H/T Instapundit
Snowe, Collins decline invitation to Obama event
The Hill
By Eric Zimmermann
04/01/10
Both Maine Senators declined the White House’s invitation to attend President Obama’s event in their home state today, according to White House spokesman Bill Burton.
Burton said the Maine Republicans decided not to attend Obama’s healthcare speech in Portland, Maine.
A spokeswoman for Snowe said the senator “had a full day of events already planned today long before we learned of the President’s trip to Maine last Friday.”
Meanwhile, Collins is overseas visiting U.S. Central Command in Qatar, and her office says it’s not clear she was invited in the first place.
Of course, both Snowe and Collins opposed the healthcare legislation that Obama will be touting in his speech, so it’s understandable they wouldn’t want to appear alongside him.
