Summary
A ruling overturning the matching portion of Maines Clean Election law was not unexpected. The Legislature foresaw the problem and gave the Ethics Commission the job of fixing the law after the court decision. The commissions job is fairly easy eliminate the matching provision, which gives publicly funded candidates more money when their privately financed rivals spend more.
Time can be spent crafting clever ways to work around the ruling or to develop schemes to allow some private contributions to publicly financed candidates. The best path is the most straightforward.See the full content of this document
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No Match for Clean
Without matching funds, candidates who decide to participate in the states public financing system will still get set disbursements f...
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