EDITORIAL: Picketing Raimondo’s Home is Over the Line
Sunday, August 09, 2020
EDITOR'S NOTE: This editorial was first published on October 28, 2017. It is even more true today than then. No family should have their home surrounded by strangers during a pandemic.
Our Constitution affords us a number of rights. It does not mean that you don’t apply some common sense when exercising your rights.
Certainly, we are in a new era where the President of the United States has taken the First Amendment to its limits in speech and on Twitter.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTThursday night’s picket by No LNG in PVD of Governor Gina Raimondo’s home was simply inappropriate and callous. Certainly, the public and the media can often be infuriated by the lack of availability to meet and interview the Governor.
But, Raimondo is not only the elected Governor of Rhode Island, but also a mother of two school-age children. And, those two children deserve the right to feel safe in their home.
If you want an environment where only older men run for office — actions like this will ensure it. Mothers will choose to protect their children from all threats.
Actions like this will make candidates with young children think twice before running.
There are plenty of places to picket the Governor — outside her home is cheap bullying and inappropriate.
You lose the message and your credibility as messengers when you transform the protest into one which you have to know is simply “over the line.”
An apology is in order. Only Trump doesn't apologize.
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