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Two more Hawaii execs plead guilty to funneling illegal contributions to Susan Collins campaign after she helped their company secure $8,000,000 in federal funding; face possible prison time and fines.
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NYT report suggests Susan Collins approved White House's arbitrary/suspicious limits on the FBI probe.
Inquiry looking more and more like an empty gesture to provide political cover to "moderates" rather than a legit investigation.
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Mainers oppose Kavanaugh 52-39%. Susan Collins approval down to 54%.
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Thread below showing that way back in early '20, Susan Collins team had every reason to believe she was benefiting from a straw donor scheme.
They held onto the $ anyway, staying mum til after the election -- when search warrants were served.
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Easy to loose the forest from the trees with this stuff, so here's a quick thread/timeline on the relationship between Susan Collins and Martin Kao, her biggest contributor to her 2020 campaign, who plead guilty of illegal donations to Collins yesterday.
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After Susan Collins insinuates that
@AARPMaine
is w/ her on the tax bill, group puts out a 10:17pm tweet reiterating its crystal clear position.
#mepolitics
MAINERS, TAKE ACTION: Call 844-859-6718 & urge
@SenatorCollins
to vote no on this bill!
#mepolitics
@AARPadvocates
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Reminder: Susan Collins voted no on cloture for several very qualified Obama judicial noms who had majority support in the Senate
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After 14 straight Trump-supporting votes,
@SenatorCollins
has voted w/ Trump 84% of time. Highest overall % since first month of administration
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Susan 'I'm powerless to stop Trump' Collins cast the tie-breaking vote yesterday to put a 39 year-old on the federal bench. Nominee refused to say he backs Brown v. Board of Education. Confirmed 50-49.
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All 31 nominees Susan Collins sided against in Biden's first two years. (Photo array by
@BruceBourgoine
.)
That's about 12x her rejection rate under Bush and Trump.
Have yet to see a single article that's noted -- let alone asked her to account for -- the difference.
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Key point: Susan Collins didn't just vote to confirm the Trump judge now doing backflips to shield the guy who appointed her.
Collins voted to confirm her AFTER TRUMP LOST, while Trump was going around denying the election outcome.
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If 38,000 folks give $28 each to try to get Susan Collins to do the right thing, she calls it "bribery."
But when corporate lobbyists invite wealthy donors to fete Collins & shower her w/$10K checks at a corporate-owned townhouse, she calls it a "birthday reception."
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Collins went FROM:
Opposing repeal mandate TO:
Backing repeal if she got fake "fixes" before Senate vote TO:
Backing repeal if fake "fixes" pass before *final* vote TO:
'It'd be nice if fixes pass before final vote but I trust Trump/Ryan/McConnell'
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Susan Collins votes against yet another highly qualified Biden nominee.
With her vote against Bradsher, the former Chief of Staff for
@DeptVetAffairs
, Collins has now sided against 43 Biden nominees -- 78% of them women!
#mepolitics
Join us in congratulating Tanya Bradsher, the new Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs!
Tanya served honorably in the U.S. Army for 20 years. Her principled leadership, deep knowledge, and unwavering dedication to Veterans will serve us well.
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Few are better-positioned to curb this administration than Susan Collins.
Her failure to do so--even at this late date--represents a betrayal of the values she's pretended to believe in for 20+ years.
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BREAKING: All 49 Senate Democrats are now opposed to the Thomas Farr nomination. With Senator Flake opposed, we need one more Republican to defeat this nominee.
RT to urge Republicans to vote NO to defeat this anti-voting rights nominee.
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Susan Collins voted against Dems bill to cap insulin cost for folks on Medicare and complained when they tried to extend it to others.
Last I checked her pharma-friendly plan excludes the uninsured; seems like an industry errand to head off Warnock's stronger plan.
#mepolitics
Right now, far too many Americans are forced to ration life-saving medicine — like the 8.4 million that rely on insulin.
That’s why
@SenatorShaheen
and I are leading the way to dramatically reduce the cost of this lifesaving drug. Read more here:
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Wow. Susan Collins ditches the moderate facade and throws in with the lawless and authoritarian Trump cult, issuing a full-throated denunciation of Trump's conviction. Did not see that coming.
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Susan Collins was asked the same straightforward question but refused to answer it.
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) says it would be a “double standard” to fill a Supreme Court vacancy before 2021 & “would not support it.”
