SANTA MONICA, CA -- A Southern California doctor has abruptly resigned as the leader of Courage Campaign, a progressive advocacy group in California on Monday, five days after referring to Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party as corporate "whores."

Courage Campaign sent out a release Monday morning announcing the resignation of Dr. Paul Y. Song without any explanation. When pressed for the reason of the resignation, a Courage Campaign representative told Patch she couldn't comment on the matter.

The resignation came on the heel of a controversial comment Dr. Song made about the former Secretary of State and the Democratic Party. Speaking at a Bernie Sanders rally in Washington Square Park in New York City last Thursday, Dr. Song railed at Clinton and the Democratic Party for what he deemed as their failures to enact meaningful health care reform.

"Well, I agree with Secretary Clinton that Medicare-for-all will never happen if we have a president who never aspires for something greater than the status quo," he said. "Medicare-for-all will never happen if we continue to elect corporate Democratic whores who are beholden to Big Pharma and the private insurance industry instead of us." The Sanders campaign was forced to issue an apology the following day.

"Dr. Song's comment was inappropriate and insensitive. There's no room for language like that in our political discourse," Sanders tweeted.

Dr. Song, a prominent oncologist in Santa Monica, also apologized, calling the remark "insensitive."



Since then, Dr. Song has deleted this twitter account. Efforts by Patch to reach Dr. Song for comments have been unsuccessful. Many of Hillary Clinton supporters seized on the comment, taking to twitter to remind Dr. Song it was Bill Clinton who secured the release of his sister-in-law, journalist Laura Ling, from North Korea.