Aide to California tax board member resigns over anti-Clinton hangman tweet

An aide to California Board of Equalization member Diane Harkey has resigned over posting to Twitter this week a picture of a hangman holding a noose with the message, “I’m Ready for Hillary.”

Nathan Miller, deputy district director in Harkey’s Riverside office for the tax board, submitted his resignation Thursday, according to Harkey’s office. Miller, a longtime Republican activist in the Inland Empire, also is vice president of the Riverside Community College District.

Wednesday’s tweet came from the account of the Riverside County Republican Party, according to The Press-Enterprise, which first reported the story. The tweet has since been removed.

Democrats said the post encouraged violence toward Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. “That is not political satire. That is a threat,” Howard Katz, the chairman of the Riverside County Democratic Party, told the newspaper.

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