Press Releases
Maine Citizens for Clean Elections Releases Poll Showing Widespread Support for Transparency - 6/29/2010 (PDF)
Portland, ME - Maine Citizens for Clean Elections (MCCE) is releasing a poll it commissioned showing that Maine voters strongly support campaign finance disclosure and transparency. Click here to read the poll.
Clean Elections Works in Maine: One Clean Elections Candidate of Three Moves on to the General Election - 6/9/2010 (PDF)
Portland, ME - Maine Citizens for Clean Elections is calling the June primary a great day for Clean Elections.
Three Gubernatorial Candidates Qualify for Maine Clean Election Funds - 4/26/2010 (PDF)
Portland, ME - With today's announcement that John
Richardson is no longer seeking the office of Governor, three
gubernatorial
candidates have qualified for public funding under the Maine Clean
Elections
Act.
Maine People Give the Gift of Clean Elections to Washington DC - 4/15/2010 (PDF)
Portland, ME - Maine citizens are once again leading the way to reduce corporate influence in elections. Today, MAINE CITIZENS FOR CLEAN ELECTIONS co-chairs Ann Luther and Alison Smith delivered more than 500 bars of soap in a gift basket to Senator Olympia Snowe's (R-Maine) Portland office. The message: Bring Maine-style Clean Elections to Washington. Maine offers a proven alternative that works.
MCCE Granted "Friend of Court" Status in NOM Lawsuit - 3/18/2010 (PDF)
Topsham, ME - The Federal District Court recently granted a motion by Maine Citizens for Clean Elections (MCCE) to appear as a “friend of the court” in the National Organization of Marriage (NOM) lawsuit against the State of Maine. Attorney Benjamin K. Grant of the law firm McTeague Higbee will represent MCCE in this case.
Maine Sending Soap to Snowe for DC Clean-Up - 1/12/2010 (PDF)
Portland, ME - Maine Citizens for Clean Elections (MCCE) launched its Send Some Soap campaign today in response to the recent US Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission. This ruling could pave the way for highly-capitalized corporate interests to spend unlimited amounts of money directly on campaigns to elect or defeat federal candidates.
