Graham Platner Addresses his Supporters in Blue Hill on Primary Day, June 9, 2026 in Blue Hill.  “Susan Collins is Bipartisan When it Doesn’t Matter,” said Graham Platner.

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Tonight new reporting revealed that Susan Collins’ husband, Tom Daffron, consulted as recently as 2025 for a lobbying firm run by Scott Read, the chairmman of Pine Tree Results, the super PAC spending millions to reelect Collins and attack Graham Platner.

According to Colllns’ financial disclosure, Daffron was paid by Chesapeake Enterprises, a Texas lobbying firm run by Scott Reed, who serves as chairman of Pine Tree Results, the super PAC spending millions to reelect Collins and attack Graham Platner.

The news comes just days after reporting revealed that Collins has, for the first time ever connected her campaign directly to Pine Tree Results through a joint fundraising agreement.  As “The Maine Monitor” reported, both the Collins campaign and Pine Tree Results have joint fundraising agreements with the Colllins Victory Committee, which has transferred money to both orgaizations. The groups also share a treasurer and have paid the same Washington-based fundraising consultant.

Now, voters are learning that the chairman of the super PAC spending millions to keep Collins in office was also paying Collns’ husband as recently as last year according to a press release issued late this evening by the Platner campaign.

Super PAC’s are legally barred from coordinating with the campaigns they support.  If Collins’ husband has been working for the man leading her super PAC, as appears to be the case, it would not necessarily represent any kind of prohibited conduct.  The situation is, however, highly unusual.

In a press release issued earlier today by the Platner campaig, it disclosed that Graham Platner won the Democratic primary with an overwhelming 70 percent, drawing the HIGHEST RAW VOTE total EVER RECORDED in a Maine Democratic primary.  In the days since, a surge of grassroots money, powered by first-time donors, has cemented the mandate Maine voters delivered at the ballot box.  The turnout was so historic, that polling places across Maine ran out of ballots and Platner swept the Democratic vote in every single county.

“Mainers aren’t just ready to defeat Susan Collins — they’re ready to tear down a system and an establishment that has exploited working people for decades and replace it with a politics that finally works for them,” the Platner press release concludes.