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Awesome Olympia Snowe To Donate $1.2M To Get Girls Into Politics

Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe may be retiring after the current term, but the moderate conservative isn’t done looking out for the people. The outgoing politician has just taken $1.2 million out of her re-election funds to urge young women to get involved with public service.

The money will go to the Maine Community Foundation and the remaining $800,000 will go towards “outstanding campaign obligations” and, according to the Washington Post, “establish a multi-candidate committee whose goals are to diminish what Snowe sees as polarization in today’s political environment.”

I can see where this is going. We already know she chose not to continue running because of the “atmosphere of polarization and ‘my way or the highway’ ideologies [that have] become pervasive in campaigns and in our governing institutions.” Hopefully this next venture will make her much happier than the political world and Senate did.

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