Sen Susan Collins (ME-MINO) endorses Larry (R-ape) Lockman

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Saturday November 01, 2014 · 11:32 AM PDT

2014/11/01 · 11:32

Yes, that Larry Lockman.

Maine State Rep. Lawrence Lockman (R) ... wrote in a letter, "If a woman has [the right to an abortion], why shouldn't a man be free to use his superior strength to force himself on a woman? At least the rapist's pursuit of sexual freedom doesn't [in most cases] result in anyone’s death."
He also said in a past press clipping that progressives were exacerbating the AIDS epidemic by telling "the public that the practice of sodomy is a legitimate alternative lifestyle, rather than a perverted and depraved crime against humanity."

Mike Tipping broke the story of Lockman's extremism.

“In the overwhelming majority of cases, people are dying because of their addiction to sodomy,” Lockman wrote in a 1987 letter to the editor to the Lewiston Daily Sun arguing against funding for AIDS education. “They are dying because progressive, enlightened, tolerant people in politics and in medicine have assured the public that the practice of sodomy is a legitimate alternative lifestyle, rather than a perverted, depraved crime against humanity.”
It was during this period that Lockman first ran for the Legislature, challenging a young state representative named Mike Michaud (now, of course, a U.S. Congressman running to unseat LePage as governor) for the District 134 seat in both 1986 and 1988. Lockman pledged to make health policy on AIDS and “the pervasive influence of militant, politically-organized homosexuals” major campaign issues. He would also call for an end to Maine’s income tax, deeming it “repugnant to American values.”

Lockman's illustrious resumé includes his years as a tax resister:

In 1986, Lockman dressed up like Dracula and stood outside the Federal Building in Bangor in order to protest the “vampire-nature” of the IRS and its “tyranny and police-state methods of tax collection.”

Since his election to the Maine Legislature in 2012, Lockman has learned to dial back his most extreme statements, focusing instead on the more palatable GOP attacks on unions, the working poor, and most especially those 70,000 undeserving Maine uninsured.

Despite these extreme views, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) is supporting Lockman in his race for re-election. A campaign piece for Lockman features a photo of the two with her endorsement quote. (H/T again to Mike Tipping, who posted the catch on Facebook.)

Collins has even maxed out to his campaign through her Dirigo Pac.

How can Collins call herself moderate when she backs such troglodytes?
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Meanwhile, her opponent, Democrat Shenna Bellows prepares for the final stretch of her audacious campaign. She's bringing her grassroots campaign home in the best way possible: Phonebanking with Democratic volunteers in each of the state's 16 counties.

Howard Dean thought of it first – the 50 state strategy, to unite progressives in action in every corner of the country. That’s why I was so excited to kick off our 16-county tour yesterday with Jim Dean, phone banking in Portland. We have seen what happens when we unite behind the call for change. Here in Maine, we have seen grassroots movements triumph at the ballot box when we legalized medical marijuana, restored same day voter registration and won marriage equality.
So what’s the most important thing you can do in the next four days to help us win? Phone bank. Where can you do it? Everywhere.

I will be traveling to Democratic headquarters in all 16 counties over the next four days to phone bank with volunteers to Get Out the Vote.

Want to join me for a phone bank? Sign up here!

Can’t join us at a phone bank but want to support the final GOTV efforts? Donate $5 here.

Bellows Rocks Collins in Second ME-Sen Debate

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Thursday October 23, 2014 · 8:02 AM PDT

2014/10/23 · 08:02

In the second ME-Sen debate televised statewide on MPBN Shenna Bellows (D-ME) presses Sen Collins (MINO- ME) on her record. In her straightforward manner, Bellows points out a number of votes that Collins is trying to airbrush.

