Posted on 09/09/2022 1:53:48 PM PDT by conservative98
Will John Fetterman debate Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania? The US Senate race in Pennsylvania was devolving into an absolute dumpster fire—and it could still go off the hinges—but things are starting to look more favorable for Oz in a state that’s been a cruel mistress to Republicans for over a quarter century. Some of it has to do with Fetterman’s positions getting more airtime, which includes ending life sentences for first-degree murderers, emptying one-third of Pennsylvania’s prisons, and an embarrassing incident where he chased down an unarmed black man with a shotgun. He’s also recovering from a stroke and had a pacemaker implanted around the time of the Democratic primary. He’s not healthy, and his stump speeches have been beset with sentence fragments and half-thoughts that make Joe Biden seem like a seasoned elocutionist. This is why the Fetterman campaign has been reticent to agree on any debate terms from the Oz camp.
[BUT]
Sometime in mid-October isn’t a concrete deadline, and it’s probably a pivot by Fetterman’s crew to cast the media off the debate scent for a bit, but it’s not going to dissipate. What happens when we approach Halloween? Will Fetterman’s camp get on the stage, or will a medical emergency arise that postpones the showdown? That postponement could quickly morph into a cancellation. There’s more riding on this debate for Fetterman than Oz. Oz can speak in complete sentences and shut down talking points much more manageable than Fetterman, who suffers from serial mental short-circuiting; that is not his fault.
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It’s unbelievable that someone that looks like that could be considered a serious choice for even mayor! much less a SENATOR!
WTH Penn!
DAWN OF THE DEAD
Lt. Gov phoknee fetterman.
Am I getting warm?
Elections.
Fetterman ran for mayor against the incumbent, Pauline Abdullah, in 2005. With backing from the town’s young residents, he won the Democratic primary by a single vote. Fetterman won the general election; he did not face a Republican opponent.
In the 2009 Democratic primary for mayor of Braddock, Fetterman faced Jayme Cox.[24][25] During the 2009 campaign, Cox attacked Fetterman for failing to build a consensus with the town council.[24] Additionally, Cox criticized Fetterman for abuse of power after Fetterman released non-public records that showed Cox was arrested in 2004.[24] Fetterman defeated Cox in the primary by a vote of 294 to 103.[24] Fetterman handily won the Democratic primaries in 2013 and 2017, and was unopposed in the general elections.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fetterman#Elections
You didn’t read the article. The catch, Is that they are delaying the debate until the end of October and then cancel it close enough to election night so it doesn’t matter
Look at that crowd !
> WTH Penn! <
I have mentioned this elsewhere. Fetterman’s TV ads are very well done. The portray him is an average working-class guy who loves Pennsylvania.
Oz’s ads have been much less effective. They show him walking around with a stupid grin on his face.
Ah, but things are changing. Oz is now running attack ads against Fetterman. Those ads are quite good. And it’s about time.
“where he chased down an unarmed black man with a shotgun.”.
If he had a Shotgun why do they say unarmed?
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voting has already begun by then...
Lucky for him, the black man didn't charge him and die when the shotgun went off . . . or he could have ended up like those guys in Georgia.
Man boobs and spindly legs.
Not a sign of an healthy individual.
My post was an exercise in sarcasm.
‘Abuse of Your Mayoral Authority’:
Fetterman Allegedly Ordered Cop To Dig Up Dirt on Political Rival
Washington Free Beacon ^ | August 23, 2022 | Chuck Ross
Posted on 9/9/2022, 5:13:04 PM by conservative98
As mayor of Braddock, Pa., Senate hopeful John Fetterman (D.) ordered a police officer to dig up dirt on one of his political rivals, according to a town solicitor whom Fetterman later fired.
In a heated 2009 mayoral campaign, Braddock solicitor Lawrence Shields accused Fetterman of “abuse of your mayoral authority” for ordering a Braddock cop to obtain a police report from a 2004 domestic incident involving Fetterman’s challenger, Jayme Cox. Braddock city council members called for Fetterman’s arrest for violating state laws regarding the handling of criminal information in cases where charges are dropped.
Three years later, Fetterman cast the tie-breaking vote—his only vote in 13 years as Braddock mayor—to fire Shields as solicitor, purportedly to save money in the borough’s budget. Fetterman said he was an “enthusiastic yes” in favor of ousting Shields. Shields and Fetterman’s campaign did not respond to requests for comment about whether the earlier criticism of Fetterman was a factor in Shields’s firing.
The incident is another black mark on Fetterman’s tenure as mayor of the dilapidated steel town, which the progressive candidate has touted on the campaign trail as evidence of his blue collar bona fides. In 2013, Fetterman pulled a shotgun on an unarmed black jogger he wrongly suspected of firing a gun near his house. The jogger, Christopher Miyares, said Fetterman aimed a shotgun at his chest. Fetterman admitted in a television interview that he “may have broken the law,” but he has refused to apologize for the incident.
Fetterman admitted to asking a police officer for the report on Cox and discussing it with others. But he denied pressuring the officer to dig up the information and said it was necessary to inform voters about Cox, who had charges dropped after taking a domestic abuse class.
Reached by phone, Cox acknowledged he got in an altercation with his wife in 2004 but said the allegation he hit her “wasn’t true.” The seven-year Navy veteran told the Washington Free Beacon he and his wife reconciled and remained married until she passed away in 2017. He said he still doesn’t know how Fetterman obtained the police report.
“He’ll stab anybody in the back who gets in his way,” Cox said of Fetterman.
Fetterman also faced allegations from city officials of failing to perform his duties as mayor. He missed more than one-third of council meetings during his tenure, the Free Beacon reported. Jesse Brown, the president of the city council when Fetterman was in office, said he “should have been at all council meetings” but stopped showing up after multiple confrontations over his official duties.
In one city council meeting Fetterman did attend, he “began discussing his political views” about Cox, according to meeting records obtained by the Free Beacon. Fetterman’s rant during the May 2009 meeting prompted Brown to ask Braddock’s police chief “to remove [Fetterman] from the meeting after he refused to end the discussion.” Fetterman was allowed to stay in the meeting after calming down.
As lieutenant governor, Fetterman has proposed rewriting the very same law he was accused of violating in 2009, the Criminal History Record Information Act. He claimed the act “unfairly” disqualified “many Black and Brown Pennsylvanians” from employment. Braddock solicitor Shields said in 2009 that Fetterman’s release of the police report on Cox, who is black, opened Braddock up to a potential lawsuit for violating the act, which bars the release of criminal information three years after an arrest when no conviction occurred. Pennsylvania’s Bucks County was fined $67 million in 2019 for violating the act by publishing protected criminal information.
his nurse wife will be doing the actual debating
Looks like the type a creature that lived in his parents basement for most of his life and played video games!
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