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Dr. Oz doing the work!
Posted on 10/03/2022 9:02:19 AM PDT by conservative98
With the latest polls showing a tightening race, Mehmet Oz returned to Philadelphia on Sunday night to meet with local Black clergy members to press his case to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
The Kingdom Empowerment International Ministries was celebrating its 13th anniversary as a congregation with prayer services, live music, and a visit from the Republican candidate. A dozen clergy members, GOP ward leaders, and a visiting doctor from Haiti gathered for a round-table talk with Oz about topics including safer neighborhoods, better schools, and accountability for where federal tax dollars go in the city. The subject on everyone’s mind was gun violence.
“It’s not just the shooter and the victim, but everybody that pays the price,” Oz told those gathered at the ministries’ offices in Northeast Philadelphia. “Ten percent of small kids have witnessed these shootings, and the impact is similar to having PTSD, like being in a war zone.”
Citing the city’s 1,000th carjacking and 400th homicide, and noting that many of the homicides have been committed by teens, Oz asked those at the gathering for their thoughts on why this is happening, and how to address it. Participants suggested a breakdown of community bonds, as well as a lack of trust and respect for the police, and a lack of faith in religion.
“We need to reach out to young people,” said Maggie Bellevue, senior pastor of Kingdom Empowerment. “Help them come out of a life of crime ... have a purpose for their lives.”
Oz attributed the recent crime surge in Philadelphia to a growing lawlessness fueled by drug use. In Oregon, for example, he said, decriminalization of many drugs has led to more overdoses and crimes.
Ernso Cacimir, a doctor who owns a hospital in Haiti, traveled to Philadelphia to share with Oz and the group his experience treating victims of gun and gang violence back home.
“I came here for two missions: We are supporting Dr. Oz and his movement,” Cacimir said. “And to also speak about my community, who has been held hostage [by gun violence] for over five months.”
Melvin Prince Johnakin, a former write-in candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, made this case for Oz’s candidacy over Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, who has had just one rally in Philadelphia since suffering a stroke in May:
“People are ready for non-politicians. [Oz] is going to need the right people to understand the problems. ... Him going into these communities has shaken the Democratic party because Fetterman has dared not to go to these communities.”
Dr. Oz doing the work!
Why wait till October to do this?
4 decades of voting Democrat caused it
Oz now has enough “walkin’ around money”.
Good. Those pastors don’t want their parishioners killed by thugs on the street.
Good for OZ.
He is showing folks on both sides of the aisle he is a serious candidate by doing the tough work, the work too many Repubs would simply write off as being a lost cause.
Plus, this is one key issue where running against Fester-man provides a clear and stark contrast between the two candidates and one which is wildly important to the good people in these communities ravaged by drugs, gangs and violence.
Who’s waiting? He’s been doing this for months. That’s why this race is winnable now and all the momentum is going Oz’s way. Fetterman is the only one hiding in his basement scrolling social media for months.
Where’s Doug.. He needs to read the Oz playbook. seems to be working for him.
All republicans need to do this stuff.
Kari Lake here in Arizona is a master at it. She is everywhere all the time talking to everybody. And it magnifies the fact that her opponent Katie ("Where's Katie?") Hobbs, like Fetterman, is holed up in her basement.
Dr.Oz is really a nice guy. John Fetterman is not. That’s a very big advantage.
Promising more gibs.
Oz has been out there...it’s just that the Philly ‘Stink-wirer’ waited until October to report it...
“All republicans need to do this stuff.”
There are a large number of African-Americans who are god fearing, socially conservative, and good family people.
It will take time, but there is a path to getting their votes, and Trump worked hard on that.
One of the reasons the Dems spend so much time attacking statues is the neo-Confederate stuff is the one thing that can keep blacks away from the Republican party.
Black men are gettable.
Single black women are married to the state—not gettable.
Yep
Yep, some personal meetings and showing some personal interest can get voters who are voting out of habit to realize they need to quit voting in things that disgust and revolt them and/or, to start seeing themself as a business owner or a dentist, or father and husband, or Christian, rather than still seeing themselves as forever voting as a liberal race voter.
Churches tax-exempt status=== cannot get political.
but they do!
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