AMF Runs Anti-Bowman Ad

As PolitickerME reports, the Alliance for Maine's Future's Maine Prosperity PAC has spent $8,000 as an independent expenditure attacking Senator Peter Bowman in Senate District 1. AMF Director Tony Payne sends along an ad which will be running this week in the Weekly Sentinel as a part of that expenditure. Click the image to enlarge.

The ad attempts to tie Bowman to a long list of tax hikes based on his votes for LD 1925, a bill that would have lowered income taxes by broadening the sales tax, and LD 2247, the bill that imposed a beverage tax to replace the insurance savings offset payments funding the Dirigo Health program. LD 2247 is the subject of the Question 1 referendum campaign.

In addition to the $363 spent on this ad, the PAC has spent over $7,500 on an anti-Bowman mail campaign.

Bowman is locked in a close race with former senator Mary Andrews. This expenditure should trigger more public funding for his campaign under the Maine Clean Elections Act.

4 responses to “AMF Runs Anti-Bowman Ad”

#1Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on October 15, 2008 - 4:49pm.

I was going to vote for

I was going to vote for Bowman, but then I learned he wants to tax petting zoos.

Are these guys serious?

#2Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on October 18, 2008 - 9:47am.

Peter Bowman

what I find interesting about the republicans and their attacks now is that they are so vicious....when, after all, it has been their beyond extravagant spending in Washington that now has us teetering on the edge of complete collapse.

Yes, they are responsible with taxpayers money -- just overlook the additional 85B George, Hank & Ben handed AIG on Thursday....

and please, don't tally up the cash Ben printed last week...you might faint if you find out that -- on his own, no taxpayer oversight -- he handed out over 600B thru his new discount windows for banks.

You know, at some point, bills have to be paid. If you want to elect people who will at least open them up and try to keep some stability in the system, then vote Democratic.

If you want to have people who tell you to your face that they are "great on taxes" and then sell the ground out from under you, and then the air rights over your grave, hey, republican is the way to go.

Mary Andrews is no solution. If anything right now, we need people seriously experienced in management and budgets to protect us, not people with little or no in-depth knowledge of finance.

She going to get our pants stolen right off us.....and she won't even know its happening until its over. We have to have a death wish to send someone as inexperienced in money matters to Augusta is a death wish.

But, that's why the Republican powers that be put out ads like this, and back people like Mary Andrews >>> plumping up York County like chicken for the kill.

#3Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on October 18, 2008 - 10:51am.

You're an obvious R party

You're an obvious R party plant, give me a break buddy, no body reads this stuff but us.

#4Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on October 18, 2008 - 10:53am.

And I agree with the second

And I agree with the second comment, these
knuckle heads brought us to the brink of ruin