Acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney Appointed Racist Policy Official
Acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney Bypassed Competitive Hiring Policy By Appointing Racist Policy Official CFPB Policy Official Eric Blankenstein wrote racist blog posts in 2004. Senate Democrats have called for acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney to explain the vetting process that led to the hiring of a political appointee whose past includes incendiary writings. In 2004, CFPB Policy Official Eric Blankenstein blogged whether the n-word was inherently racist. He also makes the claim that the great majority of hate crimes were actually hoaxes. Blankenstein also posted a rant that refuted a proposal at the University of Virginia that called for harsher academic penalties for intolerant acts. Fine… let’s say they called him n—–. Would that make them racists, or just a——-? He also asserted that: Hate-crime hoaxes are about three times as prevalent as actual hate crimes. The blog posts have caused upheaval at the agency. 13 Democratic Senators ...