A high school senior, who faces a Monday morning deadline to apologize to Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback for a disparaging tweet, has said she will not write the apology letter…
Sullivan said her parents and many of her peers support her decision…
Bravo! And kudos to your parents for backing you up.
During a Kansas Youth in Government field trip to the state Capitol on November 21, Sullivan wrote: “Just made mean comments at gov brownback and told him he sucked, in person #heblowsalot.” The Shawnee Mission East senior said she did not actually talk to Brownback, and the post referenced a joke she had with a student on the trip.
The next day, she was called into high school principal Karl Krawitz’s office. A Brownback staffer had notified the principal, she said.
“My principal told me he needed to do damage control and was really upset,” Sullivan said. “He said I was an embarrassment to the school and the school district and that I had been disrespectful.”
The principal then asked her to write a letter of apology to Brownback and his staff. He set Monday as the due date for the letter.
Sullivan said – “I hope there won’t be any consequences and that my principal and the governor’s office can move on,” she said. “The issue is relevant and, if anything, is a starting point of dialog with the governor about his policies and how our First Amendment rights can be taken away…”
“Moving on” in Brownback’s diminutive mind usually means trying to keep evolution from being taught in high schools.
Who does this guy think he is? Hitler???
How dare this young girl insult her beloved leader!
Bravo Zulu!
Just called the Gov’s office. Suprisingly, they answered.
Imagine if every Kansas teacher demanded a teen retract a negative tweet. The Koch brothers would implode.
Why does this guy care? Is he “coaching” her?
I’m from Kansas and I approve this message!
Freedom of speech, especially political, is God given right, no doubt. The government has no right to penalize her for expressing her opinion, particularly of an elected representative.
What she (and so many others) fail to recognize that freedoms comes with responsibility. And decorum.
Thanks to Google, her name will always be known. Good luck to her when an employer researchers her when she looks for a job. She may well regret her decision *not* to apologize.
Went to her same high school 30 years ago. Seems to me she’s learned something despite the formal education. And yes I’ll be glad to hire her.
If two candidates were equally qualified for a position here, she would win because of this.
Brownback? Is that a new term for an illegal alien from Haiti or Brazil?
If he’s so thin-skinned that he can’t take a complaint about his policies, decisions or personal hygiene, he should get the fuck out of politics.
He may be the winner of a popularity contest for ugly people, but he should never forget that its a popularity contest for ugly people.
I caint say none of this makes no sense, Tom Bob, said the older lawman.
The sheriff sawed his reins, sidling his palomino away from the carnage spread across the caliche.
Well I heard tell they got a ebonics-talkin pizza salesman runnin fer president now, so I spose this makes bout as much sense as anything else.
How like a hologram our politicians are: their entire perfidy 100% viewed in their smallest acts. How many volts do you think Brownback would administer if told to do so?
No one has called out Godwin’s Law either. Comment was right on target!
Imagine the isolation?
That he said it speaks volumes, let alone that he obviously expects it to work!
Someone down there should up the ante; with a name like his, the jokes write themselves!
Brownstuff should apologize to her for, well, being a piece of brown stuff.
When the widely disliked Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder attempted to sue the Washington City Paper over “The Cranky Redskins Fan’s Guide to Dan Snyder,” he served to bring a tremendous amount of publicity to the article and more than amply validated the ill feelings many fans hold towards him.
Similarly, Governor Brownback’s office’s actions appear to confirm what the student wrote. Good for her for declining to write a letter of apology — now it’s time for both the govenor and principal to apologize to her.
He’s apologized. And that Governor is how you get schooled.
Republicans are out of control. Who does this schmuck think he is?
He thinks he is us!
OMFG!
If I were her I’d tweet that the principle sucks too and should take a class about the First Amendment.
Yeah – I’d do her.
If I were her, I would have said “I am sorry you suck, Governor.”
Actually politicians from all sorts of parties seem to be in favor of laws that make it illegal to criticize them.
One of the Adams boys got it to stick that it isn’t slander as wrong as you are telling the truth as relates to a British colonial governor.
What do you want to bet the school isn’t going to want to take her anywhere or allow her to be a speaker at any event?
I leave the rest to others.
my’ that is one thinned skinned Gov. and spineless Principal
this 18 year old adult as every right to tweet what she likes
If she were sending a letter on official school stationary that would be out of line but a tweet on her own account.
gesh she has as much right to do that as that fool in Georgia who is putting bumper stickers on his trucks saying “we not hiring until Obama is gone”.
free speech is free speech
Come on, guys. We all expect such idiocy from politicians. (I’m too lazy to read the Governor’s apology but I suspect he blamed it on an over-zealous staffer.) There’s no news there.
The true villain of this story is principal Karl Krawitz. If he had just laughed in the ear of the staffer who called him, he would have been a hero. Instead, he bent over and presented his rosy red buttocks. The school board should remove him immediately and install a leader.
Principal Karl Krawitz – you suck!
Couldn’t agree more!
“Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback”
sooooo would this demand for an apology constitute “cyber bullying” ????
I find the outrage that the school official wanted a student (under his charge) to apologize to an elected official disturbing.
Years back, then President Clinton was at a public event when someone in the crowd shouted “You suck”. The Secret Service detained the critic, in what I thought *was* an attempt at censorship as the officer only approached the woman Mr. Clinton pointed her out — there was no clear and present danger. Years later, a similar even involving Vice President Cheney played out in like fashion, an example that shows such over-the-top hubris knows no party boundaries.
These 2 presidential-level examples are far closer to censorship than an educator trying to instill appropriate manners in a student. Forget hiring Ms. Sullivan, I’d use this event as a reason to hire the Administrator.
OMFG she’s gorgeous. She can say anything she wants.
That’s my daughter!
It’s an Eitard post, so let me guess: it’s a Republican governor