Posted on 06/23/2021 9:07:21 AM PDT by rktman
The confirmation of President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), David Chipman, received another blow on Tuesday. GOP Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), who has voted for some of Biden’s nominees, announced that she will not support Chipman’s controversial nomination.
"After meeting with Mr. Chipman, listening to Mainers, and reviewing his record, I have decided to vote against Mr. Chipman’s nomination to serve as the ATF Director," Collins said in a statement, per Fox News. "In recent years, Mr. Chipman has been an outspoken critic of the firearms industry and has made statements that demean law-abiding gun owners."
The senator went on to criticize Chipman as a “divisive” pick who has potential to infringe on Second Amendment rights.
"Although he has the right to express his views, I believe this history makes him an unusually divisive pick for this important position. In particular, I am concerned that his confirmation would do significant damage to the collaborative working relationship that must exist between ATF, the firearms industry, sportsmen and women, and other law-abiding gun owners exercising their Second Amendment rights,” she continued.
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Trump having a positive impact on her. Dont matter, she needs to go.
If the Dems have lost Susan Collins, then this jackbooted ATF thug won’t be confirmed.
Maine will have to repeal RCV and go back to dumb voting machines to get her gone.
They haven’t lost Collins.
Deep State is throwing us a bone.
Big whoop.
Great. But will at least one ‘Rat Senator vote against him.
Exactly, she just won in 2020.
Supposedly, they just found RACIST remarks he made about Black ATF agents!! RACIST!
Maine is largely a gun-owning state (about 46%), and the gun owners in this state are vocal.
Yup. Someone just posted a piece from Breitbart. Butt is he above cancellation level?
What has Flimsey Grahamnesty said?
He has supported almost everyone Senile Joe has appointed.
We already know that Grahamnesty is an enemy of the Constitution the rule of law and the citizens from his THREE amnesty votes.
I can live with Collins from a purple state, the ones who really have to go are the TransRepublicans from allegedly conservative states like Grahamnesty, Cornyn, Hoeven, Rubio, etc.
Susan nailed the 2020 election when she got the endorsement of Bill Green, a popular outdoors reporter and outdoor advocate. The gun owners, although just less than half of the population, and vocal and activists. Maine recently passed the constitutional carry.
True.
The big pendulum on her political beliefs swings far to one side and people celebrate but then scatter and run out of the way as the pendulum swings the other way. Exhausting.
No fan ! I guess its a tight rope act being a Republican and staying in office in Maine.
Even Collins couldn’t approve this raving lunatic.
Sadly though Massachusetts migrants and Canadian transplants have turned the state a bit more blue. Such a great state too, sad to see it fall to the invading liberal scum that don’t appreciate the independence that Mainers have.
I say, thank God for any Senator who is protecting the filibuster. Collins is saving us from HR1, DC statehood and another 4 trillion stimulus.
She will be around longer than you think.
I don’t understand Maine’s incomprehensible reflecting of her time and again. I think mostly it came down to the few ,are cities that had gone liberal, or at the least rino.
Maine loved Paul Lepage I think his name was, a no nonsense conservative fella that didn’t give a crap what anyone thought of him, but overcoming the city votes was too much I guess.
Yes, this is all just bread and circuses to make us feel like we won a victory.
Whomever they put in will be rabidly anti-gun. They may even hire Chipman for some internal advisory position and let him run it from there.
Communism knows how to manipulate us and distract us.
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