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We urge U.S. Sen. Susan Collins to speak out about the danger of a Trump-Vance White House and to make a public statement against their ticket. It isn’t enough to not attend the Republican National Convention and say that she will not cast a vote for Donald Trump but will write in a different candidate. This is a crisis.
We think every Republican who aspires, as all should, to be a statesman/woman as well as a politician must speak up for democracy now even if it means advocating for the Democratic ticket. As Margaret Chase Smith, a true stateswoman from Maine, said in 1950, “I don’t want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny – Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.”
Jane and Frank Bragg
Bangor