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AFSCME Endorses Knope, Twitter Goes Wild

by Kate Childs Graham  |  March 12, 2012

Knope We Can!
Artwork by Mike Mitchell

Last Friday, AFSCME announced its endorsement of fictional-candidate, Leslie Knope, for City Council of the fictional-city Pawnee, Ind.

Within hours of the endorsement, @AFSCME was a trending topic on Twitter. While tweets on the topic are too many to count, here are some favorites:

Forbes may not have thought the endorsement was amusing, but Twitter sure did. Let’s hope Amy Poehler did, too.

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