Rep. Aaron Schock's PR Man Resigns Over Racist Posts
His Facebook profile was public
Remember Benjamin Cole? Earlier this week, the comms director for Illinois Representative Aaron Schock won some unwanted headlines for refusing to let a Washington Post reporter see his boss’s Downton Abbey-inspired office.
Yesterday, Schock responded to the #DowntonOffice controversy (yes, really) and a complaint from a congressional ethics group by agreeing to pay for said renovations, which look quite nice.
But things got a whole lot worse for Cole this morning: the liberal site Think Progress examined his (public) Facebook page and found a few posts that are…well…
These posts from October 2013 included a video, shot from the window of Cole’s apartment in D.C.,
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