Maine constituents want Senator Susan Collins to respond to calls for a Town Hall to face tough questions

Dan Mawhinney's letter to the editor in this morning's Sun Journal relates what so many of us have been frustrated about.

https://www.sunjournal.com/2025/03/17/daniel-mawhinney-sen-collins-needs-to-relay-mainers-concerns-to-trump-musk/
Maine protesters call out Sen. Collins for not holding a town hall in 25 years

Collins needs to relay Mainers' concerns to Trump and Musk
Sen. Susan Collins now holds one of the most powerful positions in Congress.

Senator Susan Collins announced her campaign to be re-elected but her messaing does not describe how she intends to represent the intentions of her constituents. 

The Trump-Elon Musk team has described Social Security as a scam. Trump and Musk want to provide outrageous income tax protections to themselves and their billionaire class at tremendous costs to working Americans as they destroy the U.S. government.
They are dismantling the U.S. economy and have now destroyed American alliances with the rest of the free world.

No democracy, including Canada and Mexico, trusts Trump and Musk further.

Beyond the damage to Americans caused by Trump's absurd tariffs, Trump has crawled into bed with one of the world's most vicious butchers, Vladimir Putin of Russia, and this week Putin continues his slaughter of Ukrainian civilians as Trump cheers him on. Collins' response is ever cautious, frightened and tepid.

The GOP has told GOP senators and representatives to avoid town hall meetings because Republican voters are now showing up in big numbers and screaming at them on live TV to stand up to Trump and Musk. The GOP has warned it is not "good TV" for the GOP, Trump or Musk.

Collins should have the guts to meet on TV in town halls with Mainers of all political stripes, hear their concerns and relay them publicly, loudly and clearly to Trump and Musk.

Collins is our senior senator.

She holds one of the most powerful position in Congress. She should use it. Mainers deserve no less from her.

From Daniel Mawhinney in Auburn Maine

Following is my response on social media:

Senator Collins has a lot of history about how to use her influence as well as her one vote. 

Unfortunately,, she has used her considerable influence to vote against the intentions of us her constituents. Several letters have been published in the Penn Bay Pilot newspaper to criticize her wrong minded decisions and made the request for her to stand up to all the terrible policy actions taken by the current administration. 

Most recently, check an interesting point of view published in The Bollard, a Portland based free newspaper where her decision to vote to support Brett Kavanaugh went against the advice of her constituents. Recently, hundreds of Maine health care professionals put our names and our credentials on a letter to request for her to oppose the nomination of RFKjr, who is totally incompetent to be the Health and Human Services Secretary. She ignored both petitions. 

Senator Collins now expects to pull out another term as a Maine Senator but maybe, just maybe, this time her campaign will be unsuccessful based on her many cowardly decisions. 

Thank you for publishing this letter in social media.

This article and my response on social media is posted at this site here.