EDIT:  Since the original publication of this article, FrumForum has continued to investigate D’Amboise, and has found increasingly disturbing things.  Namely, that he has been a repeated guest on the “Aroostook Watchmen” program, and has spent far too much time agreeing with crazy conspiracy theories, or coming up with rather insane policy ideas of his [...]

Senator David Trahan recently accepted a position as executive director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine.  This week he is meeting with the Ethics Commission to see if it is possible for him to remain in the Senate while serving SAM.  If he can pull that off, he undoubtedly would have to surrender the ability to [...]

Ah, the listening tour.  The last public relations line of defense for a candidate or party bereft of ideas or communications platforms. Do you remember, dear reader, when Hillary Clinton‘s appointment as Secretary of State created a vacancy in the United States Senate, and one Caroline Kennedy decided to throw her hat in the ring [...]

Among the worst kept secrets in Maine politics today is that Kevin Raye is running for Congress again, in a ten year anniversary re-match with Mike Michaud. I’ve heard no end of confirmations from members of Raye’s own staff, members of Congressman Michaud’s staff, Republican activists and leaders, and just about anyone who I ask. [...]

Oh like you didn’t expect plenty of Snowe puns in the next couple years.  Get used to it. Our first guidepost of the 2012 Senate primary in Maine has passed, and has given us our first opportunity to actually compare and contrast the various campaigns. That guidepost is money. This morning, Jonathan Riskind reported on [...]

Not a cure for the pox on education in Maine and in the country, but certainly a step in the right direction. Thanks to the talents of our former editor Derek Viger, Pine Tree Politics has covered the issue of charter schools at some length.  But now, thanks to the legislature and a signature from [...]

I can only hope. On Monday, the Supreme Court struck down a law in Arizona which provided what are known as “matching funds” in its public campaign finance system.  Arizona’s law was modeled on Maine’s Clean Elections law, including the matching fund provision. For those unfamiliar with the system, Maine and Arizona allocate a specific [...]

Honestly, I don’t think I would want to be the next candidate to face off against Chellie Pingree.  In the biggest Republican wave year in a generation, and against an outstanding candidate, she still won.  And, the way she won just so happened to be by overwhelming her opponent with money and negative attacks, so [...]

Fifteen Republican Governors, including Governor Paul LePage, today sent a letter to Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and Administrator of the EPA, Lisa Jackson, asking that the Federal Government set “sensible” fuel standards. The timing of the letter is no accident.  The EPA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration are set to soon release [...]

From a release from the Maine Democratic Party on a vote on LD 719: Rep. Treat: “It all comes down to whose side you are on. Democrats think the law should be on the side of the patient and the taxpayer – not the pharmaceutical companies.” The vote that the Maine Democratic Party is talking [...]