“When a senator is getting shouted down at a ribbon-cutting ceremony a year out from a re-election campaign, that’s not a great sign.”

Augusta, Maine – In case you missed it, following wall-to-wall local reports, Mainers are continue to read and watch coverage of how Susan Collins was met with “met with loud boos and hundreds of protesters” shouting “shame” in Searsport Tuesday, at “one of the few public events on Collins’ calendar during the August recess.”

The public backlash to Collins more than a year out from an election is “not a great sign” for Collins’ reelection prospects.

This month, Maine Democrats have been highlighting how Collins’ record of voting to confirm Supreme Court nominees who overturned Roe, advancing the GOP’s budget bill that guts Medicaid, and refusing to meet constituents in a meaningful way Costs Mainers.

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WGME: Protesters shout 'shame' at Sen. Collins in Searsport

  • “Hey hey, ho ho, Susan Collins has got to go shame, shame, shame,” protesters chanted.

MSNBC: ‘Shame!’ Republican Sen. Susan Collins faces heckling, boos at public event in Maine

  • When a senator is getting shouted down at a ribbon-cutting ceremony a year out from a re-election campaign, that’s not a great sign.

  • Collins’ detractors raised a variety of points, though at this specific event, a local report from the Midcoast Villager noted, “Detractors questioned Collins’ role in celebrating new spending while President Donald Trump and her fellow Republicans in Congress push through federal budget cuts to health care, food assistance and other services.”

  • But it’s also true that when the inaptly named One Big Beautiful Bill Act needed to clear a key procedural hurdle a few days earlier, which allowed senators to advance the radical legislation, Collins voted with her party and the megabill’s proponents — even as some other Senate Republicans sided with the package’s Democratic opponents.

  • Some of her constituents appear to have noticed.

  • The University of New Hampshire and the American Association of Public Opinion Research released a statewide poll in April that found 71% of Mainers don’t believe Collins deserves to be re-elected.

NBC News: Sen. Susan Collins heckled by protesters at Maine ribbon-cutting event

  • "Shame! Shame! Shame!" protesters yelled at Collins as she cut the ribbon to mark the completion of the long-running Route 1 construction project in Searsport.

  • The demonstrators were yelling about cuts to Medicare [and] President Donald Trump's nominees on the Supreme Court, video of the event shows.

The Hill: Collins heckled at Maine event: ‘Shame, shame, shame’

  • Maine Sen. Susan Collins (R) was heckled by her constituents at an event in Maine on Tuesday

  • While speaking, protestors booed the senator from Maine and chanted “shame, shame, shame.”

  • Some held signs that criticized her voting history in Congress. One sign read, “Slippery Susan Collins steals Medicaid.”

NOTUS: ‘Shame, Shame, Shame’: Sen. Susan Collins Heckled at Maine Ribbon-Cutting

  • Sen. Susan Collins of Maine is the latest Republican to face angry constituents while home this August recess.

  • Collins [...] was met with a rowdy group of residents shouting, “Shame, shame, shame.”

  • Demonstrators at Tuesday’s event raised issues with cuts to health care in Republicans’ recently passed budget law.

  • “No. No, you never listen to us.” one demonstrator said.

New Republic: Susan Collins Drowned Out in Boos as Protesters Disrupt Ceremony

  • Republican Senator Susan Collins’s ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday turned into a public shaming as more than 200 protestors gathered.

  • This was Collins’s first public, press conference-style event in her home state in nearly a decade. Video shows the room erupting in boos as she approached the front of the room to cut the ribbon for a new Main Street in Seaport, Maine. The boos eventually turned into chants of “Shame! Shame! Shame!”

  • “I’m so disgusted with the cuts the Republican Party has made to this Big Ugly Bill.... Get outta here!” one constituent yelled at Collins while she was at the podium.

  • “You don’t ever listen to us!”

  • “Your votes destroyed our Supreme Court!”

See more: Breaking: Susan Collins Met with Hundreds of Protesters and Boos in First Recent Public Appearance; What They’re Saying: Collins “Met with Loud Boos and Hundreds of Protesters” at “One of the Few Public Events on Collins’ Calendar”

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