Sen. Susan Collins has voted almost 90 percent of the time for the failed policies of the Bush administration. She voted for the tax cuts for oil companies and the wealthy, and the prescription drug bill with loopholes that punish the middle class and the poor.

Collins voted time and again to fund Bush’s war in Iraq, while the soldiers are getting shortchanged on health care and equipment.

When Bush took office, gasoline cost about $1.46 per gallon. It’s now more than twice that, and the same for heating oil. Towns and cities face financial crises because of those high prices, caused by corporate greed of the oil companies.

Collins should have voted against the tax cuts. Instead, she put her own interests ahead of the people of Maine. She is out of touch with the people she is supposed to represent.

She should have called for investigation of the $1.6 billion the Pentagon can’t account for in Iraq. Instead, she looked the other way.

Another term for Collins would be more of Bush’s failed policies.

On Nov. 4, voters should show Collins the door. Her Senate seat belongs to the people of Maine, not her and her corporate friends. And I won’t forget that she voted against the minimum wage increase several times in the Senate. She is no friend of the working people of Maine.

Robert Shaw, Danville