If you weren’t minding your Twitter feed between midnight and 1 a.m. last night, you missed a good old fashioned Twitter-fight between Rep. Terri Proud, R-Tucson, and Rep. Daniel Patterson, D Lonewolf-Tucson.
We say missed it, because Patterson deleted his tweets.
But we here at the Weekly are watching Patterson like bad re-runs. And we’re TiVo-ing it for your information after the cut.
Proud: @TerriProud SouthernAZ Judge decided not to extend restraining order obtained by Pattersons former wife. SouthernAZ most dangerous place 4 women 2 live
Patterson: Court found TProud committed custodial interference / MT @TerriProud: S. AZ Judge decided not to extend restraining order…”
—http://twitter.com/RepPatterson/status/187408543975096320
Proud: @RepPatterson You can’t bully me Mr. Patterson – nice try
In reply to Daniel R. Patterson
Patterson: MT @TerriProud: You can’t bully me… / You attack courts, but you committed custodial interference, then changed law. Truth, not bullying”
—http://twitter.com/RepPatterson/status/187412030884548608
Proud: @RepPatterson I think the police officer would have to say you’re wrong- but again – nice try. #betterthingstodowithmytime
Patterson: case D20014317, Pima Cty Judge Deb Ward, Jan 2010 / MT @TerriProud: I think the police officer would have to say you’re wrong…”
—http://twitter.com/RepPatterson/status/187414568803377152
Proud: My story of DV is no stranger to many. I will not back down from this bully who targets women. He picked the wrong gal here. #fightingback
Proud: @RepPatterson U know what I have nothing 2 hide My story’s been told 2 many people. Keep trying to bash another woman-I’ m not afriad of you
Patterson: (in direct message to Proud) ‘Rep. Proud, I don’t want to argue with you. Respectfully, Daniel Patterson’
This article appears in Apr 5-11, 2012.
Proud is posturing for the masses by showing everyone she can bully a bully.
She can’t seem to trumpet her triumphalism loud enough:
I’ m not afriad (sic) of you…
You can’t bully me Mr. Patterson – nice try
I will not back down from this bully who targets women.
Sorry that stinks false.
Patterson may be a cancerous anal body part, but Proud is a poseur.
It is fraudulently easy to act heroic the moment the whole nation is tuning in on the Patterson story.
It is hard to tell who is more craven here:
Patterson or the poseur screaming her heroics in a twitter-op.
Let’s just call it another AZ draw:
That is, like the state, the whole sorry incident sucks from A to Z.
So, it appears here that Proud picked the fight and then, when Patterson produced a fairly mild and appropriate comeback–pointing out that she’s not perfect herself–she tried to play on a currently trending topic by saying she was being “bullied”?
Beyond that, my question is: how did we voters allow these two dumbasses to achieve notoriety such that I’m reading about their tweets on the local news?