Speaking of gutless cowards, GZ, this story is just over the top! The Kansas governor, Sam Brownback, pays people to monitor the Internet for teenagers who tweet negative or disparaging comments about him, and then he reports the teens to their schools! Seriously! I'm not making it up! LOL!
Governor Brownback, if you're reading this, you're an idiot and a jackass for wasting taxpayers' resources on this childish nonsense!
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kansas.com
excerpt:
A Kansas teenager is in trouble after mocking Gov. Sam Brownback during a mock legislative assembly for high school students.
Emma Sullivan, a senior at Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, was in Topeka on Monday as part of Kansas Youth in Government, a program for students interested in politics and government.
During the session, in which Brownback addressed the group, Sullivan posted on her personal Twitter page:
“Just made mean comments at gov brownback and told him he sucked, in person #heblowsalot”
On Tuesday, Sullivan was called to her principal’s office and told that the tweet had been flagged by someone on Brownback’s staff and reported to organizers of the Youth in Government program.
The principal “laid into me about how this was unacceptable and an embarrassment,” Sullivan said. “He said I had created this huge controversy and everyone was up in arms about it … and now he had to do damage control.
“I’m mainly shocked that they would even see that tweet and be concerned about me,” she said. “I just honestly feel they’re making a lot bigger deal out of it than it actually was.”
Sullivan said the principal ordered her to write letters of apology to Brownback, the school’s Youth in Government sponsor, the district’s social studies coordinator and others.
Karl Krawitz, the school principal, did not return calls or e-mails Wednesday.
Brownback spokeswoman Sherriene Jones-Sontag said her office had forwarded a copy of Sullivan’s tweet to organizers of the school-sponsored event “so that they were aware what their students were saying in regards to the governor’s appearance.
“We monitor social media so we can see what Kansans are thinking and saying about the governor and his policies,” Jones-Sontag said.
“We just felt it was appropriate for the organizers to be aware … because of what was said in the tweet.”
Sullivan, 18, said she posted the comment because she doesn’t agree with Brownback’s policies, particularly recent cuts in state aid to schools. She is a registered Democrat.
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LOL. First of all, Ms. Sullivan should retain a lawyer who will quickly put that idiot principal in his place, because he certainly cannot order a student to write a letter of apology to the governor.
Secondly, if Governor Brownback would stop worrying about petty issues like monitoring and reporting the tweets of teenagers to their schools, and instead focus on behaving properly, obeying the law, and conducting himself ethically according to the laws and requirements of his elected position, he wouldn't be embroiled in ethical controversies like this one:
en.wikipedia.org
Again, Governor Brownback, if you're reading this, you're an idiot and a jackass for wasting taxpayers' resources, and you're a hypocritical fool for your involvment in the aforementioned ethics controversy! -ng- |
