{"id":8394,"date":"2017-08-17T14:42:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T18:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8394"},"modified":"2017-08-17T14:42:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T18:42:49","slug":"delauter-responds-to-seventh-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8394","title":{"rendered":"Delauter Responds to Seventh State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8385\">our post on Frederick County Council Member Kirby Delauter\u2019s views on the Civil War<\/a>, Delauter reached out to your author on Facebook and requested an interview.\u00a0 Your author agreed, but when I stipulated that the interview be on the record, Delauter balked.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the exchange with Delauter on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/WesternMarylandPolitics\/permalink\/1973291672941443\/\">Western Maryland Politics Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Delauter-Pagnucco-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Delauter-Pagnucco-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Delauter-Pagnucco-1.png 500w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Delauter-Pagnucco-1-201x300.png 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Delauter-Pagnucco-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8396\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Delauter-Pagnucco-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Delauter-Pagnucco-2.png 497w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Delauter-Pagnucco-2-188x300.png 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have often gone off the record with sources in the past.\u00a0 But Delauter is different.\u00a0 He is the only local elected official we know of who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredericknewspost.com\/news\/politics_and_government\/delauter-to-the-news-post-don-t-use-my-name\/article_e965025f-6c48-5a02-b162-600dfd2b5495.html\">threatened to sue a news publication for \u201cunauthorized\u201d use of his name<\/a>.\u00a0 We remind Delauter (and any like-minded politicians) that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newseuminstitute.org\/about\/faq\/is-truth-a-defense-in-libel-lawsuits\/\">truth is an absolute defense to libel and defamation lawsuits<\/a>, and that includes citing public statements made by public figures.\u00a0 Accordingly, while we are happy to communicate with Delauter, we will only do it on the record because of his history of threatening litigation.<\/p>\n<p>One more thing.\u00a0 While Delauter may have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webcitation.org\/6VUgP5na3?url=http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/blogs-trending-30704516\">mocked by some<\/a> for his threat against the Frederick News-Post, we take him very seriously.\u00a0 He has enthusiastic supporters, is an able fundraiser and represents a red district that is a good base for a GOP candidate running county-wide.\u00a0 Delauter may very well be Frederick County\u2019s next Executive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adam Pagnucco. After our post on Frederick County Council Member Kirby Delauter\u2019s views on the Civil War, Delauter reached out to your author on Facebook and requested an interview.\u00a0 Your author agreed, but when I stipulated that the interview be on the record, Delauter balked. Below is the exchange with Delauter on the Western &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8394\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Delauter Responds to Seventh State<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,66],"tags":[1545,1495,1178],"class_list":["post-8394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","category-frederick-county","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-frederick-county","tag-kirby-delauter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2bo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8397,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8394\/revisions\/8397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}