Maine Blogger Sued
April 28, 2006
A Maine blogger is being sued for his comments about an advertising campaign for the Maine tourism bureau. As far as I can tell, the blogger, Lance Dutson, has done nothing more than exercise his constitutional right to free speech. He feels the advertising agency hired by the state is doing a shoddy job, and “pissing away” his tax dollars. I think 99% of Americans feel that way about their local, state, or federal government at times, and almost as many have said so (perhaps not in those exact words). He tell his story here, and includes the phone numbers of the right people to call. I looked at the agency’s Web site. It is laughably bad—the sort of Web site that was in vogue for about a week in 1999. Maybe the agency is terribly clever and it’s a parody of bad Web sites? Or maybe the agency is just not very good? I don’t dare speculate any further, for fear I might be sued.
Posted by Bill Trippe at April 28, 2006 8:43 AM
