More than 100 people paid $250 each to have lunch with first lady Laura Bush at a home here Wednesday, an event that also attracted a handful of curious neighbors who got a smile and a wave from the president's wife. The onlookers braved a steady drizzle while waiting outside the Sawyer Street home of Peter Cianchette, who hosted the fundraiser for the Maine Republican Party on Wednesday.
A former manager at Cianbro Corp. told a Maine ethics panel Wednesday that the company ran a clandestine operation to help the 2002 gubernatorial campaign of Peter Cianchette. Ron Harwood, a former superintendent of small tools and supplies at Cianbro, said the company gave the Republican nominee at least $53,000 in labor and materials, violating the $500 contribution limit. Cianbro spokesman Tim Wilton declined to respond, saying it would be improper to comment on an issue pending before the Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices. The panel's duties include handling campaign-finance laws.
Several leading Maine Republicans, including both of the state's U.S. senators, ruled out a run for governor Tuesday as handicappers tried to identify prospective GOP candidates now that Peter Cianchette has dropped out. But other party members, including Les Otten of Newry, part-owner of the Boston Red Sox, said they are keeping their options open. Cianchette, of South Portland, was the perceived front-runner before his surprise announcement Monday that he is abandoning his bid for the Blaine House.
PITTSFIELD - The oldest memory Peter Vigue has of Ival "Bud" Cianchette, who died Thursday at age 83, is Cianchette's belt buckle. Vigue was a 9-year-old newspaper delivery boy at the time, and the Cianchettes were on his route. Cianchette's wife, Priscilla, normally was the person who paid the bill, but on that fateful Sunday night, it was the towering Cianchette and his belt buckle that answered the door.
It's impossible, and in some ways irrelevant, for outsiders to know the degree to which Cianbro Corp. deliberately hid its efforts on behalf of the 2002 GOP candidate for governor. Peter Cianchette, the Republican who lost to Gov. Baldacci, is the son of a Cianbro founder. During the campaign, Cianbro employees drove around in rented trucks placing lawn signs in favor of Cianchette's candidacy. These in-kind contributions - $68,000 worth - never appeared on Cianchette's campaign finance reports.
AUGUSTA - During his campaign for governor in 2002, Republican Peter Cianchette received significant - and illegal - contributions from the Cianbro Corp., a construction company closely tied to his family. In documents presented to the state ethics commission, Cianchette admitted that Cianbro spent more than $68,800 in coordination with his gubernatorial campaign. The legal limit for contributions is $500.
AUGUSTA - Four years before hiring on as Gov. John E. Baldacci's new senior campaign strategist, Christian Potholm was one of the incumbent Democrat's most implacable foes. The Bowdoin College political scientist and longtime GOP pollster said Friday he had experienced a significant change of heart concerning Baldacci since offering the following advice to former Republican gubernatorial candidate Peter Cianchette on July 9, 2002:
Peter Cianchette of South Portland told a Senate panel considering his nomination to be ambassador to Costa Rica on Wednesday that he is up to the job, even though his Spanish is rusty and he has never been to Costa Rica. Cianchette, who was Maine's Republican gubernatorial candidate in 2002, said he has had crash courses in Spanish language and Costa Rican politics since he was nominated earlier this year.
Peter Cianchette was a legislator, then Republican nominee for governor, then George W. Bush campaign manager in Maine, then GOP national committee member. Most recently, he was U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica.
PITTSFIELD - Peter Cianchette has returned home and is again working for Cianbro. Cianchette, who ran for governor in 2002, ended his term as the U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica a few weeks ago and has accepted the position of vice president of business development, Cianbro Chairman and CEO Peter Vigue announced Wednesday.
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