Maine Legislature is Slow to Amend Public Funding Program

This lengthy newspaper story says that the Maine legislature is moving slowly to fix the state’s public funding program. The law must be amended, to take into account the U.S. Supreme Court decision Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s Freedom Club PAC v Bennett, which said that it is unconstitutional to give extra public funding to publicly-funded candidates who have well-funded privately-funded opponents.


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