Sen. Collins’ staff shared constituent information to smear a high school critic – mainebeacon.com

It appears Sen. Susan Collins’s staff released constituent information about a school trip to D.C. to a far-right former representative as part of an effort to falsely smear a Maine high school senior who was critical of Collins.

On Nov. 14, Camden student Pearl Benjamin penned a column in The Camden Herald calling out the newspaper’s owner, local media mogul Reade Brower, for his strangely naive defense of Sen. Collins “the person.”

Things started to get weird when Brower waded into the comments section of Benjamin’s column himself to argue…