'F*cking stupid': #onpoli reacts to PC staffer's CELLfies

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The Greens upped the ante in the Grits’ “Draft Mike” movement and the Health Minister dropped more hints on the health funding deal with the feds — but first, we round up the spicy reaction to our scoop on a SolGen staffer’s jail selfies.

LOCK HIM UP — Queen’s Park is buzzing about the candid photo-ops ZACHARY ZARNETT-KLEIN — press secretary to Solicitor General MICHAEL KERZNER — took in jail and police cells. Catch up on the story — now our second-most popular — here.

Zarnett-Klein apologized and deleted the photos — but that wasn’t good enough for some #onpoli watchers.

Here’s what they had to say:

“I would have expected a level of baseline respect for the position, which is why I was especially pissed about the Zach situation,” said one PC staffer who’s worked on the corrections file. “I don’t want to deep-six my folks at Solgen, I know a lot of them still there and a lot of them are good people. But I’ll tell them to their face: I think they’re being fucking stupid ab…