Dear Kansas Governor Sam Brownback,
You blew it, dude.
When Shawnee Mission East High School Senior Emma Sullivan tweeted a rude remark about you to her friends during a tour of the state capitol last week, one of your staffers snitched her off to her school. Good grief!
She claims her principal, Karl R. Krawitz, ordered that she write you an apology. Sullivan refused and the story went viral. Papers nationwide picked it up. Bloggers from Forbes to the Huffington Post castigated you for your harsh response.
Harsh? Come on! Kansas Republicans don't hide behind wimpy little school principals and their silly letters of apology, do they? They sure didn't when I lived there!
I say you lost a real chance to show that upstart high-schooler and all of her 6,000 sniveling Twitter friends just how a powerful Kansas Republican spells t-o-u-g-h.
You're Commander in Chief of the Kansas National Guard, aren't you? Within hours of learning of the offensive tweet, you could have had armed troops rappelling from helicopters into her yard.
You could have sent Kansas Bureau of Investigation agents to investigate the little rebel's family background and political leanings. Search their trash. Seize those damnable tweeterized cell phones.
Why, you could have had Kansas Highway Patrol Special Response Team troopers pepper spray her entire neighborhood!
Governor, let's be frank. You let an 18-year-old girl push you around! So what if she whined about "free speech?" You should be the one to determine who's allowed to speak freely. You're a REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR, for crying out loud.
Like Governor Walker in Wisconsin slammed the unions, you had a chance to hammer high-schoolers throughout Kansas into submission.
"Letter of apology?" Oh please.
No comments:
Post a Comment