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Maine: Kevin Kelley

February 6, 2009 - 02:00 pm
NEWS FEED: Turn Maine Blue

More on the Nelson/Collins proposed cuts to the stimulus

By Gerald Weinand

There has been some backpedaling on the so-called "Collins-Nelson" working paper that listed around $80 billion of cuts that could be made to the stimulus package, with a staffer telling HuffPost:
Nelson spokesman Jack Thompson called the document irrelevant. "It's several days old and not necessarily reflective of what's in the bill. I don't think it's accurate to cite anything in the list. There isn't a working plan that's before them," he told the Huffington Post.

"There have been changes made to the plan," Thompson emphasized. The negotiations are ongoing, he said, and he wasn't sure what specific changes had been made.

Again, no one is denying that the document exists, only that it is "several days old," as if that means something.

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Sun, 08/31/2008 - 22:30

VoteVets ad hits Collins on Iraq War record

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

Senate candidates Susan Collins (R-Bangor) and Tom Allen (D-Portland) both denounced an ad that hit Collins on her support of the Iraq War.

The ad is from the third party veterans’ organization VoteVets.org that opposes the Iraq War.

In the ad, Alex Cornell du Houx, an Iraq War veteran, said $2 billion of Maine’s tax dollars went to the war while Iraq got rich off oil profits.

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Thu, 08/07/2008 - 02:23

Further comments on the EFCA

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

Note: PolitickerME received further information and comments from several sources after Wednesday’s story was posted about an ad campaign opposing candidates who support the Employee Free Choice Act.

 

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Tue, 07/29/2008 - 19:08

Collins to give away money from Stevens

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

[img_assist|nid=1994|title=U.S. Sen. Susan Collins|desc=Getty Images Photo|link=none|align=left|width=185|height=264]U.S. Sen. Susan Collins will take a $10,000 donation from the Northern Lights Political Action Committee and give it to charity. The PAC is affiliated with Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, who was indicted today on seven counts of failing to disclose thousands of dollars in services from an oil services company that helped renovate his home.

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Tue, 07/29/2008 - 19:06

Allen campaign hits Collins for filibuster support

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

Tom Allen’s campaign hit Sen. Susan Collins today for not supporting a cloture motion that would have ended a filibuster on the U.S. Senate floor yesterday. The filibuster, initiated by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., blocked a package of 35 bills from moving forward.

Allen, a Democratic representative, is challenging Collins for her Senate seat.

The cloture vote failed 52-40. It needed 60 votes to pass.

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