Mansfield, the Ogunquit museum director, said one of his favorite photos in King’s feed is a picture of the senator stuck on the elevator. (Wish I could claim I already have put up the screens for this summer, by the way, but actually, they never came down last fall. ‘Why aren’t squirrels just as worthy of our attention as birds,’ I say. Mary and I often mildly argue (‘discuss’ may be a better term) the blatant prejudice most people who feed birds have against the noble squirrel. “Well, this guy didn’t let a little obstacle like that stop him, and here he is, comfortably settled into the feeder and enjoying a really easy meal. “So why do you move the bird feeder midway up the window? To keep it out of reach of the squirrels, of course,” he wrote. A recent photo showed a squirrel raiding his bird feeder at his home in Brunswick, taken from inside the house looking through the window and screen. And like a lot of people who use social media, he allows room for frivolity and family.
Many of the photos that he posts capture dramatic skies and the play of light on buildings in Washington and off the water in Maine. Booker began an Instagram project to take his picture with each of his colleagues, “Selfies With My Fellow Senators.” King was Booker’s first subject. He joined the photo-sharing social media platform at the urging of his Senate colleague Cory Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey. King has posted about 400 photos over the past two years on Instagram and has more than 4,000 followers. When the conversation starts to go off the rails, there’s not much you can do to get it back on.” “The conversation is not yours to control anymore. “The danger of doing something like this is opening up the conversation,” Knight said. That’s the risk of wading unfettered into social media, said Felicia Knight, former communications director for Maine’s other senator, Susan Collins, and president of the Knight Canney Group, a Portland consulting firm that specializes in politics and government relations. One of the first commenters responded with a four-letterword invective. He noted that the scaffolding that covered the dome for nearly two years has come down and invited people to the Capitol for a personal tour – an apolitical message. The Instagram posts also open up King to the uncertain world of online commentary. The personal stories and photographs are unique.” It’s hard to hit the right tone to give the voters a sense of who you are and do that before your opposition does,” Schmidt said. “Individual politicians can have a difficult time to make the internet work for them. What distinguishes him, said University of Southern Maine political scientist Ronald Schmidt Jr., is his ability to convey both his perspective and his personality through a visual narrative. King’s use of social media is not unique among politicians.
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