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One of the half-dozen super obvious questions no reporter ever manages to ask Susan Collins:
If you're pro-choice, why'd you make a pilgrimage to the home of the nation's leading anti-choice activist, chat privately w/ him and take $$ from him & his anti-choice pals?
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@LobsterPilates
@JaneMayerNYer
@emptywheel
@elyse4design
@SenatorCollins
Yes, neither Susan Collins or Leonard Leo wanted the public to know about the fundraiser he held for her after she claimed Kavanaugh wouldn’t overturn Roe and voted for him.
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Remember, Susan Collins said Kavanaugh wouldn't let this happen. It's why she voted to confirm him.
#mepolitics
Because there is no split in the lower courts, the only plausible reason for the Supreme Court to take up this case is to overturn the rule (set out in Roe and Casey) that states may not enact a total ban on abortions at any point before viability, which Mississippi wants to do.
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If yr wondering whether protests have had any effect consider: Collins stayed in DC both of last two weekends--something she says she 'virtually never' does. No sign of her in ME this weekend either.
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Susan Collins just did it again -- voted to block ANOTHER highly qualified minority female Biden nominee -- this one originally from Maine!
Merle's got a stellar resume unlike many Trump noms Collins OK'd.
She's the 39th Biden nom Collins has sided against overall.
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Collins: What are ya doing?
Biden: Trying to build a house. Wanna help?
Collins: How about just a bathroom and a closet instead?
Biden: No the idea is to build a house.
Collins: Fine two closets.
Biden: Sorry.
Collins: How dare you exclude me from your process?!
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Sick. Susan Collins again parroting the seditionist framing. This is how we lose the country and she simply doesn't care.
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#NEW
:
@SenatorCollins
says FBI raid of
#Trump
's home was "shocking." Collins added if the raid "only had to do with disputes over documents" it was an "excessive move on the part of the Justice Department."
@NEWSCENTERmaine
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Maine media will run articles on whatever small bore bill Susan Collins is pushing but mysteriously nothing on her effort to block the IRS from going after rich tax cheats -- which CBO says would cost the rest of us $120,000,000,000.
(Below from South Dakota press.)
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If the image of Biden nominees Susan Collins has blocked makes you wonder if she's been siding against folks from some groups more than others...the answer seems to be 'yes'!
Thru 300 days 50% of Biden noms were men; 61% white. Collins rejects mostly women of color.
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Wow. Susan Collins said she couldn't join Trump in Maine tomorrow because she'll be busy working in Washington. But she's actually going to be spending the afternoon with rich donors at a virtual fundraiser.
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NEW (BUT BEST TO IGNORE IT): High-quality poll from Emerson has Susan Collins -6% and still stuck in the low 40s.
Key detail: Among 3rd party candidate supporters: "61% choose Gideon as their second choice while just 14% have Collins as their second choice.
#mepolitics
MAINE POLL:
US Senate
@SaraGideon
48%
@SenatorCollins
42%
@LisaForMaine
5%
@MaxLinn4Senate
1%
Someone else 1%
Undecided 4%
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Susan Collins and Jared Golden both voted against the enhanced Child Tax Credit when it was passed, and both are on the record opposing its renewal without cuts.
Good thing there aren't any poor kids in Maine.
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Wow. This is such a tragic chart.
**Child poverty in the United States more than doubled in 2022**
2022 child poverty rate: 12.4%
2021 child poverty rate: 5.2% (a historic low)
This did not have to happen. It's largely due to ending the enhanced Child Tax Credit.
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Boston Globe: "Waffling" Collins sounds like she's in "the first contortions of an epic flip-flop"; faces "a test of her political independence, and to a certain extent even her credibility"
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This story deserves national attention:
No Labels denied that they had misled Maine voters into changing their party registration; and now a
@PressHerald
investigation has concluded that hundreds and hundreds of voters were in fact misled.
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Feel like I've had my eyes open about Susan Collins for a while now (!!) but still can't believe she cited Alex Jones/Infowars "rumors" about Prof. Blasey Ford to reporters yesterday.
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Campaign to oust Susan Collins if she breaks her 'no hostility to Roe' pledge and backs Kavanaugh closing in on $200K Average donation is about $28. More than 7K donors for an election that's 26 months away.
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On the same day Susan Collins disgraced and debased herself by saying she's open to supporting Trump in 2024, Trump calls Collins "Wacky" and "a RINO."
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This page to fund Susan Collins 2020 challenger has raised about $20,000 in the last half hour.
