Youngkin campaign attacks high school student on Twitter

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2. His name and his photograph have already appeared in his tweets, and the news account was incorrect.

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Ethan Lynne has not been shy about providing a big picture of himself in other tweets. You had a good look at him. He had no problem sharing his appearance. For example, from an earlier thread at DU:

Sun Feb 6, 2022: What does your Governor do in it's spare time.....This is what Virginia's has time to do...

Link to tweet

It's not as if he's trying to keep his identity a secret. I'm not buying the faux outrage about "OMG! Youngkin is ruining Ethan Lynne's life!"

Ethan Lynne is not the one whipping up the frenzy. Further, to his credit, when he learned that his tweet about the room in the governor's mansion had been based on erroneous information, he promptly issued a correction. He's not doing anything wrong. I think people are trying to use him for their own purposes.

This is much less of a story than people are trying to turn it into. It might be not all that newsworthy, but WTOP and the Post ran the story, so here it is.

And good morning.