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.
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Challenger Gideon outpaces Sen. Collins with $3.2 million raised in 3rd quarter
But Susan Collins’ $2.1 million summertime haul left the Republican with $7.1 million headed into the fall, setting the stage for one of the nation’s most closely watched – and expensive – Senate campaigns.
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Ranked-choice voting has ‘Mainementum’ as it spreads across the country
Critics say election reformers ought to take a look at alternative voting systems before endorsing the one Maine adopted.
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Sara Gideon decries high prescription drug prices during campaign swing in Lewiston
A handpicked group talked to the Freeport Democrat Thursday about how the costs are affecting them.
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Dale Crafts formally declares candidacy for US House seat
Crafts says his backers include former Gov. Paul LePage and unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate Shawn Moody.