Stine's Tweet angers houseless advocates. UPDATED: Stine shutdown Twitter account

Marie Antoinette: "Let them eat cake."

Kevin Stine: "Hold my McFlurry."

Medford city councilor Kevin Stine upset a number of his constituents with a seemingly snarky Twitter post:

 

Stine posted the Tweet after a Thursday night meeting during which he and five other councilors voted for a controversial ordinance that bans camping along the Greenway -- as well as banning homeless from using tents while in so-called "noncamping zones" within Medford city limits. The only councilors who opposed the ordinance were Clay Bearnson and Sarah Spainsail. 

Social media lashed back.

"If Kevin Stine is afraid of his constituents he should resign."

"I hated him before, but after last night, I am so utterly disgusted with this piece of shit! He will definitely be hearing from me!"

"Kevin Stine is a Medford city council member who presents himself as a leftist but is pretty right wing. He wants to be a career politician. He voted yesterday to harass and antagonize Medford's homeless population under the guise of trash accumulation and fire prevention. He brings up open beds at shelters that number in the 10s (the beds, not the shelters) when the homeless population numbers in the hundreds . . . . He's been antagonistic to homeless people at every opportunity and then paints himself as the victim for his constituents speaking up."

"The very next death of exposure is going to be laid at your (Stine's) feet, along with the one after that, and the one after that, and the one after that."

Some flooded Stine's Twitter feed with attacks and insults -- to which a callus Stine retorted by saying he got "M&Ms McFlurry."

"He needs to get a fucking clue or a better moral compass," one person said. "However, you can say the same thing about the other councilors or the (county) commissioners. We have leadership that lacks decency and compassion. That's our problem."

Houseless advocate and Hawthorne mutual aid volunteer Melissa Jones soon posted this on her Facebook page.

The image has been reposted and shared all over social media.

Earlier this week, local lawyers have announced that they will fight the ordinance in the courts. Over the last few years, similar ordinances have been struck down in Boise and Grants Pass.

UPDATE:

Stine is now blocking people from his social media.

UPDATE:

Stine has shutdown his Twitter account.