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Snowe announces she won't seek re-election
« on: February 28, 2012, 06:57:21 PM »
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Snowe announces she won't seek re-election

Citing too much partisanship in Washington, Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe will not run for re-election, she announced Tuesday.

Snowe, a moderate Republican who was often a key swing vote on partisan issues, was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1994. She previously represented Maine's 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House for 16 years.

"After 33 years in the Congress this was not an easy decision. My husband and I are in good health. We have laid an exceptionally strong foundation for the campaign, and I have no doubt I would have won re-election," she said in a statement.
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I'd celebrate but who knows what Maine would put up to replace her.
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Re: Snowe announces she won't seek re-election
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2012, 07:06:33 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on February 28, 2012, 06:57:21 PM
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I'd celebrate but who knows what Maine would put up to replace her.

Would a DemonRat vote much differently than she has?
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Re: Snowe announces she won't seek re-election
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2012, 07:16:27 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on February 28, 2012, 06:57:21 PM
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I'd celebrate but who knows what Maine would put up to replace her.
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Re: Snowe announces she won't seek re-election
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2012, 07:21:42 PM »
Meh!

Any democrat has to be more conservative than she is.
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Re: Snowe announces she won't seek re-election
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2012, 07:23:49 PM »
Moderate, my ass.  When Dems have a more conservative voting record than her, she needs to GO.
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Re: Snowe announces she won't seek re-election
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2012, 07:52:33 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on February 28, 2012, 07:23:49 PM
Moderate, my ass.  When Dems have a more conservative voting record than her, she needs to GO.

Couple Dumplinks:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101462737

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002361309

Dummies are probably correct that the seat will turn as Limpy waited until 15 days before filing to get out.  Nice timing bitch anyone wanting to get in now has a tough row to hoe to certify. 

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Re: Snowe announces she won't seek re-election
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2012, 09:03:12 PM »
VESTANUMBERS FOR SENATE!! :cheers1:
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Re: Snowe announces she won't seek re-election
« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2012, 09:10:15 PM »
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VESTANUMBERS FOR SENATE!! :cheers1:

She's probably the most conservative person in the state.

That speaks volumes.
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Re: Snowe announces she won't seek re-election
« Reply #8 on: February 28, 2012, 09:11:11 PM »
Quote from: Tucker on February 28, 2012, 09:10:15 PM
She's probably the most conservative person in the state.

That speaks volumes.

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Re: Snowe announces she won't seek re-election
« Reply #9 on: February 28, 2012, 09:11:20 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on February 28, 2012, 06:57:21 PM
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I'd celebrate but who knows what Maine would put up to replace her.

That was what I was thinking.  
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Re: Snowe announces she won't seek re-election
« Reply #10 on: February 28, 2012, 09:12:57 PM »
Quote from: Tucker on February 28, 2012, 09:10:15 PM
She's probably the most conservative person in the state.

That speaks volumes.

Wait!  I got family in Maine.   :thatsright:

Oh yeah.....


VESTA has my vote!
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Re: Snowe announces she won't seek re-election
« Reply #11 on: February 28, 2012, 09:13:11 PM »
Quote from: Tucker on February 28, 2012, 09:10:15 PM
She's probably the most conservative person in the state.

That speaks volumes.
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Re: Snowe announces she won't seek re-election
« Reply #12 on: February 28, 2012, 09:18:21 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on February 28, 2012, 09:13:11 PM
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A true conservative in that state is non existent.
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Re: Snowe announces she won't seek re-election
« Reply #13 on: February 28, 2012, 10:08:07 PM »
Vesta doesn't live in Maine. She lives in NewMarket, NH I believe..As long as Cheryl Pingree doesn't get it, I think we will be ok...
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Re: Snowe announces she won't seek re-election
« Reply #14 on: February 28, 2012, 10:13:20 PM »
Quote from: seahorse513 on February 28, 2012, 10:08:07 PM
Vesta doesn't live in Maine. She lives in NewMarket, NH I believe..As long as Cheryl Pingree doesn't get it, I think we will be ok...

Hillary didn't live in New York, and she became a senator there...  :fuelfire:
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Re: Snowe announces she won't seek re-election
« Reply #15 on: February 28, 2012, 10:20:35 PM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on February 28, 2012, 10:13:20 PM
Hillary didn't live in New York, and she became a senator there...  :fuelfire:
In the fine lib/dem tradition of carpetbagging.
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Re: Snowe announces she won't seek re-election
« Reply #16 on: February 29, 2012, 11:23:44 AM »
Quote from: chris_ on February 28, 2012, 06:57:21 PM
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I'd celebrate but who knows what Maine would put up to replace her.

