GOP Senator (Colllins) Slams McCain Robo Call -- Dem Opponent demands she resign as McCrypt Chair

[jefferson_dem]

GOP Senator Slams McCain Robo Call
October 17, 2008 8:17 PM

ABC News' Teddy Davis and Rigel Anderson Report:

Embattled Republican Sen. Susan Collins is calling on John McCain to stop paying for automated phone calls which describe Barack Obama as having "worked closely" with "domestic terrorist Bill Ayers".

“These kind of tactics have no place in Maine politics," said Collins spokesman Kevin Kelley. "Sen. Collins urges the McCain campaign to stop these calls immediately.”

Contacted on Friday by ABC News, the McCain campaign would not say if it was going to heed the request of Collins who serves as his campaign's co-chair in Maine.

"Obviously, Senator McCain has great respect for Senator Collins. But beyond that," said McCain spokesman Brian Rogers, "we don't have any comment."

Ayers is the former leader of the Weather Underground. To protest the Vietnam War his organization ran a domestic bombing campaign which resulted in fatalities.

Obama, who was 8 years old at the time, has repudiated those acts as "despicable". Friday's statement from the Collins campaign came after Maine's Democratic Party issued a press release earlier in the day challenging the Republican incumbent to denounce what it called "blatantly false phone calls personally attacking" Obama.

Collins' Democratic opponent was not satisfied.

"If she truly feels that strongly about it," said Carol Andrews, communications director to Democratic Rep. Tom Allen, "she should resign as co-chair of McCain's campaign in Maine."

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[islandmkl]

1. mccain campaign to collins: "Screw you, baby...we're trying to get OURSELVES elected!"

[RBInMaine]

2. Maybe this will help turn the tide in favor of Allen here in Maine.

The Maine Dems had a press conference here in Maine about this. I got my robo call last night and immediately played it for news outlets and called the local Dem coordinated campaign office. I also called and left one hell of a thrashing message for the Maine Republican Party Executive Director. This robo call is ROTTEN and shows what a rotten stinking bunch of despicable hate mongers and LIARS the Republican Party is. People up here in Maine are OUTRAGED by this, and Collins should be voted out just for being a REPUKE ! Sadly, too many people like her and Allen has run a pretty lame campaign. Don't know if he can pull it out now, but I hope this closes the gap. NOW LET'S GET OUT AND SLAM THE GOP (GOBS OF PUKE) !

[quakerboy]

3. I don't suppose there's

any way that this might help bring Allen a little closer? No offense to senator collins, but we need elected officials with the judgment not to call themselves Republican.