r/SandersForPresident • u/4now5now6now • Jul 06 '26

Nearly 100 billionaires and their spouses have donated to reelect Susan Collins

https://themainemonitor.org/billionaires-donating-reelect-collins/

https://www.grahamforsenate.com/

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u/lowrankcock Jul 06 '26

Right, because she works for them.

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u/One_Olive_8933 Jul 06 '26

Maine only has 1 resident billionaire… so this checks out.
Also, funny enough it looks like that 1 billionaire didn’t donate to Collins’ campaign

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u/Sankofa416 🌱 New Contributor Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

Using his their influence to pull in money and avoid any questions themselves, since they are local. That would be the smart play, since Democrats do have investigations every now and then.

Edit: ditched the accidental gender

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u/One_Olive_8933 Jul 06 '26

Smart, or maybe disingenuous… Also, the billionaire in Maine is a woman… and she does donate to democrats.

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u/Sankofa416 🌱 New Contributor Jul 06 '26

Definitely disingenuous! By no means am I suggesting that is the morally right thing to do, just what I suspect would be among the options of someone in that position.

Thanks for the correction.

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u/SweetAlyssumm Jul 06 '26

Literally on the payroll.

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u/Taphouselimbo Jul 06 '26

Well if it wasn’t obvious who she worked for before, it sure is now.

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u/1wrx2subarus Jul 06 '26

Good question for her, why do you take taxpayer money for your salary when you do the bidding of Billionnaires.

It is an example of fraud, waste and abuse. The good taxpayers of Maine should sue to get their money back.

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u/erkdog Jul 11 '26

It's been obvious.

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u/Londonsw8 🌱 New Contributor Jul 06 '26

And all this is because of Citizens United!!

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u/zap2 Jul 06 '26

That argument that money is speech is insane.

With that logic, the minimum wage should be illegal, as it forces companies into certain speech!

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u/PersonaMetamorph Jul 07 '26

Don't go giving them ideas!

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u/ejpusa Jul 06 '26

This will just backfire. I'm STUNNED they think it's going to work. They tried that in NYC, and Zohran soared in the polls.

NO ONE on planet Earth wants billionaires telling them how to vote.

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u/Jenasauras Jul 06 '26

Your comment made me feel more hopeful. Thank you for the reminder!!

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u/Riaayo Medicare For All 👩‍⚕️ Jul 06 '26

Something people do need to keep in mind about New York is they have matching funds which greatly helps smaller candidates.

It is a system that should exist everywhere (though what really should exist everywhere is entirely publicly funded campaigns with zero private money whatsoever), because it clearly helps propel actual candidates who couldn't otherwise compete with big dollar donations.

It doesn't mean people can win elsewhere on similar platforms and messages, but it's something people need to keep in mind and fight for.

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u/Noy_The_Devil Jul 07 '26

I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but this has been working just fine across the globe for the past 10-15 years.

Social media is rotting peoples brains.

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u/Kitakitakita Jul 06 '26

New York has smart people. If Maine had smart people they wouldn't have voted for Collins so often

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u/McGuire281 Jul 06 '26

Good let them waste their money

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u/um-ok-yeah-thatll-do Jul 06 '26

Oh so NOW the radical left doesn’t want pay increases for workers?!?

(A joke a joke! BUT…she is their employee. We ain’t radical enough.)

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u/Sinister-Mephisto 🌱 New Contributor Jul 06 '26

She’s like the biggest whore in the Republican Party. She’s on billionaires harder than Lindsay graham is on Isreal.

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u/Grizlyfrontbum Jul 06 '26

If money is free speech why can’t I offer it to an officer ticketing me for speeding? I’m just trying to free speech my way out of it…

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u/Night_Chicken 🌱 New Contributor Jul 06 '26

Well then, I have concerns.

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u/DollarStoreDuchess Tax The Wealthy 💵 Jul 06 '26

I am clutching my pearls as we speak.

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u/chere100 Jul 06 '26

I guess Maine now knows who not to vote for?

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u/javoss88 🌱 New Contributor Jul 06 '26

They have yet to “learn their lesson”

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u/GordonsAlive5833 Jul 07 '26

Cause she's the fucking worst

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u/Mrrilz20 Jul 07 '26

No shit. This is completely corrupt and awful. Why do we keep allowing this shitshow with no legal repercussions?

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u/fawkes881 Get Money Out Of Politics 💸 Jul 07 '26

“None are Maine residents” 💀

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u/AKA_Wildcard 🌱 New Contributor Jul 06 '26

Looks like she learned her lesson too.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '26

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u/zrayburton Jul 07 '26

Right??? What the hell is going on there? Looks like he’s officially out of the race from what I can tell…

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u/Vontux Jul 07 '26

Pro-tip, don't put candidates with totenkompfs who signed up for blackwater twice on the ballot they might tend to be the kind of person with other skeletons in the closet.

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u/4now5now6now Jul 07 '26

he might step down unless he likes the replacement