Wisconsin: 19 Year-Old Republican State Assembly Candidate Cancels Campaign Over Racist/Homophobic Comments

Jacob Dorsey

A 19-year-old Republican candidate for Wisconsin State Assembly has ended his campaign after racist and homophobic comments he had made on Twitter and YouTube came to light.

From LGBTQNation:

Jacob Dorsey told The Janesville Gazette on Tuesday he was ending his campaign for the Assembly, just five days after apologizing for a Christmas Day 2013 tweet in which he said “fags need 2 leave my favorite state alone.”

Dorsey was commenting on Twitter after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit refused to issue a stay in a federal court ruling last year striking down Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage.

“I have decided to withdraw from the race due to insensitive remarks that have surfaced from years past,” Dorsey said in a statement to The Gazette. “This race has been extremely hard on my family and myself.”

Although Dorsey tried to add some "spin" that his comments were from "years ago," some of the comments were posted just five months before he announced his candidacy.

Clearly the young man is still on the immature side of life and not qualified to hold public office.

Dorsey says he plans to return to school to pursue a degree, having taken the semester off to run for public office.

See some of his YouTube comments below: