Twitter Troll Is Forced To Resign As Congressional Campaign Manager

Want to know how being an asshole on Twitter can screw up your real life?  @ComfortablySmug on Twitter, tweeted a number of false reports during Sandy, including that the New York Stock Exchange was flooded and that utility company ConEd was preemptively shutting down power in all of Manhattan.

Buzzfeed.com outed him and today Shashank Tripathi was forced to resign from Republican Christopher Wight’s campaign.  Wight is running in New York’s 12th congressional district for U.S. House.

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