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Jeb Bush’s Chief Technology Officer Resigns After Racially Insensitive Comments

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February 11, 2015

In this Nov. 20, 2014 file photo, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

(The Washington Post) – Jeb Bush accepted the resignation late Tuesday of the digital guru he had recruited for his likely 2016 presidential campaign after racially insensitive comments the aide previously made surfaced and threatened to undermine Bush’s bid for the White House.

Ethan Czahor, who had been hired as chief technology officer for Bush’s Right to Rise political action committee in preparation for Bush’s likely campaign, made a string of inflammatory remarks in 2008 on the Web site of his college radio show.

The comments, first reported Tuesday afternoon by The Huffington Post, included Czahor’s praise for the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for not speaking in “jibberish” nor wearing “pants sagged to his ankles,” as well as commentary that “black parents need to get their sh@# together” because too many black babies were being born into single-parent households.

Within a few hours of the revelations, Czahor, a co-founder of Hipster.com, offered his resignation and Bush accepted it. “The Right to Rise PAC accepted Ethan Czahor’s resignation today,” Bush spokeswoman Kristy Campbell said in a statement. “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.”

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