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Cannon was seated during the lame duck session AFTER TRUMP LOST (when he was denying he'd lost.)
It broke a 123 year norm of not confirming a defeated president's judge nominees.
Yet Susan Collins, supposed Senate institutionalist, helped it happen. Don't forget!
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Sen. Collins voted to confirm Aileen Cannon. Sen. King did not. The ABA did not consider her well-qualified.
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Ronald Reagan adviser and George H. W. Bush treasury official.
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If Susan Collins believed her bullshit rationalization for the tax cut, she's stupid. I don't think she's stupid. I think she's a brazen liar.
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Here's the chalk message that was on the sidewalk by Susan Collins home that she's calling a "defacement of public property" and that local police were called out to investigate.
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How is this news?
Susan Collins said the same thing the last time she was feeling heat on this issue--and that she was working on her own bill to codify Roe () but then went silent when the press moved on.
Do better,
@pressherald
.
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.
@SenatorCollins
says she would support legislation to codify
#abortion
protections in Roe V. Wade.
@rachel_ohm
reports
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Stop calling me about my vote to take away your health care. Someone with a real problem might not be able to get thru.
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Forgive me but a couple final thoughts on Jared Golden's bizarre, sloppy tantrum today and his implicit/unfortunate attempt to pit working class Mainers against each other rather than advocating for their interests and working to build solidarity among them.
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Susan Collins didn't just sponsor the bill that destablized USPS. She wrote it.
#mepolitics
This is your reminder that:
1) Sen Collins sponsored the bill that destabilized the USPS
2) The delays got even worse after Trump appointed DeJoy
3) Pres Biden and congressional Dems pushed to get USPS back on equal footing
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Is there anything as patronizing as a column on Susan Collins that chalks up her ebbing popularity to forces beyond her control? As if she had no choice but to back Trump 9 of 10 votes, break promises to voters & twiddle her thumbs while the govt locks kids in cages?
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Susan Collins kicks off the post-Labor Day session by voting to block YET ANOTHER highly qualified African-American woman Biden nominee.
Collins has now sided against 42 Biden noms total. 57% (!) are women of color.
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By a vote of 50-49, the
#Senate
invoked cloture on the nomination of Gwynne Wilcox to be a Member of the NLRB for the term of 5 years expiring August 27, 2028.
Senator Murkowski voted in favor and Senator Manchin voted against.
Not voting: Senator Booker
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Susan Collins after skimming the first page of MOBY DICK: "It's a wonderful book and everyone should read it. Five stars."
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Susan Collins suggesting the 14th amendment prohibition against giving "aid or comfort" to insurrection shouldn't bar Trump from the ballot, even though in 2021 she said he bore "responsibility" for "inciting" the coup thru actions aimed at "overturning" the election.
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U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, who said she will not support Donald Trump in next year’s election, took a dim view of the longshot legal effort to block the former president from Maine’s 2024 ballot.
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@SenatorCollins
Collins now covering for her own fecklessness: She could have protected Mueller almost unilaterally when the Senate was 50-49; she did not. Furthest she went was to say it "wouldn't hurt" for Collins to protect Mueller.
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NEW: Susan Collins approval at an alarming 37% in new Critical Insights poll. Down from 42% last fall.
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In a rare vote against a white dude, Susan Collins tries to block Biden's chair of his own advisory council -- an eminent, highly-qualified economist w/ decades of experience.
Bernstein the 36th Biden nominee Collins has sided against. 12x the rate under Bush/Trump!
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CONFIRMED: Jared Bernstein to be Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers
@WhiteHouseCEA
By a vote of 50-49.
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2nd former Susan Collins staffer in like a week to imply that Collins takes positions for petty/vindictive reasons (at least when Dems are in charge) rather than based on the merits.
This is what her *fans* are saying.
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Seems Susan Collins wasn't thrilled about being photographed last night at a DC bash for (I think) the industry group that lobbies for TV/radio station owners. (Org pushing for e.g. fewer restrictions on owning lots of outlets.)
Captured by an intrepid Twitter user.
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WaPo: Republicans have "privately become alarmed" at GOP chances in key Senate races including Maine.
"Many GOP strategists...have doubts that Collins will be able to continue her trend of faring far better" in races than her party's nominee.
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Susan Collins on Obama's response to Ebola [3:28]:
"The administration's policy has been a moving target. It's been a disaster because the President has always been one step behind."
