Talk:Kirby Delauter/old short article

Delauter was raised from relative political obscurity when, in a Facebook post, he criticized reporter Bethany Rodgers of the Frederick News-Post "for an unauthorized use of my name and my reference" in an articlehttp://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/politics_and_government/shreve-raises-staffing-parking-concerns/article_0db3b44a-30ac-5582-b7b3-4cf00d0ded9e.html published on Saturday, 3 January, 2015.http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/maryland-council-member In the post, Delauter chastized the reporter for using Delauter's name in an article without his authorization. In a subsequent post, Delauter threatened the reporter with legal action by stating: "Use my name again unauthorized and you'll be paying for an Attorney. Your rights stop where mine start".http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/01/05/this-post-shamelessly-uses-frederick-county-md-council-member-kirby-delauters-name-without-authorization/ The paper's staff made light of the incident with an editorial published on January 6, 2015, that included Delauter's full name several times.http://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/politics_and_government/kirby-delauter-kirby-delauter-kirby-delauter/article_da85d6f4-fa3c-524f-bbf6-8e5ddc0d1c0a.html/

Delauter's post went viral on the Internet. The incident has since received attention from the international press and has been the subject of articles in The Washington Post and BBC News.http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/01/05/this-post-shamelessly-uses-frederick-county-md-council-member-kirby-delauters-name-without-authorization/http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-30704516 Delauter apologized for his Facebook posts, characterizing them as "wrong and inappropriate" and affirming that "[t]he first amendment is alive and well in Frederick County". [http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-kirby-delauter-statement-20150107-story.html Delauter apologizes for threatening reporter], The Baltimore Sun 2015-01-07, [http://www.webcitation.org/6VUgOUJyr archiveurl] accessdate=2015-01-11

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• [http://kirbydelauter.com Kirby Delauter For County Council]
• [https://frederickcountymd.gov/4336/Kirby-Delauter Kirby Delauter, Council Member - District 5]