The Pennsylvania legislature is currently locked in a battle over the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion, with Republicans in the state lining up against the expansion.
Last night, health care activist AJ Marin, working to support the expansion, chalked the following messages outside Governor Tom Corbett’s (R-PA) mansion:
For this act of chalking on behalf of the uninsured, Pennsylvania police did this:
That’s right, they arrested him. Here’s the arrest citation, saying he made a “derogatory remark” about the Governor:
To recap, Corbett is denying 700,000 Pennsylvania citizens access to health insurance, and Pennsylvania’s police just arrested one man for protesting that fact with water-soluble chalk.
What’s derogatory about it?
The police suck. They should never have arrested him. Spineless pigs.
Where is the derogatory remark?
First – he did not make a derogatory remark about Corbett that I can see. And what if he did? Is that against the law? I sure hope not because this Republican thug needs all the derogatory remarks thrown at him that we can think of. He is not a governor for the people of Pa. Your voting rights are on the block next too – coming up quickly now that SCOTUS has stripped the Voting Rights Act. WAKE UP Pennsylvania!
Grammar counts. He said to except the expansion. Which means not do it. So where are we really on this.
The first amendment guarantees us the RIGHT to make derogatory remarks about the governor, ANY governor. So, WHY was he arrested?????