Why did Collins shift now? She is up for reelection in 2008, and her opponent’s camp sees that as the reason.
“An original co-sponsor of legislation to lift the ban, [US Representative] Tom Allen has been a consistent supporter of equality and an opponent of the flawed ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy,” says Valerie Martin, campaign manager for Allen, who is challenging Collins. “It seems as though a tough election-year challenge may be part of Susan Collins’s potential change of heart.”
Perhaps she is playing politics, but those champing at the bit to repeal DADT may just consider the ranking Republican a better ally in the war against the policy than a senator-wannabe who has opposed the law from the very beginning.
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In December 2004, 13 anti-war activists gathered in Senator Susan Collins’s office in Portland, Maine. They read the names of American soldiers who had died in the Iraq war, as well as an equal number of Iraqi civilians who had died.
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Maine senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins are — relatively speaking — gay friendly.
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The effort to overturn the Don’t Ask-Don’t Tell policy needs more than just the support of the 120 House members who have signed on to the bill to replace it with a non-discrimination law.
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Try these Maine political trivia questions on your friends.
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US Senator Susan Collins and both of Maine’s US representatives are backing legislation that could result in more incidents like the November 2 run-in between police and eco-activists in Greenville.
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President Bush authorized spying on US citizens without bothering to seek the approval of a federal court. A Maine senator is leading the charge to find out why.
- Letters to the Portland Editor, August 29, 2008
I am writing about torture around the world that I think is related to possible torture in Maine prisons.
- Tell it to the judge(s)
Bangor Six supporters held a rally on Tuesday outside the Penobscot County Courthouse
- Letters to the Portland editor: March 2, 2007
In September 2006 Congress passed the Military Commissions Act.
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Why did Maine voters give overwhelming approval to a tax-repeal referendum on Nov. 4, while simultaneously returning to office even more of the Democratic legislators who passed the unpopular tax in the first place?
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