Shenna Bellows to Susan Collins: "Do not say that this Congress and your leadership has been fiscally responsible." #MEPolitics
— Bellows for Senate (@Bellows4Senate) October 23, 2014

During the debate, Bellows said Collins proposed an increase to $9 “because $21,000 is too much. How would you feed a family on $18,000 a year?”
Collins agreed that $10.10 an hour is “not a livable wage. I’m curious what you think a livable wage is, because clearly a minimum wage wouldn’t produce a livable wage. It would have to be higher than $10.10.”

Collins further said she proposed $9 “because the independent Congressional Budget Office says that if we [go to $10.10] that it would cost our economy some 500,000 jobs — and those are largely going to be jobs held by low-income people, so I don’t think that’s the answer.

Bellows fired back.

“Thirteen states did raise minimum wage this year and saw job growth more than states that did not raise the minimum wage,” she said. “So that scare tactic suggesting the jobs are going to be lost if the minimum wage were increased are simply not borne out by the evidence. There is something deeply wrong when members of congress who make more than $174,000 a year think that $10.10 an hour is too much.”

"Let's take a step back: ISIS did not exist in this form prior to the Iraq War that Susan Collins and the Republicans voted for" #MEPolitics
— Bellows for Senate (@Bellows4Senate) October 23, 2014

Lack of preparedness 4 Ebola is a direct result of sequestration cuts to the CDC voted for by Collins: http://t.co/... #MEPolitics
— Bellows for Senate (@Bellows4Senate) October 23, 2014

Obamacare, PAC money and more foolishness below the fold.

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Thursday October 09, 2014 · 2:10 PM PDT

2014/10/09 · 14:10

Just in time for Halloween.

Author, philanthropist, and Bangor resident cut an ad for his favorite candidate this year.

Much more below the fold.

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(ME-Sen) Shenna Bellows shows how to do an ad against a popular incumbent

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Tuesday October 07, 2014 · 6:55 AM PDT

2014/10/07 · 06:55

Shenna Bellows is re-writing the book on how to run against a popular incumbent. Nicely. and by that I mean, in a friendly manner. All too often the DNC or outside groups will come into a state and run ads with dark, grainy photos and ominous music and voice overs. The result is mixed, turning off as many voters as are motivated by them. In Maine, these don't go over well and allow the attacked to play the "they're picking on me" card (standard playbook for Collins even as her team plays with Rove rules).

Bellows has found a way to point out Collins' many failings without offending or being "mean". Her ads are personal in that they use actual former Collins' voters and volunteers to highlight why they are voting for Bellows this time around.

This is about as "mean" as Bellows' ads get.

Bellows' fundraising pitches are also atypical in that they don't try to scare folks with over the top, gloom and doom, the sky is falling rhetoric. These are informative and personal, a tough thing to do but effective.

DC Dems and consultants could learn a thing or two, and I think we would be all the better for it if we remember those voters that we can reach live in our towns too. Bellows has been rising steadily in the polls as voters have gotten to know her, and Collins' numbers have dropped over 15 points since June when these ads first began to run.

If you agree with this friendlier way of running a campaign you can support Bellows at

Act Blue

Find out more about Shenna Bellows here

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Saturday October 04, 2014 · 9:55 AM PDT

2014/10/04 · 09:55

We note that "Our Senator" is up to her old tricks again.

Sen. Collins tries to rewrite history after 2013 tea party stand
The story her new television ad tells is entirely fictional.

Maine Sen. Susan Collins’ new television ad reminds me of the opening credits of one of my favorite shows: “The West Wing.” It has uplifting music, soft-focus shots of government buildings and American flags, and lots of bright spots of lens flare. Also, just like “The West Wing,” the story the ad tells is entirely fictional.
The commercial tries to paint Sen. Collins as a standard-bearer for reason and rationality during the 2013 government shutdown debate. The truth is very different.

Publicly, Collins said that she opposed shutting down government, but perhaps mindful of those ads, when it came time to vote on the bills that caused the shutdown, Collins sided with Cruz. Democrats wanted a “clean” Continuing Resolution that would continue funding the government, but Collins and Cruz voted for a “dirty” one, tying the continued operation of government to a defunding of the Affordable Care Act – the main goal of the tea party.

