Posted on 10/09/2018 8:53:54 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Activists upset with Sen. Susan Collins’s vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh say they will inflict economic damage on the Republican senator's home state by boycotting Maine products and tourism.
“Dear Susan Collins – I really struggled with this but my tourist $ just voted against ever visiting Maine while you remain in office,” actor and comedian John Fugelsang said Friday in a tweet that has since been deleted, according to the Portland Press Herald.
The tweet garnered hundreds of comments saying they would join Fugelsang in the boycott, with one person canceling a $2,200 reservation at Point Sebago resort, the Press Herald reported.
John Tesar, who owns six restaurants in Texas and is opening a seafood restaurant in California, told the newspaper that he’ll look elsewhere for the “hundreds of thousands of dollars” worth of seafood that he buys annually from Maine.
“I am so disappointed and angry at her,” he said. “My intent is not to hurt the fishermen, it’s to have them vote her out of office. The only way to make a difference in this day and age is economically, and on November 6th.”
One Maine lobster dealer told the newspaper that he has lost a few customers since the boycott call was initiated last week after Collins announced in a Senate floor speech that she would be voting to confirm Kavanaugh the next day.
The senator's office did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Hill.
Collins, who's considered a swing vote in the Senate, was lobbied by supporters and opponents of Kavanaugh leading up to her announcement. She has personally faced off with anti-Kavanaugh protesters on Capitol Hill, and many have demonstrated outside her offices in Maine.
Kavanaugh’s confirmation process was upended after three women went public with allegations of sexual misconduct by Kavanaugh from when he was in high school and college. He issued a fiery denial at a hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in which he called the accusations “smears” that were part of Democrats’ “revenge on behalf of the Clintons.”
The FBI subsequently opened an investigation into the allegations and sent a report back to the Senate, which Republicans said offered no corroborating evidence. Democrats said the probe was too narrow in scope.
The Senate voted Saturday to confirm Kavanaugh in a 50-48 vote that was mostly along party lines.
They boycott our guys, we boycott their guys, it’s the Circle of Life. Eventually, everything comes out in the wash.
Let’s post our favorite Maine sites to buy from. Mine is http://www.stoningtonseafood.com/
We try to get up there for a week or two every 3 or 4 years. Based in Phoenix and generally driving on such trips, its a long haul but worth it. It would be easy to spend four weeks there.
Some huge conglomerate actually bought it.
Trump won 1 of 4 electoral votes in Maine. Maybe he wins 3 of 4 in 2020.
Landlocked Phoenix to the wide-open vistas of Maine.
Maine was perfect, until boston people started going there, and bammy let m*zzies in. It’s no longer the way life should be, but still better than a lot of places.
With winter coming on,I don’t suppose the drop in tourism will be noticed...
Not giving up my lobstah
Does that mean no more beaver tail musk aftershave???
They get a lot of skiers and snowboarders at Sunday River and Sugarloaf from late November through April.
Keep going DemocRATS. Drive all the Moderates and Independents away.
LOLARMAOOTF!
Too many wackos in Portland that would never vote for Trump. Trumps votes come from the salt of the earth types in Maine. Folks that fish or work in the woods.
This “threat” is meaningless———will all die down as it usually does.
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