Collins has already benefited from nearly $7 million in negative ad spending from outside groups on her behalf
When Susan Collins first asked Mainers to send her to the Senate in 1996, she vowed to run a positive campaign and made a commitment to repudiate negative ads run by outside groups on her behalf. 24 years later, Collins is running a scorched earth campaign to try to save her seat in the toughest reelection fight of her career, and she’s doing it with the backing of nearly $7 million in negative ads run by outside groups on her behalf.
This week , a Mitch McConnell aligned Super PAC launched nearly $800,000 in attack ads to boost Senator Collins’ reelection bid. McConnell promised that Senator Collins would be “well funded” after she voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court and his network of right wing allies and outside groups have spared no expense. To date, Collins has benefited from more than $15 million in spending from outside special interest groups.
“Senator Collins has completely lost touch with the values that she campaigned on 24 years ago,” said Maine Democratic Party Executive Director Lisa Roberts. “Her consistent support for the whims of corporate special interests may have earned her lots of friends in Washington who can run millions of dollars worth of tv ads--but Mainers want a Senator who’s fighting for us, not their corporate backers.”
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