Exclusive: Susan Collins' plight gets worse with new corruption allegation, possible ethics probe

[UpInArms]

Source: Salon

The American Democracy Legal Fund (ADLF) sent a letter Wednesday to the U.S. Senate Ethics Committee asking to open an investigation into allegations that Sen. Susan Collins of Maine — a Republican who faces a tight re-election battle this fall — used her office to financially benefit her husband and, subsequently, herself.

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The complaint alleges that Daffron received $54.95 million in government contracts and $3.5 million in lobbying revenue during his years at Jefferson Consulting, or approximately $58.4 million combined. As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Collins exercised oversight over agencies that granted Jefferson Consulting $10 million in government contracts in that time, according to the complaint.

While Collins served on the Appropriations subcommittees on defense and on military construction and veterans affairs, as well as on the Homeland Security contracting oversight subcommittee and the Senate Special Committee on Aging, her husband's company made $6 million from the Department of Veterans Affairs, $850,000 from Washington Headquarters Services, $370,000 from the Pension Benefit Guaranty and $300,000 from the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Procurement Operations.

Of that $10 million, $767,000, or 7.5%, came from non-compete contracts.

Read more: https://www.salon.com/2020/09/09/exclusive-susan-collins-plight-gets-worse-with-new-corruption-allegation-possible-ethics-probe/

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[dchill]

1. As I understand it, Republicans are allowed to do this.

[tavernier]

12. Yes. Reagan made it an amendment to the constitution.

Thanks for catching that!

[dchill]

19. He also had Billy Graham have God add it as the 11th Commandment.

[KS Toronado]

28. Yes, they are allowed, because just like their leader they are above the law. Just ask 'em.

[dchill]

30. If you ignore it, it's not a law.

[Hero57]

2. She must be so concerned

Susan Collins level concerned.

[johnnyfins]

3. Buh Bye!

[johnnyfins]

4. Go have a beer with Brett

[Illumination]

13. But will she still respect him in the morning?...

[RockRaven]

5. Don't underestimate the ability of Maine residents to vote for known shitheels.

Paul LePage won a statewide election (governor) twice.

[PhylliPretzel]

20. More folks voted for the other candidates

than voted for LePage. With three candidates running, he didn't get a majority.
Now Maine has Ranked Choice (some call it Instant Runoff) Voting so no candidate can't win without a majority of the voters choosing that person as a first or second choice.

[IronLionZion]

23. It's good that Maine has ranked choice voting

more states should do the same. Maine also splits up their electoral votes by house district instead of winner takes all so douchebag actually got one of Maine's electoral votes.

[thenelm1]

22. You got that right.

Susie Q, or allied parties pushing for her re-election, have been spending like crazy, with gazillions in anti-Gideon ads for the last few weeks, even going so far as to smear her because the law firm her husband works for took PPP funds (apparently he's a partner). Gee, wasn't the whole point of the PPP program to keep small businesses functioning?

Then again, Susie Q was part of the gang that added the poison pill exception that allowed major chains to claim those funds as long as they had fewer that 500 employees “per physical location.” So the major corporations were able to gobble up much of those funds before actual small businesses were able to get in line.

She's a piece of work - she hasn't had a public town hall in years and, per the linked article, 97% of her campaign funding comes from out of state interests.

(One of my pet peeves is that I think any funding for any candidate for public office should only be allowed from the constituents within the district he/she is running to represent. Yeah, I know, 1st amendment and all that, but only the people who would be represented by the candidate(s) should be allowed a say to contribute financially, or otherwise, to aid in that selection. Money or other support from outside pollutes the whole process. And has for many, many years.)

[Luciferous]

36. Yeah we know all about those out of state interests in WI!

[machoneman]

37. Forgot that! LePage, whatta loser!

[milestogo]

6. I'm concerned.

[onetexan]

8. LOL good one. This should be the next ad for Sarah Gideon's campaign. Keep running this till 11/3

[yaesu]

7. but, but, but Lieberman endorsed her

[Cha]

9. Kick!

[druidity33]

10. She's awful and deserves to go down... but

isn't this basically what Feinstein did?

[rzemanfl]

11. Bookmarking. n/t

[Illumination]

15. Right. There's some funny business going on for sure. Especially when The FBI is involved!...

[delisen]

34. No Feinstein did not. Do you have any evidence?

Please post any evidence you have so people can evaluate.

[swag]

14. Obligatory YouTube response

[Illumination]

17. Great ad! We're STILL DUSAPPOINTED in her that she voted for the boozing beer boy Brett!...

[rpannier]

16. Joe LIEberman supports her

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[apnu]

21. Joementum!

[PatSeg]

18. Oh, I'm sure she's learned her lesson

and won't do it again.

[relayerbob]

24. So, she is being blackmailed

Good, she's being outed. Hope she winds up in the cell next to Lindsay Graham

[Hassler]

25. Thoughts and prayers, Susan, I'm concerned.

[flibbitygiblets]

26. Oof! That's some sad timing for Maine's least favorite concern troll.

A-whomp whomp.

[tclambert]

27. A Republican acting unethically? Who ever heard of such a thing!

Will the Senate ethics committee investigate the accusation? Shouldn't take long since they won't listen to any witnesses or look at any evidence. Plus, they already know how they will vote. That there is efficient time management. They need the time saved to investigate Hillary again. They still haven't gotten to the bottom of her involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal.

[C Moon]

29. WTH! They're Republicans--they're allowed to do that kind of thing.

(just in case)

[riversedge]

31. aw Susy. you are in bigly trouble!

[Proximate Centurion]

32. VoteVets, yesterday:

[uriel1972]

33. *practices concerned look*

fails

[Earth Bound Misfit]

35. Concern level: SEVERE