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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 08:12 AM Dec 2017

Sen. Collins locks office doors, refuses to answer to constituents on secret GOP tax scam

Sen. Collins locks office doors, refuses to answer to constituents on secret GOP tax scam
With a potential vote to raise taxes on the middle class days away, Susan Collins is refusing to even meet with her constituents.
By Matthew Chapman DECEMBER 13, 2017

With the GOP tax scam being debated in conference and set for a vote next week before Doug Jones can take office, all eyes are on Sen. Susan Collins of Maine.

Collins, a Republican, voted for the original Senate bill, which includes an individual mandate repeal similar to the one she voted down in July. She did so with the assurance that two other bipartisan bills would be passed to offset any coverage losses, even though neither bill would do any such thing — and Paul Ryan never committed to pass them anyway.

Collins’s constituents are furious and demanding to meet with her on the issue. But not only is she nowhere to be found — her staff actually locked protesters out of her Senate offices in Maine, in the middle of regular business hours.




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Sen. Collins locks office doors, refuses to answer to constituents on secret GOP tax scam (Original Post) workinclasszero Dec 2017 OP
And yet when we regain the majority... vi5 Dec 2017 #1
I am going to bring this up when I make my calls again today. BigmanPigman Dec 2017 #2
Senator Collins Soxfan58 Dec 2017 #3
Is it posssible she is just trying to read the damn thing? lostnfound Dec 2017 #4
Don't waste your knocking .... marble falls Dec 2017 #5
Regarding Suzy. old man 76 Dec 2017 #6
Yeah the koch bros allowed her little play acting for a time workinclasszero Dec 2017 #7
 

vi5

(13,305 posts)
1. And yet when we regain the majority...
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 08:56 AM
Dec 2017

....we'll be falling all over her like some olde tyme suitor, to get her to side with us on something or other, just so it can be "bipartisan".

I honestly don't care if she's voted the "right" way once or twice, she's a Republican and she can go to Hell right along with the rest of them.

BigmanPigman

(52,241 posts)
2. I am going to bring this up when I make my calls again today.
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 09:34 AM
Dec 2017

I hope I can get through and talk with a staffer.

Soxfan58

(3,479 posts)
3. Senator Collins
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 11:42 AM
Dec 2017

Enjoys her popularity because of the huge number of Dems who vote for her. The right wing of her party does not like her, they would love to see a conservitive like Poliquin or Lepage in there. So she is kind of on shaky ground if she pisses off Maine progressives.

lostnfound

(16,634 posts)
4. Is it posssible she is just trying to read the damn thing?
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 03:53 PM
Dec 2017

Or, the GOP is giving her a brain transplant so she can be a bot like all the others?

old man 76

(228 posts)
6. Regarding Suzy.
Fri Dec 15, 2017, 12:17 PM
Dec 2017

Suzy may pretend she is all for Maine people but she knows which side of her bread the butter is on. She will vote the way Mitch tell her too.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
7. Yeah the koch bros allowed her little play acting for a time
Sat Dec 16, 2017, 08:27 AM
Dec 2017

Like she actually gives a shit about the people of Maine and all.

Well that's over and the billionaires are demanding welfare and socialism for the rich now and I'm sure Collins and McCain and all the rest of the republicans are going to heed the voice of their masters over the entire rest of the US population.

Senator Collins can't hear the cries of her voters back home because her ears are stuffed full of Koch bros and Mercer dollar bills.

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