A Jewish candidate for U.S. senator fired a staffer who posted racist and anti-Semitic comments on a blog. Rep. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), who won Maryland’s Democratic nomination for Senate last week, fired the staffer after the posts included references to Oreo cookies.
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