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• Anonymous

  No wonder the Bush tax cuts continue to exist… Not a real surprise.

• Anonymous

  No wonder the Bush tax cuts continue to exist… Not a real surprise.

• Anonymous

  No wonder the Bush tax cuts continue to exist… Not a real surprise.

• Anonymous

  No wonder the Bush tax cuts continue to exist… Not a real surprise.

• Anonymous

  No wonder the Bush tax cuts continue to exist… Not a real surprise.

• Anonymous

  No wonder the Bush tax cuts continue to exist… Not a real surprise.

• Anonymous

  Countries in Africa with iron-fisted dictators have the same wealth distribution as the United States; in other words, a sliver of mega-rich folks are bloated with wealth, and the rest of us are increasingly their peons.

  As Warren Buffet recently said, “Stop Coddling the Super Rich”!

  Snowe is a longterm beneficiary and supporter of this unjust and vicious system.  Behind her charming facade is a master multimillionaire who knows how to take gullible voters for a ride.

• Anonymous

  Time for Olympia to retire and let someone else who has less of an agenda re: taxes to take over…..

• Anonymous

  Must pay good to be a Rhino.

• Anonymous

  And this doesn’t even include those numbered accounts in Liechtenstein and the Channel Islands.  The graft is really good for members of Congress.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FTTZ4GHWUCMFYG4VY5TBJZ73RY Molly McCrum

  Good for Olympia.

• Anonymous

  She might not be on the list after the law get’s done with Jock and his education racketeering.

• Anonymous

  Maybe Warren Buffet needs to lead by example. I believe there is a space on your tax return where you can send in more money. So if Warren feels he is not paying enough, then by all means, send in more.

• Anonymous

  Maybe Warren Buffet needs to lead by example. I believe there is a space on your tax return where you can send in more money. So if Warren feels he is not paying enough, then by all means, send in more.

• Anonymous

  Maybe Warren Buffet needs to lead by example. I believe there is a space on your tax return where you can send in more money. So if Warren feels he is not paying enough, then by all means, send in more.

• Anonymous

  Maybe Warren Buffet needs to lead by example. I believe there is a space on your tax return where you can send in more money. So if Warren feels he is not paying enough, then by all means, send in more.

• Anonymous

  This number includes spouses doesn’t it?

• Anonymous

  Tom Brady makes more than that in a year?

• Anonymous

  Tom Brady makes more than that in a year?

• Anonymous

  Tom Brady makes more than that in a year?

• Anonymous

  Tom Brady makes more than that in a year?

• Anonymous

  Tom Brady makes more than that in a year?

• Anonymous

  This is a joke. First, these lawmakers do absolutley nothing for the American people. Regardless of their party affiliation, they just sit around and bow to the major corporations in this country who tell them how to vote. Snowe, Collins…. doesn’t matter. They do not like you. They do not know you. They do not care about you. They are just biding their time until they can retire and move to a tropical climate. Just another joke in the great comedic act of American Politics.

• Anonymous

  This is a joke. First, these lawmakers do absolutley nothing for the American people. Regardless of their party affiliation, they just sit around and bow to the major corporations in this country who tell them how to vote. Snowe, Collins…. doesn’t matter. They do not like you. They do not know you. They do not care about you. They are just biding their time until they can retire and move to a tropical climate. Just another joke in the great comedic act of American Politics.

• Anonymous

  Maybe I got this wrong, but I thought his criticism was not that too few people volunteer to contribute extra money, it’s that the extremely wealthy are not expected to pay the same percentage of the money they make as the rest of us.  I don’t know how his donating money to the government would have any effect on that situation.

• Anonymous

  Agreed, It must be rough to know that as soon as you work hard and are prosperous in life and try to give back people hate you for it. Rhino or no rhino, you can’t hate someone because they have succeeded in life.

• Anonymous

  I bet….politics equals making lots of money in Maine…..

• Anonymous

  It would seem that the 31 members of Congress who are multiple millionaires might have a ‘conflict of interest,’ when it comes to voting on rather or not to vote for a tax increase on the rich.

• Anonymous

  just goes to show why they are so out of touch with the everyday struggles of middle class working families trying to make ends meet

• Anonymous

  just goes to show why they are so out of touch with the everyday struggles of middle class working families trying to make ends meet

• Anonymous

  just goes to show why they are so out of touch with the everyday struggles of middle class working families trying to make ends meet

• Anonymous

  And he is worth every last penny of it!

• StillRelaxin

  Sure she would be rich on her own but most of this wealth likely is tied to not only to her first husbands wealth and position (Which she claimed) but also the Bush tax cuts and the criminal activities of her current husband “Jock”.  Remember him?   He was our “last” (Looks like we’re in for a repeat with LePage) conservative governor who left us in shambles to go to Washington as a lobbiest for the really big bucks.  All was working well for him until just recently.  When folks need money they sometimes even start looking for criminals in their own ranks.  Hard times can hurt everybody huh Jock.  Hope he goes down in flames.  Olympia just please go anywere but back to Washington.

• Anonymous

  It would be interesting if the BDN would have an investigative reporter track the financial disclosures over the years, and see what we’ve paid the Senator to ‘serve’ us in Congress?   My guess is that her early disclosures showed very modest wealth. 

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FAFPBUNT45MDVT46IWVGOEDQLQ Thomas

  Buffet:

  The world’s second richest man continues to make his fortune in investment and turn it to philanthropy in the grand tradition of Carnegie and Rockefeller. In 2006 he made American history by making the largest ever charitable donation by an individual – $37bn to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

• Conley Raye

  Olympia should retire because I do not believe there is any potential for her to get re-elected.
  Congress should not be a career , to begin with.

• Conley Raye

  Olympia should retire because I do not believe there is any potential for her to get re-elected.
  Congress should not be a career , to begin with.

• Conley Raye

  Olympia should retire because I do not believe there is any potential for her to get re-elected.
  Congress should not be a career , to begin with.

• Conley Raye

  Olympia should retire because I do not believe there is any potential for her to get re-elected.
  Congress should not be a career , to begin with.

• Conley Raye

  Olympia should retire because I do not believe there is any potential for her to get re-elected.
  Congress should not be a career , to begin with.

• Conley Raye

  Olympia should retire because I do not believe there is any potential for her to get re-elected.
  Congress should not be a career , to begin with.

• http://twitter.com/pattypool patty sylvia

  they are rich we are poor so sad

• http://twitter.com/pattypool patty sylvia

  they are rich we are poor so sad

• http://twitter.com/pattypool patty sylvia

  they are rich we are poor so sad

• http://twitter.com/pattypool patty sylvia

  they are rich we are poor so sad

• http://twitter.com/pattypool patty sylvia

  they are rich we are poor so sad

• http://twitter.com/pattypool patty sylvia

  they are rich we are poor so sad

• http://twitter.com/pattypool patty sylvia

  they are rich we are poor so sad

• Anonymous

  Great, then if he feels that he is not taxed enough, then he should send the money to the government and not a charity…

• Anonymous

  Because Obama signed them?

• Anonymous

  Because Obama signed them?

• Anonymous

  He ran a cookie shop…
  And isn’t being a gigolo ”earning” his money?

• Anonymous

  it is spelled RINO… Republican In Name Only…

  And, although she is a RINO, she has done a LOT of good for this state, which is why she was elected in the first place.

• Anonymous

  I agree…..but it is and has been a career for many, many people……and alas will (unfortunately) continue to be a career until the majority of the people in this country have had enough and vote people out instead of re electing multimillionaires for their 19th term in office….

• Anonymous

  Sorry Cheesey that number does not include spouses. I am tempted to agree with you about Kerry, but at one time he actually was an assistant district attorney. But for all practical purposes you are right about his not earning the wealth he has managed to accumulate.

• Anonymous

  No doubt with her husband the former Republican governor of Maine scamming the federal government for $Billions in tuition for his for profit colleges!

• Anonymous

  Ah, an Obama supporter. Figures.
   

• Anonymous

  According to the tax booklet, it is a gift to reduce the public debt or deficit, and the check should be made out to the “Bureau of Public Dept” on page 88 of the 1040 instruction booklet.  While it needs to be paid off, we are also looking to cover services in the meantime as well. 

• Anonymous

  According to the tax booklet, it is a gift to reduce the public debt or deficit, and the check should be made out to the “Bureau of Public Dept” on page 88 of the 1040 instruction booklet.  While it needs to be paid off, we are also looking to cover services in the meantime as well. 

