This actually started about a week ago, when Willamette Week, a left leaning print and online Oregon publication, gave Sal Esquivel (R), who represents the 6th district in Oregon's state legislature, their "Rogue of the Week" award. I noted those events in a diary ('scuze, POST) here, "In it for a Buck..."
I also tweeted a bit and posted something on my facebook wall, and that activity caught the eye of a former student of mine who graduated from high school a little over a year ago. He took it on himself to post something on Representative Esquivel's facebook wall... and that triggered a back and forth I found very amusing, detailed in a post last night, "GOP Rep treats 19 yr old constituent like crap..."
dKos comments were minimal (traffic was focused on other things of greater import), but the saga continues. Several updates were made to the second diary as the facebook wall exchange continued, and the one that caught my eye was a contribution from a new participant.
The new voice is named Evan. He says it better than I, so I will let his comment on Esquivel's wall say it all... how long it will remain, I have no idea...
Esquivel,
I'm not going to demean you based on your age, employment, nor political affiliation. I do not base your arguments on external character attributes, nor do I use such attributes as arguments themselves. I base my assessment of a persons intellect based on the responses they produce, which is a factual and logical assessment.
I understand that you do not work for Democracy Connection, and I understand that you likely do not care about the methods by which they provide service. If a person is willing to buy a service, then the service that is being provided has value, even if the same service is offered elsewhere for free. I really have no issue with the website, nor do I have issue with you supporting it.
I do have an issue with two things. First, I have an issue with is your treatment of Dylan. The only person I saw acting pious and demeaning was you. If you want to debate with a constituent, that's fine. But when you start highlighting a persons employment, age and political party as a debating tool, it makes you look like a moron. Debate arguments, Representative, not character traits. This is generally is not my business, so I'm not going to comment on it further.
Second, there is a fundamental flaw with your last comment: "who and what I support is my business, not yours." Indeed, all of what you openly politically support is a matter of public record. On the other hand, what Dylan supports is, indeed, not anyone's business, because Dylan is not a public official. Your support and proximity in association with Democracy Connection is a matter of public record, and the foundational concept that Democracy Connection leans on in order to succeed is public record! You claim that you are against the prospect of sharing information about your support of an organization that profits because of its nature to share information. Regardless of public records laws, there is a name for this principle: LSAT officials call this a contradiction, it is a form of logical fallacy.
Evan concludes with the wish that Rep Esquivel
Take care.