take a leave of absence. no one in mr. cox s the attorney general s office saddam hussein comme attorney general s office has commented how long that will be. all we know he s not at work today. at this point he has disappeared. what else have we been getting from the attorney general who came on air here at cnn who defended shirvell s right to that first amendment speech. has he come out and changed his mind in any form or fashion as far as disciplinary action against shirvell? his office has said there will be some sort of disciplinary hearing once shirvell comes back to work. exactly what that is, it s unclear. in a radio appearance this morning, mr. cox still continued to defend andrew shirvell s ability to say what he wanted to say while also decrying, saying he was an internet bully and he was picking on the student. i think some of the new stuff from mr. cox this morning was he was talking about how andrew
citizen off work time as the university of michigan alum. we re quibbling over tactics. we re not quibbling over substance. the substance of the matter is chris armstrong is a radical homosexual activist who got elected partly funded by the gay and lesbian victory fund to promote a very deeply radical agenda at the university of michigan. well, the very next night, shirvell s boss michigan attorney general mike cox told ac 360 shirvell is clearly a bully but has a first amendment right to air his opinions. now word comes that shirvell has taken a voluntary leave of absence. duration of that leave of absence is unknown right now. i want to turn to david jesse, journalist with the site annarbor.com. what do we know about this leave of absence? what happened here? we don t know very much about it. sometime late thursday afternoon, we re hearing that andrew shirvell, the assistant attorney general, decided to
shirvell was showing up at chris armstrong, the student body president s house at 1:00, 1:30 in the morning to picket ape take pictures and do stuff like that. what else for our viewers is there anything else we need to know about the relationship between shirvell and attorney general cox? it s one thing to defend an employee s first amendment right but are they close, do they have a history where he would be taking up for a friend if you will? we re still trying to explore fully what the link is between the two. we do know that andrew shirvell was a paid employee of mr. cox back in 2006 during on his campaign staff as he ran for attorney general. it s unclear mike cox ran this year for governor it s unclear whether he worked on that campaign or not. is that site still up and running that shirvell had that was essentially blasting the kid at michigan? late last night, i think