Collins has continued to disparage Obamacare even as its benefits are finally being observed. Moreover, she is still supporting Gov Paul LePage's reelection bid. LePage you may recall vetoed the Medicaid Expansion in Maine, denying the benefits of Health Care to 70,000 Mainers including thousands of Veterans.

Her opponent Shenna Bellows (D-ME) favors Medicare for All.

Shenna Bellows (D-ME) is setting a standard a lot of incumbents should be trying to meet.

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Sunday September 28, 2014 · 5:35 PM PDT

2014/09/28 · 17:35

BLUE AMERICA just dropped this in my inbox.

As you probably know, we’ve supported Shenna Bellows' entirely grassroots campaign for Senate in Maine this cycle more than any other candidate, and now we’re asking you to step up again. She’s running as an outspoken, unapologetic progressive in a blue state that voted for President Obama twice.

Why?

Shenna is running the kind of campaign that makes progressives stand up and cheer. She’s outraising Collins more than three to one in small-dollar donations, according to OpenSecrets, and she hasn’t taken a nickel of corporate PAC money.
She walked 350 miles across the state this summer to hear from real Mainers and bring their stories to Washington where they need to be heard. She’s running full steam ahead on universal health care, investing in our economy, a higher minimum wage, student loan reform, and a national Human Rights Act that extends Maine’s strong LGBT protections to every American man, woman and child.

In other words, as a first-time candidate, Shenna Bellows is setting a standard a lot of incumbents should be trying to meet.

Because !!!

Shenna Bellows is the future of the U.S. Senate. She’s the future of progressive politics.
There’s no one we’re more excited to support this year, and we hope you’ll join us-- right here and right now.

Drop Below the fold to read the full message and find out why they think Susan Collins is "getting nervous" or go to Bellows website at this link.
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Shenna Bellows is setting a standard a lot of incumbents should be trying to meet.
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Maine GOP Convention wrap-up. LePage, Collins "All in" on conservative agenda

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Monday April 28, 2014 · 10:05 AM PDT

2014/04/28 · 10:05

MDP Chair Ben Grant writes in his blog:

While we weren’t treated to the kind of, um, “drama” that the Paul people created at the 2012 MEGOPSC, we still learned some important things about the state of their Party and the 2014 elections. In no particular order:
1) The Unity thing is real. With LePage at the top of the ticket, the GOP apparatus has been whipped into line and they are fully behind the Gov’s reelection effort.

When Rick Scott and the policies of Scott Walker are held up as ideals of government....you have a problem with a lot of voters. LePage's many vetoes are starting to catch up to him, but the Republicans are going "All in"

2) The Unity thing is a problem… when you’re unified behind a flawed candidate and failed policies. ........ Their problem is that LePage himself, and the conservative agenda as a whole, have limited appeal.

The only reason LePage ( seemingly stuck at 37% ) has a shot at 4 more years is that a third party candidate is again in the race. LePage has been a disaster for the economy of Maine, breaking contracts, refusing to spend voter approved bond money, and vetoing the Medicaid expansion.

3) Dear Democrats who voted for Barack Obama: if you crossover and vote for Susan Collins, you will make the rest of us very confused. Did you see the red meat she delivered to the GOP faithful? It was all about Obama. She doesn’t support him or his agenda. The vote in 2012 wasn’t just for Obama the person; it was for Obama the President. We need that support to continue this year, too. Vote Bellows.

Sen Susan Collins decides to double down on RW talking points, railing against Obamacare, the IRS, judicial appointments, executive branch overreach, deficit spending ( while ignoring Marriage Equality, the shutdown, NSA spying, the Paycheck Fairness Act, LGBT Rights, KXL, TPP, and the torture report).

Rand Paul went on about unions and Benghazi.

Read more about Maine races, and Ben's thoughts on why Rand Paul will never be President. (NewsFlash, it isn't the Dems that do him in).

