Ohio county official apologizes for Hillary Clinton remark
Jul 21, 2016 | 9:30 PM
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NEWARK, Ohio — A county official in Ohio is apologizing after a newspaper quoted him as saying that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton “should be hanging from a tree.”
Licking County Commissioner Duane Flowers read a prepared apology during a meeting on Thursday, after The (Newark) Advocate reported on the comment he made during a meeting earlier this week.
Flowers says he made the remark during a casual conversation with two other officials and a reporter from The Advocate that he thought was off the record.
Flowers says he knows that he “will never again have a casual conversation with a reporter.”
