When a lawmaker spoke out against a research grant awarded to a professor in a university' s psychology department as a foolish expenditure of public money, other professors in that department drafted a letter protesting the lawmaker' s interference in a field in which he was not trained
The chair of the psychology department, while privately endorsing the project, refused to sign the protest letter on the ground that she had previously written a letter applauding the same legislator when he publicized a senseless expenditure by the country' s military
A person should not publicly criticize the actions of a lawmaker in different cases without giving careful consideration to the circumstances of each particular case.