Bill to scrap matching funds heads to LePage

Maine's Legislature has given its final approval to a bill that eliminates matching funds for Clean Election candidates if they get outspent by their privately financed competitors. Now, the bill heads to Gov. Paul LePage for his signature.
The Senate yesterday voted to enact LD 1774, which scraps matching funds from the Maine Clean Election Act because a U.S. Supreme Court ruling found it unconstitutional, according to a press release from Maine ...