for US, not for themselves, not for their party, not for Russia, but for their constituents. When are republican voters going to wake up and realize that they are not being served by the people they send to Washington? Why are they all so fucking dense?

Capitalist kings who fill up their campaign coffers with legal bribes.

Reagan have favored the uber rich. We the people haven't been represented in decades.

rethugs are so pathetic
she is going down

The only time they'll wake up is if the spigot is turned off.

One of her standard responses before voting for whatever IQ45 or Moscow Mitch wants.....

Love it .

for exposure

SO RUDE!!!111

answers to perfectly reasonable questions is a one way ticket home for our elected officials.

I'm glad you did this. It's bound to get some reaction and hopefully some REAL answers!

reply about her being upset and waiting for all the facts to come in? The FACTS are right there, larger than life, Ms. Collins. Hopefully the citizens put her out to pasture, so she can THINK in peace while someone more competant fills her seat. Her posturing has been successful longer than it ever should have.

She needs to make sure something will provide her backup. Actual/Factual reality never seems to be of much help in that department.

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When they can't answer a question or feel put on the spot, they can only fall back on the ad hominem attack.

... but that only works when the difficult question happens to be about a news story.

They seem to have a lot of practice in weaseling out of answering questions these days.

And it isn't new.

This is how we do it.

Or disagrees with them, or speaks passionately about legislation to solve a problem, or objects to Republicans’ mistreatment of children, people of color, women, the 99%, etc.

... and to not be pissed on.



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C'mon Maine voters. Give her the boot.

out of politics. Imagine how many people this happens to who can't afford an ad like this.

Hurray for EriK Mercer who placed the ad!

Knowing trump and the republicans, they will counter punch with ads that lie.

How. Dare. We!

I Google this and can only find one reference to it on The Daily Kos. WTF? I though I'd at least get a hit at the Herald as this ad in itself is news.

Go forth.

Susan Collins was a 'right time, right place' candidate...

She was in a three person primary race and so far back she could not even see the other two candidates' tail lights.

The millionaire candidate sponsored an investigation of the evangelist candidate who got run out of a southern state because he was boinking his twelve year old babysitter.

The millionaire denied his involvement but the public turned against both him and the evangelist, leaving Susan Collins as the sole remaining candidate.

Did the pedophile who was "boinking" the 12 year old go to prison? ..Seems important, somehow.

I don't think so. He must have known the right people.

It was credible enough to knock him out of the race.

If I was a politician, I would not appreciate being cornered in public places, from which I could not retreat (such as preparing to board a plane), and subjected to questions. I would want to have private time.

I dislike her a LOT, but I think people do deserve some privacy when going about their daily lives.

Doesn't sound like an invasion of privacy to me.

There really isn't any such thing as "off duty" for a Senator when in public. We may not want to go about our lives like that, but it is one thing you accept when you run for office. Every politician understands they are always on duty when in public.

your bosses. They pay your salary and underwrite all your benefits. You are beholden to them, and as a public official, you can’t hide behind demands for privacy whenever you want it. After all, bottom line is - YOU wanted in on all this, did you not? Nobody held a gun to your head and forced you to run for office. An office that gives you a BIGTIME public platform to be taken seriously and be heard and get lots of attention and media time to get your face on TV and your blathering on the radio and your words and deeds in the print headlines. And the taxpayer-funded healthcare and perks and benefits and staff and office space and access to all the biggest bigwigs in the world.

There’s a “quid pro quo” for that. THERE’S yer “quid pro quo” at its most basic. And if somebody you work for approaches you politely (as it appears) and asks if they can talk with you for a few moments, then you comply. And if you don’t happen to like what your constituent has to say, that’s just too damn bad.

She actumissed an opportunity 1) to engage with something be holding different views, 2) explain your thinking, 3) listen to their thinking especially if it’s not from the Pox Noise “safe space”, and maybe 4) consider opening your mind a little.

I wasn’t there. I don’t know if voices were raised. But reading the account indicates that there was no rudeness presented. Just questions she didn’t like.

But if there are questions you don’t like, Susan, then WHY? What makes those questions objectionable? Or rude? Was it rude to challenge the solidity f the house of cards you built to live in?

In a similar situation?

Collins represents many thousands of people in Maine. It's not her job to have individual conversations with any one of them, should they randomly approach her. That's what media interviews are for; that's what "town halls" are for, surveys, etc. People in politics are not expected to be slaves to their constituents, answering questions on demand from total strangers, some of whom could even be dangerous.

I would not criticize one of our Dem senators for the same actions, so I will not criticize a Republican for it.

She has proven herself to be particularly loathsome since she votes with the GOP after the attention-seeking waffling that she pretends is soul searching. But I agree with her that this man's actions were indeed rude.

cried "rude" if the person that ask her the questions would not have been about Collin's controversial judgement/s and would have been a known Republican. Collins had a choice to cast her vote against a known Drunk and a sexual Predator
Collins does not deserve any kindness.. when she voted to take away Healthcare from millions of insured Americans
So to hell with her "off duty" rudeness

When people applaud her at the Airport. Is she working then?

Thank you.

Thank you for posting this, because every one of us every day must continue fighting the good fight. Not all Americans are corrupt, filled with greed or lust for power. Most people are decent. It is for us to tap into that decency.

Then we will not only have a blue tsunami, but we will also achieve better communities, a better country and a better world.

Starts in our own back yards, and with our own families and friends and networks.

It's great this man had the money for the ad. Full-pagers are expensive.

Thank you!

Link to tweet

Let me guess, she was up in first class?

How dare you pierce her isolation bubble. I'm surprised a bodyguard didn't slam you to the ground for approaching her. Or maybe she will have you banned from her flights from now on.

That was sarcasm for the stressed out among us.

They are a privileged class on the gop side. They are treated like royalty by lobbyists and politicians. They have special perks rained down on them. They have lucrative do nothing careers thrust upon them when they leave office as long as they carry the water.

They begin to think they are separate and better than us. So having the bubble pierced is very disturbing to them.

Keep it up.

Good on them.

They are--as a body--doing everything they can to force supporters of a free and open democracy underground.

Long Live The Underground!

...Senator Susan Collins will find ANY conversation rude where she is asked pointed questions that she cannot give one of her stock answers to. Collins has built her entire Senate career saying and intimating one thing and doing quite another.

It wasn't that this constituent was rude to Collins, it was that this constituent had the nerve to ask Collins difficult questions about her service and the current state of GOP* DC, of which Collins has been a willing participant.

Thank you, Erik Mercer, for asking the questions, even though Collins did not answer.