Bill Nemitz: Money, money everywhere … now what does Gideon do?
Flush with more than $14 million in leftover campaign funds, Maine's losing U.S. Senate candidate has some decisions to make.
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Money didn’t just rain on Democrat Sara Gideon’s failed campaign for the U.S. Senate. It poured.
And now, with the election over, the question hovers like a lingering cloud over the more than $14 million Gideon ran out of ways to spend: What’s she going to do with that residual – and extraordinarily deep – pool of cash?
“If (Gideon) wants to give money to charity, go right ahead,” Walden “Denney” Morton said Thursday in a phone interview from her home in Cape Elizabeth. “But if you’re talking about public airwaves and public monies, or semi-public money, or matching, or whatever, keep it in the public domain and make sure it goes for the common good.”