Posted on 10/07/2018 4:25:11 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) on Sunday criticized the Maine progressive groups that have pledged millions of dollars to her 2020 opponent in opposition to her vote on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Collins on CBS's "60 Minutes" on Sunday called the crowdfunding effort an attempt to "buy votes and buy positions." She said it did not influence her decision to vote in Kavanaugh's favor.
"This is a classic quid pro quo as defined in our bribery laws," Collins said. "They are asking me to perform an official act and if I do not do what they want, two million plus dollars is going to go to my opponent."
"I think that if our politics has come to the point where people are trying to buy votes and buy positions, then we are in a very sad place," she said.
The groups began fundraising several weeks ago, hoping to encourage Collins, a Republican swing vote, to vote "no" on Kavanaugh over his record on women's rights. The crowdfunding effort was supercharged by Collins' hesitance in the face of the allegations of sexual misconduct against the high court pick.
The effort hit $3 million in contributions over the weekend even as Collins voted "yes" on Kavanaugh. He was confirmed as a justice on Saturday.
The campaign was organized by Be A Hero Team, Maine People's Alliance and Mainers for Accountable Leadership.
They say their goal is to get her out of office when she is up for reelection in 2020, given her vote for Kavanaugh.
"Maine deserves a Senator who would recoil at the idea of confirming a proven liar, an emotionally unstable partisan, to the Supreme Court," the groups said in a statement last week. "Maine deserves a Senator who will believe survivors, who will listen to their stories, and who will represent them with honor. Susan Collins is no longer capable of that."
Collins has previously called the effort a "bribe."
The campaign in September said in a statement to The Hill that Collins' claims of bribery were "politics as its worst."
"We absolutely have the right to prepare to unseat her given everything Judge Kavanaugh would do on the Supreme Court to make life worse for Maine women, Mainers with pre-existing conditions and Mainers who care about fabric of our democracy," Marie Follayttar, co-director of Mainers for Accountable Leadership, said in a statement to The Hill.
Though some have floated the possibility of challenging Collins, no one has officially announced a campaign to oppose her.
"I think that if our politics has come to the point where people are trying to buy votes and buy positions, then we are in a very sad place," she said.Psst! Senator Collins.
Google "Tammany Hall".
She stated that she absolutely believes Feinstein did not leak the letter. Collins stay does not know what the Rats have become.
GoFundMe and CrowdPac, etc. are essentially money-laundering sites. This is how the left bribes public office holders and government employees.
Senator Collins deserves the support of all Republicans and any American who believes in the rule of law. I contributed to her.
That’s all well and good but the issue is are these crowd funding websites doing anything illegal.
That’s true. Some of these mushy GOPers were just hypocrites, but no doubt some of them genuinely thought that always compromising with the Dems was for the good of the country, etc., etc. And suddenly they’re seeing the reality, which is that they were dealing with the Devil, who has no interest in the good of the country. And they’re finding that Old Scratch gets really mad when people want to stop dealing with him.
The groups began fundraising several weeks ago, hoping to encourage a Republican swing vote, to vote "no".
The effort was supercharged by Collins' seemingly initial hesitance WRT allegations of sexual misconduct against the high court pick.
Even before Senators voted, Collins told reporters if Kav lied to them, that would be a major problem.
Just as Trump, money spent by the opposition will not matter in her race. Everyone knows who and what she stands for. Just more bunk.
Yes. Their eyes have been opened. If she wins her primary, help fund her.
Collins just learned what happens when you feed the alligator hoping to be the last one to be eaten.
Kavanaugh proponents?
I give her tremendous credit here
Her speech detailing all the exhaustive research she did on Kavs rulings showed SHE actually DID her homework
"This is a classic quid pro quo as defined in our bribery laws," Collins said. "They are asking me to perform an official act and if I do not do what they want, two million plus dollars is going to go to my opponent."
She's going to come out of this shining clean, IOW, we're stuck with her. Gotta like that she's been forced to move over and stand with us though. :^) The Shill, er, Hill, piece was a shill piece by a Partisan Media Shill -- most of the "article" was just a regurgitation of the leftists' talking points.
My exact reaction!
Grammar and sentence construction have gone by the wayside.
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