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Still seeing reporters refer to Susan Collins as "pro-choice" without qualification. Stop it. No reasonable reading of her record over the last 23 months--or 23 years--supports that characterization.
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Easy to loose the forest from the trees with this stuff, so here's a quick thread/timeline on the relationship between Susan Collins and Martin Kao, her biggest contributor to her 2020 campaign, who plead guilty of illegal donations to Collins yesterday.
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Some news tonight:
@SenatorCollins
favors a comprehensive abortion rights bill as long as it doesn't actually exist; serious climate action as long as she doesn't have to vote on it; and transformative LGBTQ rights legislation up until the moment that it might pass.
#mepolitics
Some news tonight:
@SenatorCollins
is open to
@SenatorRomney
’s revived child tax credit overhaul, but the current one is set to expire with no BBB deal.
#mepolitics
via
@bangordailynews
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You can't present yourself as pro-choice for 20 years, never hold town halls, tell reporters that people aren't energized about Kavanaugh and then act indignant when your constituents are frustrated...
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@annieclark25
If you think our concerns are misguided or mistaken, tell us why. We likely won't agree. But I'd find this far preferable to the odd combination of denying that you've heard from constituents and expressing displeasure that so many are so engaged.
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@annieclark25
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This is a really really weird way to apologize for dramatically jacking up health premiums on your constituents.
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#BREAKING
: Health care bills
@SenAlexander
and I introduced will reduce premiums in the exchanges by more than 40% and cover 3.2 million additional Americans, according to experts at
@OliverWyman
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Angus King's net approval in Maine is 49% higher than Susan Collins (not a typo) in the most recent public survey.
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Voting rights should be America’s foundation, not a partisan fault line – so I’m deeply saddened by today’s vote to block any discussion of legislative efforts to protect access to the ballot in light of state-level attacks on fundamental voting protections. My full statement:
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If Susan Collins was operating on the level she woulda reacted to Kav's abortion dissent by saying "I'm livid. He misled me."
Instead she's lashing out at "far left groups" for drawing attn to fact she failed badly on her own terms. Tells you all you need to know.
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While I’m pleased the Supreme Court agreed to temporarily block a Louisiana abortion law, it’s troubling, but not surprising, that Kavanaugh wrote a separate dissent arguing the court should disregard long-standing precedent, despite his assurances that he'd respect precedent.
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Susan Collins should now be able to take a high-profile vote for a highly qualified Dem nominee without affecting the outcome, the political sweetspot for her.
As Harry Reid is rumored to have said, Collins is "always there when you don't need her."
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News: Manchin is a yes on Jackson, essentially ensuring her confirmation
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Stephen King on
@colbertlateshow
[3:20]: "Let’s put it this way. Susan Collins has been there for about a thousand years and it’s time for somebody a little newer and somebody who’s got a little bit more of a liberal bend."
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Journos: Stop swallowing Collins camp deeply misleading talking point that she's 'backed 90% of Trump AND Obama judges.'
Truth is she's voted for 99% of GOP nominees; handful she's opposed got confirmed. (Coincidence?) Never voted 'no' when she had tie-breaking vote.
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"Collins helped the contractor at issue, then called Navatek and since renamed the Martin Defense Group, secure an $8 million Navy contract before most of the donations took place."
In other words, Kao donated; Collins delivered; and then Kao dropped the big dollars.
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JUST IN: The FBI is investigating what it calls a massive scheme to illegally finance Sen. Susan Collins' 2020 reelection bid, Axios has learned.
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Susan Collins has so much seniority that she chairs zero (!) standing committees, couldn't get her pal McConnell to live up to his "promises" on the tax bill, can't get any action on lobster tariffs etc etc.
If this is the Collins reelect argument...she's in trouble.
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Psst: The agency which administers and funds this program received an infusion of $$$ from the American Rescue Plan, which Susan Collins voted AGAINST.
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Yes, in explaining her demand that $870 million for pandemic flu funds be removed from the 2009 stimulus before she'd agree not to filibuster it, Susan Collins said on the Senate floor that pandemic preparedness programs "do not boost our economy."
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Reminder that Susan Collins cited Hillary Clinton's "e-mail server" in explaining why she couldn't vote for the former secretary of state.
I don't recall Collins condemning the FBI for having investigated Clinton.
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One of Susan Collins 1st votes under Trump was to let internet providers sell your browsing history. It passed! Then her '14 challenger passed a Maine law to undo Collins vote at the state level.
