Shaheen wants to limit outside cash in Senate race

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http://www.chron.com/news/article/Shaheen-wants-to-limit-outside-cash-in-Senate-race-5320052.php

NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — Democratic U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is calling on newly announced Republican challenger Scott Brown to sign the same pact in New Hampshire that helped prevent outside groups from pouring millions of dollars into his last Massachusetts Senate election.

In a letter sent Saturday, less than 24 hours after the former U.S. senator from Massachusetts entered the race, Shaheen said she "very much admired the People's Pledge" that Brown signed with Sen. Elizabeth Warren in 2012. Brown lost his Senate seat to Warren.

"I believe it limited the influence of outside groups and allowed the people's voices to be heard," Shaheen wrote. She asked Brown to make a similar pledge this year to give New Hampshire voters "the assurance that their voices will not be drowned out by third-party expenditures."

The challenge comes as national outside groups gear up to send a river of money into a New Hampshire Senate contest that could be the most expensive in state history.