Pennsylvania Dem forced to resign from local party over ‘Stand for the flag’

[Sick Of Silence]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pennsylvania-dem-forced-to-resign-from-local-party-over-%e2%80%98stand-for-the-flag%e2%80%99-facebook-post/ar-BBOppXw?li=BBnbfcL

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."

"I'm not ashamed of my patriotism, not one bit. I fought for this country. I think I have a right to have a voice and be patriotic," Salvas told KDKA. "It's never easy when people you have never met accuse you of things and call you names, and you've never met them."

Why are you a Democrat? I think by now you would know that Liberals are un-patriotic.

[ConservativeInCT]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pennsylvania-dem-forced-to-resign-from-local-party-over-%e2%80%98stand-for-the-flag%e2%80%99-facebook-post/ar-BBOppXw?li=BBnbfcL

Why are you a Democrat? I think by now you would know that Liberals are un-patriotic.

Ahh the libs continue to alienate people within their own party over niche policies and protest. I love it.

[supsalemgr]

Ahh the libs continue to alienate people within their own party over niche policies and protest. I love it.

Bingo! 

[Billy's bayonet]

Welcome to the republican party

[Ranb]

The link in the original post also had this;

The other controversial post was from Salvas' wife, asking for support for a family friend, a police officer who was charged with homicide in the shooting death of Antwon Rose II, an unarmed black teen who was a passenger in a car fleeing a traffic stop.

It was not Mr. Salvas, but his wife that made the post about the police officer who killed a passenger in a fleeing car.  Trying to make the request to step down solely about patriotism is misleading.

Ranb