Rep. Bobby Franklin would prefer you yell about his legislation over the phone, thankyouverymuch!

State Rep. Bobby Franklin, the Marietta Republican whose greatest achievement under the Gold Dome has been to earn Georgia negative press, has probably the most passive-aggressive autoreply we've ever seen. Courtesy of a constituent who wanted to share some opinions with the state lawmaker:

From: "Franklin, Bobby" <Bobby.Franklin@house.ga.gov>
Date: redacted
To: redacted
Subject: Out of Office AutoReply: redacted

Due to the unreliability of the General Assembly’s technical support team, it is unlikely that I will receive your email. Please call my office at 404-656-0152.

This really makes no sense. According to this, Franklin did receive the person's email. (In fact, it's working quite well. This is the second time someone has forwarded Franklin's autoreply to us.) If Franklin hadn't received the e-mail, how would the system even know to send the autoreply? And what does the Gold Dome's technical support team have to do with anything? Do they come to his office every day and read his messages, out loud, in the voice of one of the Founding Fathers?

Does Franklin just not like reading e-mails? Are e-mails an affront to the Lord? Do phone calls bring you closer to Christ? What does the Internet think about the gold standard, banning driver's licenses, and charging women who experience miscarriages with murder? Or e-mails for that matter? If Bobby Franklin were an emoticon, what would he be?

These are the many questions state Rep. Bobby Franklin, R-Marietta, makes us ask, out loud, in the voice of one of the Founding Fathers.