{"id":14471,"date":"2015-01-08T00:06:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T08:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14471"},"modified":"2015-01-08T00:06:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T08:06:25","slug":"republicans-on-parade182014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/08\/republicans-on-parade182014\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade–1\/8\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here is the sixty-sixth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today\u2019s honoree is Frederick County Councilman Kirby Delauter. He is so honored for a truly Republican level of stupidity.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0108Delauter\"The Frederick County, Maryland, council member recently threatened his local paper, the News-Post, with a lawsuit if it printed his name without permission. The dispute was the result of what Mr Delauter says was unfair coverage by Bethany Rodgers, one of the paper’s reporters.<\/p>\n

"Shame on Bethany Rodgers for an unauthorised use of my name and my reference in her article today," he wrote<\/a> on his Facebook page.<\/p>\n

"Bethany, please understand, when you do a hit piece, you need to know who you’re dealing with," he continued.<\/p>\n

Ms Rodgers responded, in part: "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." At which point, Mr Delauter replied that if her paper used his name again, "you’ll be paying for an attorney. Your rights stop where mine start."\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Rachel Maddow had the story.<\/font><\/p>\n