Andrew Gillum campaign loses Manny Orozco-Ballestas after offensive tweets emerge
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Andrew Gillum campaign loses Manny Orozco-Ballestas after offensive tweets emerge
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Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum gestures as he speaks to members of Florida’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community, Monday, Sept. 24, 2018, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) more >
By Andrew Blake -
The Washington Times - Saturday, September 29, 2018
Manny Orozco-Ballestas no longer works for the campaign of Andrew Gillum, the Democratic nominee for Florida governor, after a local blogger circulated several of the former staffer’s purported past Twitter posts, including one imploring President Trump’s execution.
“The type of language this young man used on social media before his employment with our campaign is unacceptable and he will no longer be working with the campaign,” Gillum campaign spokesperson Joshua Karp in a statement, The Tampa Bay Times first reported Saturday.
Confirmation of Mr. Orozco-Ballestas‘ departure came shortly after Jacob Engels, the publisher of the fringe Central Florida Post blog, shared screenshots on Twitter of several crude tweets attributed to the former Gillum campaign youth director dating back to 2012.
Among the screenshots circulated by Mr. Engles were images of tweets in which Twitter user @OrozcoBallestas made sexist remarks containing an expletive for a male appendage.
“If you weren’t so ugly I would put my [expletive] in your face,” the user tweeted in April 2012, according to Mr. Engels. “If you can take a [expletive] you can take a job,” they allegedly tweeted that December.
Tweeting to the future president in 2013, according to Mr. Engels, the same user tweeted: “@realDonaldTrump: you need to be executed.”
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