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Collins Watch@collinswatch.bsky.social · 2d ago

Whole race in a nut shell: Susan Collins is a product of the ownership class and a member of the ownership class focused on advancing ownership class interests and Troy Jackson is a product of the working class and a member of the working class eager to advance working class interests. #MEpolitics

Collins Watch@collinswatch.bsky.social · 2d ago

Wild pair of paragraphs in Press Herald's story on Susan Collins and Troy Jackson's roots in Aroostook County. Who knew that being a worker and hiring workers were the same thing! (Lots of ownership class folks think this way, actually.) #MEpolitics

Press Herald article: Each of their families has played a part in the lumber industry, a pillar of the county’s economy — Jackson’s as loggers, Collins’ as owners of a lumberyard. “Certainly you could, in effect, say we’re both from a family of loggers,” Sam Collins, 68, the senator’s younger brother and president of S. W. Collins Co., said in his office in Caribou, referring to a period when the company employed loggers.
Collins Watch@collinswatch.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: Susan Collins was close enough with Tom Daffron nine years before their marriage that she took him as her date to a black tie White House function -- at a time when he was a registered lobbyist and still married to his former wife. Our story at the link. #MEpolitics

SUSAN COLLINS'S MARRIED FUTURE HUSBAND WAS HER DATE TO A 2003 WHITE HOUSE GALA

Four reactions to the resurfacing of a remarkable, memory-holed moment

susancollinswatch.substack.com

Collins Watch@collinswatch.bsky.social · 2w ago

"[Susan] Collins is relying on...deep-pocketed outside groups, funded largely by billionaire megadonors, to spend tens of millions of dollars...promoting her and attacking the Democratic nominee. Her campaign...allies and other groups...have...reserved about $60 million in airtime." #MEpolitics

NY Times headline: After Democratic Shake-Up, Susan Collins Holds Enormous Cash Edge in Maine