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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSome truly genius-level trolling of Susan Collins, brought to you by the Maine Democratic Party...
The MDC had a bunch of signs printed up saying "Trump Collins 2020"
Few outside Maine would have noticed these if ex-TV reporter Bill Green hadn't pulled a Streisand and complained about them on Twitter:
Bill Green
@billgreensmaine
These signs were paid for and put up by the Maine Democratic Party. I consider this a dirty trick.
@billgreensmaine
These signs were paid for and put up by the Maine Democratic Party. I consider this a dirty trick.
Link to tweet
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EjqEuzzXgAEQdeY?format=jpg
Some background for non-Mainers:
https://www.sunjournal.com/2020/10/05/retired-tv-reporter-bill-green-backs-susan-collins-in-series-of-ads/
Retired TV reporter Bill Green backs Susan Collins in series of ads
After a 47-year career that made him one of the most familiar faces on Maine television, retired newsman Bill Green can still pull off a surprise.
As a News Center Maine reporter, Green said Monday, I tried to be as fair and balanced as I could, always seeking both sides of every story.
Now, though, freed from journalistic constraints, Green recently told U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican seeking her fifth term, that hed like to help her win.
Before long, he was cutting television ads to boost Collins in her four-way race against Democrat Sara Gideon and independents Max Linn and Lisa Savage. Polls are showing Gideon with a small lead in one of the countrys most-watched contests...
After a 47-year career that made him one of the most familiar faces on Maine television, retired newsman Bill Green can still pull off a surprise.
As a News Center Maine reporter, Green said Monday, I tried to be as fair and balanced as I could, always seeking both sides of every story.
Now, though, freed from journalistic constraints, Green recently told U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican seeking her fifth term, that hed like to help her win.
Before long, he was cutting television ads to boost Collins in her four-way race against Democrat Sara Gideon and independents Max Linn and Lisa Savage. Polls are showing Gideon with a small lead in one of the countrys most-watched contests...
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Some truly genius-level trolling of Susan Collins, brought to you by the Maine Democratic Party... (Original Post)
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Oct 2020
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Enterstageleft
(3,398 posts)1. Yay, DIRTY TRICKS
Oh, sorry, it wasn't a rePug doing it, was it.
eShirl
(18,496 posts)2. I never realized Bill Green had his head so far up his ass.
GoneOffShore
(17,340 posts)4. He did say he's tried to be fairly unbalanced.
Time to send him his Annual Proctologists' Rectocranial Inversion Award.
Wounded Bear
(58,685 posts)3. The truth hurts...
Cha
(297,497 posts)5. Yeah, you bet MF trump is Dirty, Bill Green.
I can't tell what the 2nd sign is about?
And, you have no freaking room to be talking about "dirty tricks" if you're a gop, Green.. Collins is a dirty trick played on Maine and the Country.
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)7. the second pick when enlarged, says paid for
by Maine Democratic Party.
Cha
(297,497 posts)8. Oh I get it.. TY! lol Collins built that.
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)6. So tying a Republican to a Republican president
is a dirty trick. Well, well and well, you live and learn.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)9. Susan is now wearing the Trump albatross around her neck.......
in place of her traditional strings of pity pearls of concern........
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)10. :) Trump Team Maine is no longer selling THIS Trump-Colins sign
on their website. I just looked.
And I found it because anti-Trumpers tweeted pictures of it.
OnDoutside
(19,965 posts)11. And WHY would it be a dirty trick, Bill ?