• Anonymous

  According to the tax booklet, it is a gift to reduce the public debt or deficit, and the check should be made out to the “Bureau of Public Dept” on page 88 of the 1040 instruction booklet.  While it needs to be paid off, we are also looking to cover services in the meantime as well. 

• Anonymous

  According to the tax booklet, it is a gift to reduce the public debt or deficit, and the check should be made out to the “Bureau of Public Dept” on page 88 of the 1040 instruction booklet.  While it needs to be paid off, we are also looking to cover services in the meantime as well. 

• Anonymous

  According to the tax booklet, it is a gift to reduce the public debt or deficit, and the check should be made out to the “Bureau of Public Dept” on page 88 of the 1040 instruction booklet.  While it needs to be paid off, we are also looking to cover services in the meantime as well.

• Anonymous

  According to the tax booklet, it is a gift to reduce the public debt or deficit, and the check should be made out to the “Bureau of Public Dept” on page 88 of the 1040 instruction booklet.  While it needs to be paid off, we are also looking to cover services in the meantime as well.

• Anonymous

  According to the tax booklet, it is a gift to reduce the public debt or deficit, and the check should be made out to the “Bureau of Public Dept” on page 88 of the 1040 instruction booklet.  While it needs to be paid off, we are also looking to cover services in the meantime as well.

• Anonymous

  According to the tax booklet, it is a gift to reduce the public debt or deficit, and the check should be made out to the “Bureau of Public Dept” on page 88 of the 1040 instruction booklet.  While it needs to be paid off, we are also looking to cover services in the meantime as well.

• Anonymous

  According to the tax booklet, it is a gift to reduce the public debt or deficit, and the check should be made out to the “Bureau of Public Dept” on page 88 of the 1040 instruction booklet.  While it needs to be paid off, we are also looking to cover services in the meantime as well.

• Anonymous

  Most of the top 50 millionaires are in the House of Representatives, which is the only place a bill to increase taxes can be generated.  Is this a Coincidence?

• Anonymous

  Most of the top 50 millionaires are in the House of Representatives, which is the only place a bill to increase taxes can be generated.  Is this a Coincidence?

• Anonymous

  Most of the top 50 millionaires are in the House of Representatives, which is the only place a bill to increase taxes can be generated.  Is this a Coincidence?

• Anonymous

  The wealthy are expected to pay their fair share, but thanks to our governments conveluted tax system they can afford to find the loopholes in the system Are you suggesting they are breaking the law by not paying enough or what they are suppose to.

  Also, you do realize that if the government took all the wealthy from these evil wealthy people it wouldn’t even be enough to cover the automatic increases in the governments budgets. Then what?

• Anonymous

  The wealthy are expected to pay their fair share, but thanks to our governments conveluted tax system they can afford to find the loopholes in the system Are you suggesting they are breaking the law by not paying enough or what they are suppose to.

  Also, you do realize that if the government took all the wealthy from these evil wealthy people it wouldn’t even be enough to cover the automatic increases in the governments budgets. Then what?

• Anonymous

  Wow a $37 billion donation. That is one hell of a write off on his taxes.

• Anonymous

  Wow a $37 billion donation. That is one hell of a write off on his taxes.

• Anonymous

  Wow a $37 billion donation. That is one hell of a write off on his taxes.

• Anonymous

  Wow a $37 billion donation. That is one hell of a write off on his taxes.

• Anonymous

  Wow a $37 billion donation. That is one hell of a write off on his taxes.

• Anonymous

  Wow! if I had her money I’d burn mine! LOL

• Anonymous

  Wow! if I had her money I’d burn mine! LOL

• Anonymous

  Wow! if I had her money I’d burn mine! LOL

• Anonymous

  Wow! if I had her money I’d burn mine! LOL

• Anonymous

  KMA

• Anonymous

  KMA

• Anonymous

  KMA

• Anonymous

  Do not brag about your wealth the liberal sloths feel they are entitled to 50 to 70% of your earnings.Lets not build millionaires lets make everyone poor.

• Anonymous

  Do not brag about your wealth the liberal sloths feel they are entitled to 50 to 70% of your earnings.Lets not build millionaires lets make everyone poor.

• Anonymous

  Do not brag about your wealth the liberal sloths feel they are entitled to 50 to 70% of your earnings.Lets not build millionaires lets make everyone poor.

• Anonymous

  Do not brag about your wealth the liberal sloths feel they are entitled to 50 to 70% of your earnings.Lets not build millionaires lets make everyone poor.

• Anonymous

  Thanks for pointing out that greed has infested our system and created loopholes for the super rich.

  http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/ad-lib/2011/apr/10/tax-evaders-wall-shame/

• Anonymous

  Thanks for pointing out that greed has infested our system and created loopholes for the super rich.

  http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/ad-lib/2011/apr/10/tax-evaders-wall-shame/

• Anonymous

  Thanks for pointing out that greed has infested our system and created loopholes for the super rich.

  http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/ad-lib/2011/apr/10/tax-evaders-wall-shame/

• Anonymous

  Thanks for pointing out that greed has infested our system and created loopholes for the super rich.

  http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/ad-lib/2011/apr/10/tax-evaders-wall-shame/

• Anonymous

  Thanks for pointing out that greed has infested our system and created loopholes for the super rich.

  http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/ad-lib/2011/apr/10/tax-evaders-wall-shame/

• Anonymous

  Thanks for pointing out that greed has infested our system and created loopholes for the super rich.

  http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/ad-lib/2011/apr/10/tax-evaders-wall-shame/

• Anonymous

  Thanks for pointing out that greed has infested our system and created loopholes for the super rich.

  http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/ad-lib/2011/apr/10/tax-evaders-wall-shame/

• Anonymous

  Your point:  giving the rich the option of paying more taxes is best for society rather than actually raising taxes

  Counterargument:  The rich are getting richer and the rest of us are struggling or sinking.  Taxes have been lowered on the super-rich for decades, and look where we are at.

  Lesson:  When greed takes over, we all lose, except the moguls whose kids ride private jets from mansion to mansion.

• Anonymous

  so people should get off the blogs get out and become one of the rich.Vilify producers and give to non producers whatever happened to taking care of ones self and striving to be better.Wonder what percentage of wages should be sent to the government and how many of these liberals that complain about the rich give 50-70% of their earrnings.If we sit around and wait for another big company to come into maine to exploit than we will be waiting a long time.Istarted my own business i will donate to the charities but i do not want to be  told i have to give up 50 -70% of my earnings.

• Anonymous

  so people should get off the blogs get out and become one of the rich.Vilify producers and give to non producers whatever happened to taking care of ones self and striving to be better.Wonder what percentage of wages should be sent to the government and how many of these liberals that complain about the rich give 50-70% of their earrnings.If we sit around and wait for another big company to come into maine to exploit than we will be waiting a long time.Istarted my own business i will donate to the charities but i do not want to be  told i have to give up 50 -70% of my earnings.

• Anonymous

  so people should get off the blogs get out and become one of the rich.Vilify producers and give to non producers whatever happened to taking care of ones self and striving to be better.Wonder what percentage of wages should be sent to the government and how many of these liberals that complain about the rich give 50-70% of their earrnings.If we sit around and wait for another big company to come into maine to exploit than we will be waiting a long time.Istarted my own business i will donate to the charities but i do not want to be  told i have to give up 50 -70% of my earnings.

• Anonymous

  so people should get off the blogs get out and become one of the rich.Vilify producers and give to non producers whatever happened to taking care of ones self and striving to be better.Wonder what percentage of wages should be sent to the government and how many of these liberals that complain about the rich give 50-70% of their earrnings.If we sit around and wait for another big company to come into maine to exploit than we will be waiting a long time.Istarted my own business i will donate to the charities but i do not want to be  told i have to give up 50 -70% of my earnings.

• Anonymous

  Let’s just keep on sending career politicians back to Washington over and over and over again. After all they are only interested in fighting for the people.

• Anonymous

  Maybe that’s why Former Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap wants a crack at Olympia’s seat, beats bar tending at Pat’s Pizza and I’m sure it pays a whole lot more than SAM.

• Anonymous

  Maybe that’s why Former Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap wants a crack at Olympia’s seat, beats bar tending at Pat’s Pizza and I’m sure it pays a whole lot more than SAM.

