He didn't get fired. He resigned, at least according to the report in the sun.
Granted--but the press basically hounded him and would have hounded the governor to do so to the point where it would have distracted from the governor's mission. Which is typical MSM. Find something irrelevant and make it an issue, so Republicans have to deal with that distraction and Rats cluck negatively, instead of making Democrats deal with their inability to express their side of issues to the American public and get elected.
I don't know the whole story, but it sounds to me like MSM mountains-made-outta-molehills again.