There are many acceptable ways to show dissatisfaction with elected public servants. These include:
- Writing letters critical of that person’s positions or actions.
- Peacefully protesting their behavior or actions in an appropriate setting.
- Voting them out of office.
Other acts like harassing and following or chasing an individual into a bathroom where the person is forced to close the stall door are certainly not an acceptable way to show displeasure towards a public servant.
On October 3, 2021, Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema was followed to the lady’s room at Arizona State University by activists dissatisfied with her current position on the Democratic Budget Reconciliation Plan or Build Back Better.
The Senator was at the university teaching a weekend class she has instructed for close to 20 years.
What these activists did was wrong.
There is no circumstance when it is right to follow someone into a bathroom and make them scared enough where they have to lock the stall door.
When asked about the incident, President Biden commented after a presentation on the Debt limit that:
“I don’t think they’re appropriate tactics, but it happens to everybody…“The only people it doesn’t happen to are people who have Secret Service standing around them. So it’s part of the process.”
Later at a White House Briefing, Press Secretary Jen Psaki called the episode with Senator Sinema “inappropriate and unacceptable” for both the Senator and her students whose learning environment was “breeched.”
Biden and Psaki are right.
What happened to Senator Sinema was inappropriate and unacceptable.
Would you want it to happen to you?
It should not happen again to her or any public servant.
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Well said, Mr. Gordon. Thank you.
Here’s another video of a woman who approached Sinema on an airplane and very politely tried to ask her some questions. Sinema ignores her and doesn’t respond.
https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1445169165212475397
Eoin Higgins
@EoinHiggins_
Replying to
@SenMarkKelly
Like this? When she ignores them?
From
ADAC
4:29 PM · Oct 4, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
I’m not sure what I think about this.
On the one hand, I sympathize with the activists. LUCHA knocked on 2.5 million doors for Kyrsten Sinema helping her to win the 2018 election. Now she won’t meet with them. She does not have Town Halls and no one in her three offices answers the phone these days. But she has plenty of time to meet with corporate donors.
So, how are activists and constituents to be heard? Let me rephrase that. How are Sinema’s constituents to be heard RIGHT NOW while she is obstructing the entire Democratic agenda? People are worried about the harm that Sinema could do and they have good reasons to worry.
Okay, that’s one side. On the other hand, I do understand why she would be afraid of people. The anger that people have is righteous, make no mistake, she deserves every bit of it. But out there in the world anything can happen and women are especially vulnerable. So, I would imagine that Sinema must be feeling the animosity and she fears for her safety. Understood.
There are a couple of solutions for Sinema:
1. Meet with your constituents.
2. Don’t be evil.
You’re right, it is unacceptable. But on the other hand the by the “good Senator” flippantly turning her back on and betraying those who worked very hard to get her elected, what is one to expect? At least the protestors didn’t invade her stall.