Jessica Benham, young as she is, looks every inch the part of the bitter liberal.
Posted on 02/19/2020 11:50:58 AM PST by simpson96
A Pennsylvania Democrat endorsed by a local committee to run for the state's seat in the House of Representatives is facing backlash after the contender she defeated dredged up old posts made on social media indicating she bashed Hillary Clinton and expressed her support for President Trump instead.
Heather Kass, of Pittsburgh's Carrick neighborhood, apologized for the resurfaced Facebook posts, in which she slammed recipients of ObamaCare, saying "THESE LAZY NO GOOD IDIOTS SUCKING THE SYSTEM DRY AND I STILL HAVE TO PAY FOR THEM."
She also wrote in the post from 2015, "GO TRUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!" with 12 exclamation points, according to reports by the Pittsburgh City Paper.
A year earlier, Kass also shared another post on Facebook from the right-wing group Freedom Works, decrying that they did not want Hillary Clinton to become president in 2016.
Kass, a moderate Democrat was endorsed by the Allegheny County Democratic Party on Monday despite the posts, to replace retiring Rep. Harry Readshaw, D-Penn., in April. She was selected after beating another more liberal candidate, Jessica Benham, by a landslide, 49 to 19 for the endorsement.
Democrats will decide on a final nominee for the seat in April.
“I apologize for what I said five years ago," Kass told KDKA, a local Pittsburgh affiliate of CBS. "What I said was wrong. I don’t want to be chained to my past.”
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Jessica Benham, young as she is, looks every inch the part of the bitter liberal.
She is also color blind.
Definitely color blind!
If Kass just owned what she said, being the moderate they claim, would almost guarantee her victory!
never apologize for being right... she could have been a conservative if she would smile a little more.
I am not so sure that is such a smart move politically. One of our county commissioners (Westmoreland, neighbor to Pittsburgh) more or less openly ran her re-election as a Trump Democrat. She managed to cross the finish line in November. Her colleague, who toed the party line, did not.
“What I said was wrong. I don’t want to be chained to my past.”
Don’t want to be “CHAINED”!!!!
Cultural appropriation of Slavery! She is NOT even Black.
” She was selected after beating another more liberal candidate, Jessica Benham, by a landslide, 49 to 19 for the endorsement.”
She knows how to be a politician then. Go middle. Apologize for past crap and move forward like nothing happened. Yeah she looks like a dike but this is how Sinema won AZ.
“”””She also wrote in the post from 2015, “GO TRUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!” with 12 exclamation points,”””””””””””
12 exclamation points??????????????????????
Sound racist to me.
Sorry, Heather. Some sins are unforgiveable. Considering you didn’t kneel down and worship Hillary, you should just be thankful to be alive.
If she had used 10 exclamation points, it would have been okay.
I wish I had that picture from the Cultural Revolution in China during the Sixties where the Red Guard had intellectuals, teachers, family members with signs on their necks, dunce caps on, etc.
This woman would be wearing those signs and dunce caps, abjectly apologizing for her reactionary behavior while her fellow leftists hold a gun to the back of her head.
This shows what Dems really think of their voters.
As a lifelong Republican, I don’t think I’ve ever called people “lazy, no-good idiots.”
That neighborhood where she lives is a sh**hole.
Amish Yutes and White Trash morons duking it out over drugs.
No doubt many of her neighbors really ARE lazy no-good idiots.
**Trivia Fact: Dick Morris’ toe-sucking babe came from this same part of town.
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