Maine Senate Campaign Swaps Treasurer After Dual Role with Michigan Pro-el Sayed Super PAC

After one outlet inquiry, Troy Jackson’s Senate fundraising committee in Maine filed a Wednesday amendment that removed Peter Sarasohn as treasurer and installed retired librarian and former state senator Beth Edmonds. Sarasohn, who previously served as budget director for Bernie Sanders’s 2020 campaign, also held the treasurer and bookkeeping roles for Fighting for Michigan, the super PAC created to support Michigan Senate hopeful Abdul el Sayed.

Records show Sarasohn collected consulting fees from Jackson’s gubernatorial committee and operated Victory First Consulting from his Silver Spring, Maryland townhouse, where he opened bank accounts for both Jackson’s formal Senate committee and the Michigan PAC at the same Wells Fargo branch. The replacement filing was timestamped at 4:05 p.m. EDT, several hours after the initial inquiry, and the Federal Election Commission confirmed such filings typically become public within minutes.

Despite el Sayed’s claim of a grassroots campaign, the super PAC has spent more than $2.8 million on advertising, funded largely by his father-in-law Tayeb Jukaku and the Institute for Middle East Understanding. Both Jackson and el Sayed share Sanders-aligned progressive platforms and have received his endorsement.