Dear Kansas Governor Samuel Dale "Sam" Brownback:

[eyer]

YOU SUCK!

Just wanted to make sure your staff gets the message as their bots scan the digital universe searching for mentions of

YOUR LAME, STATIST AZZ!

Disparaging tweet about Gov. Sam Brownback lands Kansas teen in principal’s office

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.

“Some of my friends were joking about what they’d really like to say (to Brownback), so I just took out my phone” and tweeted, she said. “I guess it was kind of a heat-of-the-moment thing.”

She didn’t think much about it, Sullivan said, because her Twitter page – @emmakate988 – had only about 60 followers and was “pretty anonymous.”

Brownback’s office discovered the tweet via a Web search for his name, officials said.

Niomi Burget, Brownback’s scheduling secretary, e-mailed a screen shot of the tweet to the Youth in Government sponsor at Shawnee Mission East, writing: “I don’t know if this was someone with your group, but thought if it was, you might want it brought to your attention.”

The Shawnee Mission school district was not in session Wednesday. Leigh Anne Neal, spokeswoman for the district, said that district officials were not aware of the incident, but would look into it after the Thanksgiving break.

“In general,” she wrote, “students on school-sponsored field trips, in which they are representing the school, would be expected to conduct themselves in accordance with school district policies, including use of electronic devices. Students may express their personal beliefs, views, and opinions, as long as they do so appropriately and in accordance with school policies.”

Sullivan’s older sister, Olivia, a sophomore majoring in political science at Wichita State University, said she thinks the controversy amounts to Brownback “censoring the opinion of a student.”

“This is something she said on her personal Twitter account,” Olivia Sullivan said.

“It’s unacceptable, first of all, to censor her and punish her for what she said. But for the governor and his staff to waste their time getting a high school student in trouble? That’s ridiculous.”

As of Wednesday, the offending tweet remained on Emma Sullivan’s Twitter page despite a suggestion by her principal that she remove it. It’s still there alongside tweets from a recent “Twilight” movie marathon and her thoughts on Justin Bieber’s holiday CD (“Just found out justin bieber raps in his christmas album... #mixedfeelings”).

She said she plans to write the apology letters over Thanksgiving break and then put the episode behind her. She is awaiting word from the University of Arkansas, where she applied for college next year and hopes to double-major in psychology and sociology.

“I don’t regret what I said,” she said. “I guess I’m just kind of shocked right now.”

http://www.kansas.com/2011/11/24/2114760/disparaging-tweet-about-gov-sam.html

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Sam's a great guy.

I know him.



Shawnee Mission is the heartland of the KANSAS Democrat upper-crust.

Redneck Translation: The White People who fled KCMO over bussing and the rise of the black political class...

You need to know who was tweeting and why.

 

[eyer]

Sam's a great guy.

I know him.



Shawnee Mission is the heartland of the KANSAS Democrat upper-crust.

Redneck Translation: The White People who fled KCMO over bussing and the rise of the black political class...

You need to know who was tweeting and why.

If Sam was such a great guy, the governor would issue an apology to the young lady for his staff intervening in her constitutional right to free speech.

I don't care what her or his politics are...

...if the governor can't handle a high school girl tweeting her mind without getting her sent to the principal's office, any strength he does show in office is nothing but a facade.

If no apology is forthcoming...

...Sam is a pussi.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

If Sam was such a great guy, the governor would issue an apology to the young lady for his staff intervening in her constitutional right to free speech.

I don't care what her or his politics are...

...if the governor can't handle a high school girl tweeting her mind without getting her sent to the principal's office, any strength he does show in office is nothing but a facade.

If no apology is forthcoming...

...Sam is a pussi.

I agree. Plus the student is an adult and votes.

 

[busybody..]

First they say

You suck

then they kill PUPPIES

then kill hundreds or more


Good for preventive action by teh Gov

 

[eyer]

I agree. Plus the student is an adult and votes.

But Sam & Co. still politically consider her a child who needs their statist correction...

...while her age group is relied upon to be willing to die in protection of the national interests of these United States.

These politicians are so confined within their own press releases, that they choose to graze in that litter box of their own, and their handler's, making...

...instead of actually living in, and dealing with, American constitutional reality.

They should all be scooped-out like the turds they are...

...the governor - unless he apologizes - is an enemy of individual liberty.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

If Sam was such a great guy, the governor would issue an apology to the young lady for his staff intervening in her constitutional right to free speech.

I don't care what her or his politics are...

...if the governor can't handle a high school girl tweeting her mind without getting her sent to the principal's office, any strength he does show in office is nothing but a facade.

If no apology is forthcoming...

...Sam is a pussi.

Sorry. In Kansas we are raised with manners. Students are expected to behave everywhere except Johnson County...

No apology is required. She can move back to Missourah and deal with the authentic community. Blue Springs is just an I-435 loop away.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I agree. Plus the student is an adult and votes.

Against him...




She's so going to love the political environment in ArKANSAS!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

But Sam & Co. still politically consider her a child who needs their statist correction...

...while her age group is relied upon to be willing to die in protection of the national interests of these United States.

These politicians are so confined within their own press releases, that they choose to graze in that litter box of their own, and their handler's, making...

...instead of actually living in, and dealing with, American constitutional reality.

They should all be scooped-out like the turds they are...

...the governor - unless he apologizes - is an enemy of individual liberty.

They are no longer being drafted and I doubt seriously if she disrespects a staunch conservative (probably over abortion) in such a way that she's going to volunteer to put her life on the line in any way, shape or form...

After all, she's 'special.' She's a Liberal abortion survivor!

 

[ReadyMike]

What's the point of being governor if you can't bully some of the high school kids and all of the women in the state?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

What's the point of being governor if you can't bully some of the high school kids and all of the women in the state?

