Allen West’s incoming chief of staff resigns

From WhoRunsGov.com, run by The Washington Post:

Washington can be a really rough town for people who are even a little bit, uh, unusual.

Apparently realizing this, conservative South Florida radio personality Joyce Kaufman said on her radio show Thursday she would not be coming to Washington, D.C., after all to be chief of staff to incoming Florida Republican Rep. Allen West. Her resignations follows a flurry of negative attention from blogs and cable stations after announced Thursday that she'd be taking up the chief post.

“I will not be used in an electronic lynching by proxy,” Kaufman said Thursday.

“You guys can do all the things you want to me, but I will not participate in you trying to destroy him,” she said on her WFTL-850 AM radio show of West, whom she has called a “distinguished, monumental man.”

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