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Twitter users named Brett Kavanagh, Susan Collins, and more are really struggling right now

sudshr47 October 6, 2018

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Existing on Twitter when you’re not named after a controversial political figure is hard enough, but users named Brett Kavanagh, Susan Collins, and more have learned it’s a whole other level of hellscape when your name’s in the news.

As the world awaits the possible confirmation of Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, a Kentucky man named Brett Kavanagh tweeted that it has not been easy to have his name throughout this whole process.

This is a terrible time to be named Brett Kavanagh

— Brett Kavanagh (@Brett_Kavanagh) October 6, 2018

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Crowdfunding campaign against Susan Collins surges after senator says she’ll confirm Kavanaugh

sudshr47 October 5, 2018

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Susan Collins, a Republican senator from Maine, announced Friday in a long-winded, tone-deaf speech that she’d vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. The decision may be the biggest mistake of her political career. 

Before she announced her support, a crowdfunding campaign to unseat Collins in 2020 should she vote for Kavanaugh had already reached $1.8 million. Soon after she began defending Kavanaugh in her speech, the website crashed due to a high level of traffic. Liz Jaff, co-director of the “Be a Hero” campaign, confirmed the incident in a tweet. 

Too much traffic for the page @Crowdpac is down but will be back up shortly and then you can show your rage and donate!

— Liz – We’re doing it (@lizjaff) October 5, 2018 Read more…

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Susan Collins feeling the heat on Brett Kavanaugh vote thanks to crowdfunding campaign

sudshr47 September 12, 2018

Activists are trying something new in the battle over the confirmation of Supreme Court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh: crowdfunding to persuade a Republican senator to vote no on his nomination. 
In this case, that senator is Maine’s Susan Col…

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Susan Collins’ ridiculous talking stick is an insult to the summer camp community

sudshr47 January 23, 2018

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Susan Collins, who is currently a senator — not a summer camp counselor — had a new idea for reforming our broken government on Monday.

To help ease communication during the government shutdown, Collins introduced a talking stick to bipartisan negotiations. One of the Senators in the negotiations allegedly threw the stick at Susan Collins’ glass elephant, breaking it — but take a look at that stick.

Who can blame them?

This talking stick shouldn’t even call itself a stick. It’s a bandaged disgrace.

.@SenatorCollins officially shows the “talking stick” to the public, on @NewDay pic.twitter.com/pUB7ygBTJg

— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) January 23, 2018 Read more…

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