Pingree Report

Chellie Pingree associates with a rough crowd, and we've already reported that she has significant financial and personal ties to ACORN's benefactors. Now a disturbing video of a group actually praying to Barack Obama has emerged, and guess what? Pingree is running in the same circles as these people as well.
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(AMG's Solitary Path posted this gem on The Public Square forum)

“I miss George Bush.”

“What?” Donald Sussman looked up from the financial section of the Wall Street Journal questioningly to make sure he had heard correctly. “Come again?”
“I miss W,” Chellie Pingree said firmly.

Dean Scontras has a post up at The Republican Project, titled 'See Chellie Hedge' that adds a whole other dimension to the Pingree/ Sussman relationship:

“Paloma Securities received $200 million of taxpayer dollars each between September 18 and December 31, according to the list of AIG counterparties released.”

Donald Sussman funneled over $100,000 to Pingree's campaign through his hedge-fund employees. He also contributed $1 million to a 527 group that donated hundreds of thousands to fund ACORN. Now that Pingree may soon vote on the fate of ACORN's funding, shouldn't she be asked about this?
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Yesterday the Senate voted overwhelmingly to cut HUD funding from the notorious ACORN. ACORN has been thoroughly discredited in recent days, largely due to the intrepid undercover reporting of Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe at BigGovernment.com.

The NY Times reported last year about the relationship between Drummond Pike and ACORN:

When the embezzlement of almost $1 million by the brother of the founder of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, better known as Acorn, surfaced last month, the organization announced that an anonymous supporter had agreed to make it whole.

Maine House Speaker Hannah Pingree, daughter of US Rep. Chellie Pingree, sits on the Board of Directors of the Progressive States Network with a veritable who's-who of extreme Left-wing activists. One of Pingree's notable co-directors? Steve Kest, Executive Director of ACORN.

From PSN's site :

After reviewing the video clip of Chellie Pingree on Hardball last night, I think it's pretty clear that she is positioning herself to back away from her demand for a public option. This after she signed a letter telling the President that she would not support a bill unless it had a public option. I wonder how her 'progressive' supporters will feel about that?