", Earthquake in Turkey and Syria is "a systemic attack against Kurdish people.". . "In the month since Republicans took the House majority," they are trying to "impose a 30% tax on everything. DeSantis: Youre a History Grad. What are his ties to the state? Carla Sands struggled to raise funds in Q4, gathering in just $165,000. Carla Sands totals are incorrect. Fetterman, who has acknowledged his cushy suburban childhood, has openly admitted to the financial contributions his parents gave him as an adult. On April 3, after a debate that Fetterman did not attend, Lamb said, according to the Washington Post: "The socialist label sticks on John because of the policies he actually has advocated and the people like Bernie Sanders that he has actively campaigned with.". If Wagner thinks he is going to win because Fetterman is on the ticket, he is kidding himself big time. Key issues: Wagners personality..lacks that Tom Ridge nice guy charm that wowed Pa..Fetterman is not at all an issue. Above all, Id call him the F word FASCIST. The first thing you need to know to understand John Fetterman is that he is a working-class poseur. On Thursday's 'Wake Up America', Pennsylvania Congressman Guy Reschenthaler reacts to the competitive senate race between Dr. Mehmet Oz and John Fetterman. John Fetterman, Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor who is running for the U.S. Senate, has tattoos on his arms, some of which memorialize victims of violence. Fetterman has never shied away from his affluent upbringing in York County. Every magazine and newspaper article tells the same damn story, after going on and on about his Hells Angels appearance they go into Big Johns meteoric rise as the mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, a town hit so hard by globalism that it makes Detroit look like Pride Month at Dollywood. Lieutenant Gov. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity doctor turned Republican Senate nominee in Pennsylvania, owns mansions in Palm Beach, Fla., and North Jersey, along with a $1 million cattle farm in Florida and a $3.2 million estate he recently purchased in Montgomery County. Therefore, Trump is a JAGOFF. A tougher opponent. Proud to live and raise our family right here in Braddock where it all started 20 years ago. Fetterman, 52, grew up, in his own words, in a cushy environment in York County. So, it is beyond absurd for Oz to try to paint his opponent, Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman, as some sort of out-of-touch trust-fund baby. The shirt takes issue with new Democratic Lieutenant Governor nominee John Fetterman calling then Presidential candidate Donald Trump a jagoff during Fettermans run for the U.S. Senate. Lamb dominated a well run Dem State Committee endorsement meeting. He works for the ppl. 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House as Mark Rozzi steps down, Allegheny County controller recommends more support for kids of incarcerated parents, GOP leaders signal support for David McCormick in Pennsylvania's 2024 Senate race. Fetterman has dedicated his life to public service and helping others, Calvello said. The letter referred to the NPR story and the correction. Cellphone data used to arrest the Idaho quadruple-murder suspect proves that criticism of the 2000 Mules movies use of cell data is unfounded. Hes been familiar with Fetterman since the lieutenant governors days as Braddock mayor, and says while his populist appeal could be a strength, he thinks some of Fettermans unabashedly progressive positions, like getting pardons for people serving life sentences in prison, will make for Republicans strongest attacks. I wont sugarcoat it; this was not an ideal place to grow up Queer and I dont always feel safe at the local diner, much less the nearest Baptist Church but this isnt fucking Deliverance country. He no longer receives that assistance, his campaign said. There was a cry and a howl heard from the Wolf homestead (akin to the scream of Jack Woltz finding his prized horses head in his bed, after turning down the Godfathers request) after he found out that Fetterman had won. At state committee, Lamb got over 2.5 times at many votes at Fetterman. Lamb is an outright fraudster reporting those numbers. Instead, Fetterman chose to keep his family in Braddock. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 34th lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania from 2019 to 2023 and the mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, from 2006 to 2019. Its about not sending their kids to another stupid fucking war for foreign funded think tanks. True populism is about putting people before politics. The Oxford English Dictionary takes a different view of jagoff. And he has declared that he has never described himself that way. Fits well too. Nobody who wasted a vote on Dr. Oz felt good about it and theyre not going to feel any better about making that drunken one-night-stand a regular thing after that wormy quack spends the next four months trying to convince independents that hes anything other than Donald Trumps latest gimp, especially when you can still smell the ball-gag on his breath from the second row of the debates. He was a chain dog and was rescued thanks to the great people at The Foster Farm. Fetterman also received financial assistance from family members other than his parents. Just like Donald Trump and Mehmet Oz, John Fetterman is just another careerist corporate stooge in a populist costume, pro-war and pro-cop. In 2016, an interviewer asked Fetterman: "You are very progressive, I think I could be wrong but you label yourself as a democratic socialist? The PA GOP is afraid to admit what Trump is. He is a total fraud. We reached out to Penn Progress but did not hear back. In 2013, he paid his sister $1 for a loft that she purchased for $70,000. John Fetterman, by saying he identifies as a democratic socialist. His wife is solid though and should be the one running for office. John Fetterman (right) attends a campaign event on March 4, 2022. RELATED: The race for the Pennsylvania U.S. Senate seat: A guide, AdImpact.com, Penn Progress "Who Can Dems Trust?" He is a sheep