# Lead Maine Committee **Lead Maine Committee, Inc.** (FEC committee **C00946921**) is an independent-expenditure committee at **700 Main Street, Suite 3, Bangor, Maine 04401**, spending against Democrat **[[Troy Jackson]]** in [[ME-Sen-2026]]. ## Disclosed spending | Filing | Received | Expenditure date | Amount | Direction | Vendor | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | Form 24, file **2016855** | 2026-10-04 | 2026-10-02 | **$51,064.60** | oppose [[Troy Jackson]] | Mash Dynamo | ## Why it is on file here > [!important] It shares a signer with the Heritage super PAC > The Form 24 is signed by **Nicholas Stoltzfus** — who signed **[[Sentinel Action Fund]]**'s Form 24 > (file **2016853**) **the same day**, 5 minutes and 52 seconds apart in the FEC's e-file index > (20:07:32 and 20:13:25). Sentinel Action Fund is the super PAC that grew out of Heritage Action. > > This is the **second** Maine-branded committee in this race found to share personnel with a national > vehicle: [[The Maine Standard]] (C00961342) shares treasurer Trevor Kowalski with > [[Cornhusker Majority]] in Nebraska. See [[State-Branded Super PAC Template]]. > > A shared signer is a compliance-vendor fact before it is anything else, and nothing in the filings > establishes coordination or shared funding. It follows the [[State-Branded Super PAC Template]]: a state-patriotic name carrying no information about who is behind it, disclosing through 48-hour notices long before any receipts report. The aggregate column on its single row ($1,415,165.38) is **not** a race or committee total. ## Open questions - Its first Form 3X — the only document that would name a funder. - Whether 700 Main Street Suite 3, Bangor is a compliance office and which other committees use it. ## Related KB entities [[Sentinel Action Fund]] · [[The Maine Standard]] · [[ME-Sen-2026]] · [[Troy Jackson]] · [[Susan Collins]] · [[State-Branded Super PAC Template]] · [[Independent Expenditure]] · [[Organizations Hub]] ## Sources - FEC Form 24, file 2016855 — `https://docquery.fec.gov/dcdev/posted/2016855.fec` - FEC Form 24, Sentinel Action Fund, file 2016853 — `https://docquery.fec.gov/dcdev/posted/2016853.fec`