Fast Takes: Singing the ActBlues, girl dads mobilized in Maine and more

From the left: Singing the ActBlues ActBlue, the Democratic donation-processing behemoth, has “been criticized by its own stakeholders for being too careless in its compliance with campaign finance laws, too lax in its policing of PACs that use its platform, and for extensive internal chaos,” warns The American Prospect’s Robert Kuttner. Worse, the criticism has brought no real changes, with reports of “sham PACs” that “use ActBlue to deceive donors” and steer money to PACs’ consultants rather than candidates. Plus, ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones has been slammed for her “top-down brand of management and a regal travel style.” A “criminal…