David Crowley’s claim that a long-dormant Twitter burner account filled with crude remarks was run by “10 to 12 other people” is undercut by multiple first-person posts the account made around his birthday in 2010, including one that explicitly names him as the sole operator.
The account, @No_pork_plz under the name “Dirt McGirk,” was created in 2010 and registered to Crowley. Its bio read “A different side of me…” NBC News first reported the account this week, noting its posts contained crude references to women, race, and LGBTQ people. Crowley’s campaign responded that the account was shared among multiple people, that he did not write the most inflammatory material, and that some posts may have come from a now-deceased associate.
On May 10, 2010, four days before Crowley turned 24, the account posted: “Follow No_pork_plz for those who don’t know it’s DC aka David bka Dirty or black ass dude hahaha… just STFU and follow.” The post, highlighted by The Heartland Post, directly identifies the operator as “DC aka David” using Crowley’s initials and first name along with his nickname “Dirty.”
Four days later, on May 14, 2010 — Crowley’s actual birthday — the same account posted a series of first-person messages celebrating the occasion:
- “Its My Birthday so you know i wanna ri-i-de Out…..( my trey songz voice )”
- “Guys, Today’s my Birthday That means I’m eating all the hotdogs and pork chops as possible..You down?”
The following day, the account continued in the same personal voice:
“Only thing I missed on last night was………..#noBirthdaycoon4me.”
These posts form a continuous first-person narrative of Crowley celebrating his birthday, inviting followers to meet him at a club, and recovering from the night before. The explicit self-identification as “DC aka David” four days earlier leaves little room for the campaign’s claim that the account was a collective enterprise controlled by a dozen others.
Crowley, the Milwaukee County executive who re-entered the Democratic gubernatorial primary as the establishment alternative to socialist Francesca Hong, has condemned the language on the account while acknowledging he made some personal entries. The birthday timeline and the self-naming tweet, however, form the clearest contradiction yet of the shared-access defense.
The account remained active into 2014 and at one point retweeted Crowley’s official @DavidCrowleyWI handle.
