Delaware Pizza Shop Cancels Event for Republican Senate Candidate After Pressure From BLM
Grotto Pizza in Delaware has cancelled a campaign event for America First senate candidate Lauren Witzke following a pressure campaign from the left.
The owner of the pizza joint then opted to go to the media and lie about their reason for the last-minute cancellation.
After Witzke announced her meet and greet at the venue, the left set up petitions and began a harassment campaign to get the owner to cancel the event. Their mob tactics worked, and less than 24 hours before the event, the shop posted on Facebook that it had been cancelled.
Grotto Pizza posted on Facebook that the shop “welcomes a community of diversity which includes differences in age, sex, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion and political perspective.”
“Over the past 24 hours, we were informed a private event scheduled in our Pennsylvania Avenue location this evening was actually a political ‘meet and greet’ and actively being promoted by the event organizer,” reads the Facebook post from Grotto Pizza. “Once this information was confirmed, we reached out to the organizer of the event to inform them Grotto Pizza will not allow the event to proceed in our restaurant.”
“We do not allow campaign events in any of our locations and do not support any specific candidates in any elections,” the post continues.
Witzke had personally spoke to the manager, Dan Jeffers, who knew that it was a political event at the time that it was booked.
When contacted by Gateway Pundit, Jeffers would not comment about the event or his conversation with Witzke.
The announcement about the cancellation came after a social media pressure campaign against the event by Black Lives Matter activists Kristina Kelly and Keandra Mcdole, and a Change.org petition with 294 signatures.
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