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Originally Posted by Tyler
Yeah, I'm sorry, but you can't have it both ways.
You can't want a politician to be incredibly accessible to every citizen via low-barrier to entry means like social media, and then crucify him for engaging with citizens on multiple issues.
How many of you ever got a chance to interact with Bronco or Duerr? Was that a good thing for the city? Did you feel connected to your elected representatives? Did you ever even have discussions with your colleagues about the mayor more than once a year?
In the time it took me to type this, Nenshi has retweeted two lost pets to an audience of 285,000 people.
Go get some perspective.
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So yeah, it looks like social media alpha is the new model for politicians.