I worked a little bit with Snowe and Sue Collins on a project for the Appalachian Trail in western Maine a while back. Snowe was exceptionally willing to listen to several sides of a complicated, and very heated, issue. I was very disappointed to answer the phone tonight to hear a recording of Snowe’s voice asking me to vote for Scott Brown. Endorsing him, and by default his despicable campaign tactics, would seem to be contrary to her notions of what the Senate should be about.
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In the 2000 election, when I still lived in California, I remember hearing a radio ad in which the Republican candidate attacked the Democratic incumbent for failing to bring back enough pork for the district. It ended with an endorsement from John McCain, who, of course, built his entire political career opposing pork. I’m not sure if McCain didn’t know that’s how they were planning to use his message or didn’t care, but either way it shows how little regard these sorts of things are given, when the party asks for it.
I would guess that other Democrats have recorded these things for Tierney, but I doubt they think that they are endorsing his family’s criminal enterprise.
Without knowing that “robo calls” is a verb, the headline seems to be saying that Snowe is retiring partly because of Brown’s robo calls.
I think it was Charley who said something like this, so I will attribute it to him:
Olympia Snowe is leaving the Senate because she dislikes the negativity and gridlock? It’s a shame she wasn’t in a position to do something about it for, I dunno, the last 17 years or so.
from another out-of-state has been senator.
Who cares
She did the robo-call because she’s a Republican.