N.J. GOP Official Quits After Posting Offensive Images Of Kamala Harris, Then Backtracks
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Upper Township Republican Hobart Young resigned his seat on the Upper Township Committee after posting vile images of Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris on social media. Now he says he’ll go to court to get his seat back. A Republican elected official in Cape May County, New Jersey, recently resigned from his post after posting vulgar, manipulated images of Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris on social media. But now he’s saying he never officially stepped down and he wants his seat back, vowing to go to court to reclaim it. Hobard “Hobie” Young was a member of the Upper Township Committee until last week, after he caused an uproar by sharing doctored images of Harris in sexually suggestive poses on his Facebook page. People shared his posts with comments of disgust and anger. Young has since deleted the images and, it appears, his Facebook account. But HuffPost obtained screenshots of the images before they were taken down. One depicts Harris performing fellatio on the letter “J” in the logo for Joe Biden ’s Democratic presidential campaign. The other depicts a wide shot of the Oct. 7 debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Harris, whose legs under […]