Kevin Kelley

Note: PolitickerME received further information and comments from several sources after Wednesday’s story was posted about an ad campaign opposing candidates who support the Employee Free Choice Act.

While Sen. Susan Collins agrees with the message in several ads that attack opponent and U.S. Rep. Tom Allen for his support of the Employee Free Choice Act, she doesn’t believe such ads have a place in Maine politics, a spokesman for her campaign said Wednesday.

Allen’s campaign has called on Collins to denounce the ads. Kevin Kelley, spokesman for Collins, said the Senator does denounce this ad campaign with a blanket denouncement of all ads produced independently of the campaigns.

“Senator Collins has always denounced third party ads,” Kelley said.

Carol Andrews, spokeswoman for Allen, released a statement Wednesday criticizing Collins for not speaking up about the ads.

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins: Getty Images PhotoU.S. Sen. Susan Collins will take a $10,000 donation from the Northern Lights Political Action Committee and give it to charity. The PAC is affiliated with U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, who was indicted today on seven counts of failing to disclose thousands of dollars in services from an oil services company that helped renovate his home.

Kevin Kelley, spokesman for the Collins campaign, said the campaign has not decided which charity the campaign will give the money to.

The Maine Democratic Party brought the monetary connection between Collins and Stevens to light quickly after news of the indictment broke. This was one of several attacks against Collins today.

Tom Allen’s campaign hit Sen. Susan Collins today for not supporting a cloture motion that would have ended a filibuster on the U.S. Senate floor yesterday. The filibuster, initiated by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., blocked a package of 35 bills from moving forward.

Allen, a Democratic representative, is challenging Collins for her Senate seat.

The cloture vote failed 52-40. It needed 60 votes to pass.

The package included a wide range of bills, from providing research money to paralysis victims to a measure to crack down on child pornography to a measure commemorating the Star-Spangled Banner.