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If Susan Collins becomes governor, backers feel U.S. Senate would suffer
Sunjournal.com ^ | 10/9/17 | Marina Villeneuve

Posted on 10/09/2017 5:23:46 PM PDT by cotton1706

Backers of U.S. Sen. Susan Collins say they wish they could clone the moderate Republican powerbroker from Maine who has been a crucial swing vote in Congress as Republicans struggle to deliver on President Donald Trump's legislative agenda.

Collins says she will decide during the Senate's weeklong Columbus Day recess whether to stay in the Senate, where she has served for four terms, or again run for governor in Maine.

The Associated Press interviewed 10 of Collins' current and former colleagues and staffers, along with Maine political observers. They said the senator is carefully weighing whether she can have more impact in the Senate or as a governor replacing the term-limited, Trump-allied Republican Gov. Paul LePage.

"I feel like that losing her in the Senate is losing the only existing bridge between the Democrats and Republicans that is there," said Michael Bopp, who has worked as legislative director and counsel to Collins.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: 115th; 2018midterms; elections; goodriddance; lepage; me2018
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To: McGavin999

It’s, also, rumored that La Paige’s wife might run for U.S. Senate, instead of him running.


41 posted on 10/09/2017 6:36:15 PM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
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To: cotton1706

Maybe they could clone her so she could occupy both offices, since this unlikely appearing person seems to be indispensable. Get a grip, Mainers.


42 posted on 10/09/2017 6:45:53 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Tawiskaro

Her Senate seat is up in 2020. If she runs and wins for Gov. someone has to finish out her Senate term. Collins would pick that person. Would she pick LePage? I seriously doubt it. It would definitely be a ‘Republican’. LePage could get selected without any effort and ride Trump’s coattails in 2020. As for Angus King(2020) someone suggested MS. LePage! Maybe Save on commuter costs.


43 posted on 10/09/2017 6:50:41 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Maine needs her like they need a democratic governor...they both would be the same...the northeast is slowly dying...


44 posted on 10/09/2017 6:57:22 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk
Maine needs her like they need a democratic governor

Gawd knows we've had plenty of those, including Anus King.

45 posted on 10/09/2017 7:01:48 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs...same thing)
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To: Maine Mariner

Or she doesn’t care.


46 posted on 10/09/2017 7:16:50 PM PDT by richardtavor
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To: Maine Mariner

Or she doesn’t care.


47 posted on 10/09/2017 7:18:23 PM PDT by richardtavor
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Good, I hope he does. Would he stand a chance of winning? Excuse all the stupid questions but I’m from the other side of the country


48 posted on 10/09/2017 7:45:07 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: cotton1706

Every Republican interviewed was a RINO, and of those persons named there was but a single Senator.


49 posted on 10/09/2017 8:20:25 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: cotton1706

relax, folks. LePen’s gotta base in Maine that rivals Trumps. Frankly, I don’t think she’d win another term in the Senate.


50 posted on 10/09/2017 8:34:57 PM PDT by jimjohn (2nd American Civil War: ongoing since January 20, 2017.)
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To: McGavin999
Would he stand a chance of winning?

Well, he won a second term, but the queers, NAACP, anti-Trumpers and other RATs will be hell-bent-for-election to defeat him.

He claims: "I was Trump, before Trump was Trump."

51 posted on 10/09/2017 9:17:08 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs...same thing)
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To: jimjohn
LePen’s gotta base in Maine

Wait a minute, wait a minute....

Who?

52 posted on 10/09/2017 9:19:34 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs...same thing)
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To: cotton1706

First and foremost she is a defective LIB.


53 posted on 10/09/2017 9:21:18 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: dandiegirl

“These people never work....”
Why 5 Weeks in the summer plus a work week of 3 days. Monday and Friday for travel. Total waste of my money.


54 posted on 10/10/2017 3:57:54 AM PDT by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: cotton1706

Collins is too old and seems to have some sort of tremor like Parkinsons


55 posted on 10/10/2017 4:04:18 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: Maine Mariner

Tough call, if it is her or Janet Mills. Both are bad.


56 posted on 10/10/2017 4:07:32 AM PDT by brooklin
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Gun grabber Manchin? He co wrote the most heinous gun grabbing legislation in congress. I wouldn’t classify that as moderate, do you?


57 posted on 10/10/2017 4:22:17 AM PDT by momincombatboots (White Stetsons up.. let's save our country!)
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To: Bonemaker

Susan Collins and 0lympia Snow are a real dyed in the wool rino hacks . They always stick together and love voting nay .


58 posted on 10/10/2017 4:37:58 AM PDT by Lionheartusa1 ()-: There is nothing democratic about the democrat party :-()
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To: richardtavor

Yes, that too!


59 posted on 10/10/2017 4:46:43 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: Chickensoup

I refer to her as Senator Catherine Hepburn of Maine.


60 posted on 10/10/2017 4:47:53 AM PDT by cotton1706
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