Dem lawmaker tweets college co-ed, then deletes messages
Update: Politico is reporting that Victoria Brink is in fact Representative Cohen’s ‘secret daughter.’
We keep encouraging elected officials to use social media, and what do they do? They keep getting themselves in trouble. Don’t be an idiot on Twitter.
By Judy Kurtz and Alexandra Jaffe of The Hill
Rep. Steve Cohen repeatedly tweeted, and then deleted, messages to a woman on Twitter who his office is calling “the daughter of a longtime friend” and who has the same name as a Texas State University blonde bombshell featured in a college co-ed calendar.
In a Tuesday night message ahead of President Obama’s State of the Union address, a Twitter user named Victoria Brink tweeted to the Tennessee Democrat, “just saw you on tv!”
According to a tweet captured by the nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation’s Politiwoops site, Cohen replied to Brink, “pleased u r watching. Ilu” The tweet was deleted after three minutes.