Jeb Bush Tech Officer Resigns Over Online Rants About Women, Gays, MLK

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks at the National Automobile Dealers Association convention in San Francisco, Friday, Jan. 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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The chief technology officer for former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s (R) political action committee was forced to resign late Tuesday after news websites uncovered his history of making inflammatory remarks online.

“The Right to Rise PAC accepted Ethan Czahor’s resignation today,” Bush’s potential 2016 group said in a statement, as quoted by the Huffington Post. “While Ethan has apologized for regrettable and insensitive comments, they do not reflect the views of Governor Bush or his organization and it is appropriate for him to step aside. We wish him the best.”

Czahor also acknowledged on Twitter that he’d left Bush’s PAC:

Shortly after Czahor’s hire was announced Monday, Buzzfeed surfaced several tweets from his account that referred to women as “sluts” and made derogatory comments about gay men. Czahor deleted the tweets at the request of the Right to Rise PAC and said on Twitter that he no longer found his past statements “funny or appropriate.”

Then on Tuesday, the Huffington Post published inflammatory remarks Czahor made about minorities on the website of a radio program he hosted while attending East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania.

HuffPost accessed the now-defunct website of “The Ethan Show” through an internet archive. In a 2008 blog post, Czahor praised Martin Luther King, Jr. for wearing pants that weren’t “sagging to his ankles” and for not speaking in “jibberish” or “slang.” He went on to argue that the civil rights icon wouldn’t have supported affirmative action programs and declared that “black parents need to get their sh@# together.”

Neither Czahor or Right to Rise PAC addressed those statements about minorities.

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  1. Still, the fact that you guys forced this man to resign only AFTER much fair media coverage of what he tweets–and obviously believes–shows that a) You don’t properly vet folks; b) You don’t care that these are the man’s views on other human beings; or c) You agree with the man’s beliefs. Not very positive options, there, Mr. Bush.

  2. Avatar for imkmu3 imkmu3 says:

    I’m going with all of the above.

  3. Avatar for jw1 jw1 says:

    Jeb Bush Tech Officer Resigns Over Online Rants About Women, Gays, MLK

    Next guy to be no better-- just anonymous online.

    jw1

  4. Jeb is “W” in disguise.

  5. This is the pool of young Republicans techies that bush has to choose from. Our team may as well start vetting his potential picks now before the rest of them attempt to erase themselves also.
    The not old and smarmy yet Republicans aren’t their grandparents sort of conservatives, these are the hateful, greedy, hell-bent on their version of the constitution and bible, uncompromising goofs with on-line pasts.
    The on-line past part is the death knell that goes off the second that a potential campaign team member is chosen. The cyber trail is more damaging than their Wiki page.
    Jeb has also chosen Condoleeza Rice, I think as his education czar, so that puts bush and modern conservatives in perspective. The old Cheneyesque crew compiled with the new Romney/Ryand type of thinkers. Jebs words are hollow compared to the depth of “conservatism” that is being displayed.

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