Ethan Czahor, Jeb Bush's Fired CTO, is Guilty of Being a Young Conservative

Czahor's old blog becomes fodder to attack the Bushes.
Photographer: N·ria Talavera/Moment Mobile
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The important fact to know about Ethan Czahor is that he graduated from college in 2009. Czahor, a technologist who was recently hired, and then abruptly fired Tuesday as the chief technology officer of Jeb Bush's nascent presidential campaign, came of age in a time when social media and blogging software offered infinite real estate and audience reach to anybody with an opinion. Young people have opinions. Fire, meet tinder.

Yes, Czahor was a young conservative. In another era he might have published college newspaper columns, vetted by an editor. Instead, he lived in the age of blogging. That's set Czahor up to be the umpteenth youngish politico to have the worst of his old thoughts blurted across the Internet, just days after Illinois Representative Aaron Schock's communications director resigned over racially insensitive Facebook posts, and not long after an aide to Tennessee Representative Stephen Fincher resigned because she'd Facebooked some critical opinions about the First Family.