Raven Ziegler from Minneapolis protests the name nickname of the Washington team. (Photo by Hannah Foslien/Getty Images)

Photo by Hannah Foslien/Getty Images.

It’s been less than two weeks since the Washington football team hired political blogger Ben Tribbett to help defend the team on the controversy surrounding their name and he’s already resigning.

On Twitter last night, Tribbett tweeted his plans for resignation, citing that “political attacks have shifted toward being personal,” as the chief reason for stepping down. A request for comment by Tribbett to elaborate on the decision has yet to be returned, but CBS DC, who first broke the story, says that the “exact cause of Tribbett’s sudden and strange change of heart remains unclear at the moment.”

Tribbett, a left-leaning political blogger who started the blog “Not Larry Sabato,” was hired on June 26 by the team to help defend against the mounting pressure to get the team to change their name. In an interview with Richmond’s NBC affiliate, Tribbett said he’s “been a [Washington football team] fan [his] entire life,” and that “it is an honor to help the team promote a tradition that means so much to so many people.”

Tribbett was known for breaking the story of former Virginia Senator George Allen—brother of Washington football team executive Bruce Allen—referring to a political opponent as a “macaca” in ’06.

Though Tribbett is stepping down from his position with the team, his position on the controversy over team’s name has not swayed:

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