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Longtime Republican Robert Monks endorses DEM Pingree/MAINE
Boston.com ^ | 30 July 2002 | Clarke Canfield

Posted on 07/30/2002 9:03:01 AM PDT by SheLion

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:08:02 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

PORTLAND, Maine Longtime Republican financier Robert Monks said Monday that he is supporting Democratic Senate candidate Chellie Pingree in her race against Republican Sen. Susan Collins.

Monks said he supports Pingree because he thinks the best chance for passing corporate reform laws is to have Democrats control Congress. Monks has run unsuccessfully for the Senate three times, most recently in 1996 when he lost in the Republican primary to Collins and another candidate.


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TOPICS: Government; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: congress; control; crossover; rino; support
Monks said he supports Pingree because he thinks the best chance for passing corporate reform laws is to have Democrats control Congress.

Just what we need. Democrats to control Congress. Oh yes! Just what we need. Monks needs to be sent to Siberia.

when he lost in the Republican primary to Collins and another candidate.

He sounds BITTER!

Monks is perhaps best-known as a wealthy Cape Elizabeth resident from a wealthy New England family.

Poor Little RICH boy!

''Chellie has a long long list of Republican supporters, and we're proud to have a coalition of bipartisan support,'' Barron said.

OH REALLY!

1 posted on 07/30/2002 9:03:01 AM PDT by SheLion
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To: Madame Dufarge; metesky; pkmaine; mlmr
I'd be ashamed to put this in print. He's nothing but a RINO.
2 posted on 07/30/2002 9:04:15 AM PDT by SheLion
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To: SheLion
But the #1 reason to fear Pingree: Dan Fogelberg is doing a campaign fundraiser concert for her. More wimpification of America.
3 posted on 07/30/2002 9:43:36 AM PDT by Norman Conquest
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To: Norman Conquest
But the #1 reason to fear Pingree: Dan Fogelberg is doing a campaign fundraiser concert for her. More wimpification of America.

This whole state is Democratic. Even the two TV channels run nothing but Pingree ads. I am sick to death of those commercials. Why the heck doesn Collins get something on TV. This whole election process in Maine stinks.

4 posted on 07/30/2002 10:12:10 AM PDT by SheLion
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To: SheLion
About two weeks a kid showed up at my front door with a clipboard in his hand. I figured he was another one of those "Peoples Committee for blah-blah-blah" again.

He wanted to know if I wanted to answer some questions re Baldacci and Pingree.

So I told him, "Sorry, I hate Democrats. I wouldn't vote for one if someone held a gun to my head."

His jaw actually dropped and he backed away, asking me if I was serious. I told him I was serious as a heart attack.

He quickly left and went to the house across the street, where the snarling dogs kind of dissuaded him from knocking on that door, too.

Life was good that day.

5 posted on 07/30/2002 2:25:59 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: Madame Dufarge
Anyone up for a Hillary protest when she comes up here for a cHILLARY Pingree Rally?
6 posted on 07/30/2002 3:26:30 PM PDT by ozone1
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Anyone up for a Hillary protest when she comes up here for a cHILLARY Pingree Rally?

You're just pullin' my leg, huh?

Is Medusa really planning to come here for that?

If I can maneuver the work schedule, count me in.

No doubt it'll be scheduled for 2:00 PM on a Tuesday.

7 posted on 07/30/2002 6:21:38 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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