Municipal employees and social media

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APD cop fired for ties to blog

Apparently they don’t mess around with opinions from the municipal employees in Albuquerque. According to krqe.com:

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Five years ago, officer Dawne Roberto was being called a hero for rescuing two people trapped in a burning car.

On Tuesday, Roberto was fired from her job after 14 years on the force.

While APD wouldn’t say why Roberto was let go, her attorney John D’Amato says it’s all because of ties to the “Eye On Albuquerque” blog , a blog that’s been highly critical of APD brass and Mayor R.J. Berry’s administration.

D’Amato says Roberto severed all ties with the blog two years ago and told APD who the people behind the site were. He says she never wrote anything disparaging for the blog. Even so, D’Amato says Roberto’s work computer was taken to see if she was working on “Eye On Albuquerque” on the clock and she was fired for “being untruthful” and violating APD’s social media policy.

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It’s not a beautiful day in the neighborhood…errr…’hood

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DC News FOX 5 DC WTTG

At 10:35 you still can’t get down to this area off of Lafayette Avenue. The tour buses are still pouring in to Splashdown, however, which is right across the street. A Howlings roving reporter said there were about 25 law enforcement cars down there, both fed and local.

Here is an update from Inside Nova:

Gunfire erupted in a Prince William neighborhood early Thursday morning after federal authorities were attempting to serve a warrant.

A spokesman for the DC Homeland Security Investigations said the Special Response Team was serving a federal search and arrest warrant on child pornography charges around 6 a.m. in the 9000 block of Covington Place when shots were exchanged.

The person named in the warrants, Douglas Clayton Lewis, “died at the scene from a possible self-inflicted gunshot wound,” the spokesman said

This shooting doesn’t sound very immigration related to me.

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Is Ted Cruz ‘a political terrorist’?

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politico.com:  (Dylan Byers)

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews called Texas Sen. Ted Cruz a “political terrorist” on Wednesday after the tea-party favorite called on fellow Republicans to defund Obamacare and said that a government shutdown wouldn’t necessarily spell disaster for Republicans.

“I believe it’s terrorism: This is the first time I’ve seen a political party, or even a fraction of it, say that their number one goal is to shutdown the American government, kill a bill that’s already been passed by congress, and refuse to pay bills already run up by congress in an attempt to basically risk default,” Matthews said on MSNBC’s Hardball. “This is an attempt to destroy all we know of the republican form of government in this country.”

The term “terrorist” elicited discomfort from both Republian (sic) strategist Steve Schmidt and former Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod, both of whom said the word should be reserved for people like the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing.

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