Facebook Messages Get Campaigns in Hot Water

Candidates for the Republican nomination for Governor of New Jersey are fighting it out across New Jersey and across the World Wide Web. Todd Christie, Chris Christie's brother, and Rick Shaftan, Steve Lonegan's strategist, exchanged a series of increasingly nasty messages on Facebook that are now public.

This unfortunate episode serves as a reminder to: 1. Take a deep breath before hitting "Send" on that email message, and 2: Remember that every thing you write on the web could end up in the newspaper. I think if Todd and Rick remembered either of those two points,  you wouldn't be reading this blog post.