Posted on 02/28/2012 7:13:35 PM PST by SMGFan
Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) will not run for reelection, she announced Tuesday evening, in a move that shocked Washington and boosted Democrats' chances of maintaining control of the Senate.
“After an extraordinary amount of reflection and consideration, I am announcing today that I will not be a candidate for reelection to the United States Senate," Snowe said in a statement. "It has been an indescribable honor and immeasurable privilege to serve the people of Maine."
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Good. Another panzi retiring.
She did not vote to pass Obamacare. She did not even vote for cloture - no Republicans did. She was awful on a number of things, but if there had been one more ‘Olympia Snowe’ in the Senate at the time of the vote it would have been blocked.
“Maine is a Democrat state.”
Not entirely! We elected a conservative, TEA Party guy as governor in 2010....Paul LePage.
The same year, the Maine GOP won control of the Maine House and the Maine Senate for the first time since the early 1960’s. Progress is being made, gradually.
It may be that she provided the vote to get O’Care out of committee. Can’t remember details now, but it was dead, she gave it new life, and the rest, as they say, is history.
If so, my mistake. I thought there were several Repub votes or lack of votes that kept the abomination moving, and hers and Collins were among them.
What you say is true.
But when Senate rules required one minority vote to bring Obamacare out of committee and to the floor, Olympia Snowe was that one minority vote.
Were it not for her, Obamacare would not have made it to a vote in the Senate.
She didn't vote for it once it reached the floor. But she made sure it got there.
You might want to check your spelling.
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