Over on Facebook*, City Attorney Tom Carr's campaign consultant, Cindi Laws, is in the middle of an ugly argument with supporters of Carr's opponent, Pete Holmes, over whether Holmes is qualified for the position.

Laws' initial post included a link to the Seattle PostGlobe, which linked my piece about this convoluted, bizarre debate yesterday. (Also yesterday, the PostGlobe quoted Mayor Greg Nickels' spokesman calling a press release by Laws for another of her clients, James Donaldson, "juvenile" and "inappropriate." That press release predicted that citizens would "take up pitchforks and drive the monster"—Nickels—"from the castle.")

Laws' Facebook post read: "Proof on paper that Pete Holmes doesn't meet Seattle Charter requirements for the position he is running for. Bankruptcy attorney still trying to get blood from a stone."

(The issue, in brief, is whether Holmes meets a requirement in the city charter that says the city attorney must have been an active attorney in Seattle for four years before being elected. Carr says Holmes wasn't. Holmes says he was, and accuses Carr of running a "whisper campaign" against him.)

The Facebook conversation turned ugly when Holmes supporters started chiming in to defend him. One called Laws' allegations a "nasty game"; another wrote, "Cindi, I love ya, but this is so sleazy and dishonest. You need to take this down."

Laws responded by telling her detractors to "stop whining," and then removed all posts that were critical of her position.

* Laws contacted me the last time I wrote about one of her Facebook posts, which referred to supporters of the $25 employee "head tax" as "freaking liberals" who "need a 12-step program to rid yourself of the need to suck at the public trough." At the time, Laws pointed out that she was speaking only for herself, not the Donaldson campaign. It's certainly true that Facebook pages are the work of the individuals who create them. However, as the campaign consultant for two prominent candidates for elected office, Laws is a public figure, which makes her statements on Facebook—statements that were sent to me by three different people—fair game.