The U.S. Senate campaign of Eric Brakey is challenging the validity of a Republican opponent’s paperwork to qualify for the primary ballot this June, saying the nomination petitions include signatures of dead voters and hundreds of duplicates. In a formal complaint, Brakey political director David Boyer alleged that candidate Max Linn’s petition sheets contain at […]
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Facts contradict U.S. Senate contender Max Linn's claims about his past
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Max Linn told GOP officials in two towns last Sunday that he has not run as a Democrat for Congress and never backed Barack Obama’s presidential bid. Both assertions are untrue. As an aspiring politician a decade ago in Florida, the wealthy financial planner did not merely flirt with the opposition […]
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Republican Max Linn jumps into U.S. Senate race, will face Eric Brakey in primary
For the past nine months, state Sen. Eric Brakey of Auburn has sailed along as the sole Republican challenger in the race to take on U.S. Sen. Angus King, a first-term Maine independent. Now, though, he has competition for the GOP’s backing. A colorful, 58-year-old financial planner, Max Linn of Bar Harbor jumped into the […]