What's the point of being a kid if you cannot learn that free speech carries consequences along with it?

No wonder they want us to pay for their tuition now.

They're SPECIAL!





PRECIOUS!!!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

There's no privacy on the internet and you need to learn that!




Otherwise, her sisters might find themselves up on kiddie porn charges for emulating the "stars..."

 

[JohnnySavage]

It's always good for a few yucks, watching Eyer wax poetic about the Constitution. I suspect a public school education is at work.

 

[eyer]

Moderates with the fence post still firmly planted up their azz...

...wow - what a surprise.

 

[badbabysitter]

oh this is just lovely... it's nice to see AJ supporting Sam Brownshirt


freedom of speech.. right.... just don't say anything bad or they'll come and get you

 

[Peregrinator]

Azz! Pussi!

 

[zipman]

YOU SUCK!

Just wanted to make sure your staff gets the message as their bots scan the digital universe searching for mentions of

YOUR LAME, STATIST AZZ!

Dear Eyer,

Our bots flagged your post since for attention since you used Brownback's name. Then the flag was removed for stupidity since you also included the word statist.

Sincerely,
The Brownback internet team

 

[eyer]

Dear Eyer,

Our bots flagged your post since for attention since you used Brownback's name. Then the flag was removed for stupidity since you also included the word statist.

Sincerely,
The Brownback internet team

Statism is, at its root, all about control...

...and control is the central purpose concerning the governor's staff's actions.

So:

After you translate "flagged your post since for attention since" via your own "stupidity"...

...get back to yanking on your own tight leash, little doggie.

 

[zipman]

Statism is, at its root, all about control...

...and control is the central purpose concerning the governor's staff's actions.

So:

After you translate "flagged your post since for attention since" via your own "stupidity"...

...get back to yanking on your own tight leash, little doggie.

I can tell that you're upset that Brownback's staff cares more about a teenagers' post more than yours.

Then again, can you blame them?

 

[eyer]

...get back to yanking on your own tight leash, little doggie.

I can tell that you're upset that Brownback's staff cares more about a teenagers' post more than yours.

Then again, can you blame them?

I meant figuratively...

...not literally.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

oh this is just lovely... it's nice to see AJ supporting Sam Brownshirt


freedom of speech.. right.... just don't say anything bad or they'll come and get you

Freedom of speech is not the freedom to say anything you want with impunity.

I am supporting the Constitution. If you say something publicly demeaning about someone, then they have the right to ask the rest of society to censure you, maybe even sue you civilly.

Apparently, the school officials thought it made THEM look bad, so they acted, otherwise they would have filed it in the trash...

I think it is important to get the message out to young people that the internet is not a safe place to "bare" yourself free of reprisal. It is public, it is not private, and there are consequences to most everything you do especially when it affects other people.

And eyer, if you ever listen to a radio talk show and hear the Republicans bemoaning, why don't we ever fight back? why do we always turn our backs on those attacked? why can't we fight like Democrats and protect our own when spurious charges are leveled at perfectly good, honest people, well, you're part of the reason why...

They say, FREEDOM OF SPEECH, and you turn into a moderate RINO...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Eyer, read this:

The left is preparing the 2012 battlefield for Obama. That's why the Media Machine trashed the Republican candidates they fear most: against Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt, and soon, against Mitt Romney. Just like 2008, the New York Times and the Crony Corporate Media are destroying the most attractive conservatives first, because they fear another Ronald Reagan more than anything in life. Reagan brought down the Soviet Empire and they still hate him for that, just like the BBC still loves to hate Maggie Thatcher.

This year, conservatives are again being picked off one by one, and most people are blind to it. (Well, maybe Herman Cain does have a woman problem. Not even a fraction of one percent of Bill Clinton's...)

Obama is playing Chicago Dirtball and we are playing Marquess of Queensbury.

...

What about the Wall Street Rucksters? They will be the mind-eraser for the election. Any time Obama drops the ball, the Rucksters can kick up a fuss, and the media will kill the Obama story.

Suppose some foreign policy disaster happens -- the mullahs explode their first nuke. Obama is vulnerable because he hasn't done one single solitary thing to stop them. On the contrary, he's given them special consideration because they are leftist victims, you see.

As soon as Iran explodes a nuke -- Shazzam! Presto! Change-o! -- there will be a big distraction in the media. It could be Hillary's announcement that she's on the ticket -- but you really want a distraction you can fire off any time you feel like it.

The Rucksters are it. They will stage a convenient riot, burn a store in Oakland, or put on a noisy flash mob against McDonald's.

The left has so many phony grievances right now -- Michelle Obama just hates the fact that the poor eat too much food she disapproves of -- that they can just throw a dart at the grievance list and use that to swing the headlines. People are suckers. Liberals are even bigger suckers. Liberals who want government help are practically lost souls.

Conservatives are handicapped by their own decency. That is an Alinsky rule, right in the handbook. They take advantage of our decency, and we don't want to give up our values because we would become like them.

The only way to fight them is with free speech -- what remains of it -- to expose the militant left over and over again.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/the_wall_street_occupiers_as_mind_erasers.html

 

[busybody..]

oh this is just lovely... it's nice to see AJ supporting Sam Brownshirt


freedom of speech.. right.... just don't say anything bad or they'll come and get you

there is nothing so absurd as absurd "people" talking about FREE SPEECH when the issue isnt teh issue

 

[KingOrfeo]

YOUR LAME, STATIST AZZ!

"Statist"? Please bear in mind that you will be living under a state of some kind for the rest of your life. This is not necessarily true in every country, and you wouldn't want to live in one where it isn't.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Don't conflate statist with nation...