• Anonymous

  I’m very glad the senator is rich. Maybe she won’t miss her paying gig after the next election.

• Anonymous

  So is the alternative to let them keep their money? The middle class doesn’t have enough to pay off the national debt but I don’t see that stopping the GOP from digging deeper into our pockets. Sooner or later they’re going to hit the lining of my well worn jeans. Then whom are they going after next?

• Anonymous

  Well put!

• Anonymous

  Well put!

• Anonymous

  Well put!

• Anonymous

  Well put!

• Anonymous

  Well put!

• Anonymous

  Well put!

• Anonymous

  Just another parasite.

• Anonymous

  I still want to force Snowe and Collins to make a wage of about $35,000 for one year, and live off that for 12 months, without dipping into other funds.  I want them to make an attempt at what many people and families live off of in this state (some more, some less).  Might make them look at some changes for our state if they got to “live the dream” of barely surviving.  When you live in the castle on the mountain, it’s hard to see what the common folk in the valley are doing.

• Anonymous

  Why don’t everyone pay 100% and then we can wait for Daddy Obama to give us our pittance. And I’m not sure how the GOP has taken more from you. They are not in power. Wait until Obamacare goes fully in to effect. Then watch your taxes/fees go up an dthe country go deeper in debt.

• Anonymous

  And where in politics does one amass such a large portfolio?….hmmmmm

• Anonymous

  Is this only personal wealth? or is it family wealth?

  Certainly if family wealth was considered Chelie Pingree should be on the list. Her husband’s aircraft, that she had trouble over, was worth more than $9 million.

  I don’t think that legislators should be able to become millionares while in office, but many do. 

• Anonymous

  Is this only personal wealth? or is it family wealth?

  Certainly if family wealth was considered Chelie Pingree should be on the list. Her husband’s aircraft, that she had trouble over, was worth more than $9 million.

  I don’t think that legislators should be able to become millionares while in office, but many do. 

• Anonymous

  I’m no fan of any member of the GOP for many reasons. However, even I wouldn’t use this picture of our state senator that makes her look sleepy, dopey, bashful, grumpy, or perhaps a wee bit sneezy.

• Anonymous

  I’m no fan of any member of the GOP for many reasons. However, even I wouldn’t use this picture of our state senator that makes her look sleepy, dopey, bashful, grumpy, or perhaps a wee bit sneezy.

• Anonymous

  I’m no fan of any member of the GOP for many reasons. However, even I wouldn’t use this picture of our state senator that makes her look sleepy, dopey, bashful, grumpy, or perhaps a wee bit sneezy.

• Anonymous

  I’m no fan of any member of the GOP for many reasons. However, even I wouldn’t use this picture of our state senator that makes her look sleepy, dopey, bashful, grumpy, or perhaps a wee bit sneezy.

• Anonymous

  I’m no fan of any member of the GOP for many reasons. However, even I wouldn’t use this picture of our state senator that makes her look sleepy, dopey, bashful, grumpy, or perhaps a wee bit sneezy.

• Anonymous

  an assistant da who nevr prosecuted a case

• Anonymous

  Flat tax. 10% and everyone pays. Everyone.
  Too many people have no “skin in the game” and pay nothing…and this includes people making less than $30k a year. I would support you taxing the so called super rich more if you then made the 52% who pay nothing “eat their peas” too.

• Anonymous

  This is one of the things wrong with this country they go in with no assets then trade on their insider knowledge on the stock market and leave multi millionaires with unbelievaable pensions and health care plans ,
    we need term limits

• Dan Troop

  The real story here is that Snowe has spent the pastt 33 years in Congress which is way to long for any individual. Congress was never meant to be a full-time job or a career for anyone and it’s high time the voters across this county woke up and ended the practice voting people back into office over and over again.

  Snowe is worth an estimated $9.88 million and when she finally does leave office she will take with her an incredible pension. Somehow that just doesn’t seem fair!

• Anonymous

  Soooo, the people you are troubled by who make $30k or less have no “skin” in the game because they pay little or no income tax?

  These same people  you are so concerned about are paying payroll taxes on 100% of their income, while a person making $1 million a year is paying payroll taxes on less than 11% of his/her income. Is that fair?

  You might also be interested to know that the income tax isn’t the only tax that people pay; add up all the taxes (state, local, federal, etc.) paid by the working poor and you will discover that they pay plenty of taxes. And they feel it, because that’s what happens, I suppose, when you live life on the margins and your income goes towards just getting by.  It’s one reason that both dems and repubs have, in the past, voted to give income tax breaks to people with low incomes.

  Oh, and many retired folk don’t pay income taxes, either.  Are they getting off too easily as well?

• Anonymous

  Obama opposed them… and yes, he compromised. I’m not a fan of Obama but the Bush tax cuts were most definitely a Republican thing… hence… the name BUSH tax cuts. 

• Anonymous

  Obama opposed them… and yes, he compromised. I’m not a fan of Obama but the Bush tax cuts were most definitely a Republican thing… hence… the name BUSH tax cuts. 

• Anonymous

  She must be a low life compared to Nancy Pelosi net worth of $M50. Pelosi can empathize with the low income people, she is one of them, compared to Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Steven Jobs…

• Anonymous

  She must be a low life compared to Nancy Pelosi net worth of $M50. Pelosi can empathize with the low income people, she is one of them, compared to Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Steven Jobs…

• Anonymous

  One of the poorest states in the nation having one of the wealthiest senators. Good for Snowe! Hope she don’t have too much of a tax burden because she works so hard for that cash!

• Anonymous

  One of the poorest states in the nation having one of the wealthiest senators. Good for Snowe! Hope she don’t have too much of a tax burden because she works so hard for that cash!

• Anonymous

  McCain and Kerry are only rich because of their wives.  I presume that some of Snowe’s wealth is from her husband, but who knows.  I still think she should retire.  She has been in Washington for 33 years — that is, in my opinion, too long.

• Anonymous

  McCain and Kerry are only rich because of their wives.  I presume that some of Snowe’s wealth is from her husband, but who knows.  I still think she should retire.  She has been in Washington for 33 years — that is, in my opinion, too long.

• Anonymous

  And I thought that Texas congressman was well off with $270 million! Snowe just has peanuts.

• Anonymous

  Yes. When it comes to taxes, if your going to use the income tax as a method of taxation then all should pay. Otherwise scrap it and go with a VAT tax to tax consumption.

• Anonymous

  Yes. When it comes to taxes, if your going to use the income tax as a method of taxation then all should pay. Otherwise scrap it and go with a VAT tax to tax consumption.

• Anonymous

  LOL. Good one.

• Anonymous

  Poor Obama…he opposed them..but signed them. Do these posters ever listen to themselves?

• Anonymous

  Poor Obama…he opposed them..but signed them. Do these posters ever listen to themselves?

• Anonymous

  Kerry is wealthy in his own right, even without Theresa. His mother was a Forbes and he is the beneficiary of four trust funds from the Forbes Foundation. He was raised upper middle class but had a doting grandmother (Forbes) that sent him to the best European schools. His wealth was inherited from his mother’s family.

  He was also a district attorney from 1976-1979 and won convictions in several high profile trials before turning to politics. You actually get paid to be a senator (much to our chagrin) and it is a job, so to say he has never earned a dime gets a “pants-on-fire” from the truth-o-meter.

• Anonymous

  Show us a poor politician.  

• Anonymous

  Both parties have been taking from all of us for years and years.  However, it has always been clear and continues to be even clearer today that the Republican party only cares about themselves, the rich and corporations.  In the past, there have been politicians who cared about all Americans, and they were influential in ensuring that all Americans received mostly equal consideration.  Now, our businesses are overseas receiving tax benefits from us and don’t care one bit about us.  And, the Republicans are protecting them and their interests.  And, Olympia Snowe is one of those Republicans.

• Anonymous

  I can’t imagine how she made so much money just “reaching across the aisle”?

• Anonymous

  So as a “public servant”, how did she amass this wealth? Was she practicing law all the time she was serving as a senator?

• Anonymous

  I am a repub, and I can’t wait to bid Olympia adieu.

• Anonymous

  She should buy Barney frank some teeth.

• Anonymous

  I am sooooooooooo glad she has a LOT of $$$$$. She will be in great shape when WE THE PEOPLE OF THE GREAT STATE OF MAINE VOTE HER GONE…

• Anonymous

  I wept copiously to think of you struggling and sinking. Befuddled by not having the perspicacity to imagine an equitable settlement, I rend my clothing in defiance of jet-setting offspring.

