GOP lawmaker's aide fired over offensive claims on Florida shooting survivors

GOP lawmaker's aide fired over offensive claims on Florida shooting survivors
GOP lawmaker's aide fired over offensive claims on Florida shooting survivors

A Florida state representative's aide was fired from his position on Tuesday after he sent an email to a reporter alleging that two outspoken survivors of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were "actors."

Benjamin Kelly, an aide to State Rep. Shawn Harrison, R-Tampa, was fired after emailing the Tampa Bay Times' Washington bureau chief Alex Leary to say that David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez, two students who have been extremely vocal about gun laws following the attack, were paid crisis actors.

"Both kids in the picture are not students here but actors that travel to various crisis when they happen," he wrote in his message.

Leary said he had never before spoken to Kelly and that the email was completely unsolicited.

Source: Yahoo News