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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Aunt Lydia' Collins, betrayer of women, wants to clear the press out of front row
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/busted-susan-collins-wanted-to-clear-an-entire-row-of-the-press-gallery-of-reporters-and-keep-it-empty/The Senate took a dinner break at 6:30 p.m. EST and Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) used the break to loudly tell Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), John Thune (R-SD) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) that she didnt like where the press was seated.
RollCall reporter K. Tully-McManus tweeted that Collins wanted the press pushed back away from her.
During the break, Sen. Susan Collins said loudly to Sens Murkowski, Thune & Tillis that she would like the first row of the press gallery to be kept empty and that reporters should only be seated from the second row back, motioning to the sparse remaining press (myself included)
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That's all you got, honey? More procedure crap. The press leans forward 'cause they can't hear you, sweets. Chaos may work for your boss, Pootey Poot. It's not a good look for you, deary.
OnDoutside
(19,975 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,726 posts)OnDoutside
(19,975 posts)dey
2naSalit
(86,822 posts)This may be your last summer in the Senate, better sit down, shut up and reap what you have sown.
usaf-vet
(6,215 posts)rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)witch. I hope her wrinkledass is defeated by a Democratic contender next election. Let her constituents know how it feels to have a real woman representing that district for a change, not a wimpy little whiner.
PWPippinesq
(195 posts)rpannier
(24,341 posts)OldManTarHeel
(435 posts)rpannier
(24,341 posts)That's at least 30 minutes of her droning on and then doing nothing (nothing positive)
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,467 posts)Bettie
(16,130 posts)She's actually among the worst of them because she pretends that she might do the right thing sometimes, even when everyone (including her) knows that there is a less than zero chance of it.
maxsolomon
(33,419 posts)she actually did do the right thing once. Been a while, though...
Bettie
(16,130 posts)a persuadable Republican.
Not so much anymore.
marble falls
(57,333 posts)spanone
(135,891 posts)you partisan 'moderate'
Baitball Blogger
(46,763 posts)Maybe she's afraid that the press will overhear someone giving her instructions?
RestoreAmerica2020
(3,439 posts)Evergreen Emerald
(13,071 posts)Threats? Black mail? $?
Where have all the cowboys/girls gone?