Susan Collins should never be underestimated. She won her first Senate election 30 years ago, and her sheer tenacity in staying in power is formidable, especially since, over the course of her political career, Maine hasn’t been hospitable ground for Republicans (the state last gave the popular vote to a GOP president in 1988).
But Collins’s undeniable gift for pork-barrel spending could now come back to haunt her, thanks to a new pay-for-play scandal broken on Tuesday by ProPublica. The ProPublica story focuses on Collins’s links to Martin Kao, the former CEO of a defense contractor called Navatek. Last year, Kao was sentenced to 87 months in prison for bank fraud and Covid relief fraud.
ProPublica’s reporting shows that Kao’s operation was almost comically corrupt. Despite the denials of Collins’s office, the ProPublica report is damning. It’s also being picked up by local media in Maine. Troy Jackson, the Democratic candidate in the Senate race, put out a punchy ad quoting the reporting and labelling his rival “Corrupt Collins.”
You know how the left correctly blames the center Democrats for picking bad corpo candidates, eg against Trump (Clinton, Harris) that end up losing? The American left should also do a bit of introspection and self-criticism for picking a bad candidate in Maine. The whole saga of how he ended up stepping down was very demobilizing. This magat should not have it this easy…
It’s a broken america nowadays. Corruption is what qualifies you to be a success.
This is why Canadians have no faith in Americans to elect a responsible government. A state like Maine begging Canadians to come back, get fucked. Never going to the states again.
Don’t say never, Germany went from enemy of the Western world to respected ally in like 20 years. So who knows
sure , after being bombed to the Stone age, their leader was killed and they were invaded.
and now the Nazi’s in Germany are back again
Perhaps not never, but not now or any time soon.
I have noticed a significant decrease in Canadian license plates I see in Washington State. Makes sense. I just wish we could get annexed by Canada and kick out all the California tech workers that moved here.
Which one of them isn’t?
They need a campaign on how she’s changed throughout the years and her voting record with Trump. You can’t just say corrupt and expect long time voters to change.
You can’t expect Collins voters to see facts, read, and understand them either. Lie round the world, truth puts on pants.
Stupid complacent american voters.
Mainer here. I hope I’m wrong, but I have a feeling she’ll still be voted back in. My wife said today that there has been barely anything on local news about Collins.
I have been voting against her for 30 years!
and a genuine thank you for trying!
Reelected again. We knew enough about her the first time after Trump.
But Maine went and fucked it up again. Just like Kentucky and South Carolina.
The woman is a blight
extremely concerning
Who are the fucking nonces electing her?!
Obstensibly, the people who are voting for the establishment corpo Democrats in the primary.
…but don’t ever blame the voters! Oh no, this must be the fault of the DNC, or “shitlibs”, or…
It’d be a shame if she died.
You’re not going to believe this, but she’s not the only one
Anyone part of that party is corrupt, and majority of Democrats are as well.
yeah i’m totally gonna vote green and then everyone will see how important i am
who cares who gets elected anyway
