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Pennsylvania’s Fetterman makes 2022 US Senate run official
Associated Press ^
| February 8, 2021
| Marc Levy
Posted on 02/08/2021 10:57:11 AM PST by Olog-hai
Pennsylvania’s larger-than-life lieutenant governor, the 6-foot-8, bald and tattooed John Fetterman, will run for U.S. Senate, making the announcement Monday after kicking off an exploratory fundraising campaign last month that raised over $1 million.
It will be the second bid for U.S. Senate by the plainspoken 51-year-old Democrat. He may ultimately see competition from a member of Congress for his party’s nomination in what could become the nation’s most competitive Senate race in 2022.
Meanwhile, on the Republican side, a number of names are circulating — including former Trump administration figures. Another possibility is Jeff Bartos, a suburban Philadelphia real estate investor who started running for U.S. Senate before switching horses to become Fetterman’s opponent for lieutenant governor in 2018.
The Senate seat in the presidential battleground is being left open after two-term Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey announced in October that he would not run again. …
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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; 2022; apepee; fakeelection; fetterman; johnfetterman; senate; stopthesteal; toomey
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The guy who said that you don’t have the right to say that the election was stolen, not even under the First Amendment. Perfect for a totalitarian Senate . . . until the last remnants of the old Republic are swept away . . .
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posted on
02/08/2021 10:57:11 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Sounds like a sure loser in a good Republican year. But, if he won it would be ....
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posted on
02/08/2021 10:59:52 AM PST
by
amnestynone
(We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
To: amnestynone
He still has the loyal vote counters in Philly, Pittsburgh and Harrisburg.
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posted on
02/08/2021 11:00:45 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
02/08/2021 11:03:34 AM PST
by
kiryandil
(New Movie: The Assassination Of Ashli Babbitt By The Anonymous Coward)
To: Olog-hai
Now that we’ve learned that Rat Party Headquarters has figured out how to defraud PA elections with no interference from SCOTUS there can be little doubt of the outcome.
To: amnestynone
Sounds like a sure loser in a good Republican year. But, if he won it would be .... Yeah? Who's going to vote in 2022 after their votes were stolen in 2020.
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posted on
02/08/2021 11:05:19 AM PST
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
To: Olog-hai
plainspoken 51-year-old DemocratAn act, he's a fraud.
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posted on
02/08/2021 11:05:53 AM PST
by
1Old Pro
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
02/08/2021 11:11:07 AM PST
by
Kid Shelleen
(Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
To: Vaquero
Unfortunately the Democrats will vote. Keep it up and we will be comply snowed out.
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posted on
02/08/2021 11:11:15 AM PST
by
amnestynone
(We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
To: Olog-hai
“He still has the loyal vote counters in Philly, Pittsburgh and Harrisburg.”
And he’s a member of the Dominion party.
To: Olog-hai
Guy is a hard core marxist
Used to have a hammer and sickle on his official page
Exudes that scowly angry “John Brennan” joy
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posted on
02/08/2021 11:12:18 AM PST
by
silverleaf
(In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
To: Olog-hai
Guy is a hard core marxist
Used to have a hammer and sickle on his official page
Exudes that scowly angry “John Brennan” joy
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posted on
02/08/2021 11:12:49 AM PST
by
silverleaf
(In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
To: Olog-hai
I knew an Alice Baker early member was a Fetterman....wonder if it’s him
/s
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posted on
02/08/2021 11:12:54 AM PST
by
wardaddy
( IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG)
To: 1Old Pro
Well, we live in an era where brusqueness and foul-mouthedness are suddenly “plain spoken”.
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posted on
02/08/2021 11:14:32 AM PST
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Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Olog-hai
Well, we live in an era where brusqueness and foul-mouthedness are suddenly “plain spoken”.If your a Dem. If you're a GOPer you hate women and are rude and obnoxious.
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posted on
02/08/2021 11:17:12 AM PST
by
1Old Pro
To: Olog-hai
He cannot win a statewide race for Senate.
To: 1Old Pro
I was going to make a joke about how famous his last name was in Wyoming, but my free speech rights were chilled by the Woke-Nazis.
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posted on
02/08/2021 11:17:31 AM PST
by
Cincinnatus.45-70
(What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them wthaith a pitchfork!)
To: Olog-hai
It is time for the PA Republican Legislature to inject itself an Fix the PA Voting Laws which should include banning Mail In Voting.
To: Meatspace
Not if Dominion were removed as a factor.
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posted on
02/08/2021 11:19:17 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Old Retired Army Guy
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posted on
02/08/2021 11:19:47 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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