• Anonymous

  I wept copiously to think of you struggling and sinking. Befuddled by not having the perspicacity to imagine an equitable settlement, I rend my clothing in defiance of jet-setting offspring.

• Anonymous

  I wept copiously to think of you struggling and sinking. Befuddled by not having the perspicacity to imagine an equitable settlement, I rend my clothing in defiance of jet-setting offspring.

• Anonymous

  I wept copiously to think of you struggling and sinking. Befuddled by not having the perspicacity to imagine an equitable settlement, I rend my clothing in defiance of jet-setting offspring.

• Anonymous

  I didn’t know that Sak’s 5th Ave carried a line of Goth attire. Oh, perhaps it is Goldman Sach’s in lurking in the dark shadows that provides Gothgirl the goodies.  Either case,  it’s scary.

• Anonymous

  I didn’t know that Sak’s 5th Ave carried a line of Goth attire. Oh, perhaps it is Goldman Sach’s in lurking in the dark shadows that provides Gothgirl the goodies.  Either case,  it’s scary.

• Anonymous

  I didn’t know that Sak’s 5th Ave carried a line of Goth attire. Oh, perhaps it is Goldman Sach’s in lurking in the dark shadows that provides Gothgirl the goodies.  Either case,  it’s scary.

• Anonymous

  I didn’t know that Sak’s 5th Ave carried a line of Goth attire. Oh, perhaps it is Goldman Sach’s in lurking in the dark shadows that provides Gothgirl the goodies.  Either case,  it’s scary.

• Anonymous

  You have it all wrong—the democrats are the ones who favor YOU paying for everyone else who does not work. 

• Anonymous

  You have it all wrong—the democrats are the ones who favor YOU paying for everyone else who does not work. 

• Anonymous

  both parties in Congress are just as guilty. the dems will say to tax the rick while making sure that their own finances are protected. like you stated. I think that you forgot the letter “L” in the 11th word in your 3rd sentence. you called it.

• Anonymous

  Agree, but frothy liberals wet their pants and fling their man purses at the thought that everyone should pay taxes.

• Anonymous

  People have an incorrect perception of taxes upon the rich. If we earned money through investments, we would also pay less on those returns than we do on our income though our jobs. I have favored a flat tax for decades. By flat tax, I mean that every earner pays the same percentage of their income with no loopholes, no deductions, no tax credits.  There are those who may earn 30,000 and actually get more money back than they pay in thanks to tax credits. Rather than sitting around whining about the rich, some people ought to go out there and figure out how to earn that kind of money. Some of those making the most are on call 24/7/365. As citizens paying for everyone else dipping into the government pot that we fill, we should be clamoring for a FLAT TAX. The VAT tax would not be beneficial to everyone, but with a flat tax, no one could complain that they are treated unfairly.

• Anonymous

  People have an incorrect perception of taxes upon the rich. If we earned money through investments, we would also pay less on those returns than we do on our income though our jobs. I have favored a flat tax for decades. By flat tax, I mean that every earner pays the same percentage of their income with no loopholes, no deductions, no tax credits.  There are those who may earn 30,000 and actually get more money back than they pay in thanks to tax credits. Rather than sitting around whining about the rich, some people ought to go out there and figure out how to earn that kind of money. Some of those making the most are on call 24/7/365. As citizens paying for everyone else dipping into the government pot that we fill, we should be clamoring for a FLAT TAX. The VAT tax would not be beneficial to everyone, but with a flat tax, no one could complain that they are treated unfairly.

• Anonymous

  People have an incorrect perception of taxes upon the rich. If we earned money through investments, we would also pay less on those returns than we do on our income though our jobs. I have favored a flat tax for decades. By flat tax, I mean that every earner pays the same percentage of their income with no loopholes, no deductions, no tax credits.  There are those who may earn 30,000 and actually get more money back than they pay in thanks to tax credits. Rather than sitting around whining about the rich, some people ought to go out there and figure out how to earn that kind of money. Some of those making the most are on call 24/7/365. As citizens paying for everyone else dipping into the government pot that we fill, we should be clamoring for a FLAT TAX. The VAT tax would not be beneficial to everyone, but with a flat tax, no one could complain that they are treated unfairly.

• Anonymous

  People have an incorrect perception of taxes upon the rich. If we earned money through investments, we would also pay less on those returns than we do on our income though our jobs. I have favored a flat tax for decades. By flat tax, I mean that every earner pays the same percentage of their income with no loopholes, no deductions, no tax credits.  There are those who may earn 30,000 and actually get more money back than they pay in thanks to tax credits. Rather than sitting around whining about the rich, some people ought to go out there and figure out how to earn that kind of money. Some of those making the most are on call 24/7/365. As citizens paying for everyone else dipping into the government pot that we fill, we should be clamoring for a FLAT TAX. The VAT tax would not be beneficial to everyone, but with a flat tax, no one could complain that they are treated unfairly.

• Anonymous

  Most working people benefit from the tax cuts. If you work, invest, earn dividends, sell a home, etc., then you benefit from the cuts.

• poormaniac

  http://www.insidejobfilm.com

• poormaniac

  http://www.insidejobfilm.com

• poormaniac

  You always reach across the aisle with an open hand !

• poormaniac

  Oh , she has seen to it that she will continue to receive her full pay and benefit package even after she retires.  Every senator and congressperson is entitled to it even after one term. The system is broken.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EBNHMAT4F3I643LFPFOVROPJ7A Lois

  We are working to develop a citizens initiative to allow any Maine resident to perform a citizens arrest
  on Senator Snowe, Senator Collins , Congressman Michaud and Congresswoman Pingree
  and have them deported to Iraq and Afghanistan to stand trial as war criminals.
  Who would like to collect signatures for the petition drive?

• Anonymous

  How old is she? $9.88M in total assets is well off, but far from super rich. I’m actually surprised she makes the list.

• Anonymous

  Doesn’t matter the reason: if he signed it, he owns it. Obama is also responsible for the current tax bracket.

• Anonymous

  Doesn’t matter the reason: if he signed it, he owns it. Obama is also responsible for the current tax bracket.

• Anonymous

  Doesn’t matter the reason: if he signed it, he owns it. Obama is also responsible for the current tax bracket.

• Anonymous

  Doesn’t matter the reason: if he signed it, he owns it. Obama is also responsible for the current tax bracket.

• Anonymous

  Im a little confused here. You say that the poor and low income have been given tax breaks by the GOP? Don’t you guys usually maintain that the GOP screws the poor?
  Secondly, can you name a tax cut that the Democrats initiated and then passed that aided the poor? And one they voted for doesn’t count..one THEY initiated please.

• Anonymous

  Im a little confused here. You say that the poor and low income have been given tax breaks by the GOP? Don’t you guys usually maintain that the GOP screws the poor?
  Secondly, can you name a tax cut that the Democrats initiated and then passed that aided the poor? And one they voted for doesn’t count..one THEY initiated please.

• Anonymous

  Wrong. Class warfare makes you just look sad. The rich are disappearing…so they ain’t getting richer honey.

  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124329282377252471.html

• Anonymous

  You would think she would take some of her money and do something with her hair beside coloring it so black

• Anonymous

  SNOWE has got to go,she got most of her money in ripping of you the taxpayer off with her husband stealing millions in his education racket..She is part of the problem..Hello Maine Republican party dump her and get anybody but her.What does her pension look like now???
  She’s another traitor,tar and feather her…

• http://www.facebook.com/antonio.giarratano Antonio Giarratano

  Who would have thought that a person could subjectively represent a state that is such dire need, when they only fit in with 1% of the population. Yeah, because rich people know exactly what poor people need. Instead of fuel oil she only needs to throw another wad of fiver’s on the fire.

• http://www.facebook.com/antonio.giarratano Antonio Giarratano

  It’s hard to have a poor politician with all the rich ones paying off the people that can’t and can afford campaigns and those fancy advertisements. Problem is that people need to look beyond the flashy and the big talkers and vote for people more rounded, more down to
  earth, not up in the clouds…

• Anonymous

  Agreed… but there was never an issue about ending the Bush tax cuts for the average citizen… most working people do benefit a little from the tax cuts.  There was an issue about extending those tax cuts to those who do not need it.   The reason provided was that they needed this reassurance in order to begin restoring some of the millions of jobs they cut.  Well, that didn’t happen.  They just took their tax breaks and continue hiring overseas or buying parts for all things American made overseas because it’s cheaper.  The truth is, it IS cheaper in every way.  This situation has created a significant imbalance between Americans which is headed toward the extinction of the middle class. The middle class is the soul of our economy.  Poor can’t buy anything and the rich buy Ferraris, Mercedes, Bensons, Porsche, only the finest linens from Ireland, the best clothes Paris can produce… a lot of good that does for the economy of the United States of America. 

