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Dear Mr. Wayne: On behalf of my client, Maine Democratic Party, and pursuant to 21-A M.R.S. § 1003(2) and 94-270 C.M.R. ch.1, § 4(2)(C), I write to request that the Commission investigate the activities and the entities named above for violations of campaign finance law. As demonstrated below, the Maine Democratic Party believes that the evidence enumerated in this letter provides the Commission with more than sufficient grounds for believing that violations have occurred and we ask that an investigation be immediately commenced. THE MAINE EXAMINER The Maine Examiner purports to be “a small group of Mainers who simply publish Maine news, trends and interesting pieces about you, the people of Maine.” (Attachment A.) However, the Maine Examiner website and social media pages are all anonymous. There is no information provided about the authors, publishers, funders, or any other individual associated with Maine Examiner. The byline of each story it publishes simply reads “Administrator” or “The Maine Examiner.” (Attachments R, S, T, U, V, W, X, & Y.) The organization first began operating its website on September 11, 2017, shortly before the 2017 general election. (Attachment D.) The domain was privately registered using
Jonathan Wayne January 19, 2018 Page 2 a private registration service called Domains by Proxy, which conceals the identity of the individual(s) who created and operate the website. (Attachments D & E.) It also operates a Facebook page and a Twitter account. Its first Facebook post was on September 13, 2017. (Attachment F.) Its Twitter account was created on September 15, 2017. (Attachment G.) Neither the Maine Examiner Facebook page nor its Twitter account identifies the individuals who write or post information or who are otherwise affiliated with the organization. The Maine Examiner has not filed a Certificate of Existence with the Maine Department of the Secretary of State. (Attachments B & C.) The Maine Examiner has declined interview requests from the Bangor Daily News, The Portland Press Herald, and the Boston Globe. Its email responses to the requests were anonymous. (Attachments Z, Y, & Z.) 1) The Maine Examiner likely made independent expenditures without properly reporting those to the City of Lewiston. The Maine Examiner published a series of seven stories about Ben Chin during the first two weeks of December 2017. The stories made inflammatory claims about Mr. Chin and attempted to disparage his character. These stories were all published and shared on Facebook shortly before the mayoral runoff election in Lewiston between Mr. Chin and a member of the Republican Party. The election took place on December 12, 2017 and the first story was posted on December 3rd, the second on December 4th, the third on December 5th, the fourth and fifth on December 7th, the sixth on December 8th, and the seventh on December 10th. (Attachments H, I, J, K, L, M, N, R, S, T, U, V, W, & X.) Under Maine law, an independent expenditure is defined as “any expenditure made by a person, party committee, political committee or political action committee, other than by contribution to a candidate or a candidate’s authorized political committee, for any communication that expressly advocates the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate[.]” 21-A M.R.S. § 1019-B(1). An expenditure is presumed to be an “independent expenditure” when it is “made to design, produce or disseminate a communication that names or depicts a clearly identified candidate and is disseminated during the . . . 35 days, including election day, before a special election; or from Labor Day to a general election day.” Id. The stories published by the Maine Examiner and shared on its Facebook page identify Mr. Chin by name and picture and discuss his candidacy for mayor. For example the story published December 3rd concludes as follows: “Chin is the political director of the Maine People’s Alliance, a liberal political group, and works as a lobbyist in Augusta. Chin’s opponent is Shane Bouchard, a Lewiston small-business owner. The election for Mayor of Lewiston is on December 12.” (Attachment R.) The six other stories all end in a similar manner, but also identify Mr. Chin’s opponent as a Lewiston native and city councilor. The stories were all
Jonathan Wayne January 19, 2018 Page 3 published within the time period for which the “independent expenditure” presumption is applied. A person or organization who makes an independent expenditure in excess of $250 in a municipal election must file a report with the municipality detailing the expenditure. §1019-B(4). It is likely that the expenditures on these stories and their dissemination were more than $250 given the amount of research that is required to write such pieces, the work that is needed to verify the authenticity of the emails, the extent to which the stories were circulated online, and the sheer level of activity on the Maine Examiner’s website and Facebook page around these stories. When an independent expenditure is made within two weeks of an election, the report is due within one calendar day of the expenditure. 94-270 C.M.R. ch.1, § 10(3)(B)(3). Reports, therefore, were likely due for these expenditures on December 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, and 11th. 1 As of today, January 23, 2018, the reports are now between 43 and 50 days late. The The Maine Examiner has never filed a report with the City of Lewiston. 2) The Maine Examiner has likely not complied with the disclosure requirements for political communications or independent expenditures. Maine law also requires that any communication “that names or depicts a clearly identified candidate and that is disseminated during the . . . 35 days before a general election” include “the name and address of the person who made or financed the communication and a statement that the communication was or was not authorized by the candidate . . . .” § 1014(2-A). The Maine Examiner did not include its address or a statement about whether or not a candidate authorized the communication in any of the seven stories about Mr. Chin. An independent expenditure must also conspicuously include the top three funders of the organization. The Maine Examiner failed to disclose this information in its stories about Mr. Chin. 3) Independent Expenditures at issue are not exempted from reporting requirements by either the internet communication exception or press exemption. a) Internet Communications Exception The political communication and independent expenditure disclosure requirements do not apply to certain internet and email activities costing less than $100 if paid for by one 1
For expenditures related to municipal elections, reports may be filed the next business day when the deadline falls on a weekend or holiday. 94-270 C.M.R. ch. 1, § 10(3)(B). Reports for the two stories published and shared on December 7th were both due December 8th and reports for the stories published and disseminated on December 8th and 10th were both due December 11th.
Jonathan Wayne January 19, 2018 Page 4 or more individuals and if those individuals are acting independently of “a candidate, candidate’s authorized campaign committee, party committee, political action committee or ballot question committee or an agent of a candidate, candidate’s authorized campaign committee, party committee, political action committee or ballot question committee.” 21-A M.R.S. § 1014(6)(C); 94-270 C.M.R. ch.1, § 7(9)(B). This exception does not apply to the Maine Examiner because it is an organization—not an individual or group of individuals—and because there is reason to believe the organization may have been acting in concert with a party committee, the Maine Republican Party (“The Party”). In addition, the communications likely cost over $100. The Party is a state party committee required to register and file campaign finance reports with the Commission pursuant to 21-A M.R.S. §§ 1013-A and 1017-A. The Party is a sophisticated political organization with full time staff and legal advisors. It is fully aware of Maine’s independent expenditure and political communications disclosure requirements. Despite that knowledge it shared three of the Maine Examiner’s stories about Mr. Chin on its Facebook page even though none of them complied with Maine’s political communications disclosure laws. (Attachments O, P, & Q.) The Party’s January Quarterly report listed its expenditures between October 1, 2017 and December 31, 2017. (Attachment CC.) The report did not include any expenditures made to support or oppose candidates. However, the report lists seven individual Facebook advertising expenditures made between the dates of December 6th and December 13th, 2017 as “operating expenses.” The Party did not report any other Facebook advertisement expenditures during the quarter or during the prior. The dates of the expenditures correspond with the exact time period in which the Maine Examiner published the seven stories and posted them on its Facebook page and the Maine Republican Party shared three of those stories on its own Facebook page. While the expenditures are all dated three or four days after the Maine Examiner stories were published and posted on its Facebook page, we know from our own extensive experience with campaign finances that Facebook advertisement purchases normally appear on a bank statement three to four days after the transaction was done through Facebook. It possible that the timing of these “operating expenditures” and the Maine Examiner stories being shared on Facebook is a mere coincidence. However, the timing and the curious way in which the stories posted by an organization with so few followers—only 385 Facebook followers as of January 19, 2017 (Attachment M)— spread so widely on Facebook merits at least some questions about the purpose of the Party’s Facebook expenditures. In response to inquiries from the press, the Party declined to comment about whether it was coordinating with the Maine Examiner. (Attachments Z, AA, & BB.)
Jonathan Wayne January 19, 2018 Page 5 b) Press Exemption Statute specifically excludes from the definition of expenditure, “Any news story, commentary or editorial distributed through the facilities of any broadcasting station, cable television system, newspaper, magazine or other periodical publication, unless the facilities are owned or controlled by any political party, political committee, candidate or spouse or domestic partner of a candidate[.]” 21-A M.R.S. §§ 1012(3)(B)(1) & 1052(4)(B)(1). The Commission’s Rules provide two criteria that must be met in order for the press exemption to apply. 94-270 C.M.R. ch.1, § 7(10). First, the “the names of the persons or entities who own, control and operate the broadcasting station or publication are identified within the publication or otherwise made known to the public[.]” The Maine Examiner has not only failed to make this information public, but it has taken steps to conceal the identity of any and all individuals associated with the organization. Further, as mentioned above, it has declined requests to be interviewed, ostensibly to maintain its anonymity. Therefore, it does not satisfy the first requirement. Second, “the broadcasting station or publication is not owned or controlled by any political party, political action committee or ballot question committee and is not owned or controlled by any candidate for state, county or municipal office whose candidacy, election campaign, or opponent is a subject of the news story, commentary or editorial, or by the authorized campaign committee of such a candidate, or by a member of such a candidate’s immediate family.” The Maine Examiner cannot satisfy this requirement because it continues to conceal who controls and funds the organization. We request that the Commission investigate all expenditures the Maine Examiner and any other organizations made in support of the production and dissemination of the stories about Mr. Chin published between December 3, 2017 and December 10, 2017. If the Commission finds the Maine Examiner failed to file a required independent expenditure report, it should order the organization to promptly file an independent expenditure report with the City of Lewiston. We also request the Commission fully review the communications for compliant disclosures. The Commission should order the updating of any communications that are not compliant. The amendments should include the disclosure of the Maine Examiner’s top three funders and its address. Further the Commission should consider its options for assessing a penalty for this activity. The common practice of the Commission is to look to 21-A M.R.S. § 1014(4) when assessing violations of independent expenditure and other political communication disclosure requirements and we believe it should do so again in this instance. We also request that the Commission investigate whether the Maine Republican Party is affiliated with or coordinated with the Maine Examiner. This investigation should include a request for additional information from the Party about the Facebook expenditures it made in December 2017. Finally, if the Commission’s investigation
Jonathan Wayne January 19, 2018 Page 6 reveals coordination between the Maine Examiner and the Maine Republican Party, or that the Party intentionally reported and expenditure to oppose a candidate as a “operating expenditure,” the Commission should consider whether it is appropriate to assess a penalty under 21-A M.R.S. §§ 1004-A & 1004-C and whether the matter should be referred to the Attorney General under 21-A M.R.S. § 1004. CONCLUSION The Maine Democratic Party submits this request hoping that its concerns are ultimately proven unfounded after a thorough investigation by the Committee. We sincerely hope to learn that the Maine Examiner is locally based and its stories are all being written by “a small group of Mainers . . . .” (Attachment A.) However, we are deeply concerned with the dangerous precedent this type of anonymous communication could set in Maine. In order to make judgments about the veracity and value of stories covering Maine candidates, Mainers must understand who is behind the communication. In the absence of required disclosures, Mainers do not know whether organizations are run and funded by their neighbors, a political organization or campaign, or a foreign government. An investigation is proper based on the facts and law discussed herein. Sincerely,
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LEWISTON – A leaked internal email from the Ben Chin for Mayor campaign shows the candidate himself emailing his inner campaign team to express his feelings that voters in Lewiston’s Ward 6 are racists. The email, provided to Maine Examiner by a Chin campaign insider concerned about the direction of the campaign, is directly from Chin after a
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Stephen Rand · Security Supervisor at Maine Medical Center
Big deal....reading too much into the email! Like · Reply ·
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Steven Small · MCHP Class of 2017 News Page
Calling the people he wants to represent a bunch of racist is a big deal buddy, u can't see that and I feel for ya Like · Reply ·
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Beth Matthews The comments on this thread prove him right too. People in this city think being racist is an opinion.... Like · Reply ·
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Les Gibson Yeah, big deal..... Chin labels citizens of Lewiston who disagree with him as a bunch of racists, the left says no big deal... Chin has a convicted pedophile on his campaign staff and allows this child molester to mingle with small children at his events, the left says who cares... Chin marches with facist Antifa thugs and labels police officers as racist pigs, the left says nothiing to see here... Chin invades and shuts down businesses with hoodlum 'Occupy' types, the left says that's awesome...... See More Like · Reply ·
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Mederick Cote Lewiston is watching their city be over run by migrants and http://maineexaminer.com/leaked-email-ben-chin-says-lewiston-voters-bunch-of-racists/
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June Libby Chartier Chin encourages it. Wants to throw open the gates to welcome more non-producing immigrants who drain resources - starting with patiece. Wants their housing upgraded when they are the ones sitting by and not helping to even maintain. He propsoses illegally taking money from the eucation budget and giving it to seniors, which is discrimmatory but sounds good to gather votes. Like · Reply ·
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Levi Plourde · Lewiston, Maine
Being overrun by immagrants, A VAST MAJORITY of the families in the lewiston auburn area, are descended from french canadian immigrants from a generation or two ago. But i guess that's okay because they were white? You're literally PROVING HIS POINT. Lewiston doesn't have time for racists or islamophobes. Like · Reply ·
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Mederick Cote Levi Plourde the big difference is the French cake to work and we’re pretty much on the same level of thinking with the average American. The Somalis are from a backward culture and don’t align with our values much at all. Islam is a cancer. Wake up. Like · Reply ·
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Kristoffer Lint · Network Support Technician at WAUSAU Financial Systems
considering a lot of the comments i'm reading on this article... i's say he was probably pretty accurate with that statement, tbh. seriously, read these people's comments on this article... a bunch of mean spirited xenophobes, and racists afaid of anything different than their own points of view... i'm ashamed to be living in Lewiston because i see it every day, the city is over run by somolian refugee's and equally over run by people who blindly hate all somolians for it. Like · Reply ·
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Chad Keene · Lewiston, Maine
No chin not good for Lewiston or any place , horrible man . Like · Reply ·
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Gerald H Veilleux My vote goes to Bouchard .We don't need outsiders to tell us how to run our city . Like · Reply ·
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Cindy Allen He also has a man on his campaing that peeks through windows when no one answers the door fast enough for him. He knocked so hard on my door his knuckles should have been bleeding! That is what happened to me a week before the election!!!! Maybe that was the pedophile. Like · Reply ·
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Elmer Berry I believe, He is part responcible so many being here. Like · Reply · 7w
Nancy Colwell · Risk Manager at Maine Shellfish Ellsworth
Hmmm notes a lot of racist but points out two Africian American families. I'm sorry. Who is the racist?? Like · Reply ·
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Matt Smolinsky Pointing out the ethnicity of someone is not racism. JFC Like · Reply ·
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Nancy Colwell · Risk Manager at Maine Shellfish Ellsworth
Matt Smolinsky why point it out at all. Why can't we just be people. As long as we look at each other differently there will be racism. Like · Reply ·
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More Leaks: Ben Chin has made voters are ‘racists’ comments more than once by Administrator 12/4/2017 | 1:56
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LEWISTON – Internal emails leaked from the Ben Chin for Mayor campaign show that Ben Chin, who is running to be Mayor of Lewiston in the December 12th Mayoral election has on more than one occasion referred to voters in Lewiston as racists.
