Kirby Delauter! Kirby Delauter! Kirby Delauter! Kirby Delauter!
That's the name of the elected official in Maryland who has yet to hear of that thingie we who have at least a fourth-grade education call "The First Amendment."
This bright lad (who looks to be at least 40) "wrote on social media that he plans to sue The Frederick News-Post if his name or any reference to him appears in print without his permission," per a Paige Jones story in the News-Post:
In a Facebook status posted Saturday, Delauter said he was upset with reporter Bethany Rodgers for "an unauthorized use of my name and my reference in her article" published Jan. 3 about his and Councilman Billy Shreve's concerns over County Council parking spaces."So let me be clear............do not contact me and do not use my name or reference me in an unauthorized form in the future," Delauter, R-District 5, said in a Facebook status update.
Bethany pitched in with a little remedial constitutional education for Kirby Delauter! Kirby Delauter! Kirby Delauter! Kirby Delauter! -- within Jones's story:
"First of all, there is no requirement to get a person's authorization in order to mention them in the paper, particularly if that person is an elected official," Rodgers wrote in a comment below the original post. "It is not just our right but our responsibility to report on people like you, who occupy positions of trust in our government, and I make no apologies for doing that."Delauter said he would pursue legal action if his name or reference were published again.
"Use my name again unauthorized and you'll be paying for an Attorney," Delauter wrote. "Your rights stop where mine start."
The citizens who elected Kirby Delauter! Kirby Delauter! Kirby Delauter! Kirby Delauter! should see if there are measures to swiftly remove him.
via @dangillmor
The Streisand effect strikes again....
Isab at January 6, 2015 9:04 PM
Any attorney who actually files such a motion should be found in contempt, should serve the maximum penalty for that offense in that district, and should face disbarment. That, and only that, is how you start to get control of this sort of thing. But it'll never happen. Lawyers are a tribe, and the tribe is never wrong.
Cousin Dave at January 7, 2015 7:15 AM
Cousin Dave,
In contempt, or incompetent?
Shannon at January 7, 2015 7:40 AM
I don't need anymore trouble so I am not going to use Kirby Delauter's name unless he authorizes it. What is really sad is that people with an IQ voted for Kirby Delauter.
Dave B at January 7, 2015 10:38 AM
In related news, a google search of santorum still turns up the expected result.
jerry at January 7, 2015 8:07 PM
I suppose it's good he has a weird name. I mean, if he had two super common names like Alex and Johnson, would he threaten all the other Alex Johnsons for using his name without authorization? And what is somebody wrote about THOSE Alex Johnsons? Oh, the available space for litigation is massive. And then if somebody reports on the litigation... and if court records are published online...
Shannon at January 8, 2015 11:53 AM
I am truly embarrassed to have this man in my county's legislature. I did not vote for him, since he's not in my district. Had I been in District 5, I'm certain I would have voted for him, and then, come this garbage, would have been even more deeply embarrassed and ashamed.
I hope he'll have a primary challenger that I can support.
mpetrie98 at January 8, 2015 4:26 PM
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