Negative comments by a Democrat on social media about Democratic candidates for office? Tsk, tsk.
The ever-outspoken maverick Hurley highway superintendent Mike Shultis has been removed from the Ulster County Democratic Committee. At its convention on February 21, the committee decided that Shultis had “made multiple public statements on social media regarding candidates for public office in the Town of Hurley, including negative comments against the Democratic nominees and expressions of support for the Republican nominees running against them.”
Shultis had last November supported a ticket for town office headed by Democrat Mike Boms on the Republican line against the Democratic team headed by incumbent Democratic town supervisor Melinda McKnight. Boms won by a narrow margin.
As a result of being removed from the county Democratic committee, Shultis has automatically been removed from the local committee. Noted a March 1 Hurley town committee press release, “This kind of removal is very rare, which highlights the seriousness of the violation.”
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