Paul Soglin has never been much of a tweeter.
The former Madison mayor joined Twitter in December 2010, but he’s only tweeted about 850 times in 8½ years. (For comparison, presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, also joined that month. He has nearly 9,000 tweets.)
In fact, the internet hadn’t heard from Soglin at all since his landslide defeat by Satya Rhodes-Conway on April 2. But now that Soggy has some free time on his hands, he’s found a use for the social networking service: vacation photos.
Since Thursday, Soglin has tweeted more than two dozen times — all photo/video posts, btw — during what appears to be a Route 66 road trip.
Here are some highlights:
Battle of virden (Illinois) bragging rights if you know the woman top center. #Solidarity pic.twitter.com/5yEBR3ih1D
— Paul Soglin (@Paulsoglin) April 25, 2019
This is the Soggy version of a fit pic. It’s taken at a memorial to the Virden massacre in central Illinois.
#sayreOK county court house. When Okies drive out in Grapes of Wrath you see the court house as they leave state. pic.twitter.com/c8kszqNvNg
— Paul Soglin (@Paulsoglin) April 27, 2019
Here’s Soglin’s shot of Beckham County Courthouse in Oklahoma, featuring some questionable grammar. Was he doing speech-to-text on these?
Who says the abondon portion of #roite66 aren’t passable? South of Sayre nearing Erick OK birthplace of #rogermiller and #shebwooley pic.twitter.com/AMCNXKNxgK
— Paul Soglin (@Paulsoglin) April 27, 2019
Get your kicks on #roite66. Also, this is one of his most awkward selfies of the whole trip so far, and that’s saying something. It’s also my favorite picture, probably ever.
Driving 18 miles dirt/gravel #route66 Glenrio NM ghost town, about a dozen people seem to be living on the road. pic.twitter.com/JLbNh4z90c
— Paul Soglin (@Paulsoglin) April 28, 2019
Please note the prominent dead bug splatter on the windshield in this video of a New Mexican ghost town.
Railroad bridge across #pecosriver #route66 we couldn’t find Bill pic.twitter.com/pziwDGRMjC
— Paul Soglin (@Paulsoglin) April 28, 2019
“U up? ;)”
Gorieta pass, NM. #nativeameticans traded items from Mexico, Great Lakes, Pacfic, and the plains at the Pecos Pueblo. On #route66, #santafetrail pic.twitter.com/oSEVseU89G
— Paul Soglin (@Paulsoglin) April 28, 2019
The inelegant selfie, misspelled hashtag — this one’s got it all.
TACO BELL CANTINA
A resolution introduced by Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway and two alders would allow the Taco Bell on State St. to sell beer and wine.https://t.co/nRHrQPjhcm— WKOW 27 (@WKOW) April 27, 2019
smh… you leave town for a few days and everything goes to hell.
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