> Actually, if they are harrassing, that is criminal and could be actionable.
Often what would normally be criminal harassment is no longer by virtue of being a public figure, to a degree. (Ex: repeatedly calling a campaign office to complain would be kosher, repeatedly calling a personal cell would not)
Imagine if by virtue of running for office your personal cell could be called all hours of the night?
Sometimes I feel we are not critically examining new norms.
> Imagine if by virtue of running for office your personal cell could be called all hours of the night?
If you take constituent calls in the middle of the night directly to your personal cell, just not from specific constituents whose views you don't agree with, then that should be considered inappropriate. If you don't take constituent calls directly to your personal cell and you only take constituent calls during business hours, then you are fine on 1st amendment grounds.
I didn't write my comment to be mean, or anything other than frank.
No, you can't be told to stop writing letters and sending faxes. Once, I was part of a group doing exactly that. 10 a day from each of us over many weeks. At one point they actually put in the newspaper, "tired of hearing about...", to which we continued, "tired of bad policy x
Then we worked to get that person out of office.
And we did.
All just civics. No worries.
None of us would have thought to phone their home, or do those things at their home. The public work was at issue. That person as a normal citizen is like any of us. No worries there too.
If your concern is a personal social media page being used to circumvent law, maybe!
IMHO, the legal test would be whether the content is about thr office, or is actually personal.
Baby photos, high school reunion, new car, cats.... personal. And they could easily make that private. I would. No reason not to really.
I do not see that as an issue at this time. Public figures have plenty of options, and the incentive to make it personal clashes with the need to be public to be reelected, etc...
I shoot add it is definitely unwise to go ahead and run for office using your personal cell phone Facebook accounts as a starting basis.
You didn't do anything wrong and don't have to apologize in response to an uncivil comment that asks if English is your first language. You could reasonably instead have clicked the timestamp on the parent comment and then the "flag" button.
