Posted on 07/27/2010 1:16:19 PM PDT by kara2008
“Republicans must hold fast on this one to save the Union!”
(But not the unions.)
Susan Collins was a legislative assistant to former Maine U.S. Senator William Cohen from 1975 - 1987.
In 1994, Susan Collins won a GOP primary against seven other Republicans to win the nomination for governor of Maine. Many Republicans didn’t like her because of liberal views on social issues. It didn’t help when her brother was arrested during the campaign for his involvement in a $1 million marijuana distribution operation. Collins ran against democrat Joe Brennan, a former governor, and independent Angus King. Collins came in third, with 23% of the vote. Angus King won, and was re-elected four years later.
Collins was State Treasurer in Massachusetts for a brief time in the early 1990’s. She moved back to Maine and was the president of Husson College in Bangor for awhile. When William Cohen retired from the Senate in order to become Clinton’s second defense secretary, Collins ran for Cohen’s Senate seat in 1996 after beating three other Republicans in the primary. She ran against Joe Brennan (again), and beat him in the general election 49% to 44%.
Like you said, Collins ran against State Senator Chellie Pingree....an ultra lib....in 2002. Collins won re-election, beating Pingree 58% to 42%. Pingree, as you mentioned, was involved with the liberal group Common Cause before being elected to Maine’s 1st congressional district seat in 2008.
Even though Collins said she would serve for just two terms, she ran for re-election in 2008 against retiring 1st district congressman Tom Allen, beating him 61.5% to 38.5%.
In 2002 and 2008, Collins carried every county in Maine.
Collins is from the northern-most part of Maine, Aroostook County, where her family has been in the lumber business since 1844.
As for Olympia Snowe, she first ran for public office in 1973. Her first husband, Peter Snowe, was a member of the Maine House and he was killed in a car accident. His widow, Olympia Snowe, ran for, and won, his seat in the Maine House. She eventually ran for the 2nd district congressional seat and won. When George Mitchell retired from the U.S. Senate, Snowe ran for, and won, his Senate seat.
Snowe has been married for more than 20 years to her second husband, John McKernan Jr. McKernan was Maine’s GOP governor from 1987 - 1995. About 20 or 21 years ago, he lowered Maine’s sales tax from 6% to 5%, and it’s been 5% ever since.
You’re lucky you have Christie as your governor....he tells it like it is.
By Senator Reid voting against cloture, he can bring the bill back under archane Senate rules...
LOL! Mine is better and Chuckie understands that too! LOL!
Chuckie IS a putz.
I ain’t renewing when I come due; wife either.
Maybe my math is wrong....but I thought that all 41 Repubs voted against cloture. If Ben Nelson also voted against cloture along with Dirty Dingy Harry Reid, then wouldn't the Nay votes be 43? And if the count was 57-41, that would say there was one more senator besides Lieberman who did not cast a vote. I guess I need to search for the roll call on this.
Wait until Congessional reps go home on summer recess and face the mobs waiting for them.Many will return with 2 butt holes,but with some,how can you have a butt hole on a butt hole. Quantum physics is needed.
Quantum physics aside, most congress-critters already suffer from such a malady as they are continually blowing crap out of both ends.
At this point, we are practically drowning in S@#T.
Step one: Remove ALL incumbents from office at the first opportunity.
EFF YOU AND YOUR FASCIST DEMAGOGUESm CHUCKSTER YOU BE GOIN DOWN SOON!
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