"Thank Susan Collins for helping get the National Republican Party back on stable Financial ground"

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Saturday April 26, 2014 · 10:12 AM PDT

2014/04/26 · 10:12

Liveblog of the Maine Republican Convention starring Sen Rand Paul, Sen Susan Collins, and Gov. Paul Lepage.

Day Two is going. Sharon Day, Co-Chair of the Republican National Committee, is on stage now, talking about how grateful the party is for conservative governors like our own Paul LePage and Florida's Rick Scott.
“When you elect individuals that run on conservative principles and values, and then lead and govern with those values, you get the kind of governor that you have, that I have, and that every state across the country needs to elect if they want to have states like ours," she said.

Really? Is Rick Scott a model for the policies of Paul Lepage?

Well look who else is supporting these policies.

She also thanked Maine Sen. Susan Collins for helping the National Republican Party get back on stable financial ground after the 2010 midterms, when the party was broke.
“We had to rebuild the party from the ground up, not only in our efforts but in our financial ability to get you the tools you need," she said. "Susan Collins was one of the first to help us, to step up to help us raise the money we needed to help our party get strong again, and get on our feet again.”

Is this really the person DEMOCRATS should be supporting against a principled and courageous Progressive Democratic candidate?

Day 1 of the convention saw Republican Collins ignore the challenge to lead her party in a positive direction.

I challenge Republican Susan Collins as the most senior leader in her party to have the courage to lead on this issue and bring the Maine Republican Party back from the ideological brink. Discrimination has no place in a major party platform,” Bellows said.

and again, is this the candidate Democrats should be supporting?

“Three times now, Susan Collins has joined with her Republican colleagues to block legislation that would have increased transparency and offered protection to victims of wage discrimination,” said Bellows.
“Women aren’t earning less than men for doing the same job – they’re being paid less than men for doing the same job.

Are we content with a neo-beltway approach to the future?

“Instead of fighting to give American workers a $10.10 living wage, Senator Collins is joining with corporate interests and national Republicans to water down the bare minimum that workers need to stay out of poverty. She is fighting to reduce wages for thousands of Mainers and millions of Americans. If I were in the Senate, I'd be leading the fight to rally the public and get out-of-touch Republican politicians to do the will of the people on this issue.”

Isn't it time for a leader.

The lawsuits highlight an important policy difference between Bellows and her opponent, Republican incumbent Susan Collins. Bellows has been a long-time advocate for women’s health and reproductive freedom as a leader in the Maine Choice Coalition. Bellows was a key member of the Maine Choice Coalition lobby team, which defeated several anti-contraception and anti-abortion measures over the last eight years. In contrast, Republican Susan Collins voted to advance the controversial Blunt amendment, which would have allowedemployers to deny women access to birth control. [1]

It's time for a real Democrat to represent Maine in the US Senate.

Shenna Bellows

ME-Sen Bellows challenges Collins to stand up to GOP on Marriage Equality

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Friday April 25, 2014 · 8:56 AM PDT

2014/04/25 · 08:56

With the opening of the Maine GOP Convention today in Bangor, Sen Susan Collins will take the stage with keynote speaker Sen Rand Paul and Governor Paul Lepage.

The final draft of the 2014 Maine Republican Party Platform again includes a declaration that “marriage be defined as the union between one man and one woman.”

"I challenge Republican Susan Collins as the most senior leader in her party to have the courage to lead on this issue and bring the Maine Republican Party back from the ideological brink. Discrimination has no place in a major party platform,” Bellows said.

Bellows cut her political teeth with LGBT Rights in Maine.

..... Bellows was on the front lines of the fight, working for seven years to build coalitions on both sides of the aisle to support the freedom to marry. Bellows served on the Executive Committee of Mainers United for Marriage and facilitated the creation of Republicans for the Freedom to Marry.

Collins has been getting a pass on this for years.

