Thank you all again, for all the support and enthusiasm you all put into this campaign. Knowing you were there, and that you're still out there, by the thousands, knowing that we still share a vision for what American is, what it needs to be and become, is what keeps me from being discouraged -- at least for the moment -- about the fate of the world, the nation, and the state of Maine.

Best wishes for a wonderful Holiday Season, and let's hope and pray for real Peace on Earth in the New Year.

Keep in touch.
Jean


December 7, 2006

Here's our Post Election FEC Report. A year-end report is due in January, and will include some final travel bills that do not show up on this report.

This was such a wonderful grassroots campaign, and I really loved carrying the progressive, anti-war banner for all of you. If votes could be calibrated based on the passion of the voters, I would have won hands down.

While the passion was there, as you know, the big money was not. And the people who worked on our campaign were, and are, also involved in so many other worthwhile causes. I appreciate all that energy and the reality of limited resources. But the bottom line is that, at this point, it looks like David and I will be personally swallowing about $19,000 in campaign expenses. For us, that's a lot of money.







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November 19, 2006

By Jean Hay Bright

. . . Many people were reasonably assuming that the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee and EMILY's List were providing money and support, because that is their supposed reason for existing. Both organizations adamantly refused to help. . .

. . . If each Democratic candidate for federal office must start at ground zero, with lists, with people, with money, with campaign organization, if a Democratic candidate for federal office cannot expect even a modicum of support from the national Democratic party, then the reasons for running as a Democrat become less and less compelling. . .



November 9, 2006

From Jean Hay Bright

It was an exhilarating year and a half, bearing the torch as your anti-war, pro-health care, pro-labor, pro-environment, protect-the-Constitution candidate. From the election results, we know that almost 110,000 of you share my view of the America we want to live in. That's a lot of people! Thank you all for those votes...


November 5, 2006
New TV Ad - Click Here

What is the Maine Press REALLY saying about Olympia Snowe?

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November 4, 2006
Sen. Snowe and the posting of "How to Make a Nuclear Bomb"

Maine's Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Saturday questioned the extent of Sen. Olympia Snowe's involvement in the posting on the internet of directions on how to make a nuclear bomb, as revealed in a New York Times article Friday.

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November 4, 2006
Hay Bright calls for paper ballots in federal elections

Maine's Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jean Hay Bright Friday proposed federal legislation that would require standardized paper ballots for all federal offices - President, U.S. Senate and U.S. Congress - all across the country. Hay Bright made her comments prior to casting her absentee ballot at the Dixmont Town Office.

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November 3, 2006
New Radio Ad - Click Here

Hear what the Maine Press is saying about the U.S. Senate race.

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November 1, 2006
Time to pull out all the stops

With just days to go, it's time to get every last sign up and every last piece of literature distributed. A complete list of Democratic Party offices is listed below. Head over to your local office and find out how much Jean Hay Bright material they have... please take as much as you feel you can distribute on your own and get it out now.

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October 31, 2006
BDN Columnist John Buell endorses Jean Hay Bright

...There are many moderate Republicans in Maine increasingly opposed to the Iraq occupation. They could send a clear signal both on their position and on the centrality of the war by voting for Jean Hay Bright...

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October 28, 2006
What is going on here?

This week, both the Bangor Daily News and the Brunswick Times Record praised me profusely, criticized Snowe for her stances on basic issues like the Iraq War and protecting the Constitution -- and then both p

I've written op-ed rebuttals to the BDN and the BTR. You can read them here (below), I hope you will be able to read them in those papers in the next few days.


October 28, 2006
How's That Again?

...If you saw that a newspaper who looked at Snowe's support of President Bush, and saw that Snowe "has enabled his agenda in ways that are detrimental to a free people. When defending the U.S. Constitution, moderation can become capitulation," you would think that that newspaper might see Snowe's return to office as a threat to free people and the Constitution. Wrong again.

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October 25, 2006
"Troubling concessions," troubling endorsement

...But most disconcerting in this endorsement is the BDN's dismissal as just "troubling concessions" Snowe's willingness "to suspend habeas corpus rights for some detainees in the war on terrorism and to allow the president to define acceptable treatment." Those "concessions" are not minor issues. They speak to the very fabric of our nation.

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October 20, 2006
Rockland Courier-Gazette endorses Jean Hay Bright

There is no larger issue facing the country than the Iraq War debacle that has dragged on for more than three years. The war has cost the lives of nearly 3,000 U.S. military personnel and caused life-altering injuries to many thousand more. This disastrous path can be changed only by electing new members to Congress. Maine has the chance on Nov. 7 to elect someone who will shift the direction Congress has paved during the past four years. Jean Hay Bright is that candidate.

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October 20, 2006
The Debates Begin Sunday, Oct. 22, 2006

The coming week will be intense, with five debates in five days, at least two of them televised. Join us at the event, for a show of support. Or watch/listen from home.

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October 20, 2006
Check Out Our TV and Radio ads!!

To make this work, to get me to Washington as Maine's next U.S. Senator, we need your financial help, NOW, to get our message out these last critical days.

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October 19, 2006
Jean's honorable mention in The Nation

Jean got an honorable mention in the latest edition of The Nation magazine for "keeping the heat on supposedly moderate" Snowe.

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October 18, 2006
Military Tribunal bill signed (with Snowe's support)

...Olympia Snowe did not vote that infamous Thursday, because she was here in Maine attending her aunt's funeral. She could have taken a pass. Instead, she issued a statement that, had she been in Washington, she would have voted in favor of all those bills.

