On March 14, the Maine House passed LD 1774 on a preliminary vote. This is the bill to conform the state’s public funding program (for candidates for state office) to the U.S. Supreme Court decision from Arizona last year. That decision said public funding programs can’t give extra public funds to certain candidates. See this story.

Maine supporters of public funding don’t like LD 1774 (even though the bill saves the system from being completely invalidated), and may propose an alternate solution via referendum.