Twitter-verse response to the John Diehl scandal Live
Besides gracing the front page of the newspaper since 1901, I also spend time watching Twitter. Here’s some notable tweets from the week.
John Diehl started his week as speaker of the Missouri House and ended it just another citizen of Missouri after a sexting scandal involving an intern broke Wednesday. Twitter released the snark:
May 13, 2015
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Schaaf is a Missouri State senator from St. Joseph.
Mamas, don’t let your daughters grow up to be political interns. #WhereTheSausageGetsMade
May 13, 2015
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Of course John Diehl was in her phone as "Frank Underwood." Of course.
May 13, 2015
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(Frank Underwood is the corrupt politician in the Netflix series "House of Cards." The character has an affair with a much-younger reporter.)
I believe Speaker Diehl should also have to answer for his use of emojis
May 14, 2015
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Recently spoke to an AP Gov class, encouraging them to work in policy. I hope I didn't send those girls to a "sexternship." #moleg #Diehl
May 14, 2015
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Wife just saw John Diehl story on news. "OMG!We met that guy!We noticed he wouldn't put his phone down the whole time!" #fieldtrip w/ kiddo
May 15, 2015
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May 14, 2015
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Missouri is going to need, like, three solid years of literally nothing happening to make up for the past 10 months.
May 14, 2015
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Last week's top tweets: Spring means cleaning, finals, graduations.
