Full page ad this morning in the Portland Press Herald: Senator Collins, you said I was rude

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42. This. When you serve in public office, the people you represent are

your bosses. They pay your salary and underwrite all your benefits. You are beholden to them, and as a public official, you can’t hide behind demands for privacy whenever you want it. After all, bottom line is - YOU wanted in on all this, did you not? Nobody held a gun to your head and forced you to run for office. An office that gives you a BIGTIME public platform to be taken seriously and be heard and get lots of attention and media time to get your face on TV and your blathering on the radio and your words and deeds in the print headlines. And the taxpayer-funded healthcare and perks and benefits and staff and office space and access to all the biggest bigwigs in the world.

There’s a “quid pro quo” for that. THERE’S yer “quid pro quo” at its most basic. And if somebody you work for approaches you politely (as it appears) and asks if they can talk with you for a few moments, then you comply. And if you don’t happen to like what your constituent has to say, that’s just too damn bad.

She actumissed an opportunity 1) to engage with something be holding different views, 2) explain your thinking, 3) listen to their thinking especially if it’s not from the Pox Noise “safe space”, and maybe 4) consider opening your mind a little.

I wasn’t there. I don’t know if voices were raised. But reading the account indicates that there was no rudeness presented. Just questions she didn’t like.

But if there are questions you don’t like, Susan, then WHY? What makes those questions objectionable? Or rude? Was it rude to challenge the solidity f the house of cards you built to live in?