• Anonymous

  What a failure! In Congress since 1978 and only managed to “earn” 9.88 mil.

• Anonymous

  As far as I’m concerned all the politicians in Washington have a hand in the destruction of the United States of America because it’s politics before people and that means money and greed are going drive this country right into the ground.  We’re headed there now… the dollar keeps losing value, our “American made” product use parts from China and Indonesia, our wealthy buy imports like Ferrari’s, Bensons, fine linens from Ireland, the newest fashions from Paris, etc… The middle class is going extinct and when it does the United States of America is destroyed. The poor don’t buy, the rich buy abroad… the middle class doesn’t exist.  Where then is the United States of America? Destroyed at the hands of all the politicians in Washington – each and every one of them has the ability to make a difference. That’s why we elect them and send them there — to represent us, not their own best interests.  That hasn’t happened in a long, long time and Obama is certainly guilty of rolling over just as the rest of them are guilty for looking out for their own self-interests. 

• Anonymous

  As far as I’m concerned all the politicians in Washington have a hand in the destruction of the United States of America because it’s politics before people and that means money and greed are going drive this country right into the ground.  We’re headed there now… the dollar keeps losing value, our “American made” product use parts from China and Indonesia, our wealthy buy imports like Ferrari’s, Bensons, fine linens from Ireland, the newest fashions from Paris, etc… The middle class is going extinct and when it does the United States of America is destroyed. The poor don’t buy, the rich buy abroad… the middle class doesn’t exist.  Where then is the United States of America? Destroyed at the hands of all the politicians in Washington – each and every one of them has the ability to make a difference. That’s why we elect them and send them there — to represent us, not their own best interests.  That hasn’t happened in a long, long time and Obama is certainly guilty of rolling over just as the rest of them are guilty for looking out for their own self-interests. 

• Anonymous

  The difference between us and dictatorships is we all have a chance to succeed and live the American dream. If the great non-leader Obama and his handler college professors continue down same road, none of us we be able to achieve the “dream” and then we will be a third world country.

• Anonymous

  The only one of three.. Well it gives those other a reason to stay on the job!  At least she has something to show for all that hard work having underlings keeping the rabble at arms length.

• Anonymous

  So, no where in this article does it say how she came to be so rich.  Was it inherited? from savvy investments?  Inventions?   Or was it just plain old hard work?  I’d like to know.  Otherwise should we assume she got it because of her political connections?  Like, oh, let me see . . . Assad, or Mubarak, or Gaddafi?

  The first  dozen or so comments I read all seemed to be about whether the “rich” pay enough in taxes.  Was that intentional misdirection?    The real question is:  Who can better afford to pay off the mountain of debt that belongs to ALL of us?

  And the million dollar question:  How come our elected representatives keep getting richer while the vast majority of us keep getting poorer?

• Anonymous

  With her kind of money you would think she would have something done to improve her looks. A double bagger if i ever saw one.

• AionNV

  True, however 10 million isn’t “mega-rich”…

• AionNV

  True, however 10 million isn’t “mega-rich”…

• AionNV

  True, however 10 million isn’t “mega-rich”…

• AionNV

  True, however 10 million isn’t “mega-rich”…

• AionNV

  True, however 10 million isn’t “mega-rich”…

• Anonymous

  Oh Oh, The Green Necks are out tonight, lock your doors:)

• Anonymous

  Oh Oh, The Green Necks are out tonight, lock your doors:)

• Anonymous

  Excellent!!

• AionNV

  I  think the fact that you’ve focused on the decrease of people earning over a million, yet could care less about the 200k and above group !

  And this hardly proves your assertion that the rich are disappearing.  Show the numbers prior to 2007 and you’ve got some embarrassing ’splainin’ to do, Lucy.

• Anonymous

  That was my reaction as well. Look at the percentage of the most wealthy that are Republican leaders compared to the Democrats.   Protecting their own interests…maybe….

• Anonymous

  Oh no….it is okay for McCain but not Kerry.  Get it!!!

• Anonymous

  Gee, Sugar, I don’t drive a hybrid nor do I hug trees, but I sure don’t like paying for everyone who sits around moaning while I am a’paying for their keep.

• AionNV

  I’d ask you to back-up your assertion, but I know for a fact that you can not, because it’s false, though frequently repeated by the tea party and republicans.

  People earning under 30k a year don’t pay any taxes ?  Really ?

  Though the statement refers to federal income taxes, it is not accurate anyway. The reality is that in 2010, 47% of people who filed a tax return did not owe any federal taxes. These hard working Americans did not owe federal tax because of the many tax credit programs, and because most people overpay their federal taxes when they work and get a refund, and because more people were on disabiilty and social security income and did not pay federal tax.Yet another example of who is really out to rip you off, Republicans would have you believe that the money you’ve overpaid in taxes that comes out of your paycheck don’t count.  Now tell me, who’s really doing the big money grab when they repeat this lie about the percentage of Americans that pay taxes ?

• AionNV

  Back up your assertions with something tangible, these are just your facile opinions. 

  Funny how you worship the rich, so long as they are Republican.

• AionNV

  Somehow I don’t think you can back up that claim.

• Anonymous

  Obviously, Lynne…an assistant DA who never prosecuted a case and never earned a dime in his life. But McCain earned his money, chuckle, chuckle. We mustn’t let facts get in the way of “facts”.

• Anonymous

  That’s it? I would have thought it would be more for her. Ten million in terms of cash, holdings, and assets isn’t a lot.

• Anonymous

  That’s it? I would have thought it would be more for her. Ten million in terms of cash, holdings, and assets isn’t a lot.

• Anonymous

  That’s it? I would have thought it would be more for her. Ten million in terms of cash, holdings, and assets isn’t a lot.

• Anonymous

  That’s it? I would have thought it would be more for her. Ten million in terms of cash, holdings, and assets isn’t a lot.

• Anonymous

  That’s it? I would have thought it would be more for her. Ten million in terms of cash, holdings, and assets isn’t a lot.

• Anonymous

  That’s it? I would have thought it would be more for her. Ten million in terms of cash, holdings, and assets isn’t a lot.

• Anonymous

  That’s it? I would have thought it would be more for her. Ten million in terms of cash, holdings, and assets isn’t a lot.

• Anonymous

  That’s it? I would have thought it would be more for her. Ten million in terms of cash, holdings, and assets isn’t a lot.

• Anonymous

  What do you know that the Congressional Budget Office doesn’t? They say it’s going to save millions of dollars over the long term. The Republicans always agree with the CBO when it comes out in their favor but everytime the CBO agrees with the opposition it’s all of a sudden not credible anymore. What a shocking revelation 

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Jennifer-Henderson/621050215 Jennifer Henderson

  Wow. There’s an awful lot of rich folks in Congress!

  Wish it was easier for more Joe and Joesephina Shmoes to get elected, but unfortunately the Golden Rule is in place. “He who has the gold, rules!” (And gets elected.)

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Jennifer-Henderson/621050215 Jennifer Henderson

  Wow. There’s an awful lot of rich folks in Congress!

  Wish it was easier for more Joe and Joesephina Shmoes to get elected, but unfortunately the Golden Rule is in place. “He who has the gold, rules!” (And gets elected.)

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Jennifer-Henderson/621050215 Jennifer Henderson

  Wow. There’s an awful lot of rich folks in Congress!

  Wish it was easier for more Joe and Joesephina Shmoes to get elected, but unfortunately the Golden Rule is in place. “He who has the gold, rules!” (And gets elected.)

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Jennifer-Henderson/621050215 Jennifer Henderson

  Wow. There’s an awful lot of rich folks in Congress!

  Wish it was easier for more Joe and Joesephina Shmoes to get elected, but unfortunately the Golden Rule is in place. “He who has the gold, rules!” (And gets elected.)

• Anonymous

  You likely wouldn’t be satisfied if Buffet gave the money to anyone or anything.  Blow on oh ship of state, blow on!