Email messages leaked to Maine Examiner show a candidate regularly talking about race, referring to the skin color or race of
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voters and several times calling voters “racists”, “racist”, or saying that he is “dodging racism” while working in the city or referring to “lots of other racist stuff” he heard during his day. Other leaked emails show a candidate who seems to comment on the skin color of voters he talks to consistently. Chin frequently includes in his email comments about how his list for a day was “pretty white, but some African Americans” for example, when
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referring to a neighborhood he visited, or referring to voters by their skin color when he relays a conversation he had with that voter to his campaign team in his daily emails.
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In one email, Chin updates his team on his work in Ward 7, where he appears to have just started working that day, and comments on the make up of his list of voters for the day and their “partisan” rankings or campaign data yielding a “higher concentration of racists.”
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It is not uncommon for high-level political campaigns to try to capitalize on race as a component of their campaign strategy to win votes. However, most of Chin’s comments appear anecdotal and do not seem to have a clear strategic purpose other than communicating to his team regarding
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Sounds like a snowflake. I could care less of Chins skin color. It's what he wants to do. Raise Taxes. We 're fed up with tax and spend policies. Like · Reply ·
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LEWISTON – In October Ben Chin wrote in an internal campaign email about “the revolution” he would like to see happen in Lewiston. The message, written in an upbeat tone to more than a dozen Chin campaign team members, is the latest in a group of emails leaked to Maine Examiner from a Chin campaign insider concerned about the direction of the campaign.
While Chin’s desire for a “revolution” is spelled out in the email, what that “revolution” would look like on the political or policy front is not directly explained in the email. Instead, Chin focuses on the type of transformation needed in Lewiston to bring the revolution about. In the email, which Chin wrote on October 18, 2017 after starting to knock on doors in Ward 1, Chin writes that he wishes everywhere in Lewiston could be more like the “Tall Pines” area of Lewiston, and that if it was, “the revolution would be here for sure.”
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of different income levels suggests that the email shows Chin directly expressing a desire for more low-income housing and greater immigration levels as a way to build a critical mass of voters to bring about the change and “revolution” he desires. While conservative voters have at times been ridiculed for suggesting that some liberal politicians see a path for political success through transforming communities with expansion of lowincome housing projects and increased immigration, Chin’s email seems to at least suggest that he sees some viability in the approach. Relevant to Chin’s talk of a revolution is that Chin has previously expressed support for allowing non-citizens to vote in local elections, a policy change he has yet to make a reality in Lewiston or Portland, Maine. In another email leaked to Maine Examiner, Chin appears to take a shot at residents with concerns about property taxes, saying he spent the night listening to people “complain about their property taxes.” In that message, provided to Maine Examiner by the same source, Chin suggests voters in those households are all making over $200,000 a year and then mocks them for thinking a $5,000 property tax bill will “make them poor.”
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Joseph McLaughlin · Brunswick, Maine
This is the second one of these I've read. He seems real concerned to make sure he points out people ethnicity and social status. Why? It's not suposed to matter! We are all equal, not some more equal than others! (George Orwellian, isn't it?) Like · Reply ·
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Gene Frith · North Anson, Maine
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It is disturbing, because elected officials are supposed to govern on a fair, neutral and equal basis. No one group of residents should be perceived as more important and worthy than any other. Like · Reply · 6w
Deborah Batting Seems to me you are reading a lot into that email. Like · Reply ·
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Bonnie Lee-Dubois · Nursing at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
i dont see where the big story is here. He wasnt being racist. Like · Reply ·
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Stephen Rand · Security Supervisor at Maine Medical Center
I believe in some cases here; misinterpretations and self guided/servings of individual and group hypotheses...investigate further Like · Reply ·
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Nicole Renee The "revolution" email is innocuous. He's hoping for a Democrat to take the mayor's office. My guess is that's the "revolution" of which he speaks. And that shouldn't shock anyone. Please stop putting your "analysis" into articles. Just the facts, ma'am, just the facts. Like · Reply ·
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Todd M. Barresi · Georgia Southern University
He’s an Ultra Liberal Douche Bag that is trying to turn Lewiston into even more of a sanctuary City than it is already! I wouldn’t ever vote for him! Not by the hair on my chinny chin chin!! Bouchard for Mayor! Like · Reply ·
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Raj Saha · Works at Bates College
It's hard to top such an over-hyped article about a completely innocous email. But, admin, if you are going to act like this leaked email is such a big deal, then posting the address of every recipient (who are very few) and thereby revealing your source isn't the best idea. The gentleman referencing George Orwell, perhaps you are f i O ll ith A R d? http://maineexaminer.com/leaked-email-ben-chin-says-revolution-if-lewiston-could-all-be-like-tall-pines/
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confusing Orwell with Ayn Rand? Todd Barresi, sanctuary cities are awesome. Visit some and try out their ethnic foods at the very least. You might fall in love. Also, if someone can point out what exactly is racist in his leaked email, that will be great, because I am having a hard time seeing it. I thought it was racist when you say negative things about people identifying them by their race or ethnicity (and saying that an Iraqi woman fed you delicious home made food is not that bad, right?). Like · Reply · 6w
Naran Row-Spaulding Somebody in Lewiston needs to ask Ben Chin for a direct answer --> Exactly what is this "revolution" of which he's so fond? Like · Reply · 6w
Ryan Scott Lewiston does not need a revolution Period The fact that he Facebook
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Leaked Email: Ben Chin mocks Pondridge Rd residents, “rich people” who complain about property taxes by Administrator 12/7/2017 | 8:35
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LEWISTON – In an email leaked to Maine Examiner by a campaign insider concerned about the direction of the campaign, Ben Chin mocks residents of Pondridge Road as “rich people” who complain about property taxes. A response from a member of his inner campaign team doubles down on the sentiment, eliciting an approving email response from Chin.
The email, sent by Chin on July 19, 2017 and sent to his inner campaign team, says he “ Spent the whole night hearing rich people complain about property taxes out on pondridge rd” and then goes on to suggest that the residents of Pondridge Road make enough money to afford high property taxes. Less than a half hour later, a member of the Chin campaign responds to Chin, saying, “Did you tell those folks about your plan
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to sprinkle them with magic Norwegian dust so that they’d beg to have their taxes raised?” To which Chin responds the following day, “Ha! Good idea! I’ll try that next time.” Chin’s website does cover the issue of property taxes, but does not make mention of using “magic Norwegian dust” as a plan to get people to stop complaining about property taxes. In his official policy positions, however, Chin does take several shots at http://maineexaminer.com/leaked-email-ben-chin-mocks-pondridge-rd-residents-rich-people-who-complain-about-property-taxes/
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relates to the “Norwegian socialism” model which liberals often cite as a model for the United States to use in implementing socialism. Multiple sources report Norway’s property tax rate as ranging between .2% to .7% annually, versus Lewiston’s current property tax rate of more than 28 mills, which equals roughly 2.8%. These numbers indicate that Lewiston’s property tax rate dwarfs the Norwegian property tax rate. About one in four municipalities in Norway reportedly do not even assess a property tax.
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Paul StJean · Lowell High School
This is such a blatant case of them (rich) vs. us (the rest of us) that no one will ever pick up on except for non-liberals. Taxes of $5K on income of $200k aren't going to make you poor as chin suggests, but why does than situation serve as http://maineexaminer.com/leaked-email-ben-chin-mocks-pondridge-rd-residents-rich-people-who-complain-about-property-taxes/
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p gg y an invitation for chin to mock these people? And the notion of $200k making someone "rich" exists only in the minds of liberals. Like · Reply · 6w
Anita Leland · OHHS
If I made $200K I would feel pretty dammed rich! Like · Reply · 6w
Paul StJean · Lowell High School
Anita Leland I understand, and I would as well, but rich is and always has been a relative term. Like · Reply · 6w
Naran Row-Spaulding I wonder if he tells those "rich folks" to their faces that they need to pay more in property taxes. Must make for an interesting visit at the front door. Like · Reply ·
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Ronald Gravel · Lewiston, Maine
He is not the sharpest tool in the shed , socialist progressive liberal bull shit ! Like · Reply ·
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Kerin Resch · Southern Maine Technical College
This guy clearly has no grasp on reality, I wonder who pays for programs in the shining example of the model city called Lewiston. I wonder if he paid his parking tickets on time the city would be on a better fincial footing lol. Like · Reply ·
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Jo-ann Brown And this is why we don't vote for Chi Like · Reply ·
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Cindy Johnson · University of Southern Maine
A good leader addresses everyone’s concern, and does not “stick it” to any one group. Immaturity is showing...... Like · Reply ·
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Paul StJean · Lowell High School
How could you possibly know this? $200 in parking
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Paul StJean · Lowell High School
Naran Row-Spaulding Ahh, that changes the whole dynamics of my response. Like · Reply ·
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Scott Lynch · Manager at Lynch & Van Dyke, P. A.