“It is deeply disturbing that Republican Susan Collins is so reluctant to take a stance on an issue that a majority of Mainers support,” said Pat Peard, chair of the Mainers United for Marriage, who served on the Executive Committee with Bellows. “In the United States Senate, we need champions of constitutional freedoms for all people.”

Is Collins up to the challenge of leading the Republican Party to a position that is supported by 40% of her party and 64% of self described moderates? A position founded in the precept that all are created equal? Or is she going to allow this mindset to continue to poison the social fabric in the interest of partisan advantage?

The Courage to Love: Five years ago today in Maine.

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Tuesday April 22, 2014 · 7:14 AM PDT

2014/04/22 · 07:14

Five years ago today an astounding thing happened. Over 5,000 citizens came to make their feelings know at a Judiciary Committee hearing on the merits of a bill introduced by State Senator Dennis Damon which would allow same-sex marriage in Maine.

April 22, 2009 Augusta Civic Center, Augusta Maine. Supporters were encouraged to wear red in a sign of solidarity.

State Sen. Damon opens the marriage equality testimony before the Judiciary Committee.

In a hearing that lasted all day and into the evening, a series of speakers laid out the legal and economic effects of the bill.

ACLU of Maine ED Shenna Bellows was a partner in the coalition that brought ME to ME.

and topped it off with the personal view of what marriage equality means to thousands of loving couples.

Personal stories and friend to friend outreach were what ultimately brought ME to ME.

The Committee and the full Legislature passed the bill allowing marriage and it was signed into law May 6, 2009 by then Governor John Baldacci, seemingly capping a decades old battle. But the opponents were not done yet. Before the law could go into effect, they gathered enough signatures to put it out to referendum where the voters overturned the law.
It took three more years of diligent, focussed effort and personal outreach to finally enact Marriage Equality at the ballot box.

US Senate candidate Shenna Bellows (D-ME) has been in the thick of the fight for true Equality in Maine and in the defense of our Civil Rights for over ten years.

Among those on the stage when the announcement was made was Shenna Bellows, sharing joy in the realization that finally her friends could marry, and with good conscience, she and her fiancé could as well.

Some day this should be the scene in all 50 states as Marriage Equality and LGBT rights become universal. If you want to keep that momentum going, you can get behind Shenna's campaign at www.bellowsforsenate.com

John Nichols at The Nation on the future of grassroots organizing

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Saturday April 19, 2014 · 4:59 PM PDT

2014/04/19 · 16:59

John Nichols at The Nation writes:

The woman who could be the future of progressive politics in America is sitting at the back table of an Indian restaurant in Portland, Maine. It’s early evening, she’s got a list of names, and she’s wearing out her cellphone. US Senate candidate Shenna Bellows doesn’t do downtime. While she waits for a meeting, the upstart Democrat makes the calls she says will upset an entrenched Republican incumbent. These aren’t the kinds of calls most candidates make: to big donors in distant cities with agendas even more distant from the concerns of the people she hopes to represent. Bellows is calling the people: nurses and teachers, lobster-boat captains and farmers, students and union activists. And she’s asking them to counter not just big money but a broken politics that values party labels and personalities more than ideals and movements.

Shenna Bellows at snowmobile club dinner in Limestone, Maine.

Shenna at a snowmobile club dinner in Limestone, in far northern Aroostock County. She's taking her message all across Maine as part of her #504Towns strategy.

When Maine Republicans eliminated same-day voter registration, she co-chaired the 2011 Protect Maine Votes coalition, which put it on the ballot and secured a landslide vote to restore it. A year later, with Mainers United for Marriage, she helped organize the referendum campaign that overturned a 2009 ban on same-sex marriage.

Shenna Bellows speaking about health care reform.

Shenna Bellows talks about health care reform to a group at the Blue Hill Library, on the coast of Maine.

