http://www.annarbor.com/news/former-assistant-attorney-general-andrew-shirvell-warned-about-sending-anti-gay-e-mails-before-launc/Report details past problems with former Michigan assistant AG who targeted U-M student body president with anti-gay attacks
Topics: News, UM Campus
By: David Jesse
AnnArbor.com Staff
Posted: Jan 23, 2011 at 6:01 AM
Former Michigan assistant attorney general Andrew Shirvell was warned about using state resources to launch anti-gay attacks on politicians two months before he began targeting the University of Michigan’s student body president, newly released documents show.
The earlier warning stemmed from an e-mail Shirvell sent at 11:57 a.m. Feb. 3 to a former state representative before a protest planned at the Capitol building. The nature of the protest isn’t clear.
“The grassroots will NEVER let you and your (gay slur) ….. hijack our pro-life, pro-family party in pursuit of your PERVETED radical homosexual agenda,” Shirvell wrote to former state Rep. Leon Drolet and others.
A recipient of the e-mail contacted the attorney general’s office, prompting his supervisors to warn Shirvell not to use state resources that way again and not to “engage in that conduct again,” according to an investigation report compiled by the attorney general’s office and obtained by AnnArbor.com.
But he did, the documents say, eventually leading to a 586-page investigative report on which Shirvell’s firing was based.
The investigation was launched after Shirvell, an U-M alumnus, drew national attention for his anti-gay blog attacking Chris Armstrong, the university’s first openly gay student body president. Shirvell started the blog last April.
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