A political Twitter battle brewed on Monday, December 26 between Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton (@MayorMark) and Executive Director of the Democratic State Central Committee, Michael Mandell (@mcmandell).
Fairfield County Business Journal put a spotlight on the online bickering in today's editon stating, "The Christmas season notion of peace on Earth and good will to men appeared to evaporate rather quickly on Dec. 26 as a pair of Connecticut politicians took to Twitter in a vitriolic display of social media smackdowns."
The string of attack Tweets began after Boughton responded to @ctcapitolreport news of the multimillion-dollar contract buyout of UConn football coach Bob Diaco with "Oh, good grief." Mandell responded to Boughton with "How quick b4 you attack @DanMalloyCT? Dont let holiday hld back ur crass politics-we need a gov cndte negotiating UCONN athletics contracts." And, the tweets continued (see our Twitter screenshots in photo #1 & #2).
Boughton, known for his strong social media presence, has more than 29K followers on Twitter, nearly double that of Mandell.
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