Florida Congressman Wants Blogging Critic Fined, Jailed

vvaduva writes "Florida Rep. Alan Grayson wants to see one of his critics go directly to jail, all over her use of the word 'my' on her blog. In a four-page letter sent to [US Attorney General Eric] Holder, Grayson accuses blogger Angie Langley of lying to federal elections officials and requests that she be fined and imprisoned for five years. Her lie, according to Grayson, is that she claims to be one of his constituents. Langley, Grayson says, is misrepresenting herself by using the term 'my' in the Web site's name."

Comments

Oh, the irony

[mariox19]

According to the article, the blogger criticized the congressman for his "childish approach" towards governing.

Well, he sure showed her!

Re:I call bullshit

[berashith]

When are you liberals going to learn ... the republican party is the political wing of Fox News.

Re:Her Constituent Status Is Only Part of It

[ShadowRangerRIT]

Democrat is to Republican as:

C) Pot is to Kettle

A clearly inaccurate analogy. Everyone knows there are no black Republicans.

...

Okay, Steele, but I'm not sure he's Republican so much as he is plain nuts. *dives out window to avoid getting served with libel papers*

Re:The question, really, is this:

[Tangential]

If we are going to treat lying as a crime (and IMHO breaking campaign promises is clearly lying) then there are going to be a whole lot of people going to jail. I foresee lots of openings in Washington. I won't name any names, but there would be 435 vacancies in the House of Representatives, 100 in the Senate and 2 in the Executive Branch.