Geneva (NY) City Councilor Stays Seated During Pledge of Allegiance 😆

When the Geneva City Council in upstate New York gathered for the first meeting of the year, newly elected Ward 5 Councilor Laura Salamendra chose to remain seated during the Pledge of Allegiance. There’s the usual grumbling on social media, especially from one right-wing Facebook page that compared her to Colin Kaepernick (as if that’s a bad thing), but Salamendra defended her decision to the Finger Lakes Times: “I took an oath to uphold the Constitution and my allegiance is with the people of Geneva and the world, not the flag. I have felt this way since I was in the fourth grade and have exercised my constitutional right to do so ever since.”

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Source: Geneva (NY) City Councilor Stays Seated During Pledge of Allegiance
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