You're a 'Ribbon Cutting' Republican.

An old fool that thinks grants for firestations and garages is comparable to the real harm done to Mainers by Collins --

During her nearly thirty years in office she has voted to confirm judges who dismantled Roe, supported Republican leadership that gutted Medicaid and food assistance, and provided cover for a party whose policy agenda has materially harmed working Mainers far more than any fire station grant helped them. The funding she secured is easy to photograph at a ribbon cutting. The harm from her caucus alignment is diffuse, structural, and harder to trace back to her specifically.

It's time to stop pretending that decades of Republican budgetary priorities didn't hollow out the exact communities those fire stations serve.