When Rep. Joel Briscoe, D-Utah, logged onto his Twitter account Friday morning, he found that a big-name actress and people nationwide were calling for his arrest and resignation.
“I was shocked,” he says. But then he quickly realized they were mistaking him for Texas state Rep. Briscoe Cain — who has a remotely similar twitter handle: @BriscoeCain, as opposed to @RepBriscoe.
“First, I thought, ‘Oh crap, people don’t know who I am — and I’m going to get ugly calls all day,” he says. “Then I thought, ‘This could be fun.’” And he set out with some light-hearted tweets to send a quick message to the world that he is not that Texas Republican.