MARQUETTE COUNTY, MI - Dan Adamini has resigned.

Adamini, former secretary of the Marquette County Republican Party, had faced intense national scrutiny over remarks he made on social media comparing recent protests on college campuses to the 1970 shooting at Kent State in which National Guardsmen shot 13 unarmed college students, killing four.

According to the Associated Press, Adamini said he has received hundreds of death threats over the uproar.

"Whenever you're involved in an organization, you want to be an asset," he told the AP.

"At the moment I've become a distraction, and that's not helping anybody. I stepped aside so hopefully the people that are so angry will feel that they've accomplished what they set out to do, and maybe we can all get on with our lives."

The now-deleted posts on Twitter and Facebook received significant criticism and prompted the Michigan Democratic Party to take a screenshot of the remarks.

Kent State President Beverly Warren also weighed in. She condemned Adamini's comments as an "abhorrent and painful use of our (KSU's) tragedy."