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Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Sunday she decided against running for governor of Maine next year because she felt there was still an important role for her to play in the Senate.
"I looked at all that is going on in Washington today. The issues that we're dealing with are so consequential. I do play a key role as being one of those senators who can work across the aisle and actually get things done," Collins told host Kasie Hunt on MSNBC's "Kasie DC," which premiered on Sunday.
"And I just felt that I couldn't walk away even though it's a very difficult and troubled time in Washington," the Republican lawmaker continued.
Collins said she entertained the idea of a gubernatorial run "for many reasons," pointing to her friends and family.
"One is that I missed being in Maine full time. Most of my family and many of my friends are there. And governor is a more hands-on job where you can do more to promote economic opportunities, and that really matters to me," she said.
Collins ended months of public speculation on Friday, when she announced that she planned to stay in her Senate role for the rest of the term.
Poster Comment:
Mitch McConnell & Chuckie Schumer would be lost without her.
She's like a mother to Lil' Marco & Lady Linsdey
#1: rlk To: hondo68 (#0)
She's a God damned subversive disaster.
rlk posted on 2017-10-16 23:19:37 Reply Private Reply
#2: Hondo68 To: rlk, *The Two Parties ARE the Same* (#1)
The vast majority of the D&R party Senators fit that description. It's what the people who elected them want... anti-American scum.
I'm blaming the partisan ahole voters who elected them! What kind of jerk would vote for what's in congress? There approval ratings are horrible, yet they keep getting re-elected.
Hondo68 posted on 2017-10-16 23:35:17 Reply Private Reply
#3: Tooconservative To: hondo68, BobCeleste (#0)
Tooconservative posted on 2017-10-16 23:49:04 Reply Private Reply
#4: nolu chan To: hondo68 (#0)
nolu chan posted on 2017-10-17 01:21:37 Reply Private Reply
#5: Hondo68 To: nolu chan, Colins 2020, *2020 The Likely Suspects* (#4)
No donors, bankrupt. After four bankruptcies or so, The Donald became president.
She's on the path to beating Trump in 2020?
Hondo68 posted on 2017-10-17 01:57:06 Reply Private Reply
#6: A K A Stone To: hondo68 (#0)
A K A Stone posted on 2017-10-17 06:08:50 Reply Private Reply
#7: sneakypete To: Tooconservative (#3)
Well,to be fair,she has always been completely delusional.
Not to mention the yankees that keep reelecting her.
sneakypete posted on 2017-10-17 10:06:25 Reply Private Reply
#8: Hondo68 To: A K A Stone (#6)
Trump wants babies killed too!
Hondo68 posted on 2017-10-17 10:22:14 Reply Private Reply
#9: nolu chan To: hondo68 (#5)
Vivid imagination is no substitute for facts. She was headed to a loss in a closed Republican primary.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/08/11/poll-sen-susan-collins-increasingly-unpopular-for-vote-against-obamacare-repeal/
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/8/1686139/-New-poll-shows-Maine-Sen-Susan-Collins-losing-in-a-hypothetical-GOP-primary-for-governor-in-2018
nolu chan posted on 2017-10-18 18:37:39 Reply Private Reply
#10: Hondo68 To: nolu chan, pollls SUPER reliable (#9)
Polls said Donny Trump was a loser too, then he booted Obongo out of the WH!
Ya figure the only reason Trump is there, is because of Ruskie hacking? Trump believes that too, so he signed on to sanctions against Russia.
Hondo68 posted on 2017-10-18 19:11:23 Reply Private Reply
#11: Liberator To: hondo68 (#10)
You're really not getting this, are you?
Liberator posted on 2017-10-18 20:16:12 Reply Private Reply
#12: Liberator To: nolu chan (#4)
Yup. More deflection. Collins must have been told to play the "Trump" card because a focus group representing her constituency would buy the deflection/projection.
The Media, Dems, the GOPe and Elites will scapegoat "Hitler!!!" er...I mean Trump and his 63 million "KKK/Alt-Right" voters till the day he leaves.
Liberator posted on 2017-10-18 20:21:12 Reply Private Reply
#13: Hondo68 To: Liberator, Victoria Nulands cookies, Trump, *Neo-Lib Chickenhawk Wars* (#11)
Trump wants a cookie, so he's adopted Hillary/McCain/Obama/Rubio/Kerry's "regime change" foreign policy?
This changes leadership from secular governments, to Islamic wackjob governance. The Bush/Obama record is clear on that, not to mention Jimiah Carter and his Iranian Students deposing the Shah.
Flashback to the 70's by Jimmy Carter's house band, Root Boy Slim & The Sex Change Band...
Hondo68 posted on 2017-10-18 21:14:36 Reply Private Reply
#14: nolu chan To: hondo68 (#10)
Trump did not boot King Barack I out of the White House. January 20th did that. Donaldus Magnus saved human civilization from Queen Hillary I and the Clinton crime family.
No, he's there because in addition to being corrupt and incompetent, Hillary induced projectile vomiting.
nolu chan posted on 2017-10-18 21:15:54 Reply Private Reply
#15: rlk To: hondo68 (#2)
People are stupid.
rlk posted on 2017-10-18 21:21:13 Reply Private Reply
#16: buckeroo To: nolu chan, hondo68 (#14)
buckeroo posted on 2017-10-18 21:27:16 Reply Private Reply