Maine's Susan Collins got big out-of-state donations after voting for Kavanaugh
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https://bangordailynews.com/2019/02/01/mainefocus/collins-brings-in-most-money-of-her-career-after-kavanaugh-vote/
After she delivered a pivotal vote that helped seat Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, Maine Sen. Susan Collins had the best fundraising quarter of her career, shattering her
previous best with the help of a flood of out-of-state money.
After announcing her decision to vote in favor of Kavanaugh’s controversial nomination during a speech on the Senate floor in early October, Collins raised $1.8 million in the final
quarter of 2018, according to documents filed with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday. Of the nearly $900,000 she received from individual donors who contributed more
than $200 to her campaign, just $19,000 was from individuals with Maine addresses.
From the beginning of 2017 to the end of 2018, Collins, a Republican, raised $2.9 million. More than 60 percent of that total was raised in the fourth quarter of 2018, when she brought
in an average of roughly $20,000 a day. In the quarter before her Kavanaugh vote, she raised just $140,000.
Collins’ decision to support Kavanaugh’s nomination led to a burst of donations — for her eventual challenger. Before she announced her vote, progressive activists started a
crowdfunding campaign for the purpose of funding her 2020 opponent if Collins voted to confirm Kavanaugh, then a federal judge. Collins called the effort “bribery.”
this shit can't be allowed to continue to happen. We have to get this fuckin money away from our "leaders". It's sickening
A poignant reminder of why Centrism has failed in this country. Kavanaugh was not a centrist choice, nor was anything about his nomination centrist. The centrists of congress nevertheless voted along their partisan lines to achieve a right wing goal and were rewarded for it.
maybe term limits would help?
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Anyone who says they're a centrist politician is a liar. And no one can cross Mitch just like any other political boss
return the filibuster and remove a lot of the senate majority leader's power
Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren is actually open to removing the filibuster completely to get progressive legislation passed
I've never heard Collins called a centrist, just a moderate Republican, for as much as that is worth nowadays.
Kavanaugh needs to be impeached almost as much as Trump.
The White House prevented hundreds of documents to be released to the Senate, I'm sure the next POTUS's FBI will find some terrible shit on him and he'll resign.
no they won't. It would unleash hell if a president ordered a justice to be investigated. The ethics rules should be extended by congress though to cover the supreme court, the conservative block feels increasingly comfortable hanging around pure partisan events and even participating in them.
What ethics were there to blocking the nomination made by the last president? I think we're in a pretty abnormal situation given the corruption at hand.
how do you define a moderate republican these days?
sometimes doesn't agree with trump?
votes with him most of the time but expresses strong verbal disapproval?
The FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation into the fucking President of the United States so there's nothing off the table anymore
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