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Lawmaker's Facebook Rant Threatens Media For "Unauthorized" Use of His Name
An anonymous reader points out that Frederick County Councilman Kirby Delauter may be in need of a First Amendment lesson. "Apparently, a local Maryland politician ditched his civics class the day press freedoms were discussed. How else to explain Frederick County Councilman Kirby Delauter's recent Facebook rant in which he threatened a local newspaper with litigation because—wait for it—his name was used in print without his permission. 'Use my name again unauthorized and you'll be paying for an Attorney. Your rights stop where mine start,' Kirby Delauter, the councilman, posted on his Facebook page. He added: 'So let me be clear.........do not contact me and do not use my name or reference me in an authorized form in the future.'"
I didn't catch his name. What was it again?
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Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
BTW Frederick County Councilman Kirby Delauter is prohibited from using my name without my express written consent. If he wants to sue me, Frederick County Councilman Kirby Delauter has to first contact me and get my permission to use my name to file the suit is a court. How about that Frederick County Councilman Kirby Delauter, he should follow what he preaches, right? By "he' I mean Frederick County Councilman Kirby Delauter.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
I already wrote saying not to print my name. Prepare for my lawyer's wrath. Posted as a Anonymous Coward for obvious reasons...
- Kirby
I don't think he was incorrect that "their rights stopped where his started", I think he just doesn't realize where his rights actually start.
So the guy is an ill-informed twit, a product of a typical Maryland public education. That's fine, because he's just a typical local guy who got a few dozen more votes than the next guy, and got a job as a minor league politician on a local county council.
But the problem is that we're seeing this sort of attitude (manifesting itself a bit differently) from the very top of the nation's executive branch. Lip service to promised "transparency," but in practice, draconian limitations on non-spin-approved access by journalists and photographers, reporters (and their entire organizations) being tapped and harassed if they don't convey the right message. Politicians have always had their favorite media contacts, but the ever-receding notion that they work for us is resulting in newly toxic levels of entitlement-itis and a sort of vaguely imperial bearing. That some elected officials have flirted with that from day one of the republic is not news, but the founders anticipated that and built in checks and balances. And some of those have been sorely tested, of late.
It will be interesting to see how the Attkisson suit plays out.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
To be a valid streisand effect, the name of this article should have been "Kirby Delauter's Facebook Rant Threatens Media For 'Unauthorized' Use of His Name". Just sayin'.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
Most stories omit his party affiliation.
So pleased to see he is keeping up the (new) Republican tradition of being bat-shit insane.
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They ran an editorial about it:
he who shall be named repeatedly
I'm a consultant - I convert gibberish into cash-flow.
The real irony is that the article he's so upset about painted him as an emotionally unstable and clueless twit with a propensity for going on tirades and rants.
I propose the act of eating vomit.
As in "Oh my god, that dog just Delautered!"
Or "Oh look, those baby birds are delautering, what caring mother bird."
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I live in Frederick Co. and these news outfits should really dig more deeply. There's a whole lot more to Kirby Delauter than just this one outburst. He's part of a group of disaffected commissioners angry at not getting his way when the county government moved from home rule to charter form.
As I recall, Kirby has also: ...and more.. way way more..
1. Ignored an Ethics commission ruling that barred his construction company from doing work for the county.
2. Violated MD's Open Meetings law (possibly on more than one occasion).
3. Voted for 25yr contracts for developers to give them land development rights without the developers putting any money into adequate roads, schools, etc.
His recent anger was sparked in part because in the previous form of county government, 3 top level republicans managed to have a solidified voting block for whatever they wanted. One of those 3 (Blaine Young) was voted out in the past election. Just prior to Blaine's departure Blaine resigned from his spot on the planning commission and then was placed back onto the planning commission by vote of the commissioners. This was thought to be something that couldn't be stopped; however, the MD AG stated that Blaine had not resigned his position as commissioner (only his position on the planning commission) as as such he couldn't be placed back onto the commission as he was ineligible. Since Blaine had close to 1M in developer dollars to (probably) pay back in favors, it's likely this angered the republican constituency very much.
When the form of government moved to the charter form, it was assumed by the republicans that Shreve would take the president spot but the democrats did something the republicans appeared to not expect, they voted for a much more moderate republican to be president of the county commissioners.
Angered by this slight to his long-time republican cohort (Shreve), Delauter has been rather angry of late.
Shreve and Delauter blame the FNP (Frederick News Post) for having a very liberal bias that cost Blaine his position and Shreve the presidency of the commission. As such, the outburst was primed to happen.
So yeah, welcome to our local politics. If our local sheriff weren't such an utter useless waste of skin then perhaps we'd get an investigation into possible wrongdoing with regards to violations of law but "Chuckles" is a worthless bag of skin that feels much more at home teaching his deputies how to choke to death mentally impaired people.
(That's a whole different story... another one in which it appears the prosecutor only provided evidence to a grand jury (evidence provided by the sheriff's office about sheriff's deputies) that was likely to exonerate deputies instead of any that was inculpatory as well.)
I like living here.. but in a lot of ways this county sucks. If I wasn't painfully aware that no place is perfect, I'd sell my house and move.
I particularly like how he calls the reported out by name - presumably unauthorized...
>Why is some local county councilman being stupid news?
Not sure if you're being rhetorical, but there's an answer.
In Maryland, the county is the primary local government. There is one "independent city" (Baltimore), and a small number of "incorporated cities" that have a limited amount of "home rule", primarily zoning.
States like New York and New Jersey, you have the State, the County, the Town, and the Village, all providing different levels of services and different levels of government.
In Maryland, you have the State and the County.
Is it wrong that I guessed that this guy was a conservative, and I was right?
Just because the U.S. is a republic does not mean it is not a democracy. Democracy/republic are not mutually exclusive.