Cape Cod commissioner apologizes for 'happy' Facebook post on Antonin Scalia’s death

Boston Herald ^ | 2/15/16 | Antonion Planas

[raccoonradio]

A Democratic state Senate candidate and Barnstable County commissioner who posted on social media that she felt “happy” about Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death has apologized, while the Bay State Republican Party blasted her words as “disgraceful.”

Sheila Lyons, running for a Cape and Islands Senate seat, acknowledged yesterday that as news of Scalia’s death broke Saturday night, she wrote on Facebook: “I know it’s disrespectful to feel happy but Justice Scalia orchestrated tremendous power to benefit the powerful who have controlled the message to the American people.”

Lyons said yesterday, “When you’re going to make a public statement, one must think.

“It was a reminder for me, and it should be for everyone and it’s a reminder that I will now keep,” Lyons said. “Happy was not a good choice of words. Happy implies a state of well-being and euphoria. That’s not what I felt when I read that Justice Scalia died.”

She has since deleted the post and written an apology, which said in part, “It’s always unfortunate when someone dies suddenly ... I am sorry to hear of his passing.” Lyons also called Scalia an “accomplished and brilliant scholar,” but added, “I disagreed with his opinions, his ideology. I’m not saying he’s a bad man. I’m just relieved he’s no longer serving on the bench.”

MassGOP spokesman Terry MacCormack said in a statement, “Commissioner Lyons’ comments that degraded the life and work of a longtime public servant within moments of his death were truly disgraceful. The people of Cape Cod deserve public officials with an even temperament and respect for civil discourse, which Commissioner Lyons clearly seems to lack given this unfortunate episode.”

When asked if her post contributed to the much-decried political incivility in American politics, Lyons said she’s hoping her apology can show she’s civil.

“I’m not afraid to say, ‘Yes, I was wrong,’ ” she said. “I don’t think that’s weak. Hopefully, it will be an example that I’m not going to dig my heels in.”

[jjotto]

...two or three glasses of wine...

[lacrew]

“When you’re going to make a public statement, one must think.”

In other words, don’t reveal your true self. Most libs have a certain blood lust, when it comes to political opponents. I remember a classmate cheering when Reagan was shot.

[Madame Dufarge]

"As part of their respective FAILED LEADERSHIP STYLES and DYSFUNCTIONAL PERSONALITIES, both County Commissioner Sheila Lyons and Falmouth Assembly Delegate Julia Taylor are vehemently intolerant of other persons who hold political views and/or positions on issues different from their own. If someone does not agree with the stance on an issue, then their ready-made excuse at all times is that other person "just does not get it" or they condescendingly say that other person is inept, incompetent or paranoid. The fact of the matter is that they themselves are the persons who have been dysfunctional during the respective tenures as county officials and have made the regional government some dysfunctional in their own failed images.

Two dysfunctional & failed county leaders

[IrishBrigade]

Scalia was the most hated man by the commie lib left in this country.

My high schoolmates (class of ‘67) who are on Facebook are, almost to the last of them, hardcore Leftists who pass their groupthink amongst themselves, on occasion being shocked when someone punctures their PC bubble (as when I questioned the sacrament that teachers are underpaid)...I think some of them are now wary of posting to me.

they are busy dancing on Scalia’s grave, some expressing concern about it’s propriety, but others assuring them that it’s perfectly ok and a’big step in the right direction’...ghoulish, really, but many of them form my earliest childhood memories, and so I tend to bite my tongue...

[martinidon]

She just got caught; you know they were dancing in the White House Sunday morning and the dems and liberals all over the country were joining them!

[raccoonradio]

Er, ah, she was emulating the er, the swimmah Ted Kennedy

[Logical me]

There is nothing as vial as filthy communists Democrats pigs.

[dfwgator]

Go to Hell. Sheila, apology not accepted.

[Impala64ssa]

Well looky here, it seems Little Sheila has been a naughty girl. Back in 2012 she got busted for DUI in Eastham, MA That's OK, she'll still be invited to those Kennedy family clambakes on Mahthah's Vineyahd.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Lefties on the internet are the most inhuman creatures on the planet whenever some Conservative assumes room temperature.

[cloudmountain]

WHAT a genuINE, blue-ribbon ahole she is.

[jospehm20]

I find myself often thinking that perhaps the Texans of 1861 were correct in not wanting to be part of the same country as places like Massachusetts.

[CyberAnt]

I can’t figure out why people don’t see that the DemocRATS ALWAYS, ALWAYS politicize EVERYTHING.

If this had been a DemocRAT member of the Court who passed away, she would not have been happy; except that it would afford the DemocRATS an opportunity to replace that person with a younger liberal member.

[dfwgator]

Because Politics are the Democrats’ God.

[altura]

Disgusting.

Also Fox showed some liberal tweets some of which threatened Justice Thomas. Cute stuff like ‘you’re next.’

They are horrible.

[Madame Dufarge]

Yeah, that's the ticket.

It was vile little commies like this one and her beloved Cape Cod Commission that drove us off Cape Cod.

How I despise them.

[CyberAnt]

Yes, you are correct.

[NormsRevenge]

This is what passes for humanity?

Good God, rot in hell, you filthy bitch.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Leftists really are asking for it.

[DPMD]

The cultists of what now passes for “liberalism” are showing their true core. Their shibboleth would seem to be “disagree with us and we want you dead.” They’re shaping up to be a dressy version of IS, and it’s increasingly difficult to see the difference between the two gangs of religious nutbags.