Kentucky Senator Whose Twitter Account ‘Liked’ Obscene Tweets Says he was Hacked
“What then is striking is that you have this in your personal history,” said John Pelissero, a senior scholar at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. “And now you’ve introduced legislation to protect children from the very things that you have previously promoted.”
Until recently, Howell’s Twitter account was listed publicly on his legislative profile webpage and constituents followed him as part of his role as an elected official.
“Your private life can very easily become entirely public, and how you act, how you behave, how you communicate in your private life, is going to shape the impression that the public has about how you are as a public official,” Pelissero said.
John Pelissero, senior scholar, government ethics, quoted by Kentucky Lantern.
Twitter image by pixabay. Photos of Senator Howell and District 1 from legislature.ky.gov.