Manny Orozco-Ballestas, recently hired to oversee youth outreach for Florida Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum’s campaign, was fired late last week due to a trove of incendiary and offensive social media posts, including ones critical of President Donald Trump. In now-deleted tweets from 2012 and 2013, the staffer made a variety of sexist and fat-shaming comments. The news of Orozco-Ballestas’ dismissal was first reported by The Miami Herald and The Tampa Bay Times on Saturday. The Gillum campaign declined to comment further on his firing, including about the timing or exact reason. What I tweeted as an immature student many years ago is not a reflection of the man I am today.”Orozco-Ballestas has had a history of questionable social media posts.

Source: Huffington Post October 01, 2018 13:41 UTC