Kelly staffer apologizes for calling police ‘pigs’ in tweet
U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kelly’s spokesman has the former astronaut in hot water over an obscene tweet about police in the days before the campaign brought him on board.
Deputy campaign spokesman T.J.
L’heureux tweeted the inflammatory message six days before Kelly’s campaign hired him.
First reported by the Washington
Free Beacon, the University of Chicago graduate reacted to a video of Chicago Police officers taking umbrellas from protesters on Wacker Drive that had been shielding others who had been throwing frozen water bottles and other projectiles at law enforcement.
“@Chicago_police you worthless f---ing pigs,” he tweeted in reposting a video that’s since been deleted.
He announced less than a week later that he’d been hired by the Kelly campaign.
L’heureux offered up an apology to the Arizona Republic late Thursday for his remarks.