• Anonymous

  Does that include our parents who will clearly take more from SS and Medicare than they ever paid in and then complain about no COLA?

• Anonymous

  So “fighting back” makes us look sad. If you look at the wealth in the country, it is increasingly in the hands of fewer and fewer people. The rich suffered some between 2007 and 2009, but how about the author includes the general trend during that financial calamity which followed eight years of Bush/Cheney. I don’t think Halliburton was hurting during that period.

  Yeah the rich are getting richer. Take a look at the trend from the time Bush got in office to now.

• Anonymous

  So “fighting back” makes us look sad. If you look at the wealth in the country, it is increasingly in the hands of fewer and fewer people. The rich suffered some between 2007 and 2009, but how about the author includes the general trend during that financial calamity which followed eight years of Bush/Cheney. I don’t think Halliburton was hurting during that period.

  Yeah the rich are getting richer. Take a look at the trend from the time Bush got in office to now.

• Anonymous

  So “fighting back” makes us look sad. If you look at the wealth in the country, it is increasingly in the hands of fewer and fewer people. The rich suffered some between 2007 and 2009, but how about the author includes the general trend during that financial calamity which followed eight years of Bush/Cheney. I don’t think Halliburton was hurting during that period.

  Yeah the rich are getting richer. Take a look at the trend from the time Bush got in office to now.

• Anonymous

  So “fighting back” makes us look sad. If you look at the wealth in the country, it is increasingly in the hands of fewer and fewer people. The rich suffered some between 2007 and 2009, but how about the author includes the general trend during that financial calamity which followed eight years of Bush/Cheney. I don’t think Halliburton was hurting during that period.

  Yeah the rich are getting richer. Take a look at the trend from the time Bush got in office to now.

• Anonymous

  So “fighting back” makes us look sad. If you look at the wealth in the country, it is increasingly in the hands of fewer and fewer people. The rich suffered some between 2007 and 2009, but how about the author includes the general trend during that financial calamity which followed eight years of Bush/Cheney. I don’t think Halliburton was hurting during that period.

  Yeah the rich are getting richer. Take a look at the trend from the time Bush got in office to now.

• Anonymous

  So “fighting back” makes us look sad. If you look at the wealth in the country, it is increasingly in the hands of fewer and fewer people. The rich suffered some between 2007 and 2009, but how about the author includes the general trend during that financial calamity which followed eight years of Bush/Cheney. I don’t think Halliburton was hurting during that period.

  Yeah the rich are getting richer. Take a look at the trend from the time Bush got in office to now.

• Anonymous

  So “fighting back” makes us look sad. If you look at the wealth in the country, it is increasingly in the hands of fewer and fewer people. The rich suffered some between 2007 and 2009, but how about the author includes the general trend during that financial calamity which followed eight years of Bush/Cheney. I don’t think Halliburton was hurting during that period.

  Yeah the rich are getting richer. Take a look at the trend from the time Bush got in office to now.

• Anonymous

  So “fighting back” makes us look sad. If you look at the wealth in the country, it is increasingly in the hands of fewer and fewer people. The rich suffered some between 2007 and 2009, but how about the author includes the general trend during that financial calamity which followed eight years of Bush/Cheney. I don’t think Halliburton was hurting during that period.

  Yeah the rich are getting richer. Take a look at the trend from the time Bush got in office to now.

• Anonymous

  So “fighting back” makes us look sad. If you look at the wealth in the country, it is increasingly in the hands of fewer and fewer people. The rich suffered some between 2007 and 2009, but how about the author includes the general trend during that financial calamity which followed eight years of Bush/Cheney. I don’t think Halliburton was hurting during that period.

  Yeah the rich are getting richer. Take a look at the trend from the time Bush got in office to now.

• Anonymous

  She’s been feeding at the trough too long!

• Anonymous

  No surprise there…especially since her husband is a fraudster

• Anonymous

  No surprise there…especially since her husband is a fraudster

• Anonymous

  Your post ignores the fact that the “poor” in America live much better than those in Africa. How much is everyone entitled to simply because you were born here? You spend all day on a computer, so clearly you are surviving and have access to the basics.

  You have it pretty good…why does it matter what others have?

• Anonymous

  SpruceDweller, stay in your tree. NOBODY with any legitimate to post anything has posted on this. Nothing against you.

• Anonymous

  You know Joey, I thought were you permenantly paralyzed from the hair down! That makes you a criminal fraudster and a liar!!!! Losers like you make it so we all have to pay more to incarcerate you.

• Anonymous

  Um,  I said that both democrats and republicans have supported  low income tax breaks.  The earned income tax credit comes to mind.  I’m sorry that you feel that it is an “insulting display” that low income people are getting a break on income tax.  If you are so concerned about, as you call it, “paying through the nose,” perhaps you should advocate, as Warren Buffet does, for extreme high income folk (like Warren himself and, say, Paris Hilton) to pay a higher rate than you say that you do.

• Anonymous

  the wealthy paid their fair share during clinton….the economy was excellent, and the debt was reduced….a first in many years…..tell me why that wouldn’t work now?

• Anonymous

  and republicans are the ones who favor you paying for the people that don’t need the money…..

• Anonymous

  like the fees for health care haven’t been jacked every single year already……..

• Anonymous

  if he feels that all wealthy people are not taxed enough, the first amendment provides him the opportunity to express that sentiment….if you’re a corporate shill, i can see why his words are offensive…..

• Anonymous

  It is the working middle class that is suffering, there actaully isn’t much of a middle class anymore!! It’s more like the working poor.  The rich don’t have to worry and the poor don’t either because they have all kinds of programs that help the poor class it is the middle class suffering and living paycheck to paycheck.  It’s about time we booted these people right out of office!!

• Anonymous

  I guess you must not spend much time of these boards. To accuse me of worshiping the rich as long as they are republican is about as far from where I stand politically as you can get. Instead of you asking me to back up what I say, like you have everyone else on here that has posted something you don’t like,  why don’t you point out to me what jobs John Kerry has had other then being in the Navy, being an assistant DA in Boston and a member of the United States Senate. 

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WUXQMOMFW26EODLA7I3WZLSNPM Jeff C

  This shouldnt surprise anyone.  She is a Dinosaur in Congress and this is exactly why if they are going to have mandatory term limits on the Presidential office, than the same she be held for Congress and the Senate…

• Anonymous

  Hey that ones simple he got it the old fashioned way. After dumping his first wife after she was serious injured in an accident he married the daughter of the largest Budweiser distributor in the Southwest United States. 

• Jazz11

  No wonder she always votes fot tax breaks for the wealthy. Typical Republican!

• Moose

  That makes me so happy to know that. I will better sleep tonite. Old Jock strap must be pretty wealth himself. But Snow does nothing to bring the price of fuel down..Maybe she has alot of stock in oil???

• Anonymous

  You are a jerk.

• Anonymous

  You are a jerk.

• Anonymous

  You are a jerk.

• Anonymous

  You are a jerk.

• Anonymous

  Oh come on. No Legislator gets rich while in office. Now just how can that happen?
  We all have to justify income on our taxes. Its not possible to become rich as a legislator. They get a salary and thats it. An investment on their salary could never support what all you folks claim.

• Anonymous

  Ms. Snowe has been in office 25  years.  What has she done for any of you?  She proved  she isn’t a  Steven King  or a Bill  Gates.  What contributions   has she made?
  If she cared about any of you  or the state of Maine she would of made some decent contributions.   The time is now to elect someone who cares about the people and the beautiful state of  Maine.   

• Anonymous

  Resorting to name-calling is always a problem for the liberals at a loss to argue with intelligence.

• Anonymous

  Resorting to name-calling is always a problem for the liberals at a loss to argue with intelligence.

• Anonymous

  Resorting to name-calling is always a problem for the liberals at a loss to argue with intelligence.

• Anonymous

  Resorting to name-calling is always a problem for the liberals at a loss to argue with intelligence.

• Anonymous

  Resorting to name-calling is always a problem for the liberals at a loss to argue with intelligence.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XYWAGMEY2Z2T7BY32M2SHIURKA Chris Bowker

  How about Ms Sussman? I don’t see Olympia flying around in her own private jet.

• Anonymous

  At least we don’t need to worry about “special interests” bribing her.  Elect someone new, and we’ll have to go through the whole “down payment” thing again.

• Anonymous

  At least we don’t need to worry about “special interests” bribing her.  Elect someone new, and we’ll have to go through the whole “down payment” thing again.

