Susan Collins called the cops over sidewalk chalk message urging support of women’s rights
Five-term U.S. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), once considered a “moderate” who worked hard to cross the aisle, has all but obliterated her reputation in the past few years. The Maine Republican has grown into a staunch right-wing lawmaker who voted with then-President Donald Trump 65 percent of the time – despite Trump losing* her state in 2016.
Collins recently came under fire for voting to confirm Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito (who is the author of the leaked opinion overturning Roe v. Wade,) and Chief Justice John Roberts. Last week she was accused of feigning surprise that all Gorsuch and Kavanaugh will likely vote to remove, for the first time in the nation’s history, a constitutional right.
Now Collins is once again the target of criticism after she called the cops because someone sent her a message urging her to vote in favor of a bill to protect women’s rights to abortion, the Women’s Health Protection Act, by writing it in chalk on the sidewalk in front of her Bangor, Maine house.
“Susie, please, Mainers want WHPA —–> vote yes, clean up your mess,” a Bangor police dept. report says the message read, according to the Bangor Daily News.
“The message was not overtly threatening,” Bangor police said.
By Monday afternoon the chalk message was “not visible.”
“We are grateful to the Bangor police officers and the City public works employee who responded to the defacement of public property in front of our home,” Collins said.
Collins, who repeatedly insists she supports a woman’s right to choose, has done almost everything in her power to ensure that right is removed. Apparently the only thing she has not done is vote to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Barrett was confirmed without Collins’ vote.
In fact, Collins has made clear she wll not vote for the Democrats’ bill to protect the right to abortion, once again displaying her abject refusal to support her own stated beliefs.
Why?
Attorney Luppe B. Luppen adds: “The use of chalk to write messages (political and otherwise) on public sidewalks is generally a legal activity protected by the first amendment. Chalk can be washed away easily with water and a brush, or by rainfall.”
On social media Collins is once again being mocked and berated over her outrage to sidewalk chalk.
So Susan Collins filed a police report over a chalk message that includes the word please.https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1523885079524782081\u00a0\u2026— Cassandra Curates Calamity (@Cassandra Curates Calamity) 1652177741
Susan Collins calling the cops on sidewalk chalk that urged her to do something to protect American women\u2019s rights is a pretty good summation of where DC elected officials\u2019 heads are at.https://bangordailynews.com/2022/05/09/news/bangor/pro-abortion-chalk-message-appears-on-susan-collins-bangor-sidewalk/\u00a0\u2026— southpaw (@southpaw) 1652157033
Susan Collins will put more effort into protecting herself from sidewalk chalk artists than she will protecting everyone else's right to an abortion.https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1523877267264487426\u00a0\u2026— Melissa Ryan (@Melissa Ryan) 1652157100
Susan Collins finally found something that outrages her: chalk.https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1523877267264487426\u00a0\u2026— UnwantedHugsHat (@UnwantedHugsHat) 1652192991
The insurrectionist who planted pipe bombs at the DNC and RNC is still at large.https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1523877267264487426\u00a0\u2026— Brian Beutler (@Brian Beutler) 1652189158
Susan Collins literally CALLED THE COPS because of sidewalk chalk urging her to do something to protect women\n\nI. Kid. You. Not.\n\nFreaking sidewalk chalk\n\nRepublicans will go batshit over colorful chalk but won\u2019t bat an eyelash over the millions of women they\u2019ve screwed— Lindy Li (@Lindy Li) 1652157674
but brett kavanaugh's neighbors hate him and someone used sidewalk chalk within a mile of susan collins.https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1522207807432503298\u00a0\u2026— Florida Chris (@Florida Chris) 1652187559
I\u2019m so glad Susan Collins called the police about this threatening harassment. Thoughts are with her family today.pic.twitter.com/Bm1WT7oPc2— Sawyer Hackett (@Sawyer Hackett) 1652186954
Susan Collins wants to ban abortion and sidewalk chalk.— Mayo \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\udf3b (@Mayo \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\udf3b) 1652188003
This is the sidewalk chalk Susan Collins called the Bangor PD over, it says "Susie, please, Mainers want WHPA \u2192 vote yes, clean up your mess"\n\nShe called the goddamn cops. Over chalk. She's going to be responsible for murdering women, but this? Too much.\nhttps://bangordailynews.com/2022/05/09/news/bangor/pro-abortion-chalk-message-appears-on-susan-collins-bangor-sidewalk/\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/aYYbQN7RdB— Matthew Cortland (@Matthew Cortland) 1652159432
I'll confess that my 7 year old daughters also do a lot of chalk writing all over the neighborhood and, as per Susan Collins, should be arrested.https://twitter.com/DailyTrix/status/1523891396670853121\u00a0\u2026— Jeet Heer (@Jeet Heer) 1652159109
*Hillary Clinton won three of Maine’s four Electoral College votes in the 2016 presidential election. Donald Trump took the remaining one vote.
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