Aide to Scott Stringer Resigns Over ‘O-Dumb-a’ Facebook Posts
Scott Stringer.Photo: Getty Images
Lee Landor thinks that Henry Louis Gates "is a racist," our president is "O-dumb-a," and racial profiling exists "for good reason." Also, she thinks it's okay to post things like that on her Facebook page when she's acting as the Manhattan borough president's deputy press secretary. Or she thought so until recently, when she was forced to resign over it. [NYT]

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