There is a new scandal breaking involving an elected official, a young woman and Twitter. And, nope, it's not what you think. This one involves 18-year-old Kansas high school senior Emma Sullivan, who was on a school trip last week to the Kansas state Capitol as part of the Youth in Government program. On her way back from the event, she jokingly tweeted to her then-65 followers on Twitter the following about Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback: "Just made mean comments at gov. brownback and told him he sucked, in person #heblowsalot." When you tweet to 65 people on Twitter, it usually just ends there, quickly evaporating into the cybersphere -- tweets are truly the epitome of ephemeral.
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Kansas student tweeted her disapproval of Gov. Sam Brownback
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Governor's office objected, and the student's principal told her to apologize
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Dean Obeidallah: Governor's office impinged on free speech
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He says governor apologized, now he needs to stop monitoring social sites
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In turn, the event administrators, no doubt concerned that the governor's director of communication had taken the time to contact them, informed @placeholder's high school principal.