In the News
Feature Stories:
Alison Smith works to reform campaign finance by using public funds, The Christian Science Monitor, 1/31/2012
Corporations Are NOT People, Jeff Clements on Speaking in Maine, MPBN, 1/20/2012
Press Clips
58% Say U.S. Needs New Campaign Finance Laws, Rasmussen Reports, 1/22/2012
Legislature has to address changes to the Maine Clean Election Act, Bangor Daily News, 1/20/2012
Eleven Shocking Facts about Campaign Finance, The Nation, 1/20/2012
Survey: Campaign finance reform could be major 2012 issue, Campaigns & Elections, 1/19/2012
Most Midcoast Incumbents Planning to Seek Reelection Come November, The Free Press, 1/19/2012
Portland Council takes stand against corporate personhood, Portland Press Herald, 1/18/2012
Portland councilors want city to support overturning of 'corporate personhood' ruling, Bangor Daily News, 1/14/2012
Lawmakers Disagree on How to Fix Maine's Clean Elections Law, MPBN, 1/9/2012
Committee kills bill on Clean Election exemption for governor candidates, Bangor Daily News, 1/5/2012
Committee rejects plan to end public funding for governor candidates, but debate may not be over, Lewiston Sun Journal, 1/5/2012
Three Campaign-Finance Lawsuits on the Heels of Citizens, The National Law Journal, 1/3/2012
Citizen Bopp, The American Prospect, 1/2/2012
Editorials
Voters have a right to know political donors, Journal Tribune, 2/4/2012
Money and Politics, Ellsworth American, 1/26/2012
Our View: Lawmakers should fix, not gut, Clean Elections, Portland Press Herald, 1/15/2012
Our Opinion: Candidates rate second chance to earn 'clean' funds, Kennebec Journal, 1/15/2012
Op-Eds
Why Maine should value Clean Elections, Wells Lyons, Portland Daily Sun, 1/31/2012
Maine's Clean Election Act works, and deserves support, Nolan Reichl, Bar Harbor Times, 1/26/2012
Clean Elections and You, Rep. Andrew O'Brien, Village Soup, 1/24/2012
Letters to the Editor
Campaign funds shouldn't buy policy, LTE, Cushman Anthony, Forecaster, 1/23/2012
Lawmakers should enact option for clean elections, Alison Smith, Maine Sunday Telegram, 1/22/2012
