LoL
I was a newspaper reporter for 25 years. I never spoke to an elected official in such a manner as this creep Acosta — even the officials I thought were crooks. These were relatively few.
Since I did local news mainly, I had to deal with city council and county commission members who were mostly regular folks doing what, in fairness, I learned was an often thankless job.
Oddly enough, I got along just as well with the Dems in my towns as the Pubbies. Probably the nicest compliment I got from the other side was from a city councilwoman of the A-A persuasion who said “even when you write a story that’s critical of something we’re trying to do, we know that it’s never personal.”
I appreciated that, especially since the editor I was working under at the time was a self-styled conservative pundit and an absolute misery to work under, arrogant and verbally abusive.
Of course, all this was nearly 20 years ago and a lot has changed in relatively few years.