1. FEC report and Campaign Debt
   
   We're almost done with all the essential data-entry that needs to happen before that critical post-election Federal Elections Commission report, due December 7, can be filed. With adjustments for any post-campaign contributions made to help pay down the campaign debt (hint, hint), and any last-minute expenses (like more postage stamps for those thank-you notes), that report will look something like this:
   
   • about $120,400 in total revenue over the entire campaign,
   • about $1,100 cash on hand,
     
   • just over $19,400 in campaign debt.
   That last part breaks down to:
   • $3,315 still on the campaign credit card, mainly for some last-minute TV ad time, as well as routine campaign office expenses like copy paper, stationery, envelopes, toner, etc. That bill is due Dec. 22.
     
   • $2,950 in unpaid travel vouchers for Jean and David for October and November.
     
   • $13,150 in loans from Jean to cover unpaid travel vouchers during the 17 months Jean was on the campaign trail pre-primary.
   
   
2. Getting out those thank-you notes
   Now that the dust has almost settled around here, we're in the process of getting out all those thank-you notes, hundreds of them, for the help that came in the last few weeks and months of the campaign. Thank you again, all of you, for your support during the entire campaign, and especially in that last push, when it looked like the entire nation had come around to adopting my campaign platform of ending the war, getting national health care, moving to energy self-sufficiency, and rescuing our Constitution.
   
   
3. Disconnecting phones
   As you might expect, we'll be discontinuing all those VOIP phone numbers we've been using to make it convenient for all of you all over the state and in Washington, DC, to reach our office without a toll call. That will happen during the first week of December, which is coming right up. We'll be keeping the campaign phone number (207-234-4224) for the time being, if you need to reach us. It's a ring-mate number on our home phone number. And speaking of phones, David's cell phone number will be changing soon, we don't have a new number yet. Call the house (207-234-4226) if you need to reach him.
   
   
4. Web page, emails, etc.
   We'll be keeping the web page up for the time being, until we decide what it might/could morph into.
   Thanks again to our two wonderful volunteer webmasters, Alisha Langerman, who carried the ball for most of the campaign, and Dan Ellis, who stepped in this fall to help out Alisha when her college studies took precedent (as well they should).
   Meanwhile, we're still adding to it.
   Check out the Supporters page for several new additions.
   Check out the Blog for recent post-election postings of supporters' emails (and thank you for those wonderful emails).
   
   Speaking of emails, we've been having trouble lately sending to Yahoo.com email addresses, sometimes just in bulk, other times even single emails. We hear other political sites have had this problem, too. So if you have some political cronies with yahoo.com accounts, feel free to forward this missive.
   
   In the "etc." department, if you still see a lawn sign of ours up on a public right of way, please do us a favor and stop and take it away. Unless they're in someone's front yard, they're supposed to be gone a week after the election. Thanks.
   Also in the "etc." department, you might like to read what I told the Maine Democratic Party State Committee at its meeting on Nov. 19 (more below).

...Support from the grassroots for my campaign was tremendous. That's what kept me going. So many people, who shared our vision for where we needed to go in this country....Support from the Maine Democratic Party was helpful. Howard Dean's Coordinated Campaign structure worked better than I've ever seen a coordinated campaign work.

...Many people were reasonably assuming that the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee and EMILY’s List were providing money and support, because that is their supposed reason for existing. Both organizations adamantly refused to help. . .

...Compounding the problem for me was Maine's Clean Election Fund. ....People perceived that I was getting Clean Election money, or that I had the opportunity to get Clean Election money but chose not to take it.... People asked me in emails why they were not seeing ads for me, when they were seeing two other women running for statewide office [Pat LaMarche and Barbara Merrill] with ads all over the television, for months.... Maine's Clean Election Fund is only available to candidates running for Governor and State House and State Senate seats in the Maine Legislature. It does not extend to federal candidates, for the U. S. House of Representatives or U. S. Senate.