Posted on 10/04/2018 9:25:45 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
More than two dozen Maine women, many of them survivors of sexual assault, are in Washington D.C. Thursday to try to meet personally with Sen. Susan Collins before a confirmation vote on Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
Becky DeKeuster of Sidney is among those who chartered a bus from Portland Wednesday night in order to attend a noon rally outside the Supreme Court, and to lobby Collins and other senators who have not yet announced their positions on Kavanaugh.
Speaking from the bus, DeKeuster says there's more than one reason Collins should vote “No.”
"I want her to know, number one, that this man has — well his nomination — has ripped scabs off, it has brought up some really deeply buried, very painful — some of the worst moments in people's' lives,” says DeKeuster. “His temperament? Can you imagine a Ruth Bader Ginsburg at a hearing like that, behaving the way he did? He does not have a Supreme Court justice's temperament."
A spokesperson for Senator Collins says that she is meeting with various groups Thursday, and that the office is attempting to schedule staff meetings with others who show up.
Annie Clark, the Senator’s communications director, says that her boss has already spoken to hundreds of Mainers about the Kavanaugh nomination. Clark also says that Collins and other Republicans were being briefed this morning about the findings of the FBI's supplemental investigation.
did they apply for a protest permit, don’t allow them in, and arrest all who force their way
There are plenty of liberal loons up this way. There are enough to fill more than 2 buses.
LOL, too many options for a joke here.
it is time now for congress to keep out the public, times have changed, too dangerous sadly
so you are a ct dweller?
my third cousin, much older than me owned a restaurant called the Nutmegger House in CT. Back in the day.
Free transportation too... still, I’d like to know the hourly. Democrats use to rent their thugs off Craigslist - but we caught them and spread the ads. Just wondering... maybe they’ve gone back to union members.
Schedules? Routes? Descriptions?
Who is paying for the buses?
Yeah, prolly back to union members.
Bus loads of people travel, room, board costs a pretty penny. someone is paying for it. Who?
Oh, c’mon, who do you think?
Instead of a bus trip let’s give them helicopter rides!
<>Well they do get a free boxed lunch and a free T-shirt.<>
They should at least hold out for an NPR tote bag.
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