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October 18, 2006
Slavick and Hay Bright differ on immigration

...Bill Slavick, flatly does NOT want existing labor laws to be enforced on American employers. He does NOT believe that American workers will take such "stoop labor" jobs even if they are paid a living wage. (As an organic farmer, I've done lots of what Slavick calls "stoop labor" work, and find it very rewarding and productive.)...

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October 18, 2006
Bangor Daily News profiles Hay Bright campaign

BANGOR -- Over the din of the 1,500 raucous anti-war protesters that surrounded her, one had to listen intently to hear Jean Hay Bright's message.

See also: Jean Hay Bright on the Issues

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October 17, 2006
Snowe's Iraq War Switch

...Just last week, in an election-year conversion, Snowe decided to follow Sen. John Warner's lead (Snowe is a follower, not a leader) and suggested that we may need to rethink the current course in Iraq. Snowe said in a press release, "Staying the course is neither an option nor a plan."
I say, reelecting Snowe is neither an option nor a plan.

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October 16, 2006
Snowe and Slavick fail "choice" test

After several years of approval, NARAL has refused this election year to endorse Olympia Snowe....
...Slavick stated Thursday in Cape Elizabeth that he does not think a woman's right to choose is an issue in this U.S. Senate race.

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October 2, 2006
Congress votes for America to become a totalitarian state

...And Justice disappeared Thursday, September 28, 2006, when the United States Congress voted to debase the Constitution, to deny habeas corpus rights to "enemy combatants," people designated as such on the President's word alone...

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October 2, 2006
Bangor Anti-War Rally Great Success!

Saturday's Bangor anti-war rally and march was a great success, drawing twice the number of concerned citizens as the Kennebunkport rally and march on Aug. 26. I am delighted that people -- of all ages -- are taking to the streets in protest of our government's policies.

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October 2, 2006
Help Frame the Debate

One of the first debates with Olympia Snowe will be held on Sunday, Oct. 22, at Page Commons Room in Cotter Union on the Colby College campus at 6:30 p.m. YOU have a chance to ask one of the questions.

Submit your questions for the Colby College U.S. Senatorial Debate on Oct. 22 to: doffer@centralmaine.com

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October 2, 2006
Former Presidential Candidate Congressman Kucinich to stump for Jean

Former Presidential candidate and current progressive Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich will be the featured speaker at a campaign rally and fundraiser for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jean Hay Bright on Monday, Oct. 9, at South Portland High School, 637 Highland Ave., South Portland.

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September 25, 2006
Torture

It is amazing to me that, here in the United States of America, Congress is discussing the fine points of torture -- what is legal, how far can we go in mistreating prisoners we are holding, without our agents being prosecuted under national and international law and treaties.

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September 25, 2006
Reimportation of Prescription Drugs

Olympia Snowe has been getting some attention lately for her bill that would allow the reimportation of prescription drugs from places such as Canada. It is just the latest example of Snowe getting credit for fixing or trying to fix a problem that she was instrumental in creating.

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September 25, 2006
Cuts in veteran's benefits a threat to our national security

...We can't send our good military men and women into illegal and immoral wars, and then cut their pay, their schooling and survivor benefits, not adequately fund their health care, or the growing need for prosthetics for amputated limbs, or mental health services for PTSD. We can't continue to redeploy people time after time after time. We can't keep recalling discharged members to come serve again.

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September 16, 2006
Speech to the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner

Our returning veterans deserve better than they are getting from the current administration. They - like ALL of us - deserve decent health care - national health care.

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September 15, 2006
Maine Building Trades Council endorses Hay Bright in U.S. Senate race

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jean Hay Bright has received the unanimous endorsement of the Maine State Building & Construction Trades Council. The council, representing more than 5,500 Maine workers from 14 different trades, took the vote Thursday, according to John R. Hanson, the council's executive director.

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September 14, 2006
Snowe votes, TV ad statements, don't mesh

Democrat Jean Hay Bright Thursday cautioned Maine voters to "listen between the words" in the television ads run by her opponent Olympia Snowe in this year's U.S. Senate race.

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September 13, 2006
Chaffee RI win bodes well for Anti-War Democrat in Maine

Maine's Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jean Hay Bright said Wednesday that Lincoln Chaffee's win in Tuesday's Rhode Island Republican primary bodes well for her race against Republican incumbent Sen. Olympia Snowe.

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September 8, 2006
DFA Bangor chapter endorses Jean Hay Bright

BANGOR (Sep 8): The Democracy for America (DFA) chapter in Bangor representing hundreds of DFA members throughout Northern Maine endorses Jean Hay Bright for the United States Senate. DFA/Bangor unanimously voted Wednesday night, September 6th, to endorse Jean for U.S. Senate.

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September 5, 2006
Maine Victory 2006 Campaign Season Kick-Off

...We need a Democratic House and Senate so we can provide universal health care, so American manufacturing can once again be competitive in the world market, so entrepreneurs can follow their dreams while protecting their families, so our returning veterans and seniors can get the health care they've earned and deserve.

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September 4, 2006
Labor Day Statement

On this Labor Day, I want to thank all workers, in Maine and across the nation, for doing the jobs you do every day. Labor Day is the day when we recognize that, collectively, the workers of America are the driving force in this country.

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September 3, 2006
MainePulse Survey: Snowe at 53%

Results of a MainePulse survey, released Friday, showed Maine's incumbent Republican Senator Olympia Snowe with only 53% of likely voters saying they would vote for her.

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September 3, 2006
Endorsement Update

Last week a couple of blog items on some national sites discussing support - or lack thereof - for this campaign showed that there is some confusion as to who's on board with us.
For the record: We are receiving solid support from within the state, from individuals and from the Democratic Party structure.

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