Big Government: Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) and her staffers are facing taunts and threats over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, including a rape threat, reports the New York Times.
Buried under no fewer than ten paragraphs and the anodyne headline, “Interest Groups Turn Up Pressure on Senators Before Kavanaugh Vote,” the far-left New York Times finally gets to the meat of the story with the news that Collins and her staffers are facing “threats” and “vulgar language” from the left-wing Resistance, all of this in the hope of intimidating Collins to vote against Kavanaugh’s confirmation.
“The [left’s] frustration has boiled over at points,” the Times understates. “Annie Clark, a spokeswoman for Ms. Collins, provided The New York Times with copies of a letter and multiple voice mail messages addressed to the senator using vulgar language and outright threats.”
One example of a threat is a “caller [who] told a 25-year-old female staff member at one of Ms. Collins’s Maine offices that he hoped she would be raped and impregnated.”
Collins has also had some 3,000 coat hangers mailed to her office (a reference to the back alley abortion).
Protesters have shown up at Collins’ private home in Bangor.
“A group of men and women, some garbed in red robes and white bonnets — an allusion to The Handmaid’s Tale, the Margaret Atwood book and television series — demonstrated outside the senator’s home in Bangor over the weekend,” the Times reports.
According to Collins, she is also facing a form of blackmail from a left-wing activist who raised $1 million in a crowd funding campaign. If Collins votes to confirm Kavanaugh, the activist is threatening to release the money to whoever challenges Collins in 2020.
“This quid pro quo fund-raising campaign appears to be the equivalent of an attempt to bribe me,” Collins said in an emailed statement to the Times. “Attempts at bribery or extortion will not influence my vote at all.” more here
“Attempts at bribery or extortion will not influence my vote at all.”
Only actual bribes will influence a Senators’ vote.
More admission of the Left’s IMPOTENCE.
Keep it “coming”, kids!
I thought this was the year of the woman….you can’t talk to them that way and threaten them that way. Oh the hypocrisy is sickening.
Not too mention the Left despise interest groups that lobby congress, yet they feel it is acceptable to blantantly bribe.
Susan Collins….rape…That triggered the old gag reflex.
Final Jeopardy Question: Terrorist Phone Calls
Alex Trebek: “One example of a threat is a “caller [who] told a 25-year-old female staff member at one of Ms. Collins’s Maine offices that he hoped she would be raped and impregnated.”
Contestant #1 Who is ISIS?
Contestant #2 Who is MS-13?
Contestant #3 Who is Eileen Barzee?
Alex: Sorry, we were looking for Who are Liberal Democrats? although we would have accepted unhinged Leftist, 3rd wave feminists, or Kamala Harris as acceptable as well.