Indivisible Bangor

Category: Call To Action

  • Contact Senator Collins – the BBB vote is today!

    Contact Senator Collins – the BBB vote is today!

    Urgent message from our friends at Food and Medicine and the AFL-CIO:

    Below is an important message from our friends at the Maine AFL-CIO, and we need to spread the word. If you can make one call this today, please call Senator Collins – there is a lot at stake and the vote is today! Passage of this bill could be devastating for Mainers in many ways, and we have a chance to impact Senator Collins’ vote.

    Will you give her office a call? The information and phone numbers are below. 

    -Food AND Medicine 

    The U.S. Senate will soon vote on its Big Budget Bill that slashes funding to our rural hospitals, kicks people off health insurance and cuts workers’ pensions to deliver tax cuts to the very rich. We need you to call Senator Susan Collins.

    Call Senator Susan Collins right now at 202-224-2523 & ask her to oppose the Senate Budget Bill! Or call Senator Collins locally

    Augusta  (207) 622-8414  Bangor  (207) 945-0417

    Biddeford  (207) 283-1101  Caribou  (207) 493-7873

    Lewiston  (207) 784-6969  Portland  (207) 618-5560

    This Big Budget Bill will harm working classer Mainers by:

    • Cutting taxes for the rich and making the rest of us pay for it. On average the top 1% in Maine will receive a nearly $37,000 tax cut while the majority of working people will lose out from the cuts in this bill.
    • Harming federal workers and their retirements. The Senate Republican version of the bill raids federal workers pension to pay for tax cuts for the rich. New hires would be required to pay 15.6% of their pay toward retirement – an 11% increase from current employees.
    • Harming rural hospitals, raising healthcare costs and causing 13 – 16 million people to lose health insurance. Medicaid funding cuts would cause hospitals, clinics and nursing homes to close or downsize, especially in rural communities. Estimates are that 13 – 16 million people would lose health insurance. A new analysis by the AFL-CIO finds that the bill would raise health care costs for everyone, including an estimation of up to $485 a year for the 179 million people with employment-based insurance.
    • Banning states from passing or enforcing laws protecting workers from the threats artificial intelligence (AI) poses to our rights, jobs and safety. The bill would put a 10 year ban on states passing any laws related to AI.
    • Increasing federal deficit by $4 – 5 trillion. The bill will explode the federal deficit, undermining economic stability and causing future cuts.

    Please tell Senator Collins to VOTE NO on the Senate budget reconciliation bill: 202-224-2523!

    Augusta  (207) 622-8414  Bangor  (207) 945-0417

    Biddeford  (207) 283-1101  Caribou  (207) 493-7873

    Lewiston  (207) 784-6969  Portland  (207) 618-5560

    We need a budget that puts workers first, not billionaires.

    In Solidarity,

    Matt Schlobohm, Executive Director of the Maine AFL-CIO

    PS: Can you get five other people to call Senator Collins? We need as many Mainers as possible to tell our Senator to VOTE NO on the Budget bill

  • Call Janet Mills – LD 1971

    Call Janet Mills – LD 1971


    ME LD1971

    An Act to Protect Workers in This State by Clarifying the Relationship of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies with Federal Immigration Authorities

    This bill is on Janet Mills’ desk now!

    Call her and urge her to sign it!

    Call Governor Janet Mills 207-287-353
    Email Governor Janet Mills

    Among other related things, this bill “enacts provisions to clarify the relationship of state and local law enforcement agencies, including correctional facilities, and state employees with federal immigration authorities. The bill: 1. Prohibits a law enforcement agency from stopping, investigating, interrogating, arresting or detaining a person for immigration enforcement purposes, including in response to a hold request, immigration detainer or administrative warrant issued by the United States Department of Homeland Security, or allowing the United States Department of Homeland Security access to inmates or inmate information or providing law enforcement agency resources or personnel to assist immigration enforcement activities.”

    LD 1971 includes common-sense guardrails to protect the rights and safety of Maine’s immigrants, and all of us. It ensures that state and local law enforcement aren’t stepping outside of their official duties to assist the federal government with mass deportation.

  • Action 135 – “86” Citizens United!

    Action 135 – “86” Citizens United!

    Background:  In 2023, Maine voters voted 86% * in favor of prohibiting foreign governments and entities from spending money on our elections and ballot questions.  In November 2024, we also voted around 75% to put a $5000 limit on individual contributions to Super PACs.  But neither of those referenda decisions have been enforced due to lawsuits challenging their legality. (1)  Eventually what will likely be needed is a Constitutional Amendment to undo the Supreme Court’s awful Citizens United decision of 2010 (2), which allows corporations (and unions, the few that remain) to spend unlimited funds on elections.  (Susan Collins opposes such an amendment, another reason to defeat her.)  As we explained in Action 129, a Constitutional Convention to get this amendment approved could be dangerously risky in today’s divided nation.  So, we are left with the cumbersome but effective process that has been used for all other Constitutional Amendments.  The Maine Ethics Commission (3) would like us to weigh in (4), and American Promise (5) has information and suggestions on how to do it and what you might say. (6)

    Action: Click on extra credit item (6) and use the information therein as guidance to add your voice.  Our democracy is suffering at the hands of the ultra-rich plutocrats and sociopaths.  Let’s apply resolute pressure to get Citizens United overturned.  

    Urgency:  The deadline to submit comments is June 20

    Extra Credit:

     (1) https://mainemorningstar.com/2025/01/13/maine-legislature-eyes-campaign-finance-reforms-as-court-weighs-voter-backed-referenda/
    (2)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC#:~:text=The%20Citizens%20United%20ruling%20represented,super%20PACs%2C%20and%20McCutcheon%20v
    (3) https://www.maine.gov/ethics/

    (4) https://www.maine.gov/ethics/sites/maine.gov.ethics/files/inline-files/Invitation%20to%20Comment%20-%20Constitutional%20Amendment%20on%20Campaign%20Finance.pdf

    (5) https://americanpromise.net

    (6) https://americanpromise.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Guide-to-Submit-Comment-to-Maine-Ethics-Commission.pdf?_kx=Crnlhv7DHVxa2XNYCanOkjBOrP3JmKTxexoQPZvtkmA.UyCFV8

    * total coincidence that we voted 86% when “86” is restaurant slang for take it off the menu!

  • Action 133 – YES on LD 1666. 

    Action 133 – YES on LD 1666. 

    Background: 

    LD 1666 will expand Ranked Choice Voting to state legislative and gubernatorial general elections before the November 2026 election. It has been reported out of the Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee and next heads to the chamber floors. Urge all Maine legislators to support LD 1666, including the Republicans (especially the reprehensible obstructionists!).  Hancock Co. doesn’t have any Reps on the VLA committee, but now that it’s before the whole legislature, it’s time to weigh in!   See the table on the next page. Remember, even if they don’t represent you right now, many of them have ambitions for higher office.  Also, how they vote affects you!  So they should listen to you!

    Action: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/please-vote-yes-on-ld-1666?source=email&

    This is a form provided by the League of Women Voters.  Feel free to contact the legislators directly, as many as you have time and patience for.  

    Urgency: today!