A Senate Democrat-aligned super PAC has launched a new six-figure ad campaign in Maine blasting Republican Sen. Susan Collins for supporting a bill blamed for much of the Postal Service’s financial problems.
The Senate Majority PAC hits Collins for backing the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, a bill that required that the Postal Service establish a multi-billion dollar fund to cover the cost of retired employees’ healthcare for the next 75 years, a fund that no other federal agency is required to establish.
“Maine can’t afford to have the Postal Service fail,” says a narrator in the ad, which will begin running on television streaming services, YouTube and Facebook starting on Tuesday. “But Susan Collins led the passage of a bill that weakened the post office, and saddled it with over $100 billion in debt.”
Collins is a prime target for Democrats, with almost every poll from the last month showing her opponent, Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon, in the lead. The race is currently rated by the Cook Political Report as a toss-up.
“Mainers deserve to know that Susan Collins paved the way for this crisis years ago, and is once again failing her constituents by refusing to take action as her own party derails the U.S. Postal Service,” SMP spokesperson Rachel Irwin told The Hill.
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