Rose Law Group Reporter Gripe of the Week
People who shoot from the hip from their mouths out to realize in today’s time, their remarks have a good chance of being reported by the media. Especially the utterings or social media posts of politicians.
They also should realize that apologies — which they’re forced to do because of politics—often go unaccepted.
Connecticut state Rep. DebraLee Hovey should have counted to 10 before her extremely ruse and disrespectful order to Arizona’s Gabrielle Giffords.
Giffords was in Newtown, Conn. last Friday to meet with the families who lost loved ones in the tragic mass shooting that killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Her visit came just days before the two-year anniversary of the Tucson shooting that left her severely injured (That anniversary is today.).
Giffords received some not so kind words from Connecticut state Rep. Hovey. According to Gawker, Giffords was told to “stay out of my towns,” via a now-deleted Facebook post from Hovey.
Hovey deemed Giffords’ visit to be a political stunt. Amid criticism for her very public remarks, she copped an apology.
She said she had hoped to regain a sense of privacy for the grieving families in her town and did not mean to attack the former Arizona congresswoman on a personal level.
Too late, representative, you said it, you own it.