Happy ending! But I'm surprised Collins has never been pressed on this.
#mepolitics
“You can opt out of
#Google
and
#Facebook
. You cannot opt out of having an Internet Service Provider,” says
#Maine
senator who wrote nation's first law barring ISP's from sharing and selling your data without permission:
@ACLU
@EFF
@MaineDems
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Wow. Only $19,000 of the $887,000 Susan Collins raised in itemized contributions in Q4 came from Maine. That's 2%.
Look forward to all the ads about out-of-state liberals trying to control
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Bruce Poliquin's vote to gut health coverage/protections and raise health costs on his constituents in one of the oldest districts in the US was a historic betrayal of voters by their congressional rep.
Good riddance.
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As folks log on for election night, I'd be remiss not to note that Susan Collins voted against yet another highly qualified Biden nominee today.
Kato's the 46th nominee Collins has sided against so far and the 35th woman.
She was rated 'well-qualified' by the ABA.
#mepolitics
Senate NOW voting to confirm US Magistrate Judge Kenly Kiya Kato to serve on US District Court for Central CA.President Biden 1st nominated her in 2021.If confirmed,she would become 1st Japanese-American woman to serve on that Court.Senators advanced her nomination on 50-47 vote.
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Susan Collins statement on Trump's dubious new EOs is basically laudatory.
#mepolitics
By contrast she called Obama's EO to help Dreamers "unconstitutional" & reacted by saying we needed a GOP prez "who understands the separation of powers & the 3 branches of govt"
Headline -->
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2. If former Medicare-for-All supporter Jared Golden wants to leave the Democratic party (and really, what's keeping him?) he should just go ahead and do it.
Enough with the histrionics and pro-wrestling nonsense. It's juvenile. Just makes him look petulant.
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Question: When's the last time Sen. Susan "I go to Maine virtually every weekend" Collins set foot in Maine?
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@SenatorCollins
In 2009 with the nation reeling from the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression, Susan Collins conditioned her support for economic stimulus on pandemic flu preparedness funds being cut.
It was a bit of a scandal at the time.
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Collins's weaselly bid to blame Dems for her fake deal's collapse is gross. Trying to turn her broken promise into a partisan dispute.
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Susan Collins is not "the most bipartisan senator" unless the term is defined in a way that makes zero sense.
TWENTY senators voted against their party more often in 2017-8. Collins not even in the top quintile.
Folks pushing this framing are telling on themselves.
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@SenatorCollins
Really hoping the Maine press doesn't fall for these empty theatrics.
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Sen. Dianne Feinstein to
@chrislhayes
on whatever provision in her bill to ban child separation Susan Collins is objecting to: "If that bothers Susan we'll take it out. That's easy. That's easy."
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Susan Collins is calling broadly-distributed relief for folks suffering the effects of a catastrophic pandemic "bloated"; "wasteful"; "unnecessary"; and "excessive."
She called Trump's tax bill--which shifted the tax burden from owners to workers--"much-needed."
#mepolitics
The top 20% of households reaped 65% of benefit from Trump’s tax cuts. The bottom 20% got 1%.
The American Rescue Plan gives aid to those who actually need it. My
@Morning_Joe
chart:
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Remember when Susan Collins justified her opposition to the Feinstein bill to end family separation by saying she was working on her own bill?
That was 171 days ago.
#mepolitics
It’s one thing for a reporter to find out by chance that the government is still separating children from their parents at the border.
It’s another thing entirely when that’s how the lawyers representing those kids find out:
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Under Obama, Collins voted against beginning debate on the ACA, financial reform, a key campaign finance reform bill, judicial and other nominations of women, LGBT folks and people of color etc etc etc.
The fake umbrage here isn't just phony. It's ridiculous.
#mepolitics
Yesterday, the Dem leader blocked beginning debate on
@TimScottSC
's police reform bill, which I co-sponsored. Now is the time for action & if we're sincere about making progress, the vote to agree to begin debating should've been unanimous.
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Susan Collins will spend the next few months exuding open-mindedness, deliberation and deep concern re: Roe. And then she'll vote for the nominee.
I'd be shocked by any other outcome.
#mepolitics
Susan Collins: “I view Roe v. Wade as being settled law. It’s clearly precedent and I always look for judges who respect precedent.”
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Sorta knew this was coming but I'm still floored: Can't believe Collins sat with
@AdyBarkan
& made this vow. And then just HOURS after the vote she confirms it was all a sham.
