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friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)
Wed Oct 7, 2020, 12:41 AM Oct 2020

Some 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.





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 he’d 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 country’s 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) friendly_iconoclast Oct 2020 OP
Yay, DIRTY TRICKS Enterstageleft Oct 2020 #1
I never realized Bill Green had his head so far up his ass. eShirl Oct 2020 #2
He did say he's tried to be fairly unbalanced. GoneOffShore Oct 2020 #4
The truth hurts... Wounded Bear Oct 2020 #3
Yeah, you bet MF trump is Dirty, Bill Green. Cha Oct 2020 #5
the second pick when enlarged, says paid for uriel1972 Oct 2020 #7
Oh I get it.. TY! lol Collins built that. Cha Oct 2020 #8
So tying a Republican to a Republican president uriel1972 Oct 2020 #6
Susan is now wearing the Trump albatross around her neck....... KY_EnviroGuy Oct 2020 #9
:) Trump Team Maine is no longer selling THIS Trump-Colins sign Hortensis Oct 2020 #10
And WHY would it be a dirty trick, Bill ? OnDoutside Oct 2020 #11

GoneOffShore

(17,340 posts)
4. He did say he's tried to be fairly unbalanced.
Wed Oct 7, 2020, 05:30 AM
Oct 2020

Time to send him his Annual Proctologists' Rectocranial Inversion Award.

Cha

(297,497 posts)
5. Yeah, you bet MF trump is Dirty, Bill Green.
Wed Oct 7, 2020, 05:39 AM
Oct 2020

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.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,494 posts)
9. Susan is now wearing the Trump albatross around her neck.......
Wed Oct 7, 2020, 05:57 AM
Oct 2020

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
Wed Oct 7, 2020, 06:26 AM
Oct 2020

on their website. I just looked.



And I found it because anti-Trumpers tweeted pictures of it.

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