• Anonymous

  At least we don’t need to worry about “special interests” bribing her.  Elect someone new, and we’ll have to go through the whole “down payment” thing again.

• Anonymous

  At least we don’t need to worry about “special interests” bribing her.  Elect someone new, and we’ll have to go through the whole “down payment” thing again.

• Anonymous

  At least we don’t need to worry about “special interests” bribing her.  Elect someone new, and we’ll have to go through the whole “down payment” thing again.

• Anonymous

  I find this a heart-warming story of a woman with very little money, being elected to the Senate, and then in 18 short years, at a yearly salary of 130-180 thousand, she has managed to build her wealth to almost ten million. It’s inspirational.

• Anonymous

  Have you been to africa my guess no cause if you had you would know thats a cracked out statement
   

• Anonymous

  There seems to be huge disproportions between representation in Congress and the actual demographics of the country.

• Anonymous

  well bangor native we have argue once or twice but   super liking that post the richest the world wide average house hold income is 7000 a year

• Anonymous

  like but one problem can some one actually come up with number about where the middle class ends and starts thats where alot of this fight starts from and does it differ from location to location great example in bangor for my age group im in the top 1% over all im in the top 20% for bangor maine im in the top 28% and if i got to newengland i drop down to under 50% so what to what would you call middle class
   

• DonHorchKingofMen

  I like the pic the BDN cjose to run.I NEVER see Olympia smile,but,here,they managed to morph it into a smug smile as well! Well done photoshop folks!

• poormaniac

  VA disability check !

• poormaniac

  VA disability check !

• poormaniac

  VA disability check !

• poormaniac

  VA disability check !

• poormaniac

  VA disability check !

• Anonymous

  Maybe that is why she is against universal health care.

• Anonymous

   Hangover from ancient times.  Only the rich who could afford slaves could partake in politics.  The basic difference nowadays is that the ancients had to provide food, shelter for the slaves.

• Anonymous

  Who says being in government doesn’t pay? When you are at the trough long enough, you can amass a nice bundle.

• Anonymous

  Who says being in government doesn’t pay? When you are at the trough long enough, you can amass a nice bundle.

• Anonymous

  Who says being in government doesn’t pay? When you are at the trough long enough, you can amass a nice bundle.

• Anonymous

  Who says being in government doesn’t pay? When you are at the trough long enough, you can amass a nice bundle.

• Anonymous

  Why don’t you show us how it’s done timjy…if it’s just that easy

• Anonymous

  I realize that it is impossible, but it does happen. Strange, huh?

• Anonymous

  I realize that it is impossible, but it does happen. Strange, huh?

• Anonymous

  I realize that it is impossible, but it does happen. Strange, huh?

• Anonymous

  “None of Maine’s other three representatives cracked the Top 50″.
  Are you serious? What about Chellie Pingree-Sussman? Last time I looked, she flies on a $25 million, 19 seat jetliner and cruises aboard a new $25 million yacht. The Sussman’s home in North Haven was reportedly valued at $12 million as well.
  You’d better re-check that list!

• Anonymous

  “None of Maine’s other three representatives cracked the Top 50″.
  Are you serious? What about Chellie Pingree-Sussman? Last time I looked, she flies on a $25 million, 19 seat jetliner and cruises aboard a new $25 million yacht. The Sussman’s home in North Haven was reportedly valued at $12 million as well.
  You’d better re-check that list!

• Anonymous

  “None of Maine’s other three representatives cracked the Top 50″.
  Are you serious? What about Chellie Pingree-Sussman? Last time I looked, she flies on a $25 million, 19 seat jetliner and cruises aboard a new $25 million yacht. The Sussman’s home in North Haven was reportedly valued at $12 million as well.
  You’d better re-check that list!

• Anonymous

  “None of Maine’s other three representatives cracked the Top 50″.
  Are you serious? What about Chellie Pingree-Sussman? Last time I looked, she flies on a $25 million, 19 seat jetliner and cruises aboard a new $25 million yacht. The Sussman’s home in North Haven was reportedly valued at $12 million as well.
  You’d better re-check that list!

• Anonymous

  “None of Maine’s other three representatives cracked the Top 50″.
  Are you serious? What about Chellie Pingree-Sussman? Last time I looked, she flies on a $25 million, 19 seat jetliner and cruises aboard a new $25 million yacht. The Sussman’s home in North Haven was reportedly valued at $12 million as well.
  You’d better re-check that list!

• Anonymous

  There once was a liberal named Chellie
  She laughed like a bowl full of jelly
  All the way to the bank
  With Rich Donald to thank
  For campaign ads to run on the telly

• Anonymous

  There once was a liberal named Chellie
  She laughed like a bowl full of jelly
  All the way to the bank
  With Rich Donald to thank
  For campaign ads to run on the telly

• Anonymous

  Governor McKernan and Senator Snowe are successful people – and your using them as some kind of class-warfare examples falls on deaf ears at my house!  These Republicans value hard work, investments and creating jobs – and they’ve been good at it.  And they’ve been at it a long time too. 
  Please contrast this with Chellie Pingree and Donald Sussman – who promote higher taxes, more government spending and fund every campaign for every nutty thing on the liberal agenda… yet  live a billionaire’s lifestyle that would make Mick Jagger blush!

• Anonymous

  Governor McKernan and Senator Snowe are successful people – and your using them as some kind of class-warfare examples falls on deaf ears at my house!  These Republicans value hard work, investments and creating jobs – and they’ve been good at it.  And they’ve been at it a long time too. 
  Please contrast this with Chellie Pingree and Donald Sussman – who promote higher taxes, more government spending and fund every campaign for every nutty thing on the liberal agenda… yet  live a billionaire’s lifestyle that would make Mick Jagger blush!

• Anonymous

  Governor McKernan and Senator Snowe are successful people – and your using them as some kind of class-warfare examples falls on deaf ears at my house!  These Republicans value hard work, investments and creating jobs – and they’ve been good at it.  And they’ve been at it a long time too. 
  Please contrast this with Chellie Pingree and Donald Sussman – who promote higher taxes, more government spending and fund every campaign for every nutty thing on the liberal agenda… yet  live a billionaire’s lifestyle that would make Mick Jagger blush!

• Anonymous

  “None of Maine’s other three representatives cracked
  the Top 50″ Somehow the reporter either is woefully uninformed about our
  representatives or willfully chose to ignore the fact that Rep. Chellie Pingree
  Sussman is married to one of the wealthiest men in America.  She therefore owns a plane worth $24 million
  plus a multi-million dollar yacht among other plentiful holdings.  Somehow this article portrayed the good
  Senator as some sort of evil person for having married a very hard-working man
  who has, by virtue of that hard work become a success.  I always thought that was the American dream.;
  something to aspire to and work for.  

• Anonymous

  “None of Maine’s other three representatives cracked
  the Top 50″ Somehow the reporter either is woefully uninformed about our
  representatives or willfully chose to ignore the fact that Rep. Chellie Pingree
  Sussman is married to one of the wealthiest men in America.  She therefore owns a plane worth $24 million
  plus a multi-million dollar yacht among other plentiful holdings.  Somehow this article portrayed the good
  Senator as some sort of evil person for having married a very hard-working man
  who has, by virtue of that hard work become a success.  I always thought that was the American dream.;
  something to aspire to and work for.  

• Anonymous

  Your article states that Governor McKernan and Senator Snowe have a reported net worth of some $9.88 million.  But didn’t I read that the Pingree-Sussmans of North Haven took delivery of a $22 million YACHT this summer?  Last time I looked, $23 million is a lot more than $9.88 million.  And that’s just the boat!  What about the homes in Connecticut, Washington, Portland, New York and the multiple properties in the Virgin Islands???  What about the jet – that costs as much to fly for a couple hours as the average Maine family makes in a YEAR? 
  Better be like Santa and check that list twice, because you left somebody off.

• Anonymous

  Your article states that Governor McKernan and Senator Snowe have a reported net worth of some $9.88 million.  But didn’t I read that the Pingree-Sussmans of North Haven took delivery of a $22 million YACHT this summer?  Last time I looked, $23 million is a lot more than $9.88 million.  And that’s just the boat!  What about the homes in Connecticut, Washington, Portland, New York and the multiple properties in the Virgin Islands???  What about the jet – that costs as much to fly for a couple hours as the average Maine family makes in a YEAR? 
  Better be like Santa and check that list twice, because you left somebody off.

