Talk:Kirby Delauter/old short article

Kirby Delauter is an American politician and businessman elected to the Frederick County, Maryland council in 2014, representing District 5.

Frederick News-Post incident
Delauter was raised from relative political obscurity when, in a Facebook post, he criticized reporter Bethany Rodgers of the Frederick News-Post "for an unauthorized use of my name and my reference" in an article published on Saturday, 3 January, 2015. In the post, Delauter chastized the reporter for using Delauter's name in an article without his authorization. In a subsequent post, Delauter threatened the reporter with legal action by stating: "Use my name again unauthorized and you'll be paying for an Attorney. Your rights stop where mine start". The paper's staff made light of the incident with an editorial published on January 6, 2015, that included Delauter's full name several times.

Delauter's post went viral on the Internet. The incident has since received attention from the international press and has been the subject of articles in The Washington Post and BBC News. Delauter apologized for his Facebook posts, characterizing them as "wrong and inappropriate" and affirming that "[t]he first amendment is alive and well in Frederick County".