Twitter Kudos to @Lis_Smith & @SenSweeney

by: Rosi Efthim

Fri Jul 29, 2011 at 12:46:45 PM EDT

First up is @Lis_Smith. Lis - that's Elizabeth to you, bub - is Communications Director at DGA, the Democratic Governors Association. And given that she earns that distinction from @Politico in large part for her 140-character truth-telling on one Gov. Chris Christie (that's @GovChristie to you, bub), we say Well done!

Also earning Politico's nod is @SenSweeney the parody account of a Senate President you may be familiar with. The graphic on the Twitter page is photog Saed Hindash's iconic snapshot of Sweeney, for Star-Ledger, with his beefy arms crossed, bracing himself in front of the State House, his expression telegraphing, I won't be moved, bub. And the profile is funny as hell:

@SenSweeney West Deptford, NJ
Sorry for the typhyos! I got these ironworker sausage fingers. Let's be straight: If the $$$ weren't thiks great being a Semocrat, I'd be the GOP Sen Prez.

A few weeks ago, another great NJ-based parody account, @BronxZoosCodey engaged in a day-long campaign to get @bluejersey to follow (like we've followed @SenSweeney for a while). There was a whole day of @BronxZoosCodey jumping up and down to get us to notice, and @SenSweeney beating up on the fake-Codey account like a snotty little brother. And @SenSweeney'a even jumped in on firstamend07's action, which made me laugh even harder.

I have my theories who is behind both fakester accounts. I'm not telling. But I will say the fact that one of the parodies made Politico's national list (and so did Lis at DGA) tells me some of the barbs coming from their general direction are hitting home.

Well done.

By the way ... are you following @bluejersey? Washington Post says we're kinda cool.