A former Speaker of the House is addressed, and referred to as, Mr. x, not Speaker x. The current President of the United States is addressed, and referred to as, President, not Mr. x.
Do not assume other public officials, candidates for public office, radio or TV news hosts, newspaper reporters, or others know correct forms of address. Look it up yourself. It’s fun!
You will find authority for these pronouncements in any number of respected forms of address manuals, e.g. to name only two:
“Honda loses Civic hybrid Small Claims Court lawsuit,” by Jerry Hirsch, LA Times, Feb. 1, 2012
Link to the plaintiff’s website and twitter account and my previous posts.
If U.S. Supreme Court Justices can rise above their Green Bag bobblehead replicas, and state court judges survive becoming piñatas, then surely the Department of Homeland Security can survive Justice Bedsworth’s forked tongue (and the Peter Principle)?
“Weaponized Snow Cones,” by Justice William W. Bedsworth, A Criminal Waste of Space, February 2012:
“I am not cut out to be an administrator. I have neither talent for, nor interest in, things administrative.
The 2011 Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) are now online – yay!
You can find the 2011 ORS online at the Legislature’s website.
Oregon Legal Research Blog