The Bangor Daily News reports:
“Susie, please, Mainers want WHPA —–> vote yes, clean up your mess,” the message read, according to a Bangor police report. WHPA refers to the Women’s Health Protection Act, which would codify the right to abortion into law and ban restrictions on abortion access.
Bangor police responded to West Broadway at 9:20 p.m. Saturday to investigate a message written in chalk on a sidewalk, Bangor police spokesperson Wade Betters said. “The message was not overtly threatening,” he said.
The sidewalk message was not visible on Monday afternoon. “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.
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Senator Collins is shocked and concerned … about sidewalk chalk vandals. Will she give a victim impact statement at their criminal trial? Imagine the testimony: “These voters forced me to confront my own disingenuousness. It was very traumatic.”https://t.co/1nQ92ZZVXN
— davidrlurie (@davidrlurie) May 10, 2022
Go find a new line of work if you can’t handle mild criticism from your constituents without calling the cops, @SenSusanCollins. What a baby! pic.twitter.com/Gt2Jquc7WF
— Indivisible Guide (@IndivisibleTeam) May 10, 2022
This is the “public defacement” of a public sidewalk that Senator Susan Collins thought was worth calling the police for.
Sidewalk chalk. In pastel colors. And she CALLED THE POLICE. pic.twitter.com/bMIGWPDJLp
— Kendall Brown (@kendallybrown) May 10, 2022