The Susan Collins playbook follows the money | Letter

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Instead of being a true representative of the people — supporting our civil rights, voting rights, a woman’s right to choose, affordable healthcare, reining in ICE, having billionaires pay their fair share of taxes and holding a corrupt president accountable — here is Sen. Susan Collins’ game plan: She will feign concern for these matters but always support this corrupt president, no matter what damage he continually inflicts upon this country.

To mollify her constituents, Collins will use her congressional direct spending authority in an attempt to sway voters by allocating federal funds for a new fire station, some road repaving project, airport upgrades, etc. For protecting the president and billionaires, she receives overwhelming funding from Republican PACs for her reelection campaign.

With Sen. Collins as our senator, we here in Maine (and elsewhere in the U.S.) see innocent people gunned down on the street by ICE, SNAP benefits taken away from children, the middle class paying more of the federal tax burden, a Supreme Court taking away our rights, the Epstein cover-up, the U.S. in an unprovoked and costly war, rising inflation, tariffs, loss of women’s rights, etc.

The senator voted for billions of dollars to fund ICE. Collins is beholden not to the voters of Maine, but the wealthy millionaires and billionaires who she curries favor with.

Mainers should not be fooled by her true allegiances; she is not for us.

Steve Mischissin
Camden

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