“You’re not welcome back.”
That’s the message the manager of Philadelphia cheesesteak joint Max’s Steaks had for Pennsylvania Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dave McCormick, after his campaign held an event outside the restaurant Friday that the eatery was told would be about autism awareness.
Mike Sfida—who agreed to hold the event because his niece and nephew have autism—was alarmed when he saw Donald Trump signs being hung outside the beloved North Philly spot on Friday, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. McCormick arrived, gave a campaign stump address, and then handed out free sandwiches.
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But the disaster didn’t end there.
After showing up at a cheesesteak restaurant to campaign under the auspice of an autism awareness event, McCormick went across the street to East Bethel Baptist Church, which happened to be holding an outdoor fundraiser for its food ministry.
The Rev. Thomas Edwards Jr., who leads the church, told his campaign to leave because he didn’t want the GOP candidate to use photos of his congregation for campaigning purposes.
“You can Photoshop,” he told the Inquirer. “You can make things seem like they aren’t. Maybe they’re going to post we’re eating dogs or eating cats, like in Ohio. Forgive me if I’m wrong. I don’t trust these people.”
The owner was asked if an autism-awareness event could be held at his business. He accepted, in part because he has family members with autism. After the event has gotten rolling, he realizes it’s actually a campaign event for the GOP and tells the guy to fuck off.
Seems like they either deliberately went out of their way to hide what the event really was, or the business owner didn’t really bother to look up who was holding the event and put two-and-two together.
Isn’t it a good thing for a campaign event to host an autism awareness event tho, regardless of which side he’s on?
Especially as someone with autistic children, it seems like that would be something he’d want to support…
THERE WAS NO AUTISM EVENT.
THE REPUBLICAN LIED BECAUSE HE KNEW THE RESTAURANT OWNER WOULD NEVER AGREE TO A CAMPAIGN EVENT.
THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE EMOTIONALLY MANIPULATED THE RESTAURANT OWNER, TRICKING THE OWNER INTO HOSTING A CAMPAIGN EVENT.
I don’t know where you read that. If that were true, why wouldn’t the author clearly state that there was no autism event?
Can you quote where the article says there was no autism event?
“Pressed by the newspaper about whether the campaign stop was an autism awareness event, Armstrong claimed “it’s always autism awareness because I’m an education advocate” and said she spoke to those gathered about autism at one point.” -the article.
So there you have it. It WAS an autism event, because an “education advocate” said so.
You are a rube or a troll, and my time has been wasted. Congrats.
You just proved my point. The article says very clearly that its an autism event
Hey pal, you just blow in from stupid town?
Lol, the article is quoting a Republican’s lies. If the article had quoted someone saying “Bigfoot is real”, does that mean the article said bigfoot is real?
No, but I would expect the author to state clearly if we have data showing that Bigfoot is real or not, and on who the burden of proof lies
the burden of proof is on the liar. It’s not rocket surgery.