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This photo sure hits different once you realize that at the time the FBI had been looking into Susan Collins pay-for-play relationship with a donor/felon and that just one week earlier Trump had successfully purged the DOJ's Public Integrity Section. #MEpolitics
U.S. Senate candidate @TroyJackson207 (D-ME) on Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) claims that corruption attacks constitute Democratic lies: "As far as the corruption...I didn't write the article, it's a very detailed article...those are all facts."
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Added red lines into the below Susan Collins campaign image to show how her red-shirted minions have effectively cloistered Collins off from unscreened folks who might have the temerity to puncture her bubble of sycophancy and e.g. ask a pointed question re: bribery. #MEpolitics
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A former Republican state senator, Harriman has been a Susan Collins-aligned GOP talking head for decades at this point. #MEpolitics
Susan Collins ally Phil Harriman: "It's clearly not a good day for Senator Collins... She's gonna have to step up and meet with Maine reporters and tell her side of the facts and story." #mesen #mepolitics
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.@pxwhittle stacks the deck for Susan Collins in an @AP piece on blowback for her role in Roe's demise, giving a 'woman on the street' quote to a Collins crony/campaign surrogate and lobbyist who's had TWO pieces flaking for Collins in @pressherald THIS MONTH ALONE! #MEpolitics
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Portland Press Herald editorial:
"It is extremely disappointing to watch [Susan] Collins and members of her staff move to immediately discredit a thorough and fair piece of investigative journalism on political and personal grounds." tinyurl.com/2s3k2wpv #MEpolitics
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Maine - Senate Polling:
🔵Jackson: 46%
🔴Collins: 46%*
InsiderAdvantage / Sept 23, 2026
(Republican Pollster)
(Current Model Result In ME-SEN Is DEM 49% - GOP 45%)
usapolling.substack.com/p/th…
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Leonard Leo and Susan Collins-sponsored disinfo outlet somehow managed to convince @propublica's @WilliamTurton to go on their podcast -- presumably to take potshots at his bombshell report -- but not sure it went as they hoped? Worth watching the exchange starting at 14:22.
The Pro Publica story looks at a serial con artist and convicted fraudster who tried to bribe his way to more government contracts.
But does the evidence implicate Sen. Susan Collins or her staff?
The FEC, DOJ, and the FBI said no.
Pro Publica says yes.
We interviewed the reporter behind the story to ask about his process for vetting the claims of a pathological liar and anonymous/disgruntled FBI agents.
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YESTERDAY (tinyurl.com/wty9n73d) Susan Collins was talking up Kav and blithely dismissing the idea that confirming him was wrong.
Giant middle finger to anyone who took her at her word -- or cares about abortion rights (or women not bleeding out in waiting rooms.) #MEpolitics
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Local Sinclair outlet WGME complains that Susan Collins won't answer their questions about her corrupt dealings with Martin Kao.
(Since the corruption revelations surfaced, Collins has only had *one* national media interview -- with @wsj -- as far as we can tell.) #MEpolitics
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Washington Post confirms @propublica.org's reporting that the FBI shuttered a pay-to-play investigation into Susan Collins after Trump took over last year. #MEpolitics
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"[Susan Collins campaign manager] Steve Abbott...claimed...Wednesday that Navatek’s research in 2019 benefited the University of Maine, who used it to launch a new boat last month...Unfortunately for him and Collins, the University of Maine debunked his claim." #MEpolitics
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Worth watching all 8 minutes but the spiciest bit starts at 5:22 culminating in the key question her camp can't get their story straight on:
"How did Susan Collins know that this guy made a [super PAC] donation thru a shell company that was supposed to be anonymous?" #MEpolitics
Thanks to @chrislhayes for having me on last night to talk about our investigation into Susan Collins and the falsehoods her campaign has offered in response to our reporting.
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Stephen King, lifelong Mainer, puts up the bat signal. #MEpolitics
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Worth noting Susan Collins keeps wading deeper and deeper into the pool.
First when pressed she said she didn't regret the vote. Then she said she'd vote for Kav again. Now she's talking him up and volunteering she has no regrets.
A woman who pledged to protect Roe! #MEpolitics
Video: Susan Collins on her Brett Kavanaugh vote (that led to Roe v. Wade being overturned): "Thank you. It's something that still comes up. He's qualified. And I don't, as I've said, I don't regret that vote." #mesen #mepolitics
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Susan Collins's bet, clearly, is that there are a non-trivial number of Dem/Indy voters who have been programmed for so long by the Maine press to believe she's pro-choice that it doesn't matter what she says or does. They simply won't believe otherwise. #MEpolitics
Video: Susan Collins on her Brett Kavanaugh vote (that led to Roe v. Wade being overturned): "Thank you. It's something that still comes up. He's qualified. And I don't, as I've said, I don't regret that vote." #mesen #mepolitics
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In other words Susan Collins team lied when they said earlier this week that the Navatek boat wasn't useless and the new boat was an outgrowth of the 2019 effort. (tinyurl.com/ykk8vjpc) #MEpolitics
UMaine tells @newscentermaine recently launched 3D-printed boat has "completely different hull design" than the 2019 boat" designed by Navatek:
newscentermaine.com/article/…
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I mean come on! #MEpolitics
Video: Susan Collins on her Brett Kavanaugh vote (that led to Roe v. Wade being overturned): "Thank you. It's something that still comes up. He's qualified. And I don't, as I've said, I don't regret that vote." #mesen #mepolitics
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