Shenna knows that progress comes about from conversations with neighbors, and through the steady, patient work of persuasion. In her interview with Nichols, Bellows had this to say regarding the long battle to win marriage equality in Maine:

“No one thought we could win. Outside political observers said, ‘It’s too soon—you just lost in 2009,’” Bellows recalls. “We said, ‘We know we have the right message, we’re on the right side of history, and we have a highly organized field plan to win.’ And we did. This is a very similar campaign. It’s a David and Goliath race, but we know we have the right message. Most Mainers think we should raise the minimum wage. Most Mainers are concerned about climate change. Most Mainers think we should restore civil liberties.”

Shenna Bellows on the Ray Richardson show, WLOB Radio 1310am.

Shenna on the conservative talk radio Ray Richardson show on WLOB 1310am, finding common ground on privacy issues.

Nichols closes his article with this observation:

Bellows reminds me of a former farm organizer who ran an impossible campaign for a Minnesota Senate seat in 1990. When I mention this, Bellows doesn’t miss a beat. “Yes,” she says. “And Paul Wellstone won.”

It's hard to slow down Shenna Bellows, but Dinah tries!

Find out more about her campaign at bellowsforsenate.com

Watching Collins: Keeping Maine's Senior Senator accountable

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Saturday April 05, 2014 · 3:06 PM PDT

2014/04/05 · 15:06

A Republican recently told me regarding Sen Collins, "at least she doesn't embarrass us on the nightly news like Gov LePage." Well, I ask you, How low do you want to set the bar?

Collins Watch blog is a great resource for pointing out the hypocrisy of Sen Susan Collins, and pointing up why many of us call Susan Collins anything but moderate.

Collins's willingness to talk out of both sides of her mouth on these issues and others makes the job of reporters harder; it forces them to peel back the rhetorical facade and to do the boring, difficult work of sifting through her actual record in office if they want to get at the truth.

Bookmark this page for further revelations

Collins is trying to tie even a modest minimum wage hike to an Obamacare "fix" that would add $140 billion to the federal debt over ten years, cost 1 million Americans their job-based health coverage and leave 500,000 fewer Americans insured.

Why do I almost feel like Sen. Susan Collins is forgetting something?
"Unemployment insurance is critical to those who lost their jobs through no fault of their own and are diligently searching for work but are unable to find it. That is why I recently voted to proceed to debate a bill that would extend federal emergency unemployment compensation benefits for three months, as the president requested.
When it became clear that this proposal would not have enough support, I worked, in good faith, with a group of colleagues on a proposal that could pass both the Senate and the House with bipartisan support."

Oh, right. It's that she voted against the very policy she's working overtime to insinuate that she supported.

It's not the first time Collins has tried to occupy both sides of the fence simultaneously. (Or the second. Or the third.) But it's another glaring example of the kind of duplicity that's bound to crop up when a powerful pol operates without any real accountability.

The Hill

As part of the Republicans’ alternative to a minimum wage increase, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) wants to move the threshold of who is covered by the employer responsibility provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) from 30 to 40 hours a week. She and Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) are the sponsors of a proposal, the Forty Hours is Full Time Act, that would do just that. They contend that this will keep employers from cutting work hours to avoid providing insurance or paying the employer penalty under the ACA. However, this so-called solution isn’t one at all. It would only lead to more workers having their hours and pay cut while increasing the number of workers who will lose job-based coverage – and shifting costs to the federal government.
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Shenna Bellows on Marriage Equality

Susan Collins refuses to say whether or not she supports the freedom to marry.
Now, the [Mainers United for Marriage] coalition very much wanted her support during the campaign. We reached out multiple times to ask her to come out in favor of the freedom to marry. She did not do so then. She still has not done so, even though the voters of Maine have spoken.
And I think that this shows a lack of courage because presumably in 2012 she either voted yes or no. Presumably she didn't leave the question blank.

As Bethesda 1971 asks today Don't we want another Elizabeth Warren in the Senate?

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ME-Sen Bellows challenges Collins to stand up to GOP on Marriage Equality

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