Lotus Formula 1 PR Guy Says He Was Fired For 'Supporting Gay Athletes'
Source: Jalopnik
Back in February, the Lotus F1 team's often irreverent Twitter account shot out a tweet pronouncing its support of gay athletes at the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. The tweet was deleted, and Lotus apologized for the "unauthorised" tweet. Now its former brand director is saying he was fired for it.
... Lotus Group Brand Director Stephane Samson was the genius behind it all, and he did a pretty swell job at it. But after the tweet went up on February 7th, it all seemed to go downhill, and Lotus' Russian investors were possibly behind it.
... By March 1st, it was announced that Samson had left the team. The circumstances seemed pretty clear, though it was unclear whether or not Samson quit voluntarily because of the incident, or whether he was fired.P
Today Samson went to Twitter to tell the world what happened, and he said it was exactly because of that tweet: "Just been told I was sacked because of my supporting tweet towards gay athletes at Sochi. Lotus=Putin. Please retweet. People must know."
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