A former aide to a Republican Rhode Island gubernatorial candidate who resigned over previous racist and sexist tweets has misplaced a job with the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s Office after these posts once more got here to gentle.
Andrew Augustus, who give up in 2018 because the press secretary for the GOP candidate for governor Allan Fung, had lately began a brand new job as a public affairs specialist with the native U.S. Attorney’s Office based mostly in Boston.
Augustus was “hired and vetted by a contract agency to work at the U.S. Attorney’s Office,” a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins Office mentioned in an announcement on Wednesday.
“Information recently came to light about this individual that had never been disclosed to our Office,” added the spokesperson, Christina Sterling.
“We took immediate steps to notify the contracting agency about the allegations and to better understand the situation,” she mentioned. “As a result, this individual no longer works at the U.S. Attorney’s Office.”
Augustus was once the communications adviser for Fung, who was Cranston’s mayor and who in 2018 was working for governor of Rhode Island.
Ahead of the election, the GOP aide’s previous tweets as a school scholar surfaced, resulting in his resignation.
Those tweets included, “new conspiracy theory the white folk set up obama to be elected after bush so he would fail so america would never vote a black man in again.”
He additionally tweeted prior to now, “Black people + ice skates = hilarity.”
Another of his tweets mentioned, “Lucky to be where I am in life, I have the balls to say what others are thinking I am going to get a tattoo on my chest saying No Fat Chicks.”
Back in 2018 when the posts got here to gentle, Augustus tweeted, “I deeply regret the tweets I made in college. They are not reflective of who I am and I am wholeheartedly sorry to anyone they may have offended. Dialogue like that is not appropriate in any type of environment and should never be tolerated. I have resigned from my position.”
His first day with the U.S. Attorney’s Office was on Feb. 13, when he tweeted about shopping for a go well with “to ensure I am looking my best.”
One week into the job, he tweeted a photograph of the Moakley U.S. Courthouse and wrote, “First week of new job is in the books, great experience with a great team.”
Augustus declined to remark to the Herald on Wednesday.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”