I can think of several names, all of which make my stomach churn, and yeah, Pingree has been one of those floated around.
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Re: Snowe announces she won't seek re-election
« Reply #17 on: February 29, 2012, 01:51:55 PM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on February 28, 2012, 10:13:20 PM
Hillary didn't live in New York, and she became a senator there...  :fuelfire:
Those were my first thoughts when I saw the Snowe story on Drudge last night. Hmmm... I wonder who the Donks are going to issue marching orders to and send up to Maine to grab this seat?
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Re: Snowe announces she won't seek re-election
« Reply #18 on: February 29, 2012, 02:20:30 PM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on February 28, 2012, 10:13:20 PM
Hillary didn't live in New York, and she became a senator there...  :fuelfire:

She bought a house there....but since she's probably never stayed overnight there, I guess we should call it Bill's whorehouse.
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Re: Snowe announces she won't seek re-election
« Reply #19 on: February 29, 2012, 07:31:18 PM »
I can't help but think she did this purposely to screw the Republicans.
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Re: Snowe announces she won't seek re-election
« Reply #20 on: February 29, 2012, 07:53:39 PM »
Quote from: Ballygrl on February 29, 2012, 07:31:18 PM
I can't help but think she did this purposely to screw the Republicans.

Whatever would give you that idea?  Her voting record?
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Re: Snowe announces she won't seek re-election
« Reply #21 on: March 01, 2012, 12:49:01 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on February 29, 2012, 07:53:39 PM
Whatever would give you that idea?  Her voting record?

Well yeah that, but also, rumors of her inevitability may in fact have been over rated.  Maine had a GOP Senate primary challenger who decided to go Indy (a Tea-partier IIRC ).  This would have put her in a 3-way (sorry about the mental picture this might have caused) race.  With a strong dem and indy turnout she could have found her self on the proverbial windy corner.  This is how the current Governor (LePage) got in with only 38% of the vote. She may be loved by the party apparatchic but that might not have been enough in todays political climate to put her over the top.  She would not win the dems and the resurgent indys do not buy her tired line of go along to get along.  I think she finally saw the writing on the wall and decided to stick her finger in the eye of constituents.

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Re: Snowe announces she won't seek re-election
« Reply #22 on: March 01, 2012, 12:56:22 PM »
Maine GOP party apparatchik is kind of like that of P-town North's.  You could fit them both into a phone booth.
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Re: Snowe announces she won't seek re-election
« Reply #23 on: March 01, 2012, 02:48:20 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on March 01, 2012, 12:56:22 PM
Maine GOP party apparatchik is kind of like that of P-town North's.  You could fit them both into a phone booth.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20120301/D9T7SDDO1.html

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Voting with Republicans in favor of the amendment were Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, both up for re-election, and Ben Nelson of Nebraska, who is retiring. Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, who only this week abandoned her re-election bid out of frustration with the polarized Congress, was the lone Republican to vote to defeat the amendment.

Democrats pounced on the symbolism of Snowe's decisions. "If Republicans keep this up, they're going to drive away independent voters, women and men, just as they are driving moderates out of their caucuses," said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

But Republicans kept one such senator in the fold on the vote, Snowe's fellow senator from Maine. Sen. Susan Collins kept all sides on edge until minutes before the vote, saying on the Senate floor that she was troubled that the administration could not assure her that faith-based self-insured organizations would be protected from the mandate to cover contraception.

"I feel that I have to vote for Sen. Blunt's amendment," she said.
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Next Rhino to go should be Suzie Collins.  Margret Chase Smith must be rolling over in her grave.  However, we here in the Granite State have our own Mean Jean Shaheen. :thatsright: 
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Re: Snowe announces she won't seek re-election
« Reply #24 on: March 01, 2012, 04:17:29 PM »
Quote from: zeitgeist on March 01, 2012, 02:48:20 PM
Next Rhino to go should be Suzie Collins.  Margret Chase Smith must be rolling over in her grave.  However, we here in the Granite State have our own Mean Jean Shaheen. :thatsright: 

At least Collins voted for Blunt's amendment.  My fellow alum (sssssh) isn't totally stupid.  Yet, at the same time, it wouldn't surprise me to hear that Jim DeMint got to her and threatened her with being shut out of any choice committee assignments in the next Congress (let's face it, the new blood in the Republican Party is coming from the TEA Party, and they all know it--Mitch McConnell probably won't be elected as Majority Leader).
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