Everybody gets a parking ticket. Even responsible people are late paying them from time to time. However, you have to be irresponsible to let the tickets accumulate to the point of towing. That's like 10 (at least) ignored tickets. I got the boot once in Portland when I was an immature college student. I deserved it and learned a lesson. My problem with Mr. Chin is that he apparently hasn't grown up. This feels like "entitlement" to me. Just like when he put a campaign sign on my business lawn without permission both in 2015 and again this year. When I contacted his campaign in October... See More Like · Reply ·
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John Pomelow Sr. · Timbuktu, Tombouctou, Mali
MPA likely paid them. Shouldn't he have to pay interest as well and face some sort of discipline for his failure to pay and pay within a timely manner? Like · Reply ·
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Peter Lavallee · Lewiston High School
I’m sure he figured that he wasn’t responsible for the tickets and that somebody else should pay it forward for him. Like · Reply ·
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Yeah, all those faulty meters that wouldn't take his quarters. Like · Reply ·
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Charlie Sherrill The law doesn't apply to libtards. Like · Reply ·
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LEWISTON – Less than a day after Lewiston Mayoral candidate Ben Chin asserted to the Lewiston Sun Journal that he had never called the community or any neighborhood in the community racist, two new leaked emails are casting doubt on the honesty of Chin’s statement. The emails, written by Chin to his inner campaign team, were leaked to Maine Examiner by a campaign insider concerned about the direction of the campaign. Screenshots of both emails are available at the end of this article.
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Collins’ son appears regularly as one of the inner campaign team members on the leaked Ben Chin emails. The Lewiston Sun Journal article does not display a disclaimer on this matter and it is not clear if the newspaper has taken measures to ensure the integrity of their coverage. The candidate, who has come under scrutiny after a campaign insider began leaking internal emails, hopes to win the December 12th election to replace Mayor Bob MacDonald. Chin, who is the political director for the Maine People’s Alliance and an Augusta lobbyist, faces Shane Bouchard, a Lewiston native and small business owner, who serves on the Lewiston City Council, to replace MacDonald as Mayor of Lewiston.
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to take a position to oppose the merger. Other leaked emails released by Maine Examiner have shown Chin mocking Lewiston voters who complain about their property taxes and joking with a member of his campaign about making voters beg for Chin to raise their property taxes.
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To paraphrase George Orwell, in an age of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. We think that pretty much says it all when it comes to the attacks by top liberal Maine Democrats on Maine Examiner in the Boston Globe and several Maine Today Media newspapers this week. Not a single article published by Maine Examiner can be proven “fake” or false.
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When Ben Chin’s internal campaign emails were leaked to us, we took extra steps to verify they were real. Those attacking us say that we took these emails “out of context” when we published them. We provided screenshots of the full emails in the articles for all to see. The article attacking us said that we ran a story that a known convicted pedophile who was associated with Ben Chin was at the
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Maine Examiner published pictures of this person at the polls at a table for the MPA along with a picture of him standing behind Ben Chin on stage previously at a campaign event, and a link to an article that showed screenshots of this person on Ben Chin’s campaign volunteer list, a list that the Chin campaign published on the internet for anyone to see. We also had two sources verify this person’s presence in the building and at the table for our report.
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We will admit to making a mistake when reporting that Ben Chin’s
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This anonymous Maine ‘news’ site may have tipped a big election By Michael Shepherd, BDN Staff • December 18, 2017 5:45 am Updated: December 19, 2017 12:18 pm
Amber Waterman | BDN Ben Chin, a progressive who lost the Lewiston mayoral election by 145 votes to Republican Shane Bouchard, was targeted with seven negative reports on a conservative website in the days before the election.
LEWISTON, Maine — As he greeted voters at Longley Elementary School, Ben Chin was hearing all about his emails as Lewiston residents walked out of the polling place during last week’s mayoral runoff election, but it was too late. The progressive activist lost by 145 votes to Mayor-elect Shane Bouchard, a Republican, after he was rocked during the last nine days of the race by seven stories from a new website that caught fire on social media with help from the Maine Republican Party. One Maine Examiner headline said “Leaked Email: Ben Chin Says Lewiston Voters ‘Bunch of Racists’” and featured a real email that apparently forwarded https://bangordailynews.com/2017/12/18/politics/this-anonymous-maine-news-site-may-have-tipped-a-big-election/
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out of a group of campaign operatives. In it, Chin describes a day of canvassing when he had positive interactions but also ran into “a bunch of racists.” On Election Day, a middle-aged man leaving the polls said goodbye to Bouchard. To Chin, he said “not a racist” and refused to talk to a reporter. Chin may be the first Maine politician derailed by a new phenomenon: anonymous conservative “news” websites whose most effective pieces blend a kernel of truth from opposition research with large factual and rhetorical leaps traditional media ethics would prohibit. Article continues below highlights
The Maine Examiner and the nationalist and conspiratorial Maine First Media surfaced in 2017, after President Donald Trump’s election the previous year in a campaign defined by Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and the Republican’s attacks on media in an environment where Gallup measured trust in the press at an all-time low. Michael Socolow, a journalism professor at the University of Maine in Orono, said “the delegitimization of the credible press has opened the playing field to a lot of alternative information outlets” that may look like news sites but that operate little like them. “Some information outlets are propaganda, some information outlets are credible, some information outlets know the rules of attribution and some don’t,” Socolow said. Both of the new Maine sites look somewhat like news sites. The Maine Examiner, for example, commingles political items with more benign ones — including one on an author’s night in Freeport — but a reader can’t find out who’s bankrolling it or writing the posts. An email to the Maine Examiner’s tip line was returned with a Friday message saying they’re “not interested in an interview,” and that while the site is “right of center,” they “cover stories other Maine media is not covering” and will “hold politicians accountable.” It was only signed “E.”
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Garrett Murch, a spokesman for the Maine Republican Party, which pushed Maine Examiner posts on social media and in party emails denouncing Chin, said he didn’t know who ran the site and declined comment after being asked if the party coordinated with them. Article continues below highlights
Maine First Media was run by Matthew McDonald of Bangor, who said Friday that he sold it in November for “thousands” of dollars to a Nebraska man. (The Bangor Daily News isn’t naming the man because he couldn’t be reached for comment.) Maine First Media got a boost in April, when it published a video of former Maine Senate candidate Richard Fochtmann joking about suicide at a party event that caught fire on conservative media. The party disavowed Fochtmann’s remarks, but both he and the party told NBC affiliate WCSH that he apologized right after saying it. That wasn’t on the video. McDonald called traditional media a “dying thing” and said he started the site because he thought Maine outlets weren’t covering Trump fairly and that he “can start something that has more influence than your newspaper.” “And I did,” he gloated.
These sites exploit conservatives’ lack of trust in the press and traditional reporting methods. If Chin’s emails were passed to an interested mainstream news outlet, he would likely be contacted for an explanation of the “racist” language.
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The Maine Examiner doesn’t have to do that and can move faster — without nuance. On election night, Chin placed lots of blame on the emails, saying they morphed into a “lies vortex” that became “this impossible conversation” with certain voters. Bouchard said the emails “really hurt” his opponent “because they spoke to the people of Lewiston.” Partisan media isn’t new in Maine. The conservative Maine Heritage Policy Center and Chin’s employer, the progressive Maine People’s Alliance, run news arms. As Maine Goes, a conservative site, has traded in anonymous political rumors since its 1998 founding. But the two partisan organizations label their news operations as their own, and As Maine Goes is a message board and not a news operation. Steve Robinson, a former editor for the Maine Heritage Policy Center’s outlet who is now a producer for Massachusetts conservative radio host Howie Carr, said these pieces “are always better when you put your name on it.” But, he conceded, “it worked” on Chin. Another Maine Examiner story released just before the election said Chin’s car had been towed for “years” of parking tickets. His car was towed because he had $200 or more in unpaid tickets, according to Lt. David St. Pierre, who oversees parking enforcement for Lewiston police. St. Pierre said the tickets didn’t go back “years,” but only to September. And he said that Chin’s car was towed on Dec. 7. That was three days later than the Maine Examiner said and the same day it published its post. Chin paid the bill promptly and got his car back. He won’t be driving it to the mayor’s office. For a roundup of Maine political news, click here for the Daily Brief. Click here to get Maine’s only newsletter on state politics via email on weekday mornings. Follow the Bangor Daily News on Facebook for the latest Maine news.
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Ben Chin, a 32-year-old Democrat, ran away with the preliminary vote in November for mayor of Lewiston, the second-largest city in Maine. But he couldn’t avoid a runoff with City Councilor Shane Bouchard, a Republican backed by Governor Paul LePage. Shortly after the November election, an anonymous conservative website called the Maine Examiner began hammering Chin as a smug, leftist outsider in a longstruggling city where many residents had resisted an influx of Somali immigrants. “Leaked Email: Ben Chin Says Lewiston Voters ‘Bunch of
FACEBOOK A website took a statement from mayoral candidate Ben Chin out of context and spread it as a scoop, his supporters contend.
Racists,’ ” the secretive site posted on Dec. 3, kicking off a barrage of negative stories. That quote was taken out of context. But nine days later, he lost the runoff by 145 votes — a narrow defeat he and his supporters blame in part on the website’s attacks, many of which were quickly recirculated on Facebook by the state Republican Party. Fake news — misleading stories that have mushroomed in the age of social media and that became Internet fodder during the 2016 presidential election — had found a way into Maine
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politics, Chin’s supporters said. Of even more concern to some Democrats: It appeared that the GOP was working directly with the site. “The stories just created so much confusion,” Chin said in an interview. “You had people believing things that were exactly the opposite of the truth.” The posts also have alarmed state Democrats and media observers, who fear that this type of hyperpartisan, anonymous reporting could be a test run for the 2018 governor’s race. “It’s very, very troubling,” said Phil Bartlett, chairman of the Maine Democratic Party. “There is no real accountability. The average voter and consumer of social media does not immediately recognize that it is fabricated information.” The state Republican Party declined to comment on whether it coordinated with the Examiner but sharing the site’s stories greatly increased their visibility. Garrett Murch, the state GOP’s spokesman and political director, also declined a phone interview to discuss the Examiner’s influence. Murch, who joined the state GOP staff in July, worked for five years as a communications adviser for Jeff Sessions when the US attorney general was a Republican senator from Alabama. But in an e-mail, Murch conceded that the site has made a difference. “I don’t really have much to say,” Murch wrote. “I guess I can give you this: ‘Their stories seem to have often checked out and had some measure of impact.’ ” Chin easily outpolled Bouchard in the five-candidate preliminary election, 42 percent to 29 percent. But in a smaller field, Bouchard consolidated support. The Examiner drew only scant attention after it began posting on Facebook in September — just three likes and five shares until Nov. 9. But when the state Republican Party posted an Examiner story that day on the potential perils of Medicaid expansion, the website suddenly became noticed. The GOP post on Facebook was shared 58 times. After that, the GOP began to repost the Examiner regularly, including its attacks on Chin. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/01/14/maine-gop-linked-flurry-anonymous-attacks/2getuy8zHTIr90bXMA4SkK/story.html
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The state party’s executive director, Jason Savage, also puts Examiner stories on his personal Facebook page, sometimes shortly after the original post. Savage could not be reached for comment. The Examiner has been cloaked in anonymity. Nearly all of its articles carry a byline of “administrator,” and its ownership is not divulged in the registry of Internet addresses. A Globe request for comment was answered with a brief, anonymous e-mail. “We are not interested in interviews at this time,” it read. “Thank you.” The Examiner’s campaign against Chin, a Bates College graduate, began Nov. 28 when it posted a story — picked up from a national right-wing site, The Daily Caller — that accused Chin’s campaign of retaining a convicted pedophile as a volunteer. Chin said that the man had been known as a Lewiston activist but that he did not participate in the campaign and had been asked not to attend any campaign events. Its Dec. 3 post reported that Chin had complained to his staff “that voters in Lewiston’s Ward 6 are racists,” citing a leaked campaign e-mail. Read in its entirety, the e-mail indicates that Chin was not referring to Ward 6 as a whole. Chin wrote that on June 15 he knocked on 64 doors and had 47 conversations with prospective voters, 32 of whom were strong supporters or leaning toward him. He also mentioned speaking with two African-American families, one potential volunteer whose sister died of an overdose, and a woman who had supported the lame-duck Republican mayor “but is coming our way.” At the end of the summary, he wrote, “bunch of racists, too.’ Four days later, the Examiner cited “multiple sources” in reporting that Chin’s car had been towed because of “years of unpaid parking tickets.” However, police told the Lewiston Sun Journal that the car had been towed but that the tickets dated only to September. One constant in the Examiner’s reporting is that the target of the story is not given a chance to comment.
