A group of protesters with signs waved and shouted to honking motorists outside Sen. Jeff Flake's office in Phoenix on Friday as the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to recommend Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate.

While the group started the day with about 10 people — including some from Handmaids' Resistance Phoenix — it grew to about 100 people over the course of the morning.

Emily Dacey, from Phoenix, went to the protest with her mom.

"We want to let Jeff Flake know that we are aware that he says things to soothe his conscience and make it sound like he cares," Dacey said. "He, at no point, had any intention of not confirming Kavanaugh, and we know that."

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Some people dropped off signs, tables and water for the protesters.

Phoenix police arrived at the protest around 11:40 a.m. to monitor the situation. Maverick Recovery and Towing arrived moments later and towed several vehicles from the parking lot.

The handmaid group had been outside Flake's office since Thursday. One of their signs read, "Sen. Flake less talk more spine."

Phoenix resident Ben Lewis said, "If there is ever a moment to be compelled to be outside and protest, now is that moment."

"I'm really worried about how this current political climate is illustrating all of the cracks in our democracy, and how all those cracks are being completely exploited in ways that either illustrate how we haven't come anywhere," Lewis said. "You know, I'm not a woman and I don't have kids, but it still terrifies me."

One woman shouted and sang 'America the Beautiful' back at the protesters.

Donita Forbes said she is also a survivor of sexual assault but believes that Christine Blasey Ford is a liar and a paid operative for Democrats to delay the confirmation process for Judge Kavanaugh.

"She lied, she lied, she lied!" Forbes said. "Did you happen to see Shirley Jones pass her lawyer the envelope of money? She went up to him in a recess, got an envelope of money, handed it to him, he stuck it in his purse. Who paid that money?"

Forbes may have been referring to Rep. Sheila Jackson, a Democrat from Texas. Video from the hearing shows Jackson passing an envelope to Ford's lawyer, Mark Bromwich, which he puts into his jacket pocket.

Jackson's office responded to the allegations to KHOU in Houston, saying the envelope contained unopened stationary cards from protesters outside of the hearing who were not allowed to enter.

"I believe that for 17 months they have obliterated the president of the United States for no reason whatsoever. I think that this is all a sham," Forbes said. "They had three months and they pulled it out yesterday when they had no other way to stop this wonderful man from being elected as a supreme court justice."

Other members outside of Flake's office also believed that yesterday's hearing was a sham for starkly different reasons.

"I am protesting because it's a sham. What they did yesterday is offensive to me," Micaela Abramovic said about the Republicans. "They set up this fake thing in court or whatever and they knew from the beginning that they were just throwing us a bone."

Word of Flake's calls for an FBI investigation into Kavanaugh's alleged sexual assault before a full Senate vote grew between protesters since they began protesting this morning.

Even after hearing this information, many protesters stayed well past 2 p.m.

"If you ask me, they don't care. My feeling is they don't care," Abramovic said. "We want to be the spine on their hip, something there bugging. We want to be heard."

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