hmm, Susan Collins from Maine Slams McCain Robo Calls

[AlCzervik]

so i need to ask, are her poll numbers down?

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.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/gop-senator-sla.html

[KingFlorez]

1. The calls could cause a negative effect for her as well

She's a safe Republican in a Democratic state, she doesn't want any last minute problem to sink her.

[RagAss]

6. Good...2 birds with one stone.

[Thrill]

2. When the Democrats get a stronger majority. You can count on her to support the agenda

more than Liberman

[Matariki]

3. Is she more of a moderate Republican, like Olympia Snowe?

[AlCzervik]

4. she's more moderate for sure.

[sniffa]

5. I think she's a very safe seat last I heard

I haven't heard of any change in that.

:shrug:

[AlCzervik]

7. i haven't either so maybe she's being sincere.

[MaineDem]

9. Tom Allen has closed to within 8 points.

She's beatable.

[Cha]

8. Whatever the reason I'm happy she's getting this

out there. When the election is over..no one with any smidge of integrity wants to be on the side of sellouts.

[MaineDem]

10. The Maine Democratic Party called for her to denounce these

She wouldn't have done this without that push.