John,

Last August, Sen. Susan Collins cast the deciding vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh.

Now she's getting the pay off.

Last week, Sen. Collins was caught sneaking into a fundraiser at the $4 million mansion of anti-choice D.C. power broker Leonard Leo. While for decades, Susan Collins has been reelected by claiming to support Roe v. Wade, when women needed her most, she took big checks from anti-choice extremists in exchange for her 'yes' vote on Brett Kavanaugh.

We're not going to let her get away with it.

Will you make a donation of $15 to defeat Susan Collins?

Leo has long been at the center of a web of dark-money groups that have guided the selection and confirmation of anti-choice, conservative Supreme Court justices — from John G. Roberts Jr., Samuel A. Alito Jr., and Clarence Thomas to Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.^1,2 He even handed Donald Trump a list of federal judges whose confirmations the Federalist Society pledged to throw their weight (and money) behind.^3,4

It's this dark money and influence that Susan Collins is beholden to, not the people of Maine. That's why her approval ratings tumbled 17% after the Kavanaugh vote, and are now lower even than Trump's.⁵

But it's going to require a major investment to defeat her. We'll need to hire more organizing staff in Maine, rent campaign offices, and fund an advertising budget to reach the voters we need to turn out to win in 2020.

Will you make a donation of $15 to defeat Susan Collins for reelection in 2020?

Susan Collins went along with Mitch McConnell when he changed the rules of the Senate to ram through the Gorsuch confirmation. She's voted for more than 30 of Trump's anti-choice federal judges. She cast the deciding vote for Kavanaugh. For all her talk of independence, she's become just another partisan hack whose vote is up for sale.

Her time in office is up, but we need your help to replace her with a real pro-choice champion — Sara Gideon — to represent the people of Maine who support reproductive freedom.

Will you donate $15 to defeat Susan Collins for reelection in 2020?

Thank you for all you do for reproductive freedom,

Ilyse Hogue
President, NARAL Pro-Choice America

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Sources:

1. A conservative activist's behind-the-scenes campaign to remake the nation's courts, The Washington Post, May 21, 2019

2. New ‘dark money’ group led by Trump judicial adviser tied to network promoting his court picks, OpenSecrets.org, February 27, 2019

3. Collins attends fundraiser at $4m mansion of nation’s top anti-choice judicial activist, Maine Beacon, August 8, 2019

4. Collins Greeted By Protesters Outside Fundraiser Hosted By Trump's 'Judge Whisperer', Maine Public, August 11, 2019

5. Why Democrats think 2020 is the year they can defeat Susan Collins, Vox, June 26, 2019

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