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@SenatorCollins
People are asking me where Susan Collins said: "If the commitments are not kept to me I will not support the bill." It's here starting at 54:15:
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(Looks like she said "were" rather than "are." Same difference.)
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Can anyone find a clip of Jared Golden blasting rich biz owners as "privileged" and "demanding handouts" when they advocated for and received millions in forgiven loans under the PPP program?
You can't do it, my friends! He's only mad when it's nurses and teachers!
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I've always held the opinion that working class Mainers shouldn't foot the bill for someone else's choices. Once again, radical leftist elites prove they don't understand Maine.
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Susan Collins and Angus King voted for an amendment YESTERDAY which, according to CNN, would single out veterans to be *exempted* from losing access to guns based on mental health screens that would otherwise apply.
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Hard to think of a less constructive way to spend $ than to fund this guy's political career...but for his last race Susan Collins sent him $10,000 that coulda gone to a Maine food bank or other local cause.
Think about the values of a person who makes that decision.
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.
@POTUS
is destroying this country.
Radical leftism, climate change alarmism, and our miserably failed response to the pandemic are all designed to create a state of fear so that the globalists can control our lives.
We have to say "STOP."
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Newsweek: Susan Collins' Gun Control Stance Faces Scrutiny After Maine Mass Shooting
Collins backed the assault gun ban in 2004 but in 2013 she voted against reinstating it and against gun clip limits after telling media she'd vote for both.
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Susan Collins said this in 2013 too. Then she voted against it.
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I just asked Senator Collins if she would change her mind as well. She says instead she would support a ban on high capacity magazines.
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One reason I suspect Golden's unhinged rant crossed a red line with so many:
In a society where the deck feels stacked for owners & against workers, the prospect that avg folks might even out the playing field even SLIGHTLY clearly makes him full-on livid. Not great!
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@dillesquire
"Democrats who believe they are superior to others b/c of where they were born or choose to live..." Who are you talking about?
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It was a long time ago, so it's easy to forget, but everyone knew exactly who Sam Alito was when Susan Collins voted to put him on the Supreme Court.
Unlike some nominees, he had a huge paper trail!
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Justice Alito tells the
@WSJ
that Congress has no business policing SCOTUS. "I know this is a controversial view, but I’m willing to say it... No provision in the Constitution gives them the authority to regulate the Supreme Court—period."
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Big changes in
#mepolitics
after '16 but a key one was launch of
@mfalpac
& its audacious organizing re: Collins, stitching together a network of grassroots groups/activists. Have shifted narrative on the senator more than anyone.
They need to be well-funded for Collins to lose.
Mainers remember the calls, the pleas, the begging... to ask Susan Collins to be a hero and not give a lifetime appointment to a sexual predator.
But she betrayed them. So now, with
@mfalpac
, they’re going to vote her out.
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Time to update the photo: Susan Collins votes to block nomination of Holly Thomas to be the 2nd Black woman ever on the 9th Circuit.
This is the ELEVENTH female of color Biden nominee Susan Collins has tried to stop. Judge Thomas, like the rest, is highly qualified.
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Check out the roster of Biden nominees that Susan Collins has voted against or vowed to vote down. Notice anything?
(Image from
@BruceBourgoine
.)
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'Let the people decide' says the 5-term senator who has defended Georgia's 2021 vote suppression law, opposes reinstating the Voting Rights Act, opposes statehood for DC, extols the filibuster as if it were some sort of holy writ etc etc etc.
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Maine voters should decide who wins the election – not a Secretary of State chosen by the Legislature.
The Secretary of State’s decision would deny thousands of Mainers the opportunity to vote for the candidate of their choice, and it should be overturned.
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Report: Susan Collins, rejecting US intel consensus, claims Russia didn't care who won in 2016
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@asfried
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Susan Collins voted to ban assault weapons in the 1990s (early 2000s?) and after Newtown told reporters she would vote for the ban's reinstatement...but then voted against it.
She never explained why she flipped and far as I know no reporter has ever asked her.
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Students from Cape Elizabeth delivering a letter to Senator Susan Collins’ Portland office demanding politicians regulate assault weapons.
@WMTWTV
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@SenatorCollins
Collins almost never tells Maine where she'll be in advance b/c it'd increase the likelihood that she'll be asked questions she'd rather not answer and/or encounter folks with the temerity to publicly express their dissatisfaction w/ her conduct in office.
#democracy
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