April 19, 2013 10:09 AM UTC

At Least He's Not Your State Senator

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• by: Colorado Pols

We saw this on Wednesday and thought it would make for a nice chuckle to the end of the week. Missouri Republican State Sen. Brian Nieves thought it would be a good idea to get into a childish, name-calling e-mail exchange with a constituent who wanted to unsubscribe from his e-mail list. The constituent was not particularly friendly about his initial request to be removed from the list, but his comments were pretty tame considering what some Colorado elected officials have seen in their inbox lately, and Nieves…well, he's not the sharpest tool in the shed. From Yahoo news:

According to River Front Times, which originally reported the story, Cohn wrote a seven-word reply to Nieves' newsletter. "Take me off your mailing list. Freak."

And thus began a wackadoo exchange of insults between Cohn and Nieves, all of which were forwarded by Cohn to River Front Times.

The conversation goes back and forth for a bit, until Nieves takes it to another level:

NIEVES: "Wow. Your communications are so thought provoking, well written, and intelligent. Perhaps you secretly want to be on my distribution list because every time you send me a message, your email is recaptured and put on my distribution list. I'm tiring of taking you off every time you email me AGAIN so unless you are in love with me or have some other sort of sick obsession with me (sorry, I'm straight as an arrow) you should probably stop emailing me so that you don't keep getting put back on the list. Should I type these instructions slower? Are you having a hard time understanding? BTW – I archive ALL questionable emails like yours in case there's ever any doubt about who got ugly first. Go back to the grade school playground where people you can successfully bully and out smart are playing cuz junior… You are way out of your league with me."

 

Cohn apparently did not respond. But Nieves couldn't resist writing one more email and referencing a photo of Cohn from Facebook.

NIEVES: "BTW… You really don't look good with a beard."

Classy.