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Anonymity and mystery also extend to Maine First Media, another right-wing website that was created a year ago. Matthew McDonald, a Bangor resident who founded the site, sold Maine First in November but would not divulge its new owners, except to say that they have connections with Nebraska and Maine. “The people that bought it would prefer not to talk about that,” McDonald said. On Jan. 4, Maine First Media posted a story that read, “EXPOSED: Open-Border Leftists Plot to Invade Rural Maine with Muslim Refugees.” On Jan. 3, another Maine First story carried the headline: “Mainers Paying the Price for Mass Immigration, Refugee Racket Expansion.” Trained as a clergyman, McDonald said that anonymity allows Maine First the freedom of uninhibited expression by unpaid writers who don’t use bylines. When he served as editor, he largely concerned himself with grammar and punctuation, he said. “I didn’t care what they were writing about. My concern was never the story, per se,” but rather “just make sure where to put your semicolon,” McDonald said. “It’s kind of new media, right? We really just opened up the box and let people glow.” The purpose, he said, was to credit the achievements of President Trump and his America First agenda. “I just couldn’t find a fair and balanced media source,” McDonald said. The sites are clearly affecting state politics, but they lack any traditional sense of accountability, said Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine. “When you have an anonymous website, who knows who’s bankrolling it?” Brewer said. “I think all Mainers not only should know but deserve to know. They can publish whatever they want, but it would be helpful to know who’s paying for the information.” Brewer’s concerns were echoed by Judith Rosenbaum, a University of Maine communications professor who specializes in social media. Hearing new voices is important, she said, but such a platform comes with responsibility. https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/01/14/maine-gop-linked-flurry-anonymous-attacks/2getuy8zHTIr90bXMA4SkK/story.html
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“My biggest concern is: Do we have a citizenry that is able to discern credible news from news that is really rumors and gossip?” Rosenbaum said. State Senator Justin Chenette, a Democrat from Saco who has been targeted by the Examiner, said he may request a state ethics inquiry into whether the Maine Republican Party has collaborated with the Examiner. “Hey, let’s put the cards on the table. Is the state GOP secretly funding this site?” Chenette said. “There’s clearly a connection. Why are they sharing these fake news articles?” Chenette accused the website of recklessly suggesting Dec. 21 that he had received commissions from personal campaign ads, paid with taxpayer funds, that he placed in the newspaper where he works as an advertising representative. The Examiner wrote that its reporting raises “questions about Chenette’s use of taxpayer money for his campaign and the possibility of unethical personal benefits Chenette may have received.” Chenette denied being paid commissions by the Biddeford Journal Tribune, the only daily newspaper based in York County, which Chenette represents. “This is basically a glorified right-wing conspiracy blog that is disguised and masked as a news site,” said Chenette, who added that anonymity could allow the owners of such sites to skirt campaign finance laws. “So far, it looks like its sole purpose is slandering progressive Democrats like me.” McDonald, the Maine First Media creator, said the site has a different purpose. “There was no media platform for people who are looking for a story that puts President Trump in a positive instead of a negative light,” McDonald said. “We built something that changed the culture of media in Maine, and we did it in ways that were outside the box.” In the end, he added, “people are intelligent enough to make up their own minds about a story.” Brian MacQuarrie can be reached at
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Democrats say fake news posted on conservative website, shared by Republican Party, tainted Lewiston mayoral race www.pressherald.com/2018/01/15/maine-republican-party-promoting-fake-news-sites-that-target-democrats/ By Brian MacQuarrie The Boston Globe
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Ben Chin, a 32-year-old Democrat, ran away with the preliminary vote in November for mayor of Lewiston, the second-largest city in Maine. But he couldn’t avoid a runoff with City Councilor Shane Bouchard, a Republican backed by Gov. Paul LePage. Shortly after the November election, an anonymous conservative website called the Maine Examiner began hammering Chin as a smug, leftist outsider in a long-struggling city where many residents had resisted an influx of Somali immigrants. “Leaked Email: Ben Chin Says Lewiston Voters ‘Bunch of Racists,’ ” the secretive site posted on Dec. 3, kicking off a barrage of negative stories. That quote was taken out of context. But nine days later, he lost the runoff by 145 votes – a narrow defeat he and his supporters blame in part on the website’s attacks, many of which were quickly recirculated on Facebook by the state Republican Party. Fake news – misleading stories that have mushroomed in the age of social media and that became Internet fodder during the 2016 presidential election – had found a way into Maine politics, Chin’s supporters said. Of even more concern to some Democrats: It appeared that the GOP was working directly with the site. “The stories just created so much confusion,” Chin said in an interview. “You had people believing things that were exactly the opposite of the truth.” The posts also have alarmed state Democrats and media observers, who fear that this type of hyperpartisan, anonymous reporting could be a test run for the 2018 governor’s race. “It’s very, very troubling,” said Phil Bartlett, chairman of the Maine Democratic Party. “There is no real accountability. The average voter and consumer of social media does not immediately recognize that it is fabricated information.”
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This image shows the online posting from a conservative website that attacked Lewiston mayoral candidate Ben Chin.
The state Republican Party declined to comment on whether it coordinated with the Examiner but sharing the site’s stories greatly increased their visibility. Garrett Murch, the state Republican Party’s spokesman and political director, also declined a phone interview to discuss the Examiner’s influence. Murch, who joined the state party staff in July, worked for five years as a communications adviser for Jeff Sessions when the U.S. attorney general was a Republican senator from Alabama. But in an email, Murch conceded that the site has made a difference. “I don’t really have much to say,” Murch wrote. “I guess I can give you this: ‘Their stories seem to have often checked out and had some measure of impact.’ ” Chin easily outpolled Bouchard in the five-candidate preliminary election, 42 percent to 29 percent. But in a smaller field, Bouchard consolidated support. The Examiner drew only scant attention after it began posting on Facebook in September – just three likes and five shares until Nov. 9. But when the state Republican Party posted an Examiner story that day on the potential perils of Medicaid expansion, the website suddenly became noticed. The Maine Republican Party’s post on Facebook was shared 58 times. After that, the state party began to repost the Examiner regularly, including its attacks on Chin. The state party’s executive director, Jason Savage, also puts Examiner stories on his personal Facebook page, sometimes shortly after the original post. Savage could not be reached for comment.
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The Examiner has been cloaked in anonymity. Nearly all of its articles carry a byline of “administrator,” and its ownership is not divulged in the registry of Internet addresses. A Globe request for comment was answered with a brief, anonymous email. “We are not interested in interviews at this time,” it read. “Thank you.” The Examiner’s campaign against Chin, a Bates College graduate, began Nov. 28 when it posted a story – picked up from a national right-wing site, The Daily Caller – that accused Chin’s campaign of retaining a convicted pedophile as a volunteer. Chin said that the man had been known as a Lewiston activist but that he did not participate in the campaign and had been asked not to attend any campaign events. Its Dec. 3 post reported that Chin had complained to his staff “that voters in Lewiston’s Ward 6 are racists,” citing a leaked campaign email. Read in its entirety, the email indicates that Chin was not referring to Ward 6 as a whole. Chin wrote that on June 15 he knocked on 64 doors and had 47 conversations with prospective voters, 32 of whom were strong supporters or leaning toward him. He also mentioned speaking with two African-American families, one potential volunteer whose sister died of an overdose, and a woman who had supported the lame-duck Republican mayor “but is coming our way.” At the end of the summary, he wrote, “bunch of racists, too.’ Four days later, the Examiner cited “multiple sources” in reporting that Chin’s car had been towed because of “years of unpaid parking tickets.” However, police told the Lewiston Sun Journal that the car had been towed but that the tickets dated only to September. One constant in the Examiner’s reporting is that the target of the story is not given a chance to comment. Anonymity and mystery also extend to Maine First Media, another right-wing website that was created a year ago. Matthew McDonald, a Bangor resident who founded the site, sold Maine First in November but would not divulge its new owners, except to say that they have connections with Nebraska and Maine. “The people that bought it would prefer not to talk about that,” McDonald said. On Jan. 4, Maine First Media posted a story that read, “EXPOSED: Open-Border Leftists Plot to Invade Rural Maine with Muslim Refugees.” On Jan. 3, another Maine First story carried the headline: “Mainers Paying the Price for Mass Immigration, Refugee Racket Expansion.” Trained as a clergyman, McDonald said that anonymity allows Maine First the freedom of uninhibited expression by unpaid writers who don’t use bylines. When he served as editor, he largely concerned himself with grammar and punctuation, he said. “I didn’t care what they were writing about. My concern was never the story, per se,” but rather “just make sure where to put your semicolon,” McDonald said. “It’s kind of new media, right? We really just opened up the box and let people glow.”
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The purpose, he said, was to credit the achievements of President Trump and his America First agenda. “I just couldn’t find a fair and balanced media source,” McDonald said. The sites are clearly affecting state politics, but they lack any traditional sense of accountability, said Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine. “When you have an anonymous website, who knows who’s bankrolling it?” Brewer said. “I think all Mainers not only should know but deserve to know. They can publish whatever they want, but it would be helpful to know who’s paying for the information.” Brewer’s concerns were echoed by Judith Rosenbaum, a University of Maine communications professor who specializes in social media. Hearing new voices is important, she said, but such a platform comes with responsibility. “My biggest concern is: Do we have a citizenry that is able to discern credible news from news that is really rumors and gossip?” Rosenbaum said. State Sen. Justin Chenette, a Democrat from Saco who has been targeted by the Examiner, said he may request a state ethics inquiry into whether the Maine Republican Party has collaborated with the Examiner. “Hey, let’s put the cards on the table. Is the state GOP secretly funding this site?” Chenette said. “There’s clearly a connection. Why are they sharing these fake news articles?” Chenette accused the website of recklessly suggesting Dec. 21 that he had received commissions from personal campaign ads, paid with taxpayer funds, that he placed in the newspaper where he works as an advertising representative. The Examiner wrote that its reporting raises “questions about Chenette’s use of taxpayer money for his campaign and the possibility of unethical personal benefits Chenette may have received.” Chenette denied being paid commissions by the Biddeford Journal Tribune, the only daily newspaper based in York County, which Chenette represents. “This is basically a glorified right-wing conspiracy blog that is disguised and masked as a news site,” said Chenette, who added that anonymity could allow the owners of such sites to skirt campaign finance laws. “So far, it looks like its sole purpose is slandering progressive Democrats like me.” McDonald, the Maine First Media creator, said the site has a different purpose. “There was no media platform for people who are looking for a story that puts President Trump in a positive instead of a negative light,” McDonald said. “We built something that changed the culture of media in Maine, and we did it in ways that were outside the box.” In the end, he added, “people are intelligent enough to make up their own minds about a story.” Brian MacQuarrie can be contacted at: [email protected] Share
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$0.00
$60,057.87
$255,423.43
$0.00
$0.00
$60,057.87
$255,423.43
9. IN-KIND CONTRIBUTIONS (SCHEDULE A-1)
$0.00
$0.00
10. TOTAL LOAN BALANCE AT END OF PERIOD (SCHEDULE C)
$0.00
11. TOTAL UNPAID DEBTS AT END OF PERIOD (SCHEDULE D)
$0.00
8. TOTAL PAYMENTS (LINE 5 + 6 + 7)
OTHER ACTIVITY
I, BENJAMIN LOMBARD, CERTIFY THAT THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS REPORT IS TRUE, ACCURATE, AND COMPLETE TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE. REPORT FILED BY: BENJAMIN LOMBARD REPORT FILED ON: 01/10/2018 LAST MODIFIED: 01/10/2018 PRINTED: 01/22/2018 COMMITTEE ID: 1175
SCHEDULE A CASH CONTRIBUTIONS
For contributors who gave more that $50, the names, address, occupation, and employer must be reported. If "information requested" is listed instead of occupation and employer, the candidate is waiting to receive that information. Cash contributions of $50 or less can be added together and reported as a lump sum. Contributor Types
1 = Individual
9 = Candidate / Candidate Committee
2 = Candidate/ Spouse/ Domestic Partner
10 = General Treasury Transfer
3 = Commercial Source
11 = Transfer from Previous Campaign
4 = Nonprofit Organization
12 = Contributors giving $50 or less
5 = Political Action Committee
13 = Contributors giving $100 or less
6 = Political Party Committee
14 = Contributors giving $200 or less
7 = Ballot Question Committee
15 = MCEA Payment
8 = Other Candidate/ Candidate Committee
DATE RECEIVED
CONTRIBUTOR
16 = Financial Institution
OCCUPATION AND EMPLOYER
10/2/2017 Welfare to Work PAC PO Box 441 Augusta, ME 04332 10/3/2017 JOHN HATHAWAY 190 MILLS ROAD KENNEBUNKPORT, ME 04046
SHUCKS MAINE LOBSTER
TYPE
AMOUNT
5
$350.00
1
$170.00
3
$1,000.00
1
$150.00
DESCRIPTION: OWNER
10/5/2017 CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS 12405 POWERSCOURT DRIVE ST. LOUIS, MO 63131 10/5/2017 JAYNE GILES 15 TOZIER STREET BELFAST, ME 04915
PENQUIS
10/5/2017 S. W. COLLINS CO., INC. P. O. BOX 70 CARIBOU, ME 04736
DESCRIPTION: Unknown
3
$500.00
10/5/2017 KAREN VACHON 25 OCEAN AVENUE SCARBOROUGH, ME 04074
STATE OF MAINE
1
$175.00
10/10/2017 SCHIAVI CUSTOM BUILDERS 754 MAIN STREET OXFORD, ME 04270
3
$500.00
10/11/2017 PR FORTIN & SONS 103 RUSSELL ROAD MADISON, ME 04950
3
$250.00
1
$100.00
1
$175.00
1
$135.00
DESCRIPTION: CEO
DESCRIPTION: STATE REPRESENTATIVE
10/12/2017 LUCINDA BRAKEY 115 DEERFIELD ROAD NEW GLOUCESTER, ME 04260
BRAKEY ENERGY, INC.
