Augusta, ME – As Susan Collins continues her 25 year streak of not holding a town hall and avoiding answering to Maine voters, questions are piling up about Collins’ record of selling out Mainers while enriching herself, lobbyists, and big corporations.
With just 70 days left until Election Day, here are five things Mainers deserve to know:
Collins’ former lobbyist husband received at least $1,000 from his former lobbying firm last year. What work did he do for the firm, and does Collins think it’s a conflict of interest given the company has clients who are her campaign donors and have business in front of her?
Senate financial disclosure rules don’t require Collins to report the full sum that Daffron received – only that it was more than $1,000. Will she share exactly how much money a lobbying firm with business in front of her committees paid her husband?
Yesterday in Brewer, JD Vance said that Mainers who are worried about ICE killing Johan Sebastian Guerrero in Biddeford should “have a little perspective.” Does Susan Collins agree with her “dear friend”?
Reporting in April found that Collins, whose husband owns more than $100,000 in oil and gas stock and who voted five times against ending the Iran War, had profited almost $25,000 as gas prices soared due to Trump’s war. As we approach the six month of the Iran War and Maine families continue to be squeezed by high gas prices, how much cash has Collins made on her oil and gas stock? Doesn’t she think it’s a conflict of interest to profit off the war?
Last month, Collins held a fundraiser with far-right MAGA Senator Tom Cotton. How many more fundraisers with out-of-state, far-right, anti-abortion politicians does Collins have scheduled?
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