After incendiary remarks toward Jews and a turbulent week in the spotlight, political consultant Ed Rollins has resigned from Sen. Bob Dole’s (R-Kan.) presidential campaign.
“I’m tired of it,” Rollins wrote in his resignation letter to Dole. “I just don’t want to go through it anymore,” he wrote, presumably referring to his career as a campaign consultant.
Speaking at a campaign fund-raising roast for California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown earlier this month, Rollins said Brown’s true desire was to be mayor of Los Angeles.
If elected, Rollins said, Brown “could show those two Hymie boys, Berman and Waxman, who were always trying to make Willie feel inferior for not being Jewish.”
Rollins was referring to California Reps. Howard Berman and Henry Waxman, both Democrats.
Rollins later apologized for the remarks.
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