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TexasTowelie

(116,496 posts)
Sat Jun 1, 2019, 04:30 PM Jun 2019

Collins: Opponents Resorting To 'Distortion And Outright Lies' To Unseat Her

Maine Sen. Susan Collins says she is dismayed by the early start and extreme negativity of the campaign against her, even though she has not decided whether to seek re-election.

"Campaigns start earlier and earlier and the amount of distortion and outright lies is just extraordinary," she says.

Collins says Democrats have raised millions of dollars in their effort to unseat her, and she also expects to face a primary challenge from a candidate on the right. She says both groups are already distorting her record, but she says any attempt to use the abortion issue against her will fail.

"I'm being targeted by national and some state Democrats as their number one target, despite the fact that there is no one in the United States Senate that works more often across the aisle than I do," she says.

Read more: https://www.mainepublic.org/post/collins-opponents-resorting-distortion-and-outright-lies-unseat-her

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Collins: Opponents Resorting To 'Distortion And Outright Lies' To Unseat Her (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2019 OP
and which distortions are that Susan? How you would insure the ACA would be viable, or a women's still_one Jun 2019 #1
Oh, Senator! How Sad!! DarthDem Jun 2019 #2
No one is more bipartisan Midnightwalk Jun 2019 #3
Hmmm. Usually she just wrings her hands and expresses "concern" (and then skylucy Jun 2019 #4
Boo Effing Hoo. sheshe2 Jun 2019 #5
Sending my concerns.... JDC Jun 2019 #6
I'll add my tots and pears, with them. TexasTowelie Jun 2019 #7
Kavanagh & Barr Me. Jun 2019 #8
But they are misrepresenting Collins! TexasTowelie Jun 2019 #10
She Forgot All Her Awful Votes Me. Jun 2019 #11
Senator Collins, Wellstone ruled Jun 2019 #9
Poor Susan Collins The Genealogist Jun 2019 #12
Collins, like mamy of her GOP colleagues, guillaumeb Jun 2019 #13
Agree!! Thekaspervote Jun 2019 #15
well I for one am very concerned about shanny Jun 2019 #14
I'll donate to her dem opponent AlexSFCA Jun 2019 #16
The amazing thing flotsam Jun 2019 #17

still_one

(96,321 posts)
1. and which distortions are that Susan? How you would insure the ACA would be viable, or a women's
Sat Jun 1, 2019, 04:34 PM
Jun 2019

right to choose

I don't think the Senator is being honest


DarthDem

(5,358 posts)
2. Oh, Senator! How Sad!!
Sat Jun 1, 2019, 04:36 PM
Jun 2019

This is so lamentable! On your behalf, I am (as you frequently are) concerned!

On a more serious - and awesome - side, this tells me that she's getting some bad vibes already in terms of her viability for reelection. Superb!!!! Go, Sara Gideon, go!!

skylucy

(3,847 posts)
4. Hmmm. Usually she just wrings her hands and expresses "concern" (and then
Sat Jun 1, 2019, 04:42 PM
Jun 2019

votes with the rest of the Repubs). Now that her cushy job is imperiled she gets fire in her belly. Too bad, so sad.

sheshe2

(87,164 posts)
5. Boo Effing Hoo.
Sat Jun 1, 2019, 04:44 PM
Jun 2019

You have made it perfectly clear what you stand for. It is not for the Constitution, women's rights or affordable healthcare for all. You believe in tax cuts for the rich Americans and not the middle class. You support a pResident that stated in no uncertain terms that he assaults women on a whim, because he can.

Sue? Fact is you are an insult to women and all Americans. Fugg off Sue.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
9. Senator Collins,
Sat Jun 1, 2019, 05:10 PM
Jun 2019

your Bull shit just caught up with you. Thinking your constituents would not figure your line crap would never be exposed,well the voters have figured you out as a waste of Senatorial Space.

The Genealogist

(4,736 posts)
12. Poor Susan Collins
Sat Jun 1, 2019, 05:14 PM
Jun 2019

The most put-upon person ever. Doesn't ANYONE like her melodramatic little performances? The ones where she pretends to have a conscience, then votes for whatever vile poison her party has served up?

guillaumeb

(42,649 posts)
13. Collins, like mamy of her GOP colleagues,
Sat Jun 1, 2019, 05:30 PM
Jun 2019

lacks integrity.

She is a complete phony, with her pose of bi-partisan reaching out.

 

shanny

(6,709 posts)
14. well I for one am very concerned about
Sat Jun 1, 2019, 05:35 PM
Jun 2019

the horrible and unfair treatment of this moderate Republican and champion-of-women Senator.
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hah!


I can smell the flop sweat from here.

AlexSFCA

(6,258 posts)
16. I'll donate to her dem opponent
Sat Jun 1, 2019, 08:45 PM
Jun 2019

Would love to see her go. When Kavanaugh votes to overturn roe v wade, what’s her excuse then?

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