No she did not. Did you read the story or watch the video? She was having a conversation with someone and when asked what she would say she said she would say Brownback sucked. The story says "The tweet was spurred by a discussion she was having with a friend, talking about what they would tell Brownback if they were to meet him." It was a joke between her and her friends.
She said nothing directly to the Gov. What happened was that Brownback's people "monitor" his name on Twitter and Facebook. They complained and then she was pressured to aploogize.
Brownback had anough sense to apologize to this kid for what his staff did. And he damn well should have. His staff has no business messing with anyone just because they post something negative about the Gov. If I was living in that state my question would be why is someone being paid government money to scrape comments about the Gov. off web sites.
The kid may be totally wrong in the head politically. She may be a loon but she has the right to say whatever she wants. The government, on the other hand, does not have the right to slug mouth her for what she says.
Amen.
“Not so to Brownback’s office. His team, which monitors comments on Facebook and Twitter containing the governor’s name, reported Sullivan’s tweet to Youth in Government, the program’s organizer.”
This is disturbing.
I went by an earlier column I read. This was a headline on Salon: “Teen to Sam Brownback: You suck”
Last week, during a Kansas Youth in Government field trip, Sullivan watched Gov. Sam Brownback speak. Unmoved, she cavalierly tweeted to her roughly 65 followers, “Just made mean comments at gov. brownback and told him he sucked, in person #heblowsalot.” A teenager tweeting that her governor “sucks” and “blows” – “a lot”? Sounds like grounds for an incident of national proportions!
http://www.salon.com/2011/11/28/teen_to_sam_brownback_you_suck/
I totally agree with you — I just cannot believe the people on here who abase themselves to politicians. I know many on here love to lick jackboots but grovelling to politicians is carrying slavish obeisance too far.
These people cannot be Conservative they are too spineless.
What is Gov. Brownback doing paying people to monitor the Internet to ferret out people who think he sucks?
What a hero.