Susan (swamp) Collins wrote legislation while on key Senate committee that helped her husband

[MelissaB]

Susan Collins wrote legislation while on a key Senate committee that appears to have helped her husband Thomas Daffron's lobbying firm Jefferson Consulting earn tens of millions in federal contracts from 2006-2016

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Susan Collins wrote legislation that made millions for her husband's lobbying firm

Thomas Daffron's consulting firm reaped huge contracts thanks to bills Collins authored at key Senate committee

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who finds herself trailing Democratic challenger Sara Gideon in a hotly contested election battle with national implications, wrote contracting reforms as a member of the Senate Government Affairs Committee that appear to have directly benefited her future husband's lobbying and consulting firm.

While that firm had some contracts that coincided with Collins' tenure on the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, it also landed a major $49 million contract with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in 2013 — the year after Collins stepped away from that committee.



Collins first met Thomas Daffron in 1974 when she was an intern in the office of Rep. William Cohen, who went on to serve three terms in the Senate. (Cohen, a Republican, has endorsed Collins for re-election to the Senate — and Joe Biden for president.)

Daffron served as a consultant on Collins' 1996, 2002 and 2008 Senate campaigns, and ran her leadership PAC from 2003 until 2012, when they married. Collins signed over power of attorney when the couple bought a $705,000 townhouse in Washington, public records show.

From 2006 to 2016, Daffron was chief operating officer at a K Street lobby shop called Jefferson Consulting, which also did some government contracting work. The firm took in nearly $60 million in federal contracts during his time there, with a significant increase after he became COO.

More: https://www.salon.com/2020/10/12/susan-collins-wrote-legislation-that-made-millions-for-her-husbands-lobbying-firm/

[2naSalit]

1. Only one?

Asking for a friend.

[dem4decades]

2. Would someone be kind enough to let the Maine voters know she's a crook?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Greed

It's the Republican way

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. If this was about Hillary...every newsroom, every newspaper, 65% of every internet connection

and tv is tuned into so people could have their HEADS EXPLODE all over the ceilings across America.

[JDC]

5. This should read, "Legislation written by lobbying firm owned by Susan Collins' Husband...

...and she introduced passed, earning the couple 10s of millions of government dollars...."