Outraged Democrats are attacking Susan Collins from every direction!

by The Right Scoop

Democrats are outraged over Susan Collins’ vote to put Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court – and they can be quite petty about it.

Now over 1,800 alumni from St. Lawrence University, where Susan Collins attended in the 70s, are trying to get the school to take back an honorary degree they gave Collins in 2017:

CBS NEWS – Alumni and faculty at the alma mater of Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, are calling on university officials to rescind an honorary degree awarded to her as punishment for voting to confirm Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh earlier this month.

More than 1,800 alumni and dozens of faculty at St. Lawrence University are sending letters to university officials on Tuesday demanding they take back an honorary degree the senator received in 2017. Collins graduated from the tiny liberal arts college in northern New York in 1975, and she has received two honorary degrees from the school, mostly recently an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters.

A letter co-signed by more than 1,300 alums states that they believe Collins’s support for Kavanaugh “is not in line with the core values” of the university. While Collins was awarded her honorary degree in 2017 in recognition of the fact that she was not supporting GOP attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, her support for Kavanaugh shows a “lack the integrity and commitment to justice that we expect from the St. Lawrence body,” the alumni’s letter says. They call on the university to revoke the degree “in support of truth and for all of the victims of sexual assault and violence, of which many of her fellow alumni and students have suffered.”

A separate message co-signed by dozens of faculty members says that revoking Collins’s honorary degree has nothing to do with partisan politics, but would help “dismantle rape culture” – what they define as “attitudes and behavior that normalize and condone sexual assault.”

Unfortunately for the alumni and faculty members, the university has already put the kibosh on their requests saying it has no intention of rescinding Collins honorary degree:

In a statement, university spokesman Ryan P. Deuel said that the school doesn’t take political positions and that honorary degrees are awarded based on recognition for achievements in the arts, academia, business, contributions to society or for having close ties to campus.

“Throughout its long history, St. Lawrence University has never rescinded any earned or honorary degree, and it has no intention of doing so in this situation,” Deuel said.

Good for the university for not cowering to liberal outrage.

RICIN

In related news, someone sent a ‘ricin’ letter to Collins yesterday. Police are investigating the letter to see if it actually contained the deadly poison:

Collin’s husband says he’s never seen it this bad before:


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