Inside the movement to topple the Republican senator.
when she accurately noted that Collins had voted for an appropriations bill that would have defunded Planned Parenthood. Without the wholehearted financial and grassroots support of the people who should have been her allies, Bellows’ campaign struggled. “We didn’t even get to 50 percent name recognition until August of 2014,” she said.
In the midst of her despair as Trump was being inaugurated, Linda Mosley, 59, remembers thinking, “Well, at least we have Sen. Collins.” When Collins cast ato protect the Affordable Care Act in 2017, Leuthy visited Collins’ Augusta office to deliver thank-you notes; one Indivisible chapter made graphics depicting the senator as Wonder Woman and Rosie the Riveter.
Doug Poulin, 74, joined the Indivisible chapter in Bangor after Trump’s election, which he calls “a get-off-my-butt experience.” Every action the group has taken has been a first for Poulin. “I had never marched, I had never phone-banked, I had never canvassed,” he told me. Over the past three years, Poulin’s done all these things, plus dress up as a handmaid at one of the hundreds of street protests the group has organized.
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