STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The New York State Republican Party has voted to suspend the operations of the New York State Young Republicans after members of the group, including several Staten Islanders, were alleged to have participated in a leaked text thread riddled with hate speech.

The text thread, exposed by Politico, included references to Hitler, gas chambers and discriminatory remarks targeting various groups.

“The Young Republicans was already grossly mismanaged, and vile language of the sort made in the group chat has no place in our party or its subsidiary organizations,” New York GOP chair Ed Cox said in a statement following the vote.

In a letter to the National Federation of Young Republicans, Cox wrote: “Moving forward the New York State Young Republicans shall be suspended

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