Billionaire extremists drop millions in CD2 to help Theriault rubber stamp their agenda to ban abortions, bust unions, and outlaw marriage equality
As new public polling shows a tight race in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District, new reporting reveals that deep-pocketed extremists like Richard Uihlein are spending millionsofdollars in TV, radio, digital, mail, and canvassing to smear Jared Golden and boost Austin Theriault.
DCCC Spokesperson Ellie Dougherty:
“Billionaires and extremists are coming out of the woodwork to boost Austin Theriault because they know he will prioritize them in Congress. Theriault has a record of putting corporate profits and extremist culture wars ahead of Maine’s middle class, and those special interests are rewarding him with millions spent to get him to Congress so he can rubber stamp their agenda of banning abortions, busting unions, and outlawing marriage equality.”
Theriault’s track record is catnip for billionaires and extremists:
Theriault voted against lowering prescription drug prices for Mainers, instead giving discounts intended for consumers to prescription drug companies’ middle men. His first vote in Congress will be for a leadership team that has repeatedly tried to cut Social Security and Medicare and is determined to repeal health care for 117,000 Mainers, end protections for pre-existing conditions, and allow insurance companies to charge seniors five times more for health care.
Theriault votedfor multiple so-called “right to work” bills, hurting Maine unions, and against establishing paid family and medical leave statewide.
Theriault made clear, on the record, that he’ll side with extremists to allow states to make abortion illegal even in the case of rape or incest.
Restoration PAC, funded by anti-equality, anti-choice, anti-union Republican Megadonors, is bankrolling a massive campaign in CD2:
Restoration PAC, a vehicle for extremist Richard Uihlein, hasalreadyspent $2.3 million in TV, radio, digital, and mail attacking Jared Golden. The Uihleins contributed 90 percent of Restoration PAC’s funding for the 2024 cycle, and are the third-largest individual donors to candidates and committees nationwide.
The Uihleins and Restoration PAC have donated more than $15 million to the super PAC for SBA List, an anti-choice organization dedicated to a nationwide abortion ban without exceptions.
Uihlein has poured millions into anti-union efforts, including the nonprofit that represented the plaintiffs in the Janus decision, supporting right-to-work-for-less laws in Missouri and spending against a measure to protect organizing workers in the Illinois state constitution.
As of 2022, Restoration PAC wrote among its “guiding principles” that “all marriage is for one man and one woman for life.”
