Baltimore MD - Congressman Cardin Fires Campaign Staffer Over Racial Comments

Baltimore MD - Rep. Benjamin Cardin has fired a campaign staffer who wrote racially and anti-Semitic charged comments on an Internet blog against his opponent, Republican Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, who is black.

The 10-term congressman Cardin also condemned the anti-Semitic comments written by the female staffer on her Internet blog. "I am deeply offended and disgusted by the blog's racial and anti-Semitic overtones," the 10-term congressman said in the statement. "The staff person responsible was promptly dismissed and will have nothing to do with my campaign."
A spokeswoman for Lt. Gov. Steele, sharply criticized the comments on the blog. "It is deeply disturbing to learn that a staff member of ten-term Congressman Ben Cardin would keep a blog chronicling racial prejudices toward Lt. Gov. Steele and others," Sellers said. "This is the kind of attitude and gutter politics that Marylanders are sick of and why they are ready for change."

Some of the comments on the blog she wrote was, that while she likes the candidate she is working for, "I do not, however, like some of my candidate's friends."
Cardin is Jewish.
"They are large men with strong, loud voices and Jewish noses," she wrote. "They are also overly friendly." "She continued: "Some of the guys who have been with my candidate for years are like that. They don't mean anything by it; it's just the way they are. I wish that made it less uncomfortable."