10/12/2017 ALLYSON CAVARETTA P.O. BOX 2347 OGUNQUIT, ME 03907
MEADOWMERE RESORT
10/12/2017 HOLLY LUSK 587 HARPSWELL NECK ROAD HARPSWELL, ME 04079
STATE OF MAINE
DESCRIPTION: VICE PRESIDENT
DESCRIPTION: OWNER/DIRECTOR SALES & MARKETING
DESCRIPTION: POLICY ADVISOR
10/12/2017 BRUCE L POLIQUIN P.O. BOX 50 OAKLAND, ME 04963-4732
1
$250.00
10/16/2017 ZIMBA COMPANY INC. P.O. BOX 336 FAIRFIELD, ME 04937
3
$100.00
10/18/2017 BERNSTEIN SHUR P.O. BOX 9729 PORTLAND, ME 04104
3
$500.00
10/18/2017 DUNSTAN DENTAL CENTER, LLC 618 US ROUTE ONE, SUITE 4 SCARBOROUGH, ME 04074
3
$250.00
1
$175.00
3
$4,000.00
1
$250.00
1
$175.00
3
$250.00
1
$100.00
1
$250.00
1
$35.00
10/31/2017 COLE HARRISON INSURANCE P.O. BOX 358 KENNEBUNK, ME 04043
3
$100.00
10/31/2017 MAINE BEVERAGE ASSOCIATON 77 WATER STREET HALLOWELL, ME 04347
3
$250.00
10/31/2017 Priorities for Coastal Maine PAC P.O. Box 887 Wells, ME 04090
5
$100.00
10/31/2017 RHUMB LINE RESORT PO BOX 3067 KENNEBUNKPORT, ME 04046
3
$1,000.00
1
$100.00
10/19/2017 AMY ARATA 607 BALD HILL ROAD NEW GLOUCESTER, ME 04260
FEDERAL GOVERMENT DESCRIPTION: U.S. CONGRESSMAN
SELF-EMPLOYED DESCRIPTION: REAL ESTATE INVESTOR
10/19/2017 CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS 12405 POWERSCOURT DRIVE ST. LOUIS, MO 63131 10/19/2017 STACEY GUERIN 79 PHILLIPS ROAD GLENBURN, ME 04401
MAINE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DESCRIPTION: LEGISLATOR
10/19/2017 STACEY GUERIN 79 PHILLIPS ROAD GLENBURN, ME 04401
MAINE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DESCRIPTION: LEGISLATOR
10/23/2017 G&E ROOFING CO., INC. 669 RIVERSIDE DRIVE AUGUSTA, ME 04330 10/23/2017 JAYNE GILES 15 TOZIER STREET BELFAST, ME 04915
PENQUIS
10/25/2017 SARA BURNS 189 BENSON ROAD MANCHESTER, ME 04351
CMP
10/25/2017 JANE SEXTON P.O. BOX 357 GORHAM, ME 04038
10/31/2017 JULIE SHEEHAN P.O. BOX 2436 SOUTH PORTLAND, ME 04116
DESCRIPTION: CEO
DESCRIPTION: PRESIDENT
INFO REQUESTED
F.O. BAILEY REAL ESTATE DESCRIPTION: Real Estate Professional
11/1/2017 MICHELLE DALE 409 CHURCH HILL ROAD AUGUSTA, ME 04330
MAINE REPUBLICAN PARTY
1
$35.00
1
$175.00
1
$70.00
1
$35.00
1
$35.00
1
$105.00
1
$170.00
1
$35.00
1
$35.00
1
$35.00
1
$70.00
1
$35.00
1
$35.00
DESCRIPTION: OFFICE DIRECTOR 11/1/2017 BONNIE HEPTIG P.O. BOX 630 MOODY, ME 04054
SELF-EMPLOYED
11/1/2017 LISA KEIM 1505 MAIN STREET DIXFIELD, ME 04224
STATE OF MAINE
DESCRIPTION: Attorney/Legal
DESCRIPTION: STATE SENATOR
11/1/2017 PATRICIA KEYES 3A BLACK'S LANDING BELFAST, ME 04915 11/1/2017 MARYANNE KINNEY 40 MAPLE LANE KNOX, ME 04986
STATE OF MAINE
11/1/2017 CATHLEEN MANCHESTER 19 MAIN STREET GRAY, ME 04039
KELLER WILLIAMS REALTY
11/1/2017 CYNTHIA NESBIT 164 ROBERTS ROAD BOWDOIN, ME 04287
L.L. BEAN
11/1/2017 JOAN PETERSEN 480 NORTH SEARSPORT ROAD SWANVILLE, ME 04915
RETIRED
11/1/2017 MARTHA RAY 225 ROWE STATION ROAD NEW GLOUCESTER, ME 04260
HOMEMAKER
11/1/2017 GINGER LEIGH SMITH 919 NORTH RIVER ROAD AUBURN, ME 04210
MERRILL LYNCH
11/1/2017 DIANA THURSTON 406 SABBATHDAY ROAD NEW GLOUCESTER, ME 04260
TD BANK
11/1/2017 JOSEPH TURCOTTE 121 SOUTH STREET, UNIT A PITTSFIELD, ME 04976
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE
DESCRIPTION: STATE REPRESENTATIVE
DESCRIPTION: Real Estate Professional
DESCRIPTION: ANALYST
DESCRIPTION: Retired
DESCRIPTION: Homemaker
DESCRIPTION: Financial/Investment
DESCRIPTION: IT RISK & COMPLIANCE AUDITOR
DESCRIPTION: STATE DIRECTOR 11/8/2017 KATE IKHSANOVA 396 MAIN STREET, APT. C WESTBROOK, ME 04092
MAINE REPUBLICAN PARTY DESCRIPTION: FINANCE EXECUTIVE
11/14/2017 BATH IRON WORKS 700 WASHINGTON STREET BATH, ME 04530
DESCRIPTION: Unknown
3
$1,000.00
11/14/2017 ROBERT FULLER 11215 SEVEN LOCKS ROAD POTOMAC, MD 29854
SELF-EMPLOYED
1
$5,000.00
DESCRIPTION: PRIV. FIDUCIARY
11/14/2017 Welfare to Work PAC PO Box 441 Augusta, ME 04332
5
$350.00
11/27/2017 ICE PAC PO BOX 5671 AUGUSTA, ME 04330
5
$41.88
11/27/2017 KOKADJO CONSTRUCTION INC. 3424 LILY BAY ROAD GREENVILLE, ME 04441
3
$1,000.00
11/27/2017 KOKADJO TRADING POST 3224 LILY BAY ROAD GREENVILLE, ME 04441
3
$1,000.00
3
$1,000.00
11/27/2017 Welfare to Work PAC PO Box 441 Augusta, ME 04332
5
$7,000.00
11/28/2017 Welfare to Work PAC PO Box 441 Augusta, ME 04332
5
$350.00
11/29/2017 RIPLEY & FLETCHER CO. 80 MAIN STREET SOUTH PARIS, ME 04281
3
$1,000.00
1
$500.00
1
$2,000.00
12/1/2017 MICHAEL F. COOK & ASSOCIATES PO BOX 549 FARMINGTON, ME 04938
3
$50.00
12/4/2017 MAYHEW FOR MAINE 13 MAYFLOWER LANE SOUTH CHINA, ME 04358
9
$60.00
1
$50.00
12/4/2017 RAVEN STRATEGIES LLC 9 THOMAS DRIVE SCARBOROUGH, ME 04074
3
$40.00
12/5/2017 Welfare to Work PAC PO Box 441 Augusta, ME 04332
5
$7,000.00
1
$1,000.00
12/11/2017 G&E ROOFING CO., INC. 669 RIVERSIDE DRIVE AUGUSTA, ME 04330
3
$1,400.00
12/14/2017 SAZERAC COMPANY, INC. 10400 LINN STATION ROAD, SUITE 300 LOUISVILLE, KY 40223
3
$1,000.00
12/14/2017 SERRA CONSULTING LLC 227 WATER STREET, 2ND FLOOR AUGUSTA, ME 04330
3
$1,540.00
11/27/2017 SPECTRUM MONTHLY & PRINTING 95 EDDY ROAD SUITE 101 MANCHESTER, NH 03102
DESCRIPTION: Unknown
12/1/2017 WALTER JACKSON 55 BURBANK LN YARMOUTH, ME 04096
RETIRED
12/1/2017 JAMES MCBRIDE 58 HIGH RIDGE ROAD NORWAY, ME 04268
RETIRED
12/4/2017 JAMES NICHOLAS 2 COTTAGE ROAD SOUTH PORTLAND, ME 04106
12/8/2017 JAMES MCBRIDE 58 HIGH RIDGE ROAD NORWAY, ME 04268
DESCRIPTION: Retired
DESCRIPTION: Retired
RETIRED DESCRIPTION: Retired
RETIRED DESCRIPTION: Retired
12/18/2017 AT&T SERVICES, INC. 99 BEDFORD STREET BOSTON, MA 02111 12/18/2017 CAROLYN CARIGNAN 185 SCHOOL STREET BERWICK, ME 03901 12/21/2017 JEFF'S CATERING PO BOX 377 BREWER, ME 04412
RETIRED
3
$1,000.00
1
$35.00
3
$200.00
DESCRIPTION: Retired
TOTAL CASH CONTRIBUTIONS
$45,876.88
SCHEDULE B-1 OPERATING EXPENDITURES EXPENDITURES TYPES CNS
Campaign consultants
POL
Polling and survey research
CON
Contribution to other candidate, party, committee
POS
Postage for U.S. Mail and mail box fees
EQP
Equipment (office machines, furniture, cell phones, etc.)
PRO
Other professional services
FND
Fundraising events
PRT
Print media ads only (newspapers, magazines, etc.)
FOD
Food for campaign events, volunteers
RAD
Radio ads, production costs
Print and graphics (flyers, signs, palmcards, t-shirts, etc.)
SAL
Campaign workers' salaries and personnel costs
MHS
Mail house (all services purchased)
TRV
Travel (fuel, mileage, lodging, etc.)
OFF
Office rent, utilities, phone and internet services, supplies
TVN
TV or cable ads, production costs
OTH
Other
WEB
Website design, registration, hosting, maintenance, etc.
