GOP Gov. Candidate Forced to Swim for His Life After Plane Crash– www.westernjournal.com

People who get paid to work with words should probably know how to use them.

But a Wisconsin journalist reporting on a near-fatal crash involving a Republican candidate for governor proved just how bad things can go wrong when her social media posts about the incident turned into a story that caught more eyes than the crash itself probably would have — and roasted her in the process.

And she has herself and her profession to blame.

First the facts: U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany, a conservative Republican,  a GOP congressman since 2020 since 2020 and now his party’s nominee for governor, was aboard a private plane that was forced to make an emergency landing about 9 p.m. Saturday in Lake Wausau, about 100 miles east of Green Bay, according to CBS News.

Tiffany and the pilot were the only two on board the plane. They managed to swim to a shallow point in the lake, where they were able to stand until a boat picked them up, the network reported.

Both men needed stitches from cuts incurred during the crash, but were otherwise fine, according to CBS.

So far so good: A story that could have been a tragedy — a plane crash and a double drowning — turned out to have a happy ending.