2009 ARCHIVE
2009 Press Clips
Anti-Gay Marriage group Vows to Stay Involved in Maine Politics, A. J. Higgins, MPBN, 12/16/09
Clean Elections Candidates on the Rise, Lorie Costigan, Statehouse News Service, 12/9/09
National Foes fo Same-Sex Marriage Look to 2010, Susan M. Cover, Kennebec Journal, 12/9/09
National Organization for Marriage Expands Legal Challenge, A. J. Higgins, MPBN, 12/8/09
Hard Times Don't Deter Candidates for Governor, Matt Wickenheiser, Portland Press Herald, 12/6/09
Concern Grows Over Viability of Maine Clean Election Fund, A. J. Higgins, MPBN, 11/19/09
Rep. Visclosky Expose Shows Need for "Fair Elections" Campaign Reform, US Newswire, 10/26/09
Federal Appeals Court Voids Campaign Finance Rules, The Washington Post, 9/19/09
Court Backs Outside Groups' Political Spending, The New York Times, 9/18/09
Gubernatorial Candidate Mills Says Clean Election System Requirements Difficult by Design, MPBN, 8/4/09
Campaign Finance Opinion Could Roil Economy, National Journal, 8/4/09
Campaign Finance Reform Gets a Boost from Business Giants, The Washington Independent, 7/30/09
Two Pingrees Urge Federal Campaign Finance Reform, Maine AP, 7/30/09
The Pingrees Testify on Behalf of Campaign Finance Reform, MPBN News, 7/30/09
Industry Lobbying Intensifies Alongside Health Reform Debate, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7/27/09
Greens cry foul on new campaign funding law, Times Record, 7/15/09
Obama is Absent on Campaign-Finance Issues, Christian Science Monitor, 7/13/09
Maine Race for Governor is Wide Open, Bangor Daily News, 7/11/09
Franken Will Grill Sotomayor on Campaign Finance, Minnesota Independent, 7/1/09
Court Opens Door to Possibility of Corporate Political Spending, The Hill, 6/30/09
High Court Poised to Re-Write Campaign Spending Rules, The New York Times, 6/29/09
Max Baucus: $1500 a Day from Big Health Care, Daily Kos, 6/25/09
Insurance, Health Interests Fill Baucus' Coffer, Billings Gazette, 6/14/09
Public Citizen Calls for Finance Reform on the Campaign Trail, Channel 34 Binghampton NY, 5/26/09
Maine leads way on federal 'clean elections' bill, Kennebec Journal, 4/25/09
Pingree joins campaign finance push, Portland Press Herald, 4/1/09
Clean Election Fund Imperiled, The Times Record, 3/25/09
Maine Clean Election Fund Facing Exhaustion, The Ellsworth American, 3/24/09
2009 Editorials
Campaign Clarity Needed, Bangor Daily News, 12/26/09
Not Quite Clean Elections, Bangor Daily News, 12/2/09
Director of Democracy matters Talks Sex, Politics and Money, Kaitlin Cough, Bi-College News, 11/18/09
The Frontier of Campaign Financing, Sun Journal, 10/6/09
Clean Elections money should be hard to get, Portland Press Herald, 8/17/09
Campaign Finance: Return Control to the People, The Hartford Courant, 7/30/09
Are health Care Lobbyists Paying to Delay Health Care Reform?, STL Today, 7/21/09
Clean Election Checkoff, Bangor Daily News, 4/8/09
On Clean Elections shortfall..., Brunswick Times Record, 3/30/09 (reprinted in the Portland Press Herald)
Clean Elections checkoff cost-free option for Mainers, Portland Press Herald, 3/3/09
Clean Elections law needs only minor tweaks, Maine Sunday Telegram, 2/8/09
Give enough money to run clean elections, Lewiston Sun Journal, 2/4/09
2009 OP-EDs
Protect Young Voters...Save Campaign Finance Reform, By Nate Frentz, Salon.com, 9/28/09
Special Interest Money Poses Hazard to Everyone's Health, By Neil Rolde and Malory Shaughnessy, Portland Press Herald, 9/1/09
U.S. Mired in Tyranny of Minority, By John Buell, Bangor Daily News, 9/1/09
Free Speech and Our Election Laws, By Bob Kerrey and Warren Rudman, Boston Globe, 8/6/09
It's time to take fair elections national, Rep. Chellie Pingree (ME) and Rep. John Larsen (CT), Kennebec Journal, 5/5/09
Cheapening Clean Elections. Bangor Daily News, 2/2/09
2009 Letters to the Editor
Clean Elections Funding a Success in Maine, By Alison Smith and Ann Luther, The Times Record, 12/18/09
Protect Young Voters...Save Campaign Finance Reform, By Nate Frentz, Salon.com, 9/28/09
Health Care Debate Provides Need for Campaign Finance Reform, Shari Hawk, Osceola Sentinel Tribune, 7/30/09
Maine Clean Election Act in jeopardy by LD 772, Jason Bergquist (Brunswick), Times Record, 4/3/09
Keep It Clean, Timothy Conmee (Orrington), Bangor Daily News, 3/17/09