PHO
Phone banks, automated telephone calls
LIT
DATE OF EXPENDITURE
PAYEE
REMARK
TYPE
AMOUNT
10/2/2017
AMAZON.COM, INC. 1200 12TH AVE SOUTH STE. 1200 SEATTLE, WA 98144
SPEAKER & MICROPHONE
EQP
$64.28
10/5/2017
ANEDOT P.O. BOX 84314 BATON ROUGE, LA 70884
MERCHANT FEES
OTH
$11.98
10/6/2017
ADOBE SYSTEMS, INC 345 PARK AVENUE SAN JOSE, CA 95101
SOFTWARE
OFF
$10.54
10/6/2017
STAPLES P.O. BOX 689020 DES MOINES, IA 50368
OFFICE SUPPLIES
OFF
$47.46
10/6/2017
STAPLES P.O. BOX 689020 DES MOINES, IA 50368
OFFICE SUPPLIES
OFF
$32.69
10/10/2017
THE GO DADDY GROUP INC 14455N. HAYDEN ROAD SUITE 226 SCOTTSDALE, AZ 85260
ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION
OFF
$15.17
10/12/2017
ANEDOT P.O. BOX 84314 BATON ROUGE, LA 70884
MERCHANT FEES
OTH
$6.43
10/12/2017
EPAY BUSINESS SOLUTIONS INC. 19 MIDSTATE DRIVE, SUITE 110 AUBURN, MA 01501
PAYROLL
SAL
$1,429.61
10/13/2017
AMAZON.COM, INC. 1200 12TH AVE SOUTH STE. 1200 SEATTLE, WA 98144
OFFICE SUPPLIES
OFF
$44.67
10/13/2017
AMAZON.COM, INC. 1200 12TH AVE SOUTH STE. 1200 SEATTLE, WA 98144
OFFICE SUPPLIES
OFF
$16.09
10/13/2017
STAPLES P.O. BOX 689020 DES MOINES, IA 50368
OFFICE SUPPLIES
OFF
$54.84
10/16/2017
TD BANK 101 WESTERN AVE AUGUSTA, ME 04330
BANK FEES
OTH
$15.00
10/16/2017
THE GO DADDY GROUP INC 14455N. HAYDEN ROAD SUITE 226 SCOTTSDALE, AZ 85260
ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION
OFF
$15.17
10/16/2017
WEEBLY 460 BRYANT STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107
WEBSITE HOSTING
WEB
$54.00
10/19/2017
ANEDOT P.O. BOX 84314 BATON ROUGE, LA 70884
MERCHANT FEES
OTH
$21.91
10/23/2017
AMERICAN AIRLINES 4333 AMON CARTER BLVD FORT WORTH, TX 76155
LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE REIMBURSEMENT: TRAVEL: AIR
TRV
$417.40
10/24/2017
AMAZON.COM, INC. 1200 12TH AVE SOUTH STE. 1200 SEATTLE, WA 98144
OFFICE SUPPLIES
OFF
$24.34
10/24/2017
TIGERDIRECT 7795 WEST FLAGLER ST SUITE 35 MIAMI, FL 33144
COMPUTER PURCHASE
EQP
$226.81
10/25/2017
Maine Republican Party 9 Higgins Street Augusta, ME 04330
ALLOCATION TRANSFER
OTH
$10,000.00
10/30/2017
EPAY BUSINESS SOLUTIONS INC. 19 MIDSTATE DRIVE, SUITE 110 AUBURN, MA 01501
PAYROLL
SAL
$1,477.40
10/31/2017
TD BANK 101 WESTERN AVE AUGUSTA, ME 04330
BANK FEES
OTH
$2.00
10/31/2017
TD BANK 101 WESTERN AVE AUGUSTA, ME 04330
BANK FEES
OTH
$2.00
11/1/2017
ANEDOT P.O. BOX 84314 BATON ROUGE, LA 70884
MERCHANT FEES
OTH
$32.87
11/1/2017
WEEBLY 460 BRYANT STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107
WEBSITE HOSTING
WEB
$49.00
11/6/2017
ADOBE SYSTEMS, INC 345 PARK AVENUE SAN JOSE, CA 95101
SOFTWARE
OFF
$10.54
11/7/2017
KIM PETTENGILL 9 HIGGINS ST AUGUSTA, ME 04330
EVENT CONSULTING
CNS
$343.75
11/8/2017
ANEDOT P.O. BOX 84314 BATON ROUGE, LA 70884
MERCHANT FEES
OTH
$1.53
11/14/2017
EPAY BUSINESS SOLUTIONS INC. 19 MIDSTATE DRIVE, SUITE 110 AUBURN, MA 01501
PAYROLL
SAL
$1,475.77
11/15/2017
ALBISON'S PRINTING, INC. 124 RIVERSIDE DRIVE AUGUSTA, ME 04330
PRINTING & DESIGN SERVICES: ENVELOPES
LIT
$221.55
11/15/2017
LITTLEFIELD CONSULTING 455 MASSACHUSETTS AVE NW SUITE 108 WASHINGTON, DC 20001
CONSULTING
PRO
$1,000.00
11/15/2017
MAINE MIST 581 MAINE AVE. FARMINGDALE, ME 04344
OFFICE SUPPLIES
OFF
$18.96
11/15/2017
Maine Republican Party 9 Higgins Street Augusta, ME 04330
ALLOCATION TRANSFER
OTH
$7,000.00
11/15/2017
GARRETT MURCH 258 BARTON ROAD WINDSOR, ME 04363
TRAVEL: MILEAGE
TRV
$86.64
11/15/2017
KIM PETTENGILL 9 HIGGINS ST AUGUSTA, ME 04330
EVENT CONSULTING
CNS
$343.75
11/15/2017
RIVERSIDE DISPOSAL 700 RIVER ROAD CHELSEA, ME 04330
TRASH REMOVAL
OFF
$48.00
11/15/2017
STAPLES P.O. BOX 689020 DES MOINES, IA 50368
OFFICE SUPPLIES
OFF
$36.34
11/16/2017
STAPLES P.O. BOX 689020 DES MOINES, IA 50368
OFFICE SUPPLIES
OFF
$17.49
11/16/2017
STAPLES P.O. BOX 689020 DES MOINES, IA 50368
OFFICE SUPPLIES
OFF
$104.59
11/16/2017
THE NONANTUM RESORT 95 OCEAN AVE KENNEBUNKPORT, ME 04046
EVENT EXPENSE: MEALS & LODGING
OTH
$11,434.73
11/28/2017
FALABELLA 32 FRED'S WAY GRAY, ME 04039
OFFICE REPAIR & MAINTENANCE
PRO
$1,000.00
11/29/2017
EPAY BUSINESS SOLUTIONS INC. 19 MIDSTATE DRIVE, SUITE 110 AUBURN, MA 01501
PAYROLL
SAL
$1,473.50
11/29/2017
Maine Republican Party 9 Higgins Street Augusta, ME 04330
ALLOCATION TRANSFER
OTH
$5,000.00
11/30/2017
MICHELLE DALE 409 CHURCH HILL RD AUGUSTA, ME 04330
TRAVEL: MILEAGE
TRV
$39.10
11/30/2017
DOLLAR TREE 730 CENTER STREET AUBURN, ME 04210
IKHSANOVA REIMBURSEMENT: EVENT EXPENSE: DECORATIONS
OTH
$11.72
11/30/2017
EKATERINA IKHSANOVA 9 HIGGINS ST AUGUSTA, ME 04330
TRAVEL: MILEAGE
TRV
$85.95
11/30/2017
KIM PETTENGILL 9 HIGGINS ST AUGUSTA, ME 04330
EVENT CONSULTING
CNS
$343.75
11/30/2017
SENATOR INN AND SPA 284 WESTERN AVE AUGUSTA, ME 04330
FACILITY RENTAL
OTH
$350.00
11/30/2017
STAPLES P.O. BOX 689020 DES MOINES, IA 50368
OFFICE SUPPLIES
OFF
$586.38
11/30/2017
STAPLES P.O. BOX 689020 DES MOINES, IA 50368
OFFICE SUPPLIES
OFF
$118.51
11/30/2017
TD BANK 101 WESTERN AVE AUGUSTA, ME 04330
BANK FEES
OTH
$2.00
11/30/2017
TD BANK 101 WESTERN AVE AUGUSTA, ME 04330
BANK FEES
OTH
$2.00
11/30/2017
USPS 126 WESTERN AVE AUGUSTA, ME 04330
IKHSANOVA REIMBURSEMENT: POSTAGE EXPENSE
POS
$1.47
12/1/2017
STAPLES P.O. BOX 689020 DES MOINES, IA 50368
OFFICE SUPPLIES
OFF
$29.46
12/5/2017
ADOBE SYSTEMS, INC 345 PARK AVENUE SAN JOSE, CA 95101
SOFTWARE
OFF
$10.54
12/6/2017
FACEBOOK 1 HACKER WAY MENLO PARK, CA 94025
DIGITAL ADVERTISING
WEB
$22.43
12/7/2017
FACEBOOK 1 HACKER WAY MENLO PARK, CA 94025
DIGITAL ADVERTISING
WEB
$25.00
12/8/2017
ANEDOT P.O. BOX 84314 BATON ROUGE, LA 70884
MERCHANT FEES
OTH
$35.30
12/8/2017
FACEBOOK 1 HACKER WAY MENLO PARK, CA 94025
DIGITAL ADVERTISING
WEB
$51.99
12/11/2017
FACEBOOK 1 HACKER WAY MENLO PARK, CA 94025
DIGITAL ADVERTISING
WEB
$200.00
12/11/2017
FACEBOOK 1 HACKER WAY MENLO PARK, CA 94025
DIGITAL ADVERTISING
WEB
$200.00
12/11/2017
FACEBOOK 1 HACKER WAY MENLO PARK, CA 94025
DIGITAL ADVERTISING
WEB
$200.00
12/13/2017
FACEBOOK 1 HACKER WAY MENLO PARK, CA 94025
DIGITAL ADVERTISING
WEB
$200.00
12/14/2017
EPAY BUSINESS SOLUTIONS INC. 19 MIDSTATE DRIVE, SUITE 110 AUBURN, MA 01501
PAYROLL
SAL
$1,473.50
12/14/2017
LITTLEFIELD CONSULTING 455 MASSACHUSETTS AVE NW SUITE 108 WASHINGTON, DC 20001
RECORDED CALLS
PHO
$4,214.97
12/15/2017
KIM PETTENGILL 9 HIGGINS ST AUGUSTA, ME 04330
EVENT CONSULTING
CNS
$343.75
12/20/2017
Maine Republican Party 9 Higgins Street Augusta, ME 04330
ALLOCATION TRANSFER
OTH
$6,000.00
12/28/2017
EPAY BUSINESS SOLUTIONS INC. 19 MIDSTATE DRIVE, SUITE 110 AUBURN, MA 01501
PAYROLL
SAL
$1,473.50
12/29/2017
KIM PETTENGILL 9 HIGGINS ST AUGUSTA, ME 04330
EVENT CONSULTING
CNS
$343.75
12/29/2017
TD BANK 101 WESTERN AVE AUGUSTA, ME 04330
BANK FEES
OTH
$2.00
12/29/2017
TD BANK 101 WESTERN AVE AUGUSTA, ME 04330
BANK FEES
OTH
$2.00
TOTAL OPERATING EXPENDITURES
$60,057.87
ATTACHMENT DD
Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices Mail: 135 State House Station, Augusta, Maine 04333 Office: 45 Memorial Circle, Augusta, Maine Website: www.maine.gov/ethics Phone: 207-287-4179 Fax: 207-287-6775
2017 CAMPAIGN FINANCE REPORT FOR PARTY COMMITTEES COMMITTEE
TREASURER
Maine Republican Party
Benjamin Lombard
9 Higgins Street
9 Higgins Street
Augusta, ME 04330
Augusta, ME 04330
PHONE: (207) 622-6247 EMAIL:
[email protected]
EMAIL:
[email protected]
REPORT
DUE DATE
REPORTING PERIOD
OCTOBER QUARTERLY REPORT
10/05/2017
07/01/2017 - 09/30/2017
FINANCIAL ACTIVITY SUMMARY RECEIPTS 1. CASH CONTRIBUTIONS (SCHEDULE A) 2. OTHER CASH RECEIPTS (INTEREST, ETC.) 3. LOANS (SCHEDULE C) 4. TOTAL RECEIPTS (LINE 1 + 2 + 3)
TOTAL FOR PERIOD
TOTAL FOR YEAR
$141,520.74
$202,420.63
$146.00
$195.21
$0.00
$0.00
$141,666.74
$202,615.84
