Thursday, February 25, 2016

Trolling Myself...

During an email exchange with an elected representative, I received this:

“It appears from your Facebook comments that you are more intent on discrediting me and my work in the Legislature than on providing useful suggestions.  I don’t pretend to do perfect work, and if you make tough choices you’re going to anger someone along the way.  I can take the criticism.  It’s part of the job.  But to publicly castigate a legislator—me or anyone else—by espousing information that seems more ideologically based than factually grounded, I find troubling. The fact that it comes from someone in my hometown (who I believe supports the same aspirations I do for our community) only adds more sting to the jab.

I’d have been happy to sit down with anyone at UFL. But after viewing the commentary on Facebook, I think any discussion would probably devolve into a fruitless back and forth.”

 A quick think back on my part yielded no recall of any posting that I believe could be misconstrued as criticism, castigating or stinging…So, how do I respond?  Trolling myself is the best and first place to start.  I immediately went to my facebook and twitter accounts to check my Activity Logs and this is what I found… Let’s do this backwards.


TEXT OF POST->
“Alaska House District 37 Representative Bryce Edgmon will be on KDLG this morning to answer constituent questions from 8:30-9:00 am. Please Call 1-907-842-1670 or 1-800-478-5354 (toll free) and ask him for his impressions of the United for Liberty-Alaska 2017 budget proposals that he received a copy of last week from Michael Chambers.
There is a link to the proposals at the bottom of the blog posted here->
http://jonrcorbett.blogspot.com/…/this-morning-alaska-house…


2/23/2016 ->

TEXT OF POST->
“UFL's response to Rep. Edgmon's comments on KDLG this morning...with references and sprinkles->

My reply to a comment made on the above post:
“I want to thank Bryce for his reaching out to Us (UFL) in light of his comments during the show and Our response.”


Other Post Comments by MYSELF that were soliciting folks to participate in the KDLG Legislative Call In Show on February 23, 2016 :




The cut n’ paste text in the above messages was also used to solicit interest in several “private” groups and ALL were worded just like this:

“Alaska House District 37 Representative Bryce Edgmon will be on KDLG this morning to answer constituent questions from 8:30-9:00 am. Please Call 1-907-842-1670 or 1-800-478-5354 (toll free) and ask him for his impressions of the United for Liberty-Alaska 2017 budget proposals that he received a copy of last week from Michael Chambers.
There is a link to the proposals at the bottom of the blog posted here->



That’s It!