Today in Press Releases

[l33tminion]

From here:

Scott Brown will not run for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by John Kerry, the former senator told the Herald first today.

"U r the first to know I am not running," Brown texted the Herald.

That just seems like a very strange way for a politician to tell a newspaper anything.

Comments

[solomon garner (from livejournal.com)]

Not just the medium of choice, but the wording is strange. But I'm assuming someone from the Herald asked him, right? And he just answered their question, by noting that he hadn't yet told other newspapers. Because if he initiated the conversation, you think he would, aside from spelling "you" correctly, start with I am not running, and then say, by the way you are the first to know. But if he were just replying, he might not have thought the whole they-will-then-quote-your-exact-words-in-the-newspaper thing through.