Augusta, ME – Today, as Susan Collins returns home to Maine for the first time since a bombshell investigation found that she steered millions to a donor who gave money to support her campaign, Collins must answer questions about her connections with Scott Reed, the lobbyist who runs a pro-Collins PAC and whose firm disbursed a payment to Collins’ former lobbyist husband last year.
In the wake of these revelations, Collins must answer:
What work did Susan Collins’ former lobbyist husband do for Scott Reed’s lobbying firm last year?
Exactly how much money did Reed’s lobbying firm pay Collins’ husband?
Is the payment from Reed to Daffron part of another pay-to-play scheme on behalf of Reed’s lobbying clients which have business in front of Collins?
Collins has had corporate interests pump millions of dollars into her campaign and supporting PACs – as the powerful Chair of the Appropriations Committee, is she engaged in any other pay to play schemes that Mainers should be aware of?
If Susan Collins and her campaign learned about the $150,000 donation to her super PAC until “through a press report” after it was publicly available, and why did her staff request Martin Kao’s phone number seven days after the check was cashed — before the payment was publicly available?
Learn More About the Mystery Payment from Scott Reed to Daffron:
According to the ProPublica reporting, Collins steered millions to a donor while taking their donations to her Super PAC.
That Super PAC was run by lobbyist Scott Reed.
Just last year, Reed’s current lobbying firm paid Collins’ former lobbyist husband at least $1,000 while it worked on behalf of clients who either had donated to Collins’ campaign or had business in front of her Committee.
Collins has never revealed what the payment was for.
Collins has also never revealed how much her husband was paid by the firm. Senate financial disclosure rules don’t require Collins to report the full sum that Daffron received – only that it was more than $1,000.
Reed currently runs another pro-Collins super PAC supporting her 2026 election.
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