Quitting Politics by Text Message
by Brian Reich | 29 Jun 2006, 2:00am
[Via PoliticalWire]
“When Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta resigned from his East Timor government posts, he did so via a mobile-phone text message,” Reuters reports. Ramos-Horta sent an SMS message to the prime minister “announcing his intention to quit on Sunday, and received a reply in the same format from the premier.”
“The country has been embroiled for months in a political crisis, and text messaging has emerged as the fastest and most reliable means of communication.”
