Posted on 09/19/2018 6:33:20 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
GOP Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), who has been viewed as a key swing vote in the Supreme Court fight, said in a recent interview that her office has received “some pretty ugly voicemails” over Brett Kavanaugh's nomination.
“My office has received some pretty ugly voicemails, threats, terrible things said to my staff,” Collins said in an interview with WVOM on Wednesday.
“This has been a very ugly process and I think that’s very unfortunate for everyone involved,” Collins added.
Collins’s remarks arrive on the heels of reports earlier this month in which aides for the moderate senator detailed calls and voicemails Collins' office has been receiving as the battle over Kavanaugh kicked into high gear.
"We've had some very abusive callers. ... We've had some very vulgar calls and sort of harassing the staff," Steve Abbot, Collins's chief of staff, told a Maine TV station at the time.
One of the numerous voicemails obtained by the local station included a caller who brought up a 2003 email where Kavanaugh suggested nixing a paragraph out of a draft op-ed that characterized Roe v. Wade as widely accepted among legal scholars as settled law.
"Have you seen the emails ... where he talked about Roe v. Wade not being settled law. He [bleeped] lied to you. How [bleeped] naive do you have to be?" the caller in the voicemail said.
Collins’ remarks also arrive as Kavanaugh faces questions about a sexual assault allegation dating back years ago from a woman named Christine Blasey Ford.
In the interview on Wednesday, Collins urged Ford to speak with the Senate about her newly-disclosed allegations against Kavanaugh, saying that “it would be better for her.”
Other GOP lawmakers have also been pushing for Ford to appear at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing set for Monday to review her allegations.
However, Ford's lawyers have said their client will not testify during the hearing until the FBI investigates her allegations of sexual assault against Kavanaugh.
Either you do as they say or they hate you.
And even if you side with them today, tomorrow they will hate you again.
Dear Susan Collins..maybe you will understand it now plain as day..Democrats are NOT your friends, they dont care about you or your family..if you dont go along with their agenda they want you dead..do you understand now..so stop trying to be their buddy and just CONFIRM KAVANAUGH
Really? She said the same thing before she voted for obamacare. We all know this backstabbing RINO is MCCain in drag.
If these are any of the people posting on line, she has my sympathy.
These are some very twisted vile people.
The threats from Republicans?
Awww Jeeze! You gonna flip! Edith?
Laying down with dogs leaves nobody surprised when you suffer with fleas.
That woman “stands in the middle”. If ya stand in the middle, you wind up getting ran over. She’s getting what she asked for, but I hope it wakes her up...neva happen...
It’s honestly why so many republicans are retiring. Would you want to listen to Fartacus and The Ugandan Giant hurl insults all day and then go and see some “activist” slashed your tires and all the Capitol police will do is catch and release for a $50 fine? One that Soros will probably pay?
“Either you do as they say or they hate you.“
They hate us anyway. They want us enslaved or dead. They’re saying it right to our racist, uneducated, sexist, bigoted, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, smelly, deplorable, dregs of society, WalMart shopping faces.
“Shut up!” Said the United States Senator.
They’ll kill us if they think they can get away with it.
Plan accordingly.
L
Why is this woman a Republican ?
1. How many were leftists?
2. How many were unhinged leftists pretending to be unhinged Republicans?
3. How many of those left were republicans?
who is it that makes all these “threats?” Seriously, I know a number of very opinionated people but I guarantee they would not send threats. Or are they figments of imagination of those who want to play the role of “victim?” I have always wondered.
Sounds like the caller is a plant trying to make Kavanaugh the end of liberalism.
Proglibs.
It’s what they do.
It IS who they are.
Foul, nasty, abusive, self-centered with only a relative moral compass and seemingly unable to think past one or two moves.
In checkers...
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I’m George Soros and I approve of those calls.
If Roe vs Wade is overturned, it essence it puts back into the power of the STATES, to write their own abortion laws, it doesn’t mean that it is strictly forbidden in 50 states, but it means States can regulate abortion like they do hair salons, hunting ducks and driving license ages.
Seems like most of the calls/emails are from leftists.
These people aren’t your friends, Collins!
The ugliness is a direct consequence of Ted Kennedy’s assault on Clarence Thomas. Every outrageous act increases the opposing outrageous act. There in no turning back as long as Senators are popularly elected. As long as Senators answer to voters, they will pander to voters.
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