TERRIFIED SUSAN COLLINS CALLS COPS AFTER CHALK VIGILANTES POLITELY ASK HER TO PROTECT WOMEN'S RIGHTS
Chalk. If it’s been a while since you held a piece of it or watched someone else use some in action, a quick reminder that this soft, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock is popularly used in classrooms, by small children, or outside of coffee shops to lure in customers with promises of cold brew and freshly baked goods. They come in a variety of colors and one of the reasons they are very popular is probably due to the ease with which their markings can be erased, with nothing more than water. Unlike permanent forms of ink, they are almost exclusively used in a non-threatening manner. Yet according to Senator Susan Collins, her life recently flashed before her eyes because of this substance and the manner in which it was wielded.
Maine’s Bangor Daily News reports that the Republican lawmaker called the police over the weekend after “an unknown person or persons wrote a pro-abortion-rights message in chalk on the sidewalk” outside her home. At this time, you might be wondering how literally anything written in chalk would necessitate a call to the cops. Was the message particularly threatening? Did it say something about Collins’s family and what might befall them if she didn’t do exactly what the writer or writers requested? Erm, not exactly.
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Yes, the actual message in question—written mostly in pink chalk—simply reads, “Susie, please…Mainers want WHPA —–> vote yes, clean up your mess.” WHPA refers to the Women’s Health Protection Act, which would codify the right to an abortion and which Collins has already said she won’t vote for. According to the Bangor Daily News, the police responded to Collins’s home at 9:20 p.m. Saturday; as should’ve been clear already, a spokesperson for the force noted that “The message was not overtly threatening.” The local Department of Public Works reportedly washed the message away, and it was not visible by 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 in a statement that she should have been embarrassed to release.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/05/susan-collins-abortion-chalk-police
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Asking for a friend. 
