Posted on 04/29/2013 11:39:49 AM PDT by george76
the high prevalence of Democratic legislators, including Jared Polis, who “bought friends” on Twitter (approximately 82%). The original story cited The Hill. Yesterday, the New York Times also has called out Polis for his fake friends.
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While Polis may be cited as the member of Congress with the highest percentage of fakes, he’s certainly not the only liberal guilty of this type of astroturfing. The Hill also noted that it was estimated that 70% of President Obama’s followers also were bought.
While a few (thousand or million) fake followers on Twitter may not seem like a big deal, does this further call into question other stats that Democrats love to tout?
(Excerpt) Read more at coloradopeakpolitics.com ...
You really got the “critter” part right.
They will allow twitter ids for voting.
He bought his House seat so it makes sense he also buys his “friends.”
There is $250M missing in Colorado’s budget. Probably paid fro them with tax payers monies.
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