Tag Archives: John Richardson

Remembering John Richardson

Tuesday afternoon I learned the unfortunate news that former Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives and former commissioner of the Department of Economic and Community Development John Richardson had passed away as the result of a heart attack. I had the great fortune to know John, though interestingly enough we first encountered one another […]

John Richardson Officially Withdraws From Race

Told ya so.  (Sorry, couldn’t resist) Today, John Richardson held a news conference to announce his withdrawal from the Maine gubernatorial contest.  He also sent out his official campaign announcement to his supporters today, which essentially threw the offending collectors of clean election checks under the bus, while highlighting the work done by the rest […]

Matt Gagnon Discusses Richardson Controversy On WGAN With Ken and Mike

This morning, I had the pleasure of visiting with Ken and Mike of WGAN’s “Morning News” program on 560 AM (Portland). We discussed the stories I broke over the weekend about John Richardson having been officially denied clean election funding by the Ethics Commission, the accusations of fraud being leveled at his campaign, and his […]

Richardson To Quit Race Tomorrow

UPDATE: According to Susan Cover, “Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Richardson will hold an 11 a.m. press conference today in the Morrel Room of Curtis Memorial Library 23 Pleasant St. Brunswick, according to his spokeswoman.” While no official word came from the campaign about what the announcement is for, I think it is quite clear. —- […]

More Details On The John Richardson Controversy

This afternoon, I spoke at length with a person who is close to and has spoken about this issue (the Richardson investigation) with Attorney General Janet Mills, and here is the breakdown of what has taken place. The Ethics Commission has found that John Richardson is ineligible to receive clean election funding due to fraud […]

John Richardson Looking For A Way Out Of The Race

As has been reported widely last week, John Richardson is in hot water over his clean election funding.  The problem focuses on the irregularities with the qualifying checks used by Richardson to qualify for the several hundreds of thousands of dollars from the state to use for his campaign for Governor.  It has been described […]

Confirmed: John Richardson To Enter Race For Governor

UPDATE:  Verified. This is completely unverified, but I am hearing buzz from multiple sources that tomorrow current Commissioner for the Department of Economic and Community Development, John Richardson, will be making his official announcement that he is running for Governor of Maine. His entry into the race has been talked about for some time, but […]