Thursday, May 1, 2014

Boehner's GOP Primary Opponent Fired From His Job For Running Against Boehner?

Is the lesson to be learned here: Run against John Boehner and get fired from your job? J.D. Winteregg is suggesting that his employer was pressured to fire him because he's running against John Boehner.




(NY Daily News) The zingers in the low-quality production may have earned the candidate cred in the “SNL” writers’ room, but his boss at Cedarville University — an independent Baptist school where he works as an adjunct professor — didn’t find it funny and fired him.

College officials told him “because of the nature of the ad, we feel we need to end the relationship at this time,” Winteregg told reporters.

The candidate suggests Team Boehner likely pressured the college to expedite his departure.

The school said only that the video "did not represent the views or values of Cedarville University."

But the school has already been criticized for censorship, after officials allegedly shut down the college’s underground paper, The Ventriloquist.

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Posted By: Chris Carmouche