![]() ![]() Three teenage girls were the focus for most of the video where Sims offers to donate $100 to Planned Parenthood for their identities. The videos drew the criticisms that Sims had gone too far, with one video featuring Sims launching a series of questions at an elderly woman and another video offering $100 to anyone who could identify protesters filmed. Sims posted two videos online last April and May confronting anti-abortion protesters in front of the Planned Parenthood in his district. Sims has often addressed issues he advocates for through social media, and some of those posts have also drawn accusations of harassment and calls for censure. “I did make it abundantly clear to him that killing the effort to advance LGBTQ legislation in Pennsylvania with his weird campaign effort is something that I’d make sure advocates knew about. “Lol (sic) in my entire life I’ve never said these things to Tom or anyone else,” Sims’ tweet stated, according to the news organization. The Pennsylvania Capital-Star reported Tuesday that Sims had denied threatening Murt, but did criticize the bill proposed by Murt and others as political pandering. Murt said Sims never explained why he as angry, and said a now deleted tweet from Sims the following day was when he made the connection to the memo. Upper Moreland police confirmed Wednesday there was an ongoing investigation into the incident, but would not comment further on any details. Murt said Wednesday the call was enough for him to involve the Upper Moreland Police Department that night, and he gave police an official statement again on Wednesday morning. Sims’ call allegedly included several veiled threats that he would “ruin” Murt and that he would “get you for this.” Sims allegedly answered Murt’s call with “a verbal, hostile and threatening attack on me personally, using foul language, screaming at me,” Murt said Tuesday. Murt described his relationship with Sims in the state House as “gracious colleagues and friends,” and said he called Sims soon after getting the text message. Sims’ website describes him as a “distinguished policy attorney and civil rights advocate.” He is also the first openly gay House member to serve in Pennsylvania. Murt said after the memo was circulated, Sims sent him an “angry, enraged and wrathful” text message, accusing him of “treating LGBTQ+ rights as a ’joke or a football.’”
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