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Maine Police Investigate Collins Office Vandalism as Probe

By Drooid · Sep 29, 2026, 2:50 AM UTC · How we work

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Collins Condemns Vandalism

U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) condemned the spray-painted “Trump Whore” vandalism of her Biddeford office on Monday.
Maine police opened an investigation into the office vandalism.
Democratic challenger Troy Jackson called the vandalism “wrong”.
ProPublica alleged the U.S. President Donald Trump administration halted an FBI probe into possible Collins bribery.
Collins called the bribery claims a “partisan hit job” and false.

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Harrington Posts Graffiti

State Sen. Matt Harrington (R-York County) posted a vandalism photo on Facebook Monday.
Biddeford Police Chief JoAnne Fisk said the department received a graffiti call but declined comment.
The Biddeford office at 160 Main St. is one of six federal offices Senator Collins maintains in Maine.
Six write-in candidates—Brent Andrews, Gina Oswald, Sigrid Ann Olson, Ashley Webb, Michael Turcotte, and Joseph Steinberger—entered the Senate race.

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Historical Context

Occupy Wall Street started on September 17 2011 in Zuccotti Park after Adbusters urged protests over corporate influence following the 2008 crisis. In its first month the New York Police Department recorded 768 arrests on October 1, 2011, as protesters marched across the Brooklyn Bridge. The recent spray-painting of Senator Susan Collins’s Biddeford office echoes that era’s confrontational tactics and may test limits on political expression.

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Collins Condemns Vandalism

U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) condemned the spray-painted “Trump Whore” vandalism of her Biddeford office on Monday.
Maine police opened an investigation into the office vandalism.
Democratic challenger Troy Jackson called the vandalism “wrong”.
ProPublica alleged the U.S. President Donald Trump administration halted an FBI probe into possible Collins bribery.
Collins called the bribery claims a “partisan hit job” and false.

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