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Portland (Maine) Press HeraldChellie Pingree and Sen. John McCain once moved in the same Washington world of people interested in campaign finance reform.
Now McCain is the presumptive Republican nominee for president and Pingree is a Democratic congressional candidate from Maine. And with the release of a new book about McCain by a former Pingree aide, evidence of a long-submerged rift between the two political insiders is spilling into public view.
In an interview for this article, Pingree said that people close to McCain tried in 2004 to remove her from her job as the head of Common Cause, the prominent Washington watchdog organization. A spokesman for McCain's presidential campaign denied that the senator took part in an effort to oust Pingree.
Regardless, interviews with people on both sides of the dispute make clear that McCain and Pingree were divided by both partisan politics and a substantive disagreement over campaign finance reform.
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