Jeffrey Dye, president of the Passiac, NJ NAACP, was fired from his job with the Gov. Phil Murphy administration after a reporter discovered anti-Semitic and anti-Latino posts on his Facebook page:
#BREAKING Jeffrey Dye, a Murphy administration official under fire for making anti-Semitic and anti-Latino comments on his Facebook page, was fired today from his job at the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development, The New Jersey Globe is reporting.
— Shlomo Schorr (@OneJerseySchorr) August 20, 2019
The posts were first reported on by David Wildstein of the New Jersey Globe:
Murphy administration fires Jeffrey Dye for ant-Semitic, anti-Latino Facebook rants. https://t.co/y9FubPKdiJ
— David Wildstein (@wildstein) August 20, 2019
But the Murphy administration is still silent on why they hired Dye in the first place:
"After 2 days of silence since his administration fired an employee for his anti-Semitic social media posts, @GovMurphy refused to say who hired Jeffrey Dye and whether he personally knew of Dye's criminal history."https://t.co/qzUS0gYONa
— Ashley Balcerzak (@abalcerzak) August 22, 2019
When Wildstein called Dye to follow-up on his firing, Dye allegedly said, “I don’t talk to f***ing Jews”:
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Spoke briefly to Jeffrey Dye about his future with @naacp, but the call didn't last long. https://t.co/w0fswv3AHG
— David Wildstein (@wildstein) August 27, 2019
Later on Facebook, Dye denied his comment to Wildstein and said it was a lie from a Jewish reporter and all part of a “COINTELPRO & JEWISH MEDIA PROPAGANDA ASSASSINATION HIT TEAM”:
On Facebook, Jeffrey Dye denies he said, "I don't talk to fucking Jews." I stand behind my story. Here's his response.https://t.co/w0fswv3AHG pic.twitter.com/AOLMY1nDwV
— David Wildstein (@wildstein) August 29, 2019
Wow. Time for this guy to go:
New Jersey Democratic State Chairman John Curie has called on embattled Passaic NAACP President Jeffrey Dye to resign.https://t.co/F5WtyMU5ag
— David Wildstein (@wildstein) August 28, 2019
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