"One thing I hope the Kansas Youth in Gov't participants took away is that criticism and dissent will land you in detention."
It has been a while since Sam Brownback was in the national news criticizing the Gays, creepily C-Streeting, or pretending evolution is a false prophesy of the Big Chimp lobbying machine. Looks like he met his match.
Emma Sullivan, an 18-year old high school senior, was at an event in Topeka this past Monday for Kansas Youth in Government, which was addressed by Brownback. During the event, Sullivan posted to her Twitter account:
Just made mean comments at gov brownback and told him he sucked, in person #heblowsalot
Haha. So simple, yet so effective to get a rise out of the thin-skinned (but oh yeah, I’m a turn-the-other-cheek Catholic) governor.
Brownback’s office flagged the tweet to the event organizers, who in turn passed the complaint on to Sullivan’s school. This got her called to the principal’s office:
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.
According to TPM, Sullivan didn’t say any of these things to Brownback. “Some of my friends were joking about what they’d really like to say (to Brownback), so I just took out my phone” she told the paper. “I guess it was kind of a heat-of-the-moment thing.”
A professional politician can’t handle the scathing internet LOLZ of a high school student. Maybe it hit a little too close to home.
Follow Emma Sullivan on twitter @emmakate988.
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