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NEW: Senator Collins Used Her Office To Benefit Her Lobbyist Husband’s Business
New reporting in HuffPost digs into how Senator Susan Collins has used her position to benefit her husband Thomas Daffron’s lobbying business.
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Trump-Appointed USPS Official Also Runs Super PAC Spending Millions To Boost Senator Collins
According to a new filing from the
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ICYMI: Former Chief of Staff to Senator Olympia Snowe on Why She “Can No Longer Support Sen. Susan Collins”
A new op-ed from Jane Calderwood, Olympia Snowe’s former chief of staff, articulates why Senator Susan Collins has lost the support of so many Mainers who voted for her in the past. As Calderwood sees it, Collins “has proven unwilling to stand up to the President and too enamored of political power to speak up for the good people of Maine.”
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ICYMI: “Chellie Pingree Aims to Transform American Agriculture”
A new report from the Sun Journal examines Rep. Chellie Pingree’s Agriculture Resilience Act, a comprehensive bill that would “transform agriculture nationwide” by creating “healthier soil that could sop up carbon from the atmosphere” to sharply reduce greenhouse gas emissions. With her proposal, the nation could “reach net-zero agriculture emissions” in two decades.
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Senator Collins Silent on Trump Campaign’s Unlawful Abuse of Power at Republican National Convention
Last week, Senator Susan Collins remained silent while the Republican National Convention broke norms, and likely broke the law, by exploiting taxpayer resources to host partisan political events at the White House. The Hatch Act prohibits federal employees from engaging in political activities while they are working in their official capacity, but last week’s RNC was full of federal employees abusing their positions to boost the Trump campaign.
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Collins’ Refusal To Admit Support For Trump Makes Headlines In Another Rough Week For The Senator
Senator Susan Collins may have skipped the Republican National Convention this week to avoid Trump, but she wasn’t able to hide from scrutiny of her refusal to be honest with Mainers about how she’s voting for the last 621 days.
Here are just a few of the things that went wrong for Senator Collins this week:
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ICYMI: Trump’s Plan “Gutting” Social Security A “Horrible Idea”
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New Collins Campaign Ad Misleads Mainers About Senator Collins’ Record On Pre-Existing Conditions
Trump administration says Collins “knowingly voted to destroy” the ACA--including its protections for Americans with pre-existing conditions
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After Watching Trump Accept Her Party’s Nomination, Will Senator Collins Finally Tell Mainers If She’s Voting For Him?
In an appearance on the Mike Violette show earlier this week, Senator Susan Collins said that she would be “tuning in for the rest of” the Republican National Convention. So after Collins watched Donald Trump formally accept her party’s nomination, Mainers need to know: Is she finally ready to be hone
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NEW: Senator Collins’ Wall Street Allies Launch Ads Thanking Her For Program That Allowed Them To Rake In Billions
Today the American Bankers Association, the nation’s top lobbying group for the banking industry, launched new ads in Maine thanking Senator Susan Collins for pushing a program that
