Plane In Support of Prof. Christine Ford To Fly Over Thursday

PALO ALTO, CA -- If you look up in the sky at 11 a.m. Thursday, you may catch a glimpse of a plane chartered in support of the Palo Alto professor Christine Blasey Ford, who is accusing U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh with attempted rape when they were teenagers.

The protest banner commissioned by a women's advocacy group, Ultra Violet, is expected to read: "Thank You Christine. We Have Your Back."

The plane is due to launch from the Hayward Executive Airport, which houses 45 aerial tenants (four of whom pull banners), and fly in circles for two hours over Palo Alto where Ford is from.

"We believe women, and we believe Christine Blasey Ford. Ford has demonstrated tremendous courage in coming forward and sharing her story of how Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her. She is a hero, and we have her back," co-founder Shaunna Thomas said. "Violence against women should have no place in our society, and it certainly should have no place on the highest court in the nation. Brett Kavanaugh should withdraw his nomination."

The Washington Post published an article over the weekend in which Ford was identified as the woman who wrote the confidential letter detailing an encounter she had in high school in Maryland in which an allegedly drunken Kavanaugh pinned her to a bed and tried to remove her clothes.

The letter was channeled from Ford's representative, Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, to U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who serves as a ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

UltraViolet is an online community of 1 million women and men who make it a mission to fight sexism and can be accessed through WeAreUltrViolet.org.

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