That left his wife as the sole breadwinner in the family. She's a life insurance agent in Bangor, but didn't earn enough to pay the family bills. We cut back on the food allowance, didn't go out much. We don't go to the movies. Money to finance his campaign was also hard to come by.
Wealthy donors tend to give to the best known candidates in a party.
We had a number of people who indicated to us that they would be interested in contributing if they felt that I had a shot at the seat. By mid-August, faced with a rising personal debt, a financially bankrupt campaign and low polling results, Bost withdrew from the race. Since then, he's picked up odd jobs working for the Maine Democratic Party, for the University of Maine, and now at a car dealership. However, I would do so with a number of things in place or not at all.