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No tow job...
On 5/6/16 11:04 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 5/6/2016 10:56 AM, Keyser Söze wrote:
On 5/6/16 10:50 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 6 May 2016 09:35:37 -0400, Keyser Söze wrote:
Ken Shupe responded to a woman who was stranded on an interstate in
North Carolina on Monday. Shupe is a tow truck driver; the woman had
been involved in a wreck, according to reports.
But when Shupe arrived, he noticed something about the woman’s car —
specifically, he noticed that the woman was a supporter of Democratic
presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, according to Fox Carolina.
“Every business dealing in recent history that I’ve had with a
socialist-minded person, I haven’t got paid,” Shupe told the station.
He added: “Every time I’ve dealt with these people in recent history, I
get ‘Berned.’
“With an ‘e,’ not a ‘u.’ ”
So Shupe refused to tow her.
“He said ‘I can’t tow you, you’re a Bernie supporter,’ ” the woman,
Cassandra McWade, told The Post on Thursday. “And I was like, ‘Wait,
are
you serious?’ ”
He was.
Fox Carolina reported: “When he saw ‘a bunch of Bernie Sanders
stuff’ he
said he told the woman, ‘very politely,’ ” that he could not “tow her
car because she was ‘obviously a socialist’ and advised her to ‘call
the
government’ for a tow.”
Attempts to reach Shupe by The Washington Post were unsuccessful
Thursday morning.
McWade — who said she had a Sanders yard sign visible in her car, as
well as a bumper sticker — said she was “totally in shock” as she
watched Shupe pull away.
“I was completely flabbergasted,” she said.
“Something came over me, I think the Lord came to me, and he just said
get in the truck and leave,” Shupe told an ABC affiliate. “And when I
got in my truck, you know, I was so proud, because I felt like I
finally
drew a line in the sand and stood up for what I believed.”
According to Fox Carolina, Shupe identified himself as a conservative
Christian who supports Donald Trump. McWade, however, told The Post
that
she felt he didn’t “exactly exemplify his belief.”
“You don't have to agree on anything just to be kind to one another,”
she said.
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Ahh, a "conservative Christian," following the edicts of Jesus, no
doubt.
If it was a democrat refusing to tow a car with a Cruz sticker you
would be telling us how they were standing up for freedom.
I don't think that would happen, actually. It's the Christian
Conservatives who seem to comprise the majority of those who are
discriminating in this country against members of groups they don't like.
I don't know about that. Saw a report about which "side" has
interrupted political rallies and town halls during the primary
campaigns. Records show the left interrupts and/or hold protests at
Republican candidate gatherings far more than the right does to the
Democratic candidates.
Report came from MSNBC ... a liberal leaning media outlet.
Political protest is as 'Merican as apple pie. It is the Conservative
Christians who are refusing tow truck service, who are refusing to issue
marriage licenses, who are refusing to bake cakes, supply flowers, who
are discriminating.
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