EXPENDITURES 5. EXPENDITURES TO SUPPORT OR OPPOSE (SCHEDULE B) 6. OPERATING EXPENDITURES (SCHEDULE B-1) 7. LOAN REPAYMENTS (SCHEDULE C)
$0.00
$0.00
$112,302.99
$195,365.56
$0.00
$0.00
$112,302.99
$195,365.56
9. IN-KIND CONTRIBUTIONS (SCHEDULE A-1)
$0.00
$0.00
10. TOTAL LOAN BALANCE AT END OF PERIOD (SCHEDULE C)
$0.00
11. TOTAL UNPAID DEBTS AT END OF PERIOD (SCHEDULE D)
$0.00
8. TOTAL PAYMENTS (LINE 5 + 6 + 7)
OTHER ACTIVITY
I, BENJAMIN LOMBARD, CERTIFY THAT THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS REPORT IS TRUE, ACCURATE, AND COMPLETE TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE. REPORT FILED BY: BENJAMIN LOMBARD REPORT FILED ON: 10/02/2017 LAST MODIFIED: 10/03/2017 PRINTED: 01/22/2018 COMMITTEE ID: 1175
SCHEDULE A CASH CONTRIBUTIONS
For contributors who gave more that $50, the names, address, occupation, and employer must be reported. If "information requested" is listed instead of occupation and employer, the candidate is waiting to receive that information. Cash contributions of $50 or less can be added together and reported as a lump sum. Contributor Types
1 = Individual
9 = Candidate / Candidate Committee
2 = Candidate/ Spouse/ Domestic Partner
10 = General Treasury Transfer
3 = Commercial Source
11 = Transfer from Previous Campaign
4 = Nonprofit Organization
12 = Contributors giving $50 or less
5 = Political Action Committee
13 = Contributors giving $100 or less
6 = Political Party Committee
14 = Contributors giving $200 or less
7 = Ballot Question Committee
15 = MCEA Payment
8 = Other Candidate/ Candidate Committee
DATE RECEIVED
CONTRIBUTOR
7/3/2017 RICHARD DYKE P.O. BOX 1385 WINDHAM, ME 04062
16 = Financial Institution
OCCUPATION AND EMPLOYER BUSHMASTER FIREARMS
TYPE
AMOUNT
1
$5,000.00
DESCRIPTION: CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
7/10/2017 MILLERCOORS 3939 W. HIGHLAND BLVD MILWAUKEE, WI 53201
DESCRIPTION: Unknown
3
$1,000.00
7/17/2017 REBECCA CUMMINGS 21 FOX RUN WINDHAM, ME 04602
PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS
1
$125.00
1
$125.00
1
$125.00
1
$90,000.00
1
$125.00
1
$100.00
9
$40.00
1
$1,000.00
DESCRIPTION: NURSE 7/17/2017 CATHY NICHOLS 41 STAPLEFORD DRIVE FALMOUTH, ME 04105
INFORMED WOMEN'S NETWORK DESCRIPTION: EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
7/25/2017 LESLIE DUBOIS 588 MAIN STREET LEWISTON, ME 04240
MICHAEL DUBOIS PA
7/31/2017 PAUL COULOMBE PO BOX 150 SOUTHPORT, ME 04576
RETIRED
7/31/2017 GINGER KIEFFER 30 BUCKFIELD ROAD NORTH TURNER, ME 04266
US SENATOR COLLINS
7/31/2017 DELAINA TOOTHMAN 4 STILLWATER AVENUE OLD TOWN, ME 04468
UNITY COLLEGE
DESCRIPTION: Office and Administrative Occupations
DESCRIPTION: Retired
DESCRIPTION: STAFF ASSISTANT
DESCRIPTION: ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR
8/2/2017 DILLINGHAM FOR HOUSE 72 P.O. BOX 164 OXFORD, ME 04270 8/2/2017 WALTER JACKSON 55 BURBANK LN YARMOUTH, ME 04096
RETIRED DESCRIPTION: Retired
8/9/2017 JENNIFER BERRY 157 GAMAGE AVENUE AUBURN, ME 04210
SELF-EMPLOYED
8/9/2017 BARBARA HARVEY PO BOX 8123 PORTLAND, ME 04102
RETIRED
8/9/2017 HEATHER PRIEST 42 MEADOWRUE DRIVE AUGUSTA, ME 04330
STATE OF MAINE
8/9/2017 SHELLEY RUDNICKI 211 NORRIDGEWORK ROAD FAIRFIELD, ME 04937
SHELLEY'S USED CARS LLC
1
$160.00
1
$125.00
1
$125.00
1
$125.00
1
$125.00
1
$125.00
3
$25.00
1
$125.00
1
$125.00
6
$125.00
1
$22,000.00
1
$125.00
1
$125.00
7
$196.46
4
$100.00
DESCRIPTION: Consultant
DESCRIPTION: Retired
DESCRIPTION: SENATE SECRETARY
DESCRIPTION: OWNER 8/9/2017 JULIE SHEEHAN P.O. BOX 2436 SOUTH PORTLAND, ME 04116
F.O. BAILEY REAL ESTATE
8/9/2017 DELAINA TOOTHMAN 4 STILLWATER AVENUE OLD TOWN, ME 04468
UNITY COLLEGE
DESCRIPTION: Real Estate Professional
DESCRIPTION: ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR
8/14/2017 MARSHALL ARTS P.O. BOX 144 SOUTHWEST HARBOR, ME 04679 8/17/2017 TONYA FONS P.O. BOX 1417 AUBURN, ME 04210
ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS INC. DESCRIPTION: Office and Administrative Occupations
8/17/2017 HEATHER SIROCKI 32 GLENDALE CIRCLE SCARBOROUGH, ME 04074
STATE OF MAINE DESCRIPTION: LEGISLATOR
8/21/2017 WALDO COUNTY REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE c/o Michael Cunningham, Chair; PO Box 724 Belfast, ME 04915 8/22/2017 ROBERT FULLER 11215 SEVEN LOCKS ROAD POTOMAC, MD 29854
SELF-EMPLOYED
8/28/2017 NANCY FORD 128 BALD HILL ROAD WELLS, ME 04090
RETIRED
8/28/2017 STEPHANIE HAWKE 76 PARK STREET BOOTHBAY HARBOR, ME 04538
STATE OF MAINE
8/31/2017 MAINE REPUBLICAN PARTY BALLOT QUESTION COMMITTEE 9 HIGGINS STREET AUGUSTA, ME 04330 9/5/2017 AMERICAN LEGION WINSLOW HOLBROOK POST 1 P.O. BOX 582 ROCKLAND, ME 04841
DESCRIPTION: PRIV. FIDUCIARY
DESCRIPTION: RETIRED
DESCRIPTION: Office and Administrative Occupations
9/5/2017 JENNIFER BERRY 157 GAMAGE AVENUE AUBURN, ME 04210
1
$100.00
9/5/2017 MAC'S GRILL 1052 MINOT AVENUE AUBURN, ME 04210
3
$200.00
9/5/2017 MAINE TRUCK PAC PO BOX 857 AUGUSTA, ME 04332
5
$500.00
1
$1,000.00
3
$500.00
9/11/2017 MAINE SENATE REPUBLICAN MAJORITY P.O. BOX 1 AUGUSTA, ME 04332
5
$9,000.00
9/11/2017 NICKERSON & O'DAY, INC. PO BOX 911 BANGOR, ME 04402
3
$500.00
1
$100.00
9/15/2017 BENTLEYS' SALOON, LLC 1601 PORTLAND ROAD ARUNDEL, ME 04046
3
$1,000.00
9/15/2017 EAC LLC PO BOX 788 GRAY, ME 04039
3
$2,000.00
9/18/2017 ASTRAZENECA PO BOX 15437 WILMINGTON, DE 19850
3
$1,000.00
9/18/2017 PLAN BEE APIARY 2532 MILTON MILLS ROAD ACTON, ME 04001
3
$1,000.00
9/18/2017 THE SHED RESTAURANT 1060 ROUTE 109 ACTON, ME 04001
3
$175.00
9/18/2017 YANKEE MARINA & BOATYARD, INC. 142 LAFAYETTE STREET PO BOX 548 YARMOUTH, ME 04096
3
$1,000.00
1
$150.00
1
$150.00
9/20/2017 STATE FARM INSURANCE COMPANIES 16 SILVER STREET WATERVILLE, ME 04901
3
$200.00
9/26/2017 FAIRPOINT COMMUNICATIONS 1 DAVIS FARM ROAD PORTLAND, ME 04103
3
$500.00
9/26/2017 MAYHEW FOR MAINE 13 MAYFLOWER LANE SOUTH CHINA, ME 04358
9
$135.00
9/7/2017 PAUL COULOMBE PO BOX 150 SOUTHPORT, ME 04576
SELF-EMPLOYED DESCRIPTION: Consultant
RETIRED DESCRIPTION: Retired
9/7/2017 MITCHELL TARDY JACKSON LLC 104 SEWALL STREET AUGUSTA, ME 04330
9/11/2017 HEATHER PRIEST 42 MEADOWRUE DRIVE AUGUSTA, ME 04330
STATE OF MAINE DESCRIPTION: SENATE SECRETARY
9/20/2017 SHEREE BROWN 50 NORTH STREET DOVER FOXCROFT, ME 04426
PCAP
9/20/2017 HILLARY LISTER 16 CHAPEL STREET AUGUSTA, ME 04330
COLBY COLLEGE
DESCRIPTION: OFFICE COORDINATOR
DESCRIPTION: ARCHIVIST
9/26/2017 PATCO CONSTRUCTION, INC. 475 MAIN STREET SANFORD, ME 04073
3
$500.00
9/26/2017 WINTHROP REPUBLICAN TOWN COMMITTEE 137 PAMELA DRIVE WINTHROP, ME 04364
6
$89.28
9/28/2017 MAINE RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE P.O. BOX 257 AUBURN, ME 04212
4
$250.00
1
$100.00
9/28/2017 MEREDITH STRANG BURGESS 10 AMY LANE CUMBERLAND FORESIDE, ME 04110
BURGESS ADVERTISING, INC. DESCRIPTION: ADVERTISING
TOTAL CASH CONTRIBUTIONS
$141,520.74
SCHEDULE B-1 OPERATING EXPENDITURES EXPENDITURES TYPES CNS
Campaign consultants
POL
Polling and survey research
CON
Contribution to other candidate, party, committee
POS
Postage for U.S. Mail and mail box fees
EQP
Equipment (office machines, furniture, cell phones, etc.)
PRO
Other professional services
FND
Fundraising events
PRT
Print media ads only (newspapers, magazines, etc.)
FOD
Food for campaign events, volunteers
RAD
Radio ads, production costs
Print and graphics (flyers, signs, palmcards, t-shirts, etc.)
SAL
Campaign workers' salaries and personnel costs
MHS
Mail house (all services purchased)
TRV
Travel (fuel, mileage, lodging, etc.)
OFF
Office rent, utilities, phone and internet services, supplies
TVN
TV or cable ads, production costs
OTH
Other
WEB
Website design, registration, hosting, maintenance, etc.