in wolfs clothing, said David Urban, a longtime Republican strategist in the state. Fetterman says hes not a typical politician. Now, as Fetterman campaigns as Pennsylvanias Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, Republicans are aiming to challenge his story and undercut one of his greatest political strengths. He appeals to a particular segment of the left, DeMarco said. Will be interesting to see how Tom Wolf and Scott Wagner interact or distance themselves from the Fettermans and Barlettas of the world.. You obviously know nothing about John Fetterman. He showered the impoverished town with daddys money funneled through he and his wifes non-profit, essentially buying the next few elections and pimping himself out to the national media as a white savior with a tin cup ready for any liberal-do-gooder to play Bono in their own country with their spare pocket change. On April 6, the Forbes article was updated: "Correction: This story had incorrectly identified Fetterman as a democratic socialist he is not.". He receives money from a trust fund. Once you get past the vanity and bluster, there really isnt a whole lot there. The early Washington favorite seemed to be David McCormick, a Pennsylvania-born neocon who spent the last thirty years becoming a hedge fund millionaire in Connecticut and the last thirty weeks trying to convince his home state that this Bush Administration golf course cancer is really just another good old boy beneath the Polo shirt and pleated slacks. Ozcalledhis opponent a pretend populist during an interview with Fox News. If you know her, if she is your neighbor or relative, please, please teach her love instead.. The GOP runs much stronger in Western PA but with this they are going to alienate more people in that area by being sensitive crybabies and trying to make a profanity out of a colloquialism. Please let us know if you're having issues with commenting. The Pennsylvania Primary Election determined John Fetterman as the Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor; Fetterman is endorsed by Bernie Sanders and his rise included selling t-shirts with profanity-laced attacks on President Trump!MORE: https://t.co/1kOou24P7N pic.twitter.com/l6M7zUJivR. In addition, Fettermans father reportedly donated $100,000 single-candidate super PAC that backed his 2016 candidacy. In September 2016 they added jagoff to their dictionary defining it as a noun. Barreto Fetterman took a quick trip to the grocery store so she wouldnt miss a sale on golden kiwis when she was accosted by a woman, who called her a racial slur on video. That's the problem . Besides Fetterman and Lamb, the other major Democratic candidate is state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta. Have a tip for the WESA newsroom? Fetterman spent the better part of 2015 as Bernie Sanders official Rust Belt liaison for his presidential run before spending 2016 trying to sell himself as a Bernie-style candidate in the Democratic primaries for the Senate seat that hes still hustling for. At six-foot-eight and 300 pounds with his sleeves of tattoos, shaved bullet head and goatee, John Fetterman looks a bit like Anton Levey on steroids. Editor's note,April 7:After publication,a spokesperson for Penn Progress emailed us with the links toNPR, Forbes and Public Opinion articles, which we had noted, as well as other media references that called Fetterman a self-described democratic socialist. October 6, 2022. This sub is really getting brigaded by anti-Fetterman trolls lately. When you read the definition, Trump is pretty damned close to one with his intolerance and nationalism at the expense of individuals! In spite of his supposed devotion to criminal justice reform, Fetterman has ran his first post-Bernie-era Senate campaign as being pro-policing, calling the very notion of defunding the fuckers who framed Mumia and murdered my friend Osage Osazie absurd and stating unequivocally to all the pearl-clutching Karens on the Main Line that I think we should fund the police.. Fetterman is getting a flood of national money as he faces Mehmet Oz, Mehmet Oz is worth at least $104 million and maybe a lot more, a new report says, California residents do not sell my data request. He volunteered for Big Brothers, Big Sisters, mentored an 8-year-old boy who lost his parents to AIDS, and then joined AmeriCorps in Pittsburgh. That Beltway mutant James Carville once derisively described this place as being Alabama between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. This is a country where youre never more than 15 minutes from both an Amish farm and an abandoned factory. That's . Six weeks before Pennsylvanias primary elections, a super PAC formed to support Democratic U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb attacked the other leading Democratic hopeful, Lt. Gov. Pennsylvania is the only state that owned and maintained a residence for its lieutenant governor, according to the Inquirer. You dont belong here, she said in an interview with the Post. . ", Fetterman replied: "No, I dont label myself a democratic socialist, but I certainly ran the most progressive campaign in my race this past spring.". In his first and second inaugural ads, Democratic nominee and Pa. Fetterman is a trust fund baby from York whose parents did most of the investing in the Braddock Miracle. Dude is involved in some shady stuff. Republican nominee Mehmet Oz (left) and Democratic nominee John Fetterman are competing for Pennsylvania's U . He worked as a risk-management underwriter for the insurance giant Chubb from 1993 to 1995, according to his campaign. Sean Hannity discussed how John Fetterman, who is running for Senate in Pennsylvania as a Democrat, is trying to "raise money" off of Hannity's name on "Hannity." SEAN HANNITY DEBUNKS INFLATION REDUCTION ACT, DUBBING IT . If my children were welcome to swim here, every child must be. Strangely, this Franciscan journey of charity took him to the Ivy League organized crime factory known as the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Levi is vocal on issues that matter to him and to fellow Pennsylvanians. 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