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Pennsylvania Dem forced to resign from local party over ‘Stand for the flag’ Facebook post
The Hill ^
| Avery Anapol
Posted on 10/15/2018 7:47:15 AM PDT by Mr. K
A county Democratic official in Pennsylvania says he was forced to step down over a Facebook post saying he "[stands] for the flag."
Mark Salvas, the former executive director of the Allegheny County Democratic Party, told Pittsburgh's KDKA News that the county party chair asked him to resign after just weeks on the job.
Salvas, a former Marine and Gulf War veteran, told KDKA that his forced departure was prompted by two social media posts, including one photo of him and his wife with the words: "I stand for the flag, I kneel at the cross."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020election; alleghenycounty; election2018; election2020; marksalvas; pennsylvania; pittsburgh
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Geebus the Dems are nuts....
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posted on
10/15/2018 7:47:15 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
To: Mr. K
This guy is crazy to have been a Democrat so long that be had such a position.
He’s an idiot that I don’t trust.
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posted on
10/15/2018 7:49:05 AM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: Mr. K
Welcome, Salvas, to the GOP.
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posted on
10/15/2018 7:49:06 AM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: Mr. K
"I stand for the flag, I kneel at the cross." Then explain to me, Marine, why did you join the Democratic party?
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posted on
10/15/2018 7:49:22 AM PDT
by
rjsimmon
(The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: Mr. K
He is pretty typical of a lot of old-school Western PA Democrats. The door is open for Republicans to recruit voters if the state party here were not too STOOOOOOPID to take advantage of it.
To: rjsimmon
Then explain to me, Marine, why did you join the Democratic party?
Because he lives in WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. It is in the water here. It's endemic to the culture. "Republicans tried to bust your grandpa's union. Democrats are FOR DA WORKIN' MAN! Republicans support those EEEEEVIL robber barons like Henry Clay Frick. FDR was a Saint." Drilled into heads for several generations and it's not getting undrilled overnight.
Though incidents like this will go a long way towards jump-starting that process.
To: Mr. K
Weak response. Forced to resign? Should have stayed and let them fire him if that is what they really insist on. If he wasn’t so weak, he’d be a potential great add to the Republican column.
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posted on
10/15/2018 7:52:55 AM PDT
by
Reno89519
(No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
To: Mr. K
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posted on
10/15/2018 7:53:09 AM PDT
by
A_Former_Democrat
("Mods/Indies/Dems/Non-voters" Are the CRAZY DIMS REALLY who you'd want BACK in POWER?)
The Democrat Thug Party — not a friend to the Flag nor Country.
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posted on
10/15/2018 7:53:39 AM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: Mr. K
Democrats hate America and hate God.
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posted on
10/15/2018 8:07:13 AM PDT
by
beethovenfan
(I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
To: Buckeye McFrog
Exactly. The friend of the working man crap runs deep and is very entrenched but there are a lot of cracks in that wall. This kind of stuff will help.
To: Mr. K
You missed the post that got him out.
To: gibsonguy
I grew up near Pittsburgh. Very blue dog. You’d think the steel mills being shut down would have opened their eyes to being sold out by union bosses and power-hungry dems.
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posted on
10/15/2018 8:19:08 AM PDT
by
ConservativeWarrior
(Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
To: gibsonguy
The Democrat Party here also formed an unholy alliance with the Catholic Church which secured the intergenerational loyalty of Irish, Italians and Poles.
The Church is now in full-on meltdown mode, brought about by scandal, while Millenial Techie Democrats continue to move to the area, bringing their San Francisco values with them.
I think the cracks are about to start spreading much faster.
To: ConservativeWarrior
You’d think the steel mills being shut down would have opened their eyes to being sold out by union bosses and power-hungry dems.
I personally know people sitting around down in the Mon Valley who STILL believe that the mills will come back, bringing all of the overcompensated union jobs with them, if only we would elect the "right" politician. It's a form of stupid you can't fix.
To: rjsimmon
I have noticed many veterans are pro socialist. They think that the way the military is run would be good for civilian society.
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posted on
10/15/2018 8:31:21 AM PDT
by
MCF
(If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo)
To: MCF
They think that the way the military is run would be good for civilian society.They don't understand that it would never be run that way.
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posted on
10/15/2018 8:32:24 AM PDT
by
RightGeek
(FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
To: MCF
Which veterans? I don’t know of a single one and I live and work around hundreds of them.
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posted on
10/15/2018 8:35:24 AM PDT
by
rjsimmon
(The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: MCF
The Dems this cycle went out with a very deliberate strategy of recruiting military vets to run for House seats. And if you take a look at who is running it appears they were rather successful.
To: RightGeek
Decades of watching the fiasco that is Latin America should have taught us that armies pretty much suck at governing.
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