Reminder: Your New Mayor Once Called Out Chris Christie's "Fat Ass" and Cowboys Fandom
Last night, Jim Kenney was crowned Mayor-elect of Philadelphia in a true landslide. As you may have known if you’ve followed Kenney on Twitter since before his Mayoral run (or if someone in your timeline was going way back and retweeting his greatest hits last night), the new mayor has an interesting social media history.
Way back when Kenney was just a little City Councilman, he got busted for paying someone $29,000 a year to Tweet for him. After that, he went FULL KENNEY and was his true self, for better or worse, on Twitter. That led to the Tweet above, which wasn’t even his best (or worst, depending on your view)– this one:
@loudobbsnews You are a large asshole! Crawl back under your rock. You are a hater and a creep hiding behind your microphone. You cancelled?
— Jim Kenney (@JimFKenney) December 17, 2012
And to feisty responses about Christie’s fandom:
This is your new Mayor of Philadelphia, in case you thought Howard Eskin was the only candidate who had called Chris Christie a fat-ass bandwagoner.
Kyle: I currently have almost 20k more followers than the new mayor, and have received only $250 in public contributions (from a reader who once sent me a Christmas present for being me). Let’s step it up, Jim. Great leaders need great follower counts.