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Title: Pennsylvania Dem forced to resign from local party over ‘Stand for the flag’ Facebook post
Post by: jmyrlefuller on October 15, 2018, 02:24:29 pm
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."

Rep. Ed Gainey (D-Penn.) told KDKA that the posts were "insensitive" and offensive to many Democrats in the state.
"To put that up on Facebook was, to me, insensitive, also to African Americans, who, as you know, have backed the Democratic Party for quite a long time, and everybody knows that it was insensitive," Gainey said.

(excerpt, more at:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pennsylvania-dem-forced-to-resign-from-local-party-over- (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pennsylvania-dem-forced-to-resign-from-local-party-over-)‘stand-for-the-flag’-facebook-post/ar-BBOppXw
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Title: Re: Pennsylvania Dem forced to resign from local party over ‘Stand for the flag’ Facebook post
Post by: TomSea on October 16, 2018, 09:03:06 am
Unfathomable, I was going to post this.

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"I stand for the flag" and "I kneel at the cross".
Title: Re: Pennsylvania Dem forced to resign from local party over ‘Stand for the flag’ Facebook post
Post by: rangerrebew on October 16, 2018, 12:55:21 pm
Dem Who Said, ‘I Stand for the Flag, I Kneel at the Cross’ Forced to Resign as Local Party Exec

Mark Salvas has, reportedly been forced to resign his position as Democratic Party Executive Director in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania because of social media posts sympathetic to God, country, and an accused police officer.

As local station KDKA reports [1]:

    A former Marine and Gulf War veteran, Salvas was just hired in September as executive director of the county party, long after he posted a picture of his wife and him on Facebook with the words, “I stand for the flag, I kneel at the cross.”
 
Source URL: https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/dem-who-said-i-stand-flag-i-kneel-cross-forced-resign-partys-county-chair (https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/dem-who-said-i-stand-flag-i-kneel-cross-forced-resign-partys-county-chair)
Title: Re: Pennsylvania Dem forced to resign from local party over ‘Stand for the flag’ Facebook post
Post by: Free Vulcan on October 16, 2018, 01:00:20 pm
If you can't respect the flag, then you might as well just admit outright that your party is attempting to takeover the country in a coup and imposing an ideology that looks more like North Korea than America.
Title: Re: Pennsylvania Dem forced to resign from local party over ‘Stand for the flag’ Facebook post
Post by: Mod2 on October 16, 2018, 01:42:20 pm
merged threads
Title: Re: Pennsylvania Dem forced to resign from local party over ‘Stand for the flag’ Facebook post
Post by: MajorClay on October 17, 2018, 12:47:01 am
Welcome to the Republican party my friend.