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<p>It was the tweet heard ‘round the world. Or throughout the Cook County commissioners’ chamber, at least.</p>
<p>Yesterday, Commissioner Tony Peraica used his <a href="http://twitter.com/tonyperaica">Twitter account</a> to call out Commissioner Deborah Sims, encouraging voters not to reelect her.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=38209">WBEZ learned</a> Peraica used the county’s taxpayer-funded wireless Internet to tweet the message, and today Sims called for an ethics investigation of Peraica’s “tweetering,” as she put it.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/audio_popup.aspx?audioID=38209"><em>Click here for audio</em></a></p>
<p>“They (Peraica) sent out a political Tweet the other day that said I should not be running. I think there should be an ethics investigation,” she said. “Nobody should be political tweeting in this room.”</p>
<p>Peraica apologized for using the county’s system for political purposes:</p>
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<p>"Now that I reflect on it, that was in the county board meeting and I would imagine that the county wireless system was the one that I was transmitting across. And therefore probably better judgment would be not to engage in political comments." <br /> <br /> Peraica says the debate got rather personal and he sent the note in the heat of the moment.</p>
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<p>He often gives candid looks at county proceedings on Twitter, but during today’s board meeting, he tweeted not a peep.</p>
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