled’ him for saying he’d propose a $15 minimum wage, but the chamber of commerce calls it a ‘flat-out misrepresentation.’
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Democratic rivals repeatedly criticize Warren during debate
The Massachusetts senator doesn’t say whether she’d raise taxes on the middle class to pay for her Medicare for All health insurance plan.
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Secretive Facebook pages roil Lewiston’s mayoral campaign
Two social media pages purporting to back Mark Cayer’s mayoral bid are actually undermining it, the Democrat says.