“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.”
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.
I swear to god, these people are straight cancer.
Educate my autism away. Sure. That worked so well in school.
Phew! I’m gay, so I’m safe!
Talk about twisting semantics into a knot.
Fucking republican trash will lie about anything, and there’s literally nothing that their supporters are not too stupid to believe.
I swear I had to read these headlines like 10 times.
“GOP candidate calls his campaign stop an autism fundraiser, gets banned when venue owner finds out.”
Still doesn’t work in my head…‘GOP candidate tries hijacking Autism even and turns it into campaign fundraiser…gets asked to leave and not return…then tries to do the same thing at a church across the street and gets asked to leave’…
none of that is reflected in that title
Fuck you McCormick. Stay away from Philly, the place is too good for ya.
Philly threw batteries at Santa, but they have some standards.
Also they thrashed that hitchhiking robot.
I’m a transplant from Texas to Philadelphia. Philly is mostly populated by mutants, but they’re my fucking mutants. I don’t appreciate this kind of horse shit being pulled on my neighbors.
Fuck robots though.
Kudos to Rev Edwards and Mike!
That Reverend doesn’t fuck kids, just the GOP. I’m okay with that.
I can not believe they chose to desecrate the holiest of holies, a Philly cheese steak joint.
I’ll bet there were green peppers on the free steaks.
A newAnother low.I think that’s Mark Ruffalo’s dad…is that how you spell Ruffalo? Anyway, maybe he can turn into hulk too? Old hulk?
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