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Monday, July 28, 2008

Contact: Rebecca Pollard

(207) 772-4353 or cell: 233-7380.

STATEMENT IN REACTION TO SUPREME COURT'S UNANIMOUS RULING ON HOFFMAN PETITION CHALLENGE -- FROM REBECCA POLLARD, SPOKESWOMAN FOR THE MAINE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

Today's ruling was a victory for the rule of law and validates why Maine has a petition process in the first place.

Rules are rules, and whether an individual intends to break them or not, they must be upheld-and that's what the Supreme Court did today. We believe that when someone swears an oath, or a promise, that oath must be truthful.

Undermining the rules for how one's name appears on the ballot for elected office would have set a dangerous precedent for Maine's petition gathering process in the future, and ultimately could have led to many more legal battles.

The sanctity of Maine's ballot access process was at stake in this case, and today the Supreme Court did a great service to Maine voters, who can feel confident that all candidates for the U.S. Senate are on the ballot justly.

We have an important Senate seat to win this November. We will keep on talking about how Tom Allen's plans to address our energy and health care crises, end the war in Iraq, and reverse the dangerous Bush economic policies-every single issue on which his position differs from those of Susan Collins.

We are going to work hard to the very last hour to make sure every Maine voter knows exactly how important it is for Maine to replace Collins with someone who thinks the way Mainers think and votes that way when he's in Washington.

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