One of the chief
campaign bloggers for Democratic presidential candidate
John Edwards quit Monday after conservative critics raised
questions about her history of provocative online
messages.
Amanda Marcotte
posted on her personal blog, Pandagon, that the criticism
''was creating a situation where I felt that every time I
coughed, I was risking the Edwards campaign.''
Marcotte said she resigned from her position Monday
and that her resignation was accepted by the campaign.
Bill Donohue,
president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil
Rights, demanded last week that Edwards fire Marcotte and a
second blogger, Melissa McEwan, for remarks he deemed
anti-Catholic. Edwards, a former North Carolina
senator, called the messages personally offensive but
decided to keep Marcotte and McEwan on staff.
''No matter what
you think about the campaign, I signed on to be a
supporter and a tireless employee for them, and if I can't
do the job I was hired to do because Bill Donohue
doesn't have anything better to do with his time than
harass me, then I won't do it,'' Marcotte wrote Monday
night. (AP)
