Democratic Senate candidate Sara Gideon rolled out a campaign finance platform, despite being the poster child for the kind of illegal or ‘bad’ campaign finance practices she says she wants to end. 1) While Gideon claims she’s refusing corporate PAC money, her state-level PAC was heavily funded by corporate cash. Gideon even broke federal law to route this […]
ICYMI: Schumer Locks Dem Candidates in ‘Windowless Basement’ to Raise Campaign Cash
– In case you missed it, Chuck Schumer’s recruitment pitch to Democratic Senate candidates has leaked – and it includes a plan to lock candidates in a ‘windowless basement’ to avoid the public and dial for dollars. National Review: Chuck Schumer’s ‘Windowless Basement’ Strategy for Winning Back the Senate Schumer told a prospective Senate candidate in North […]
Five Questions for Sara Gideon
Democratic Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon is launching her campaign for Senate today, setting up a contrast between a hardcore progressive partisan recruited by Chuck Schumer, or a bipartisan, results-driven Senator in Susan Collins (*IF* Gideon even survives her primary with ultra-progressive Betsy Sweet). Now that she’s in the Senate race, we have five questions […]