• Anonymous

  Your article states that Governor McKernan and Senator Snowe have a reported net worth of some $9.88 million.  But didn’t I read that the Pingree-Sussmans of North Haven took delivery of a $22 million YACHT this summer?  Last time I looked, $23 million is a lot more than $9.88 million.  And that’s just the boat!  What about the homes in Connecticut, Washington, Portland, New York and the multiple properties in the Virgin Islands???  What about the jet – that costs as much to fly for a couple hours as the average Maine family makes in a YEAR? 
  Better be like Santa and check that list twice, because you left somebody off.

• Anonymous

  Your article states that Governor McKernan and Senator Snowe have a reported net worth of some $9.88 million.  But didn’t I read that the Pingree-Sussmans of North Haven took delivery of a $22 million YACHT this summer?  Last time I looked, $23 million is a lot more than $9.88 million.  And that’s just the boat!  What about the homes in Connecticut, Washington, Portland, New York and the multiple properties in the Virgin Islands???  What about the jet – that costs as much to fly for a couple hours as the average Maine family makes in a YEAR? 
  Better be like Santa and check that list twice, because you left somebody off.

• Anonymous

  Do you suppose  Mike Michaud made his millions working ten short years for Great Northern Paper? I am sure he has made a few dollars in Government.  I do not agree 100% with all of Senator Snowe’s ideas however, I would rather have her working for Maine vs. another Pingree or Michaud. I feel that there is too many kick backs on both sides of the aisle. The mess  in Washington started twenty plus years ago and I feel we need a clean slate and new beginning with new representation of the people. Knowing that this will never happen we need to support moderates and republicans that will work  for our interests. We need to stop special interest groups that fund the democratic agenda. I support Senator Snow.

• Anonymous

  How inconvenient to Chellie Pingree’s liberal base that you use your big Weekend Edition to expose the richest people in Congress.  
  How uncomfortable she must feel, being a billionaire now, but still insisting on higher taxes for the rich!  
  How strange that a Progressive Caucus class-envy warrior is the wealthiest person in Congress.
  Oh, wait a minute.  After further review, she’s not on the list.  What?  She’s NOT on the list?
   
  and under another assumed name post this one??
   
  Don’t you feel goofy, listing the wealthiest people in the Senate and Congress without even mentioning Chellie Pingree?
  There.  I did it for you.

• Anonymous

  Don’t you feel goofy, listing the wealthiest people in the Senate and Congress without even mentioning Chellie Pingree?
  There.  I did it for you.

• Anonymous

  Don’t you feel goofy, listing the wealthiest people in the Senate and Congress without even mentioning Chellie Pingree?
  There.  I did it for you.

• Anonymous

  Don’t you feel goofy, listing the wealthiest people in the Senate and Congress without even mentioning Chellie Pingree?
  There.  I did it for you.

• Anonymous

  Do you suppose Mike Michaud earned his millions working a short 10 years at Great Northern? I am sure he’s made alot of money in Washington. Though I do not agree 100% with Senator Snowe I feel that special interest groups  and union  influences sway our Democratic  representatives. I do support Senator Snowe and her moderate ideas. So what if she is worth millions let’s give Obama three more years and trillions of dollars to try to buy us out of this mess. I am sure Senator Snowe’s assets and worth are auditable.  How about Americas?  We need more republican and moderate ideas in Washington to represent us. President Obama, I feel is not a good leader and as commander in chief, he does not lead by example.

• Anonymous

  So true…I beleive Senator Snowe to be a humble, hard working and caring woman. She has had many years to accumulate her wealth. Let us take a look at her life…single for many years and no children…maybe life insurance proceeds and good investment decisions. I truly don’t beleive her wealth came from kickbacks or bribes for votes. Senator Snow votes across party lines with her constinuents best interests at heart.

• Anonymous

  Eliminate the earned income tax credit. Poor people should have to share in the burden as well Lke the old song goes money for nothin

• Anonymous

  What irks me is she keeps getting raises, but us poor schmucks on SS don’t get any raises!!  This irritates the Hell out of Me!!

• Anonymous

  senators collect their full salary for life…whether in office or “retired”. they voted that in for themselves.

• Anonymous

  senators collect their full salary for life…whether in office or “retired”. they voted that in for themselves.

• Anonymous

  she should spend some on a facelift….our congress is known internationally as the “millionaires club”; isn’t that cozy?

• Anonymous

  No wonder she doesn’t have a clue or care a wit about most of the people she represents. Her voting record is always party line, and represents only the top 1 or 2 %, just like her. Free pass on the backs of the workers.

• Anonymous

  Agreed. Her and Collins have impeccable records on certain issues and they have demonstrated leadership there, but as a whole, no. 

• Anonymous

  Those darn poor folks! They’re so greedy.

• Anonymous

  What are you even talking about? Did you read the article? A majority of the millionaires in Congress are Republicans.

• Anonymous

  Don’t you feel goofy posting the same comment 3 times?

• Anonymous

  What? You don’t care about facts? There are no billionaires in congress. Try reading the articles before commenting.

• http://www.facebook.com/TylerWashburn207 Tyler Washburn

  What’s this I hear about the Sussman’s new yacht being custom-built in South Africa?  It is a $23 million toy that COULD have been built by Maine boatbuilders.   Why wasn’t it?  (And how many jobs would a project like THAT create in Maine, by the way?)
  Adding insult to injury to a slam in the pocketbook… I also hear the boat is registered in the Virgin Islands.  True???   Have you sent a reporter to check on this?  If so, how mush excise tax does the State of Maine “lose” by not registering the Titanic of North Haven here in Maine?
  All of which begs the question: WHY was Chellie Pingree-Sussman left off your list of the Top Fifty richest members of Congress?  If the richest now is “only” worth $293 million… wouldn’t that make the yacht-sailing, jet-riding Pingree-Sussman the #1 richest – by far???

• http://www.facebook.com/TylerWashburn207 Tyler Washburn

  What’s this I hear about the Sussman’s new yacht being custom-built in South Africa?  It is a $23 million toy that COULD have been built by Maine boatbuilders.   Why wasn’t it?  (And how many jobs would a project like THAT create in Maine, by the way?)
  Adding insult to injury to a slam in the pocketbook… I also hear the boat is registered in the Virgin Islands.  True???   Have you sent a reporter to check on this?  If so, how mush excise tax does the State of Maine “lose” by not registering the Titanic of North Haven here in Maine?
  All of which begs the question: WHY was Chellie Pingree-Sussman left off your list of the Top Fifty richest members of Congress?  If the richest now is “only” worth $293 million… wouldn’t that make the yacht-sailing, jet-riding Pingree-Sussman the #1 richest – by far???

• http://www.facebook.com/TylerWashburn207 Tyler Washburn

  What’s this I hear about the Sussman’s new yacht being custom-built in South Africa?  It is a $23 million toy that COULD have been built by Maine boatbuilders.   Why wasn’t it?  (And how many jobs would a project like THAT create in Maine, by the way?)
  Adding insult to injury to a slam in the pocketbook… I also hear the boat is registered in the Virgin Islands.  True???   Have you sent a reporter to check on this?  If so, how mush excise tax does the State of Maine “lose” by not registering the Titanic of North Haven here in Maine?
  All of which begs the question: WHY was Chellie Pingree-Sussman left off your list of the Top Fifty richest members of Congress?  If the richest now is “only” worth $293 million… wouldn’t that make the yacht-sailing, jet-riding Pingree-Sussman the #1 richest – by far???

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SCNJPPZDX7GEYELESV2YGQFLN4 Pat T. Riot

   The article didn’t mention Mike Michaud.  Maybe he is worth millions but the article doesn’t say that.  Were you thinking of Mitch McConnell?  Same initials, so I can see the confusion.

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SCNJPPZDX7GEYELESV2YGQFLN4 Pat T. Riot

  Isn’t it ironic?  Conservatives defend lower taxes for America’s wealthiest citizens and Democratic and fairly liberal Chellie Pingree is one of those very wealthy people, someone whom conservatives must dislike. 

• Anonymous

  Because the Clintons voted  to send all the jobs that were making this great economy overseas and know the goverment will not admit that the problem with the economy is of its own making.

• Anonymous

  Because the Clintons voted  to send all the jobs that were making this great economy overseas and know the goverment will not admit that the problem with the economy is of its own making.