Greensburg hosts Pence visit, Rally for Black Lives event

Tribune-Review (Suburban Pittsburgh) ^ | 30 July 2020 | RENATTA SIGNORINI, PATRICK VARINE AND RICH CHOLODOFSKY

[Vigilanteman]

Greensburg experienced opposite ends of the political spectrum Thursday, hosting a Cops for Trump rally and a Rally for Black Lives about a half mile from each other.

Vice President Mike Pence attended the noon Cops for Trump rally held in Mid Town Plaza, next door to city hall and the police station. Cops for Trump describes itself as a coalition of police officers who support Trump’s re-election campaign.

[Vigilanteman]

Bottom line is the Cop for Trump Rally attracted about four times as many people at a venue with limited seating as the BLMM Rally did at a cross-town venue with ample seating.

Greensburg is not a big town. It would take about 15 minutes to walk between venues.

It is also funny how the BLMM rally took such pains to distinguish themselves from THE BLMM organized crime organization which does corporate shakedowns and provides cover for Antifa riots.

[Shethink13]

Where was the BLM Rally? I lived in Greensburg for 19 years.

[scrabblehack]

It’s the next county over (from Pittsburgh) but I wouldn’t call it a suburb. I’ve been away for a while though.

[PghBaldy]

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[PA Engineer]

Greensburg has the Pitt branch campus. Just another zombie production mill.

[Vinnie]

A Triangle Tech campus also.
We have several HVAC techs that went there. Good school.

[Vigilanteman]

There are a lot of people who commute to Pittsburgh in Greensburg. They even run a number of commuter buses between our respective downtowns. So it all depends on how you define a suburb.

Politically, we are worlds apart. Pittsburgh has an idiot mayor who took down the statue of Stephen Foster, the greatest American composer the city has ever produced, because it offended his PC sensibilities. Westmoreland County provided 128% of the vote margin which Trump needed to win in 2016.

But it wasn't always this way. As recently as 1984, Mondale carried Westmoreland County while Reagan was running up a 49 state electoral landslide.

[foreverfree]

Johnstown has a branch of Pitt too.

[foreverfree]

The BLM rally was in St. Clair Park per the Trib article.