GOP Rep. Schock’s Spox Under Fire for Racially-Charged Social Media Posts

Aaron Schock (R-IL) has had himself a week.

Just days after a Washington Post profile on the congressman’s Downtown Abbey-inspired office, which earned Schock an ethics complaint, the representative’s communications director Benjamin Cole is under scrutiny for racially-charged social media posts. Cole is the same spokesperson who spent most of Ben Terris’ article trying to keep Terris from posting the article.

ThinkProgress grabbed screenshots of Cole’s since-deleted Facebook posts in which the advisor appeared to be snarking about the need for gentrification in his D.C. neighborhood during the government shutdown of 2013:

They rounded up several other racially-charged posts, one from just last week:

In comments snagged by BuzzFeed, Cole elaborated on his feelings about African Americans, whom he labeled “criminals” and “miscreants,” in his neighborhood:

BuzzFeed also discovered a post in which Cole implied President Barack Obama was a Muslim:

[h/t ThinkProgress]
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