Community figurehead resigns after hate charged comments wfsb.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wfsb.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Facing a firestorm of criticism, the longtime community leader who wrote more than a year’s worth of vitriolic Facebook posts resigned from the Bristol Rotary and as director of the city’s farmers market. But the controversy appears to have worsened the local partisan divide, with Republican leaders accusing Democrats of politicizing the matter and Democrats slamming the city’s GOP as coddling .
Author behind inflammatory Facebook posts in Bristol resigns courant.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from courant.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Wikimedia CommonsA city leader in Connecticut resigned from his post this week after a series of his racist antics online ahead of a white supremacist rally caused a stir, as community leaders call for more to be done to mitigate growing xenophobia.On Tuesday, Bristol Mayor Jeffrey Caggiano shared a Facebook post announcing Republican activist Jim Albert’s resignation from the Bristol Rotary Club due to “divisive comments.”“The statement was very troubling to me personally and after discussing t