{"id":9882,"date":"2018-10-06T12:04:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T19:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=9882"},"modified":"2018-10-06T12:04:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T19:04:16","slug":"after-backing-kavanaugh-funding-platform-to-unseat-susan-collins-in-2020-crashes-from-traffic-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2018\/10\/06\/after-backing-kavanaugh-funding-platform-to-unseat-susan-collins-in-2020-crashes-from-traffic-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"After Backing Kavanaugh, Funding Platform to Unseat Susan Collins in 2020 Crashes From Traffic Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"field-wrapper-attribution\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix inline-fields\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-article-date field--type-datestamp field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\"><span class=\"pb-timestamp\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">October 05, 2018\u00a0<\/span><\/span>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Common Dreams<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-subtitle field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div>\n<h4>The fund had already surpassed its $2,000,000 goal<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"field-wrapper-authors\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix inline-fields\">\n<div class=\"grouping-prefix\">by\u00a0<span class=\"pb-byline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/author\/andrea-germanos-staff-writer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrea Germanos, staff writer<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"shr_canvas2\" class=\"shareaholic-canvas shareaholic-ui shareaholic-resolved-canvas ng-scope\" data-app-id=\"6840204\" data-app-id-name=\"headline_above_content\" data-app=\"share_buttons\" data-title=\"After Backing Kavanaugh, Funding Platform to Unseat Susan Collins in 2020 Crashes From Traffic Surge\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/10\/05\/after-backing-kavanaugh-funding-platform-unseat-susan-collins-2020-crashes-traffic\" data-summary=\"\">\n<div class=\"ng-scope shareaholic-share_buttons\" translate=\"no\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-container shareaholic-ui shr-no-print shareaholic-flat shareaholic- shareaholic-block shareaholic-horizontal  shareaholic-mini\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-wrapper shareaholic-ui\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-animation-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-heading shareaholic-custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"ng-scope\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-button-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"caption-processed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/users\/user20\/collins_2020_fund.jpg\" width=\"955\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crowdpac.com\/campaigns\/387413\/either-sen-collins-votes-no-on-kavanaugh-or-we-fund-her-future-opponent\">A crowd-sourced fund<\/a>\u00a0to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine in 2020 crashed Friday afternoon after traffic spiked and donations surged as she was delivering a speech on the Senate floor explaining why she would join nearly all of her GOP colleagues\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/10\/05\/explosion-anger-promises-oust-her-2020-after-susan-collins-says-yes-brett-kavanaugh\">in voting &#8220;yes&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0on controversial Supreme Court nominee\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/brett-kavanaugh\">Brett Kavanaugh<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the campaign funding platform Crowdpac, father and activist Ady Barkan joined forces with advocacy groups Maine People&#8217;s Alliance and Mainers for Accountable Leadership to raise pledges for Collins&#8217; not-yet identified Democratic opponent if she supported President Donald Trump&#8217;s high court pick. As of at 3:40pm ET Friday, it had raised $2,020,366 in pledges, an increase from the $1,804,551 it had amassed by Wednesday. A week ago, the total was $1,605,182.<\/p>\n<p>While the site crashed, Barkan announced on Twitter that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/secure.actblue.com\/donate\/sen-collins-vote-no\">another portal existed to fund Collins&#8217; 2020 opponent<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Demanding Collins be &#8220;a hero&#8221; and vote &#8220;no,&#8221; the campaign declares that her vote would<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>decide whether a rubber stamp for Trump&#8217;s anti-healthcare, anti-woman, anti-labor agenda gets confirmed to the Supreme Court\u2013costing millions of Americans their healthcare, their right to choose, and their lives.<\/p>\n<p>If you fail to stand up for the people of Maine and for Americans across the country, every dollar donated to this campaign will go to your eventual Democratic opponent in 2020. We will get you out of office.<\/p>\n<p>The people of Maine have made it clear that they want you to vote NO on Kavanaugh, and we&#8217;re counting on you to do the right thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After more than a 45 minutes of remarks on the chamber floor, however, Collins\u2014who&#8217;s faced increased protests from constituents as well as the broader American public\u2014made clear that she would not.<\/p>\n<p>Following her announcement, Mainers for Accountable Leadership and the Maine People&#8217;s Alliance said in a joint statement, &#8220;Thousands of Mainers wrote, called, visited, protested, begged and pleaded with Susan Collins to do the right thing\u2014to be a hero\u2014and vote no. She ignored them. For years she has claimed to be an independent, a different kind of Republican, but today she shattered that facade forever. Her vote will reverberate long after she has left the Senate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Susan Collins&#8217; legacy will forever be tied to Brett Kavanaugh and we will never let her forget it,&#8221; the groups added. &#8220;We have raised more than $2 million for her next opponent and we are committed to defeating her in 2020.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"field-wrapper-copyright-cond\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-copyright field--type-text field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\"><em>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 05, 2018\u00a0by Common Dreams The fund had already surpassed its $2,000,000 goal by\u00a0Andrea Germanos, staff writer A crowd-sourced fund\u00a0to unseat Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine in 2020 crashed Friday afternoon after traffic spiked and donations surged as she was delivering a speech on the Senate floor explaining why&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2018\/10\/06\/after-backing-kavanaugh-funding-platform-to-unseat-susan-collins-in-2020-crashes-from-traffic-surge\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9882"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9883,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9882\/revisions\/9883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}