Another Politician, Another YouTube Fail

You know its a bad day social media-wise when your social media strategy is to cover up a YouTube video you yourself posted for the whole world to see. But that’s exactly what the Polk County Republican Party in Wisconsin has been caught doing. Will politicians ever learn?

You know its a bad day social media-wise when your social media strategy is to cover up a YouTube video you yourself posted for the whole world to see.  But that’s exactly what the Polk County Republican Party in Wisconsin has been caught doing.  Will politicians ever learn?

When freshman GOP Rep. Sean Duffy held a town hall meeting for constituents in Amery, Wisconsin last week, local Republican leaders quickly released the video on the Party’s website and on YouTube to share the congressman’s message.

That message became a little off-message, but a YouTube hit, when the Congressman answered a constituent’s question by saying he was struggling to get by on his $174,000 Congressional salary.

“If

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