A Republican deputy mayor with a pretty cool name, Rick Blood, apologized and resigned over comparing illegal aliens to rabid raccoons in a Facebook post.

Here’s the post:







Here’s his apology:

Mendham Township Deputy Mayor Rick Blood apologizes for his Facebook post on immigration, minutes before his resignation effective at midnight is announced pic.twitter.com/LF7EpHr5Su — Rob Jennings (@RobJenningsNJ) February 13, 2018

Dramatic moment of the night, activists take a photo as Deputy Mayor Rick Blood walks out of the Mendham Twp. council chambers after tendering his resignation, condemned for a Facebook post he shared comparing undocumented immigrants to 'rabid, messy raccoons.' pic.twitter.com/9j2GhPpxdD — Bob Karp (@BobKarpDR) February 13, 2018

BREAKING: Mendham Township Deputy Mayor Rick Blood has resigned, effective midnight, after being heavily criticized over his Facebook post on immigration pic.twitter.com/Z6ocyxpgME — Rob Jennings (@RobJenningsNJ) February 13, 2018

That’s just not a smart thing to do. I know that on the right it’s fashionable to say more and more extreme things against illegal aliens to prove how much you hate them, but I really think it should be beneath us. We can be against illegal immigration, as I am, while not having to demonize illegals. If we really want to make a difference and push the ball forward on this issue, we need to draw people to our side, and being so vitriolic doesn’t help.

But apart from the way he described illegals, his main point is still relevant – it’s the complete breakdown in trust of the government that has led so many to vote for someone like Trump to just shut it all down. I have many sympathies with the position.