Andrew Shirvell says he shouldn't have been fired

Former assistant state attorney general Andrew Shirvell says he didn't do anything that should have resulted in his firing, the Detroit Free Press reports.

Shirvell was fired in November for using state resources for his campaign against University of Michigan student body President Chris Armstrong and for lying to investigators during his disciplinary hearing, former Attorney General Mike Cox said at the time.

Andrew Shirvell speaks at a Michigan Student Assembly meeting.

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Armstrong was the first openly gay student body president at U-M and had been accused by Shirvell of pushing a “radical homosexual agenda.”

Shirvell says in his filing with the state Civil Service Commission that the charges against him were not substantiated and, "even if proved, firing him was improper and 'arbitrary and capricious,'" the Free Press reported.

Wednesday, a federal judge denied Shirvell's request to seal his videotaped deposition in a lawsuit Armstrong filed against him.

Shirvell kept a blog accusing Armstrong of pushing a "radical homosexual agenda" and appeared at several Michigan Student Assembly meetings to protest Armstrong, holding signs — including ones with a rainbow with a swatiska drawn over it. Shirvell was banned by university officials from stepping foot on campus.