Posted on 09/07/2022 12:28:41 PM PDT by conservative98
A new conservative ad attacking Democrat John Fetterman for pulling a gun on an unarmed Black jogger almost a decade ago aims to sway Black voters in the Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race.
The reported $500,000 ad created by a political committee backing Republican Mehmet Oz, says Fetterman "chased down an innocent unarmed Black man" in his pickup truck, eventually pulling a 20-gauge shotgun on the individual. It is a reference to a December 2013 incident provoked by what Fetterman believed was heard gunshots while he was playing with his son.
Fetterman was at the time mayor of Braddock, a Pittsburgh suburb. Fetterman served in the role for 13 years prior to being sworn in as Pennsylvania lieutenant governor in January 2019.
The ad's release was feared by prominent Black Pennsylvania Democrats even prior to the state's May 17 primary, according to NBC News. Black-heavy populations in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia are viewed as an instrumental voting bloc to determine who represents the entire state.
The 30-second spot reportedly started airing Tuesday on networks including Black Entertainment Television (BET), the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), MSNBC, and ESPN, in addition to shorter spots on mobile devices.
Reverend Mark Kelly Tyler, a top Democratic organizer in Philadelphia who helped President Joe Biden win over Black voters in 2020, told NBC News in April that those who believe Fetterman's actions regarding the jogger wouldn't be brought up were "living in fantasy land."
Tyler equated it with Hillary Clinton's use of the term "superpredators" being brought up again during her 2016 campaign.
"This story can become a drumbeat almost every day or just result in one good ad that can depress Philadelphia's turnout by 40, 50,000 votes," Tyler said. "That would be enough to lose the election for us."
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OZ is a just a terrible candidate.. it’s really not more complicated than that..
Stop it. Anyone is better than Fetterman.
Fetterman was at the time mayor of Braddock, a Pittsburgh suburb. Fetterman served in the role for 13 years prior to being sworn in as Pennsylvania lieutenant governor in January 2019.
good info on tucker about this scum
The GOP and Toomey are helping Oz now. Coincidentally, they are doing so only after Oz said he would have voted to certify the election. A backstabbing rino in the making.
Don’t be afraid Black Democrat/communists. Shrek isn’t going to win but it won’t be because of this ad.
“Did Fetterman have KKK tattoos or were they Nazi?
He needs to explain which he had/has and why he got them.”
If Fetterman was a Republican, our enemedia would ALREADY be pursuing this angle and our enemedia would have already been running nightly news, re-runs about the “2013 shotgun in the face of an unarmed, oppressed black man by REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE Fetterman”!
I would bet my left testicle this would already be the narrative if Fetterman was a Republican!!
At his core, that’s who Fetterman is, just like his cult leader.
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