AUGUSTA — The Maine Ethics Commission has lifted the $25,000 aggregate cap for individuals donating to political campaigns, based on a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision. Under the old cap, individuals were limited to $25,000 in total donations to candidates running for office in any calendar year. The Maine Ethics Commission decided last week to […]
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Maine orders anti-gay marriage group to pay $50,000 fine, reveal donors
AUGUSTA — Maine’s ethics panel on Wednesday fined a national anti-gay marriage group more than $50,000 and ordered it to file a campaign finance report that would reveal the donors behind the 2009 repeal of the state’s gay marriage law after finding that it violating Maine’s campaign finance laws. The panel ruled that the National […]
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Maine Ethics Commission fines same-sex marriage foes
AUGUSTA — A national anti-gay marriage group that helped defeat Maine’s same-sex marriage law in 2009 may be fined more than $50,000 and ordered to reveal its donors, after an ethics investigation released Monday found that it violated the state’s campaign finance law. Investigators with the Maine Ethics Commission said that the National Organization for Marriage’s […]
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Senate deals quick death to LePage bill to turn state agency into campaign lie detector
AUGUSTA — “The truthiness bill.” “The lie-detector law.” “The truth-squad bill.” In hallway conversations, Democrats have come up with many names for Gov. Paul LePage’s bill that would make the state Ethics Commission investigate claims that candidates for state office had lied on the campaign trail. But it was with zero floor speeches or debate […]