{"id":176122,"date":"2020-08-31T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/08\/31\/saying-the-quiet-part-out-loud\/"},"modified":"2020-08-31T18:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T23:43:00","slug":"saying-the-quiet-part-out-loud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/08\/31\/saying-the-quiet-part-out-loud\/","title":{"rendered":"Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maryland Governor rat-f%$#, aka Paul Hogan, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marylandmatters.org\/2020\/08\/29\/hogan-administration-official-praises-teen-kenosha-shooter-on-social-media-sparking-furor\/\">just fired  Arthur (Mac) Love IV, his now former deputy director of the Governor\u2019s Office of Community Initiatives for social media posts lauding white supremacist terrorist Kyle Rittenhouse<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hogan has always had a racist undertones to his campaigns, but the rule is that you don&#8217;t say it out loud:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A member of the Hogan administration who had been posting statements, photos and memes on social media that appear to applaud the 17-year-old vigilante who allegedly shot three protesters on the streets of Kenosha, Wis., this week, was fired on Saturday afternoon.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The posts by Arthur (Mac) Love IV, who had been the deputy director of the Governor\u2019s Office of Community Initiatives, have attracted widespread attention on social media over the last several hours, sparking a furor. The chairman of the Maryland Legislative Black Caucus called on the staffer to be fired.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Shortly after 2 p.m. Saturday, Steven J. McAdams, executive director of the Governor\u2019s Office of Community Initiatives, issued a statement saying Love had been \u201crelieved\u2026of his duties.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThese divisive images and statements are inconsistent with the mission and core values of the Office of Community Initiatives,\u201d McAdams said. \u201cEarlier today, I relieved this employee of his duties. Kevin Craft, administrative director of the Governor\u2019s Commission on African Affairs, will assume these duties effective immediately.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryland Governor rat-f%$#, aka Paul Hogan, has just fired Arthur (Mac) Love IV, his now former deputy director of the Governor\u2019s Office of Community Initiatives for social media posts lauding white supremacist terrorist Kyle Rittenhouse. Hogan has always had a racist undertones to his campaigns, but the rule is that you don&#8217;t say it out &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[506,364,466,373],"class_list":["post-176122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-evil","tag-maryland","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}