December 20, 2007 - 12:57pm
Kerry fundraises for Allen
By Alex IsenstadtMassachusetts Sen. John Kerry is running for re-election in 2008 and today he has sent out a fundraising appeal to supporters– except it’s not for himself. It’s for U.S. Senate candidates Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Mark Udall of Colorado, Tom Allen of Maine, and Jeff Merkely of Oregon.
“…You're already feeling the impact of the good things these Republicans have stopped us from doing — on Iraq, on global climate change, on energy policy, and on children's health care,” Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, writes.
“You don't need another laundry list — you just need a roadmap to changing the Senate. And that starts by changing more Senators. Repeat what you did in 2006. Grow that majority.
“It's that simple, and it's that challenging — we need to make 2008 the year we break the back of the Bush Republican Party, and give the next Democratic President in 2009 a Senate that will be an ally for change.”
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I do not see Tom Allen winning against sen. Collins. She is like Sen. Snowe and the Maine voters will re-elect her, be it by less of a margin than 2002.
She is a centrist and that makes her likable for the un-enrolled and moderate Democrat voters.
Tom Allen has wasted his time as a congressman and he does not deserve to be a senator.
Besides voting strictly paty line and not pushing to have anything done but to bash the war and bash the president, what has he done.
What issues did he support, did he have ANY items brought to the table let alone passed.
He gets eleted and has nothing to show us why he deserves that pay and perks of office. He is not a thinker or a doer.
He may as well go to the other party so that a real Democrat can be helped by the party.
Sen Collins - an independent? only before elections
I think its interesting that people consider Sen. Collins to be independent and not voting along party lines even though a quick look at her voting record shows otherwise...
During the 108th Congress Sen. Collins voted along party lines 84 % of the time.
During the 109th Congress, that dropped to 75%
And finally during the 110th Congress, she voted 74% of the time along party lines.
A similar trend can also be seen with Sen. Coleman (MN), Sen. Smith (OR), Sen. Alexander (TN) and Sen. Sunnu (NH)
I think its interesting that all these "moderate" senators seem to be finding their "independent" groove just before election year!!!
ME deserves a better Demcratic US Senate candidate
I completely agree with you wanting_better! Rep. Allen has done nothing to show us why he deserves a senate seat. I wish Chellie was running against Sen. Collins again! She deserved to win 6 yrs ago and she would definitely win this year!!! Infact I bet she would even beat Rep. Allen in the primary! I wonder why she chose not to run...
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No matter how many times the Maine media prints it, Collins is not a centrist. This is the first year that Allen has been in Congress where the Dem's have been in charge - and the GOP House leadership since 1994 let very few Dem's introduce legislation. I can ask the same question of Collins - what, pray tell, has she done in her eleven years? She spent four as chair of the Senate's HS&GA Committee, charge with overseeing (amongst other things) the spending in Iraq. How much money has been squandered and stolen there? How many investigations did Collins call to find out where your tax dollars went?
There are clear differences between the two candidates, and they will be obvious as the campaign ramps up.
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