Dem senate nominee attacks DSCC

Published June 21, 2012 4:00am ET



Cynthia Dill, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Maine, attacked the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee as for failing to support her candidacy or “share [the] ideals” of her state today.

“Don’t let the DSCC and other beltway insiders decide who Maine’s next United States Senator will be,” Dill wrote in a fundraising email, the Bangor Daily News observed. “We know these groups don’t share our ideals and will not fight for working families, small businesses and Maine values.”

The DSCC could pick up the seat anyway if Angus King, the former governor running as an independent, wins the election and caucuses with the Democrats.

“We are talking to a lot of people up in Maine and are making a determination on what we’re going to do,” Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said when refusing to endorse her party’s nominee.