The Daily Beast, he said, “is a Democratic organization, I don’t even follow that stuff”.
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WEST DEPTFORD, N.J. (AP) The Facebook page of a New Jersey Republican running for local office has called for the rape of a Washington-based reporter for The Daily Beast.
Nuzzi tweeted a screenshot of the vile comments, which included: “I”.
Krawitz is running for the West Deptford committee.
Olivia Nuzzi said that after she posted a story by a colleague, Brandy Zadrozny, about Donald Trump’s second wife, Mike Krawitz, a Republican candidate for the township council left comments on the post. Although numerous comments have since been removed, Nuzzi posted screenshots of the posts to her Twitter. The controversy began when Olivia Nuzzi, a reporter for the website The Daily Beast, exposed some very nasty and obscene social media posts directed towards her. – Mike Krawitz, a West Deptford Township Committee hopeful, has been asked to exit the race after accusations of harassing a reporter – including wishing on social media that she would be raped – were reported. However, through the day our leadership reviewed all the facts surrounding this matter and we can not find any reasonable reason to believe Mr. Krawitz’s account was hacked in anyway.
He accepted the nomination at the county clerk’s office, and was set to run with Joann Priga, facing Democrats James Robinson and Megan Kerr for two seats on Township Committee.
“It’s an embarrassment to the township that this is taking place”, he said.
Township Republican leaders released a statement saying they were led to believe Krawitz’s Facebook was hacked however, after reviewing the facts they “could not find any reasonable reason to believe Krawitz’s account was hacked in anyway”. The comments were posted on Facebook. But what is worse, is to call for violence against a female, as Mr. Krawitz did in a post yesterday and we as a party can not condone such repulsive, threatening or demeaning rhetoric of this kind being made by any person regardless of party. “We are in the process of contacting Twitter for confirmation that someone hacked his account and posted his facebook thumbnail on the hacked twitter entry”.
However, the Republican club’s Facebook page was unavailable, and the club hasn’t used Twitter in over a year.
Action News went to Krawitz’s home to ask him about the posts.
But then the woman returned and said, “He’s not here”.
“If he does not resign we will do whatever it takes to have him removed from the ballot”, party chairman Bob Waller said.
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“I have faith that most voters in New Jersey and around the country disapprove of hateful rhetoric of this nature”, Nuzzi said.
