Wow, lucky stiff
couldn't resist, my bad.
Snowe is the widow of Peter Snowe, a Maine GOP House member who was killed coming back to Auburn from Augusta on a snowy day. She ran for his vacant seat and won.
She then ran for US House. She barely won a race against Pat McGowan, a lib from rural Maine. That was the first race that I skipped over on the ballot. Neither of them were worth a vote.
She’s been in the Senate for a while now. As I posted earlier, the Maine GOP seems geared up to re-elect Snowe and Collins to the exclusion of anyone else. To this point, it has been a useless organization to any candidate other than Snowe and Collins. I hope the new chair can get them going in a different direction, but he is going to run head on into the Snowe-Collins power structure and they might run him out of there as well.