Jeb Bush's top tech officer resigns over tweets calling women 'sluts'
Ethan Czahor, Jeb Bush's pick to run his proto-presidential political action committee, resigned Tuesday after his inflammatory social media musings came to light.
"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," a spokesperson for Bush said.
The co-founder of Hipster.com, Czahor came under fire Monday when BuzzFeed discovered years-old tweets in which he labeled women "sluts" and made disparaging remarks about gay people at the gym. Then Tuesday, The Huffington Post unearthed racially insensitive comments Czahor made on a college radio show about Martin Luther King Jr. not sagging his pants and speaking in "slang."
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