Mark Kelly disciplines staffer who called cops "worthless f***ing pigs"

Mark Kelly disagrees with his spokescretin's characterization of police officers as "worthless fu**ing pigs" after the Washington Free Beacon reported on the staffer's disgusting comments.

According to Kelly's campaign for the Arizona Senate, they have taken "appropriate action" to deal with the verbal excrement by TJ L'Heureux, Kelly's deputy press secretary. The campaign describes L'Heureux as a "junior staffer," others describe him as a freaking scumwafer. The junior staffer also apologized for his words, calling them "wrong."

That isn't much of an apology--blaming the words rather than blaming himself for saying such words externalizes the blame when it should be internalized. L'Heureux isn't sorry, that I'm sure.

Kelly and his crew likely don't care that he said the words, however, they care that the public discovered that he did, and that might hurt his chances of winning his senate election. 

"Our campaign values the public service, bravery and sacrifice of police officers across our nation," Kelly’s press secretary Jacob Peters claimed. "The tweet posted by a junior staff member is unacceptable and we are taking the appropriate action," he told the Arizona Republic.

Peters claimed the campaign was not aware of their staffer's comments until the Free Beacon article was published on Thursday. The Free Beacon had reached out to Peters for comment on Wednesday afternoon, prior to publication, and received no response.

Kelly, whose parents are retired cops, posed as a moderate on criminal justice issues in his race against the Republican incumbent, Sen. Martha McSally. He claims he doesn’t support the "defund the police" movement, popular with leftists,  but he believes that there is systemic racism in the law enforcement system, which his parents evidently participated in. 

On Aug. 17, L’Heureux directed a tweet to the Chicago PD: "You worthless fucking pigs" and linked it to a video showing Chicago cops clashing with anti-police demonstrators. The following week, L'Heureux officially began working for Kelly's campaign.

"I deeply regret my comment and apologize for what I wrote—I was wrong," L'Heureux said in a statement published by the Arizona Republic on Thursday. "My comment does not reflect who I am or what I believe, and most importantly, it is not representative of what this campaign stands for. The language I used and the sentiment I conveyed do not belong in our political process, which is why I have deleted the tweet."

Of course he was trying to save his job.

Joe Clure, the executive director of the Arizona Police Association, a trade association for state law enforcement entities, called L’Heureux’s statement "frankly disgusting."

"It sadly isn’t the first time I’ve seen this from Democratic campaign personnel," Clure told the Free Beacon. "I hope that [Kelly] fires [the staffer] immediately to show that he doesn’t condone this kind of attitude that police are ‘fucking worthless.’"

We are still waiting for his next move.

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