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Extensively reported story on the many Maine voters betrayed by @SenatorCollins turned their frustration into civic action. Interviews w group leaders and Mainers --many former Collins voters--casts a harsh, but just, light on how Collins has changed under Trump. 1/
#mepoliticshttps://twitter.com/Slate/status/1303307589275521024 …
.@KLeuthy, who voted for @SenatorCollins in 2014: “I thought Susan Collins was going to serve in an Olympia Snowe model. I was very wrong. Very wrong.”
Leuthy co-founded Suit Up Maine, a constituent-led, unfunded group that seeks to create an informed electorate in Maine. 2/
Sarah Holland of @mcm_ind: “I thought she supported women’s rights...I thought she supported the environment. And now, she has just failed every one of those tests. I don’t know what happened to her.”
Constituent-led MCMI holds weekly rallies, registers voters, and more. 3/
Bruce Poulin of @IndivisibleBang: “I thought she was more responsive to her constituents—until I had to go and try to get a response from her."
Ind. Bangor meets 2x/month w Collins' staffers, leads protests, registers voters, and more. Like others, they are all constituents. 4/
On the critical work of voter-led groups like @mfalpac and co-founder @MarieFollayttar: "Since 2016, Follayttar has led her group in “debunking” Collins—convincing supporters that she’s not the judicious, independent-minded legislator she’s assumed to be." 5/
Slate also highlights Mainers like Rick Parker, a former Collins voter, whose experience as a paper mill worker made him feel a kinship with Collins. “I just thought of her as being like one of us,” he said. Now how does he see her? “She’s a Mitch McConnell righthand man.” 6/
Slate captures why @SenatorCollins' Kavanaugh speech was an ultimate betrayal for many former supporters: "her speech made it sound like she’d made up her mind weeks earlier, then let thousands of women exhaust themselves in protest and bare their painful pasts for nothing." 7/
And this: "Many Maine independents and Democrats told me they felt they’d been awakened from a period of political complacency—able to see clearly, for the first time, that Collins wasn’t the moderating force in the Senate she claimed to be." 8/
The article captures how Mainers, many former @SenatorCollins voters, educated ourselves on her record. We're an informed electorate, not a "mob" of "paid activists" as Collins likes to claim. And that's why she's so scared. And it's why she will lose in November. 9/9
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