🏈 OT: Be careful what you post: LSU fan, and an Arkansas judge, has to end campaign due to posts on m

[TerryP]

Mike Maggio is both an Arkansas circuit judge and a passionate LSU football fan. Alas, getting too wrapped up in the latter has (for now) prevented him for advancing his career as the former.

On Wednesday, Maggio ended his campaign for a seat on the Arkansas Court of Appeals after he came clean as “geauxjudge” on the wildly popular LSU message board TigerDroppings. Here’s a selection of some of the questionable comments “geauxjudge” posted, per NOLA.com’s Emily Lane:

• One post about baby names commented on the name of University of Alabama football player Ha’Sean “Ha Ha” Clinton-Dix, who is black, suggesting someone with his name or others like “Taneesha” or “Brylee” wouldn’t become a doctor or banker. “Stick with something close to normal,” he said. “Or come sit in criminal court any day and see the ‘common names.’ ”
• Another suggests women should stay married to their husbands who have cheated instead of getting divorced because they are better off financially.
• A Jan. 17, 2012 post by “geauxjudge” contains possible confidential proceedings involving actress Charlize Theron’s adoption of her son, explaining a “judge friend” of his handled the case.
• Another post about a woman arrested for having sex with a dog, Maggio apparently posted it was “just a small step” from having “TGGLBS” sex, an apparent reference to transgender, gay, lesbian or bisexual sex.

“I apologize deeply for my lapse in personal judgment and for that, I have no excuse,” Maggio said in a statement. “The comments posted were not acceptable. These comments are not a reflection of who I am.”

TigerDroppings (and college football fan message boards in general) contain comments that are equally if not more disturbing than Maggio’s. The only difference is that those other commentors aren’t judges.


From LostLettermen

 

[BamaCore]

“I apologize deeply for my lapse in personal judgment and for that, I have no excuse,” Maggio said in a statement. “The comments posted were not acceptable. These comments are not a reflection of who I am.”

I hate this excuse. If anything it's the perfect reflection of who he is. What's the old saying? "Who you really are is defined by how you act when nobody is watching." ...or something like that. Anonymity...or at least perceived anonymity...brings out the worst, and the truth in people.

 

[JoshB]

Idiots.

 

[bamaraider]

Lol.

 

[riz]

I dunno. If you're going to be anonymous, you gotta stay that way. If you're not anon, you better walk the straight and narrow if you're in a position where it could matter to some what you say. Sounds as if he blurred the lines. He should have known better, and he paid for it. On the other hand, people have nothing better to do than "out" someone?

 

[sean]

:rofl:

in the immortal words of bugs bunny....."what a maroon."

 

[PhillyGirl]

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[TheChief]

Tiger Droppings: Sounds like he stepped in it...

 

[TerryP]

I dunno. If you're going to be anonymous, you gotta stay that way. If you're not anon, you better walk the straight and narrow if you're in a position where it could matter to some what you say. Sounds as if he blurred the lines. He should have known better, and he paid for it. On the other hand, people have nothing better to do than "out" someone?

Would you think he'd boasted about some of his dealings on that site to those in his peer group?

 

[JoshB]

I dunno. If you're going to be anonymous, you gotta stay that way. If you're not anon, you better walk the straight and narrow if you're in a position where it could matter to some what you say. Sounds as if he blurred the lines. He should have known better, and he paid for it. On the other hand, people have nothing better to do than "out" someone?

I think I would like to know if a judge that LITERALLY holds ppls lives in his hands was an idiotic bigoted jackass...

 

[riz]

Would you think he'd boasted about some of his dealings on that site to those in his peer group?

Is that how he got outed?

 

[riz]

I think I would like to know if a judge that LITERALLY holds ppls lives in his hands was an idiotic bigoted jackass...

The answer is yes.

 

[TerryP]

Is that how he got outed?

I don't know; seems the most logical reason though.

LSU fan that's a judge in Arkansas. He's running for Appeals Court Judge position. Reeks of a political type move which would be within the walls of where he serves.

What's the other possibility? He got into an argument with someone and they found out his intentions? Then, they exposed who he was and what he'd posted? Both are certainly plausible.

 

[riz]

I don't know; seems the most logical reason though.

LSU fan that's a judge in Arkansas. He's running for Appeals Court Judge position. Reeks of a political type move which would be within the walls of where he serves.

What's the other possibility? He got into an argument with someone and they found out his intentions? Then, they exposed who he was and what he'd posted? Both are certainly plausible.

Either way, it's on him. Betcha "boasting" got him one way or another.