PHO
Phone banks, automated telephone calls
LIT
DATE OF EXPENDITURE
PAYEE
REMARK
TYPE
AMOUNT
7/5/2017
ADOBE SYSTEMS, INC 345 PARK AVENUE SAN JOSE, CA 95101
SOFTWARE
OFF
$10.54
7/10/2017
NINA MCLAUGHLIN 14 WOOD POND ROAD BRUNSWICK, ME 04011
TRAVEL:MILEAGE
TRV
$397.29
7/13/2017
EPAY BUSINESS SOLUTIONS INC. 19 MIDSTATE DRIVE, SUITE 110 AUBURN, MA 01501
PAYROLL
SAL
$2,869.82
7/17/2017
ANEDOT P.O. BOX 84314 BATON ROUGE, LA 70884
MERCHANT FEES
OTH
$9.36
7/25/2017
ANEDOT P.O. BOX 84314 BATON ROUGE, LA 70884
MERCHANT FEES
OTH
$4.68
7/28/2017
EPAY BUSINESS SOLUTIONS INC. 19 MIDSTATE DRIVE, SUITE 110 AUBURN, MA 01501
PAYROLL
SAL
$1,612.15
7/31/2017
ANEDOT P.O. BOX 84314 BATON ROUGE, LA 70884
MERCHANT FEES
OTH
$4.68
7/31/2017
TD BANK 101 WESTERN AVE AUGUSTA, ME 04330
BANK FEES
OTH
$2.00
7/31/2017
TD BANK 101 WESTERN AVE AUGUSTA, ME 04330
BANK FEES
OTH
$2.00
8/1/2017
Maine Republican Party 9 Higgins Street Augusta, ME 04330
ALLOCATION TRANSFER
OTH
$22,526.19
8/2/2017
ALBISON'S PRINTING, INC. 124 RIVERSIDE DRIVE AUGUSTA, ME 04330
PRINTING & DESIGN SERVICES: ENVELOPES
8/2/2017
IAN ANDERSON TRAVEL:MILEAGE 123 EVERGREEN POINT ROAD JONESBORO, ME 04648
LIT
$770.76
TRV
$297.92
8/2/2017
AUGUSTA FLORIST 118 MT. VERNON AVENUE AUGUSTA, ME 04330
FLORAL EXPENSE
OTH
$98.90
8/2/2017
CRAFTS SELF STORAGE 7 CENTER PARK ROAD TOPSHAM, ME 04086
STORAGE UNIT RENTAL
OFF
$146.00
8/2/2017
MAINE MIST 581 MAINE AVE. FARMINGDALE, ME 04344
OFFICE SUPPLIES
OFF
$32.62
8/2/2017
PITNEY BOWES P.O. BOX 371874 PITTSBURGH, PA 15250-7874
EQUIPMENT LEASE
EQP
$61.00
8/2/2017
RIVERSIDE DISPOSAL 700 RIVER ROAD CHELSEA, ME 04330
TRASH REMOVAL
OFF
$48.00
8/2/2017
STAPLES P.O. BOX 689020 DES MOINES, IA 50368
OFFICE SUPPLIES
OFF
$405.14
8/7/2017
ADOBE SYSTEMS, INC 345 PARK AVENUE SAN JOSE, CA 95101
SOFTWARE
OFF
$10.54
8/7/2017
ALBISON'S PRINTING, INC. 124 RIVERSIDE DRIVE AUGUSTA, ME 04330
PRINTING & DESIGN SERVICES: ENVELOPES
LIT
$2,408.83
8/7/2017
CRAFTS SELF STORAGE 7 CENTER PARK ROAD TOPSHAM, ME 04086
STORAGE UNIT RENTAL
OFF
$274.00
8/7/2017
UHAUL MOVING & STORAGE 47 WESTERN AVE AUGUSTA, ME 04330
EQUIPMENT RENTAL
OTH
$104.67
8/7/2017
WESTERN AVENUE STORAGE STORAGE UNIT RENTAL 665 WESTERN AVENUE AUGUSTA, ME 04330
OFF
$675.00
8/8/2017
Maine Republican Party 9 Higgins Street Augusta, ME 04330
ALLOCATION TRANSFER
OTH
$14,038.71
8/9/2017
ANEDOT P.O. BOX 84314 BATON ROUGE, LA 70884
MERCHANT FEES
OTH
$29.30
8/9/2017
DELTA AIRLINES 1030 DELTA BLVD ATLANTA, GA 30354
WILLETTE REIMBURSEMENT: AIRFARE
TRV
$391.60
8/9/2017
DELTA AIRLINES 1030 DELTA BLVD ATLANTA, GA 30354
ESPLING REIMBURSEMENT: AIRFARE
TRV
$366.60
8/9/2017
HOTEL DEL CORONADO 1500 ORANGE AVE CORONADO, CA 92118
WILLETTE REIMBURSEMENT: LODGING
TRV
$1,260.00
8/9/2017
EKATERINA IKHSANOVA 9 HIGGINS ST AUGUSTA, ME 04330
PAYROLL
SAL
$2,750.00
8/9/2017
RIVERSIDE DISPOSAL 700 RIVER ROAD CHELSEA, ME 04330
TRASH REMOVAL
OFF
$48.00
8/9/2017
STANDARD PARKING 1 INTERNATIONAL PARKWAY PORTLAND, ME 04102
WILLETTE REIMBURSEMENT: PARKING SERVICES
TRV
$53.00
8/9/2017
STAPLES P.O. BOX 689020 DES MOINES, IA 50368
OFFICE SUPPLIES
OFF
$163.92
8/10/2017
ALBISON'S PRINTING, INC. 124 RIVERSIDE DRIVE AUGUSTA, ME 04330
PRINTING & DESIGN SERVICES:ENVELOPES
LIT
$15.83
8/10/2017
ALBISON'S PRINTING, INC. 124 RIVERSIDE DRIVE AUGUSTA, ME 04330
DIRECT MAIL
MHS
$63.60
8/10/2017
PITNEY BOWES P.O. BOX 371874 PITTSBURGH, PA 15250-7874
EQUIPMENT LEASE
EQP
$150.00
8/10/2017
RIVERSIDE DISPOSAL 700 RIVER ROAD CHELSEA, ME 04330
TRASH REMOVAL
OFF
$48.00
8/14/2017
EPAY BUSINESS SOLUTIONS INC. 19 MIDSTATE DRIVE, SUITE 110 AUBURN, MA 01501
PAYROLL
SAL
$1,612.15
8/14/2017
JASON SAVAGE 9 HIGGINS ST AUGUSTA, ME 04330
TRAVEL: MILEAGE
TRV
$1,417.02
8/14/2017
STUB HUB 199 FREMONT STREET, FLOOR 4 SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105
FUNDRAISING EVENT: RAFFLE PRIZE
FND
$842.50
8/15/2017
THE GOVERNOR HILL MANSION 136 STATE STREET AUGUSTA, ME 04330
FACILITY RENTAL/CATERING SERVICES
OTH
$446.07
8/17/2017
ANEDOT P.O. BOX 84314 BATON ROUGE, LA 70884
MERCHANT FEES
OTH
$14.04
8/22/2017
LEADERSHIP FOR MAINE'S FUTURE P.O. BOX 476 NEWPORT, ME 04953
CONTRIBUTION
CON
$250.00
8/23/2017
RICHARD BENNETT 75 BENNETT LANE OXFORD, ME 04270
CONSULTING
PRO
$3,000.00
8/23/2017
DELTA AIRLINES 1030 DELTA BLVD ATLANTA, GA 30354
KOUZOUNAS REIMBURSEMENT: TRAVEL: AIR
TRV
$333.60
8/23/2017
TODD W ROGERS JR. 26 CRAIG DRIVE BREWER, ME 04412
TRAVEL: MILEAGE
TRV
$123.20
8/24/2017
AMERICAN LEGION POST #1 P.O. BOX 582 ROCKLAND, ME 04841
FACILITY RENTAL
OTH
$300.00
8/25/2017
GUY E. ROWE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 219 MAIN STREET NORWAY, ME 04268
DONATION
OTH
$2,020.00
8/28/2017
ANEDOT P.O. BOX 84314 BATON ROUGE, LA 70884
MERCHANT FEES
OTH
$9.36
8/30/2017
EPAY BUSINESS SOLUTIONS INC. 19 MIDSTATE DRIVE, SUITE 110 AUBURN, MA 01501
PAYROLL
SAL
$2,240.05
8/30/2017
THE ORCHID FLORIST 11548 NORTHWEST FWY HOUSTON, TX 77092
FLORAL EXPENSE
PRO
$59.48
8/31/2017
TD BANK 101 WESTERN AVE AUGUSTA, ME 04330
BANK FEES
OTH
$2.00
8/31/2017
TD BANK 101 WESTERN AVE AUGUSTA, ME 04330
BANK FEES
OTH
$2.00
9/1/2017
AMAZON.COM, INC. 1200 12TH AVE SOUTH STE. 1200 SEATTLE, WA 98144
OFFICE SUPPLIES
OFF
$94.94
9/1/2017
Maine Republican Party 9 Higgins Street Augusta, ME 04330
ALLOCATION TRANSFER
OTH
$15,000.00
9/5/2017
ADOBE SYSTEMS, INC 345 PARK AVENUE SAN JOSE, CA 95101
SOFTWARE
OFF
$10.54
9/6/2017
A.C. MOORE 14 CROSSING WAY #1 AUGUSTA, ME 04330
BRANN REIMBURSEMENT: OFFICE SUPPLIES
OFF
$15.00
9/6/2017
RYAN BRANN 186 WINGOOD ROAD WINDSON, ME 04363
TRAVEL:MILEAGE
TRV
$60.00
9/6/2017
ALEX KNIGHT 9 HIGGINS STREET AUGUSTA, ME 04330
TRAVEL: MILEAGE
TRV
$37.62
9/6/2017
ALEX KNIGHT 9 HIGGINS STREET AUGUSTA, ME 04330
CONSULTING
SAL
$150.00
9/6/2017
PITNEY BOWES P.O. BOX 371874 PITTSBURGH, PA 15250-7874
EQUIPMENT LEASE
EQP
$60.00
9/6/2017
TODD W ROGERS JR. 26 CRAIG DRIVE BREWER, ME 04412
TRAVEL: MILEAGE
TRV
$182.40
9/6/2017
STAPLES P.O. BOX 689020 DES MOINES, IA 50368
OFFICE SUPPLIES
OFF
$143.00
9/11/2017
AMERICAN AWARDS 283 STATE STREET AUGUSTA, ME 04330
PLAQUE
LIT
$66.99
9/11/2017
JETBLUE 27-01 QUEENS PLAZA N LONG ISLAND CITY, NY 11101
KOUZOUNAS REIMBURSEMENT: TRAVEL:AIR
TRV
$293.00
9/11/2017
NINA MCLAUGHLIN 14 WOOD POND ROAD BRUNSWICK, ME 04011
TRAVEL: MILEAGE
TRV
$231.00
9/11/2017
RIVERSIDE DISPOSAL 700 RIVER ROAD CHELSEA, ME 04330
TRASH REMOVAL
OFF
$48.00
9/13/2017
Maine Republican Party 9 Higgins Street Augusta, ME 04330
ALLOCATION TRANSFER
OTH
$15,000.00
9/14/2017
AMAZON.COM, INC. 1200 12TH AVE SOUTH STE. 1200 SEATTLE, WA 98144
OFFICE SUPPLIES
OFF
$9.08
9/14/2017
AMAZON.COM, INC. 1200 12TH AVE SOUTH STE. 1200 SEATTLE, WA 98144
OFFICE SUPPLIES
OFF
$68.45
9/14/2017
AMAZON.COM, INC. 1200 12TH AVE SOUTH STE. 1200 SEATTLE, WA 98144
OFFICE SUPPLIES
OFF
$92.49
9/14/2017
EPAY BUSINESS SOLUTIONS INC. 19 MIDSTATE DRIVE, SUITE 110 AUBURN, MA 01501
PAYROLL
SAL
$2,166.78
9/15/2017
AMAZON.COM, INC. 1200 12TH AVE SOUTH STE. 1200 SEATTLE, WA 98144
OFFICE SUPPLIES
OFF
$31.64
9/15/2017
AMAZON.COM, INC. 1200 12TH AVE SOUTH STE. 1200 SEATTLE, WA 98144
OFFICE SUPPLIES
OFF
$51.92
9/18/2017
AMAZON.COM, INC. 1200 12TH AVE SOUTH STE. 1200 SEATTLE, WA 98144
OFFICE SUPPLIES
OFF
$63.28
9/20/2017
ANEDOT P.O. BOX 84314 BATON ROUGE, LA 70884
MERCHANT FEES
OTH
$11.10
9/21/2017
KIM PETTENGILL 9 HIGGINS ST AUGUSTA, ME 04330
EVENT CONSULTING
CNS
$343.75
9/26/2017
Maine Republican Party 9 Higgins Street Augusta, ME 04330
ALLOCATION TRANSFER
OTH
$7,543.66
9/27/2017
THE GO DADDY GROUP INC 14455N. HAYDEN ROAD SUITE 226 SCOTTSDALE, AZ 85260
ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION
OFF
$12.17
9/28/2017
EPAY BUSINESS SOLUTIONS INC. 19 MIDSTATE DRIVE, SUITE 110 AUBURN, MA 01501
PAYROLL
SAL
$758.95
9/28/2017
SNOWMAN GROUP 1 PRINTERS DRIVE HERMON, ME 04401
DIRECT MAIL
MHS
$4,938.11
9/28/2017
SNOWMAN GROUP 1 PRINTERS DRIVE HERMON, ME 04401
Offset due to update of filed item
MHS
($4,938.11)
9/28/2017
SNOWMAN GROUP 1 PRINTERS DRIVE HERMON, ME 04401
DIRECT MAIL
MHS
$4,931.11
9/29/2017
TD BANK 101 WESTERN AVE AUGUSTA, ME 04330
BANK FEES
OTH
$2.00
9/29/2017
TD BANK 101 WESTERN AVE AUGUSTA, ME 04330
BANK FEES
OTH
$2.00
TOTAL OPERATING EXPENDITURES
$112,302.99
