NH-GOV: Democratic Contender Got Big Donations From Pain Clinic At Heart Of State's Opioid Crisis
Cinde Warmington, a leading Democratic contender for governor of New Hampshire and the only Democrat on the state’s Executive Council, served for years as a lawyer to a pain management clinic network implicated in the Granite State’s opioid crisis.
As Warmington has made combating the state’s fentanyl crisis a central part of her campaign, the extent of her relationship with the firm now called PMC Medical Group, best known for its PainCare and Granite State Pain Associates facilities, is deeper than previously known. In fact, the clinics’ parent company and owner became major contributors to her campaigns for New Hampshire Executive Council and governor.
In her two runs for Executive Council in 2020 and 2022, and in her current run for governor, Warmington received a combined total of $49,000 in campaign contributions from Dr. Michael J. O’Connell, the owner of the pain clinic operation, and from the PMC Medical Group, the current name for the parent company of O’Connell’s network of pain management clinics.
O’Connell’s $10,000 donation to Warmington’s gubernatorial campaign in April is the only contribution that either O’Connell, or the medical business he founded, have made to Warmington’s most recent campaign. (O’Connell, who died of lung cancer earlier this month, made most of his contributions to Warmington’s campaigns, including the most recent one, through an entity called the Michael J. O’Connell Revocable Family Trust.).
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