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Guest Opinion: Oz more connected to Southeastern PA than Fetterman
The Intelligencer ^ | October 9, 2022 | Michael Baluk

Posted on 10/09/2022 4:35:07 PM PDT by conservative98

As he, for the second time, seeks to become a United States senator, Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman claims that he only got involved in politics to fight crime in “his city,” Braddock PA, after two of his students were gunned down. Fetterman, so he implies, is not interested in status or money. He just wants to help people. The truth is, however, that Fetterman spent his entire adult life deliberately creating a narrative that he would use to achieve his ambition of getting elected to the United States Senate.

After growing up in York and earning an MBA in Connecticut, Fetterman moved to Western Pennsylvania, where, through AmeriCorps, he helped students prepare to take the GED test, while also working for an insurance company. Then, a couple of years later, Fetterman left Western Pennsylvania to pursue a Master of Public Policy degree from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, before returning to Western Pennsylvania and running for mayor of Braddock.

Obviously, Fetterman did not go to Harvard just so that he could serve as mayor of Braddock, which paid only $150 a month. If Fetterman, selflessly, just wanted to help underprivileged students learn to read, why didn’t he pursue an education program at West Chester? Why didn’t he become a reading specialist? Why did Fetterman go to Harvard to study government if he had no interest in becoming a career politician? How did he end up in Braddock, anyway? He is not even from there. Fetterman moved to Braddock to launch his political career because a “Bernie Sanders” liberal would find much greater success, politically, in Braddock than in York. With the help of his parents who gave him $54,000 in 2015, Fetterman put everything he had into serving as mayor and at developing his political narrative, instead of working for a living.

For a man who just wants to help his city and Pennsylvania, John Fetterman shows tenacious ambition. After unsuccessfully running for the United States Senate in 2016, Fetterman ran for lieutenant governor in 2018, and now, he is running for the United States Senate, again.

He relentlessly attacks his opponent, Dr. Oz. In one attack ad, Fetterman claims that Dr. Oz, a white heart surgeon, would not last two hours in Braddock, which has a predominantly Black population (70.83% in the 2020 census).

Though it is not Braddock, Dr. Oz recently walked along Kensington Avenue, the epicenter of the opioid crisis in Philadelphia, and encouraged inflicted individuals to seek help, while Fetterman campaigned from his home near Pittsburgh — six hours away — by running expensive television advertisements in the Philadelphia region, barking, “(Dr. Oz is) not one of us!”.

Much of Fetterman’s campaign urges Pennsylvania voters to reject Dr. Oz because he is not from “here.” Of course, this claim ignores the fact that Dr. Oz attended college in Philadelphia, his wife is from Bryn Athyn, and that he bought a house in Montgomery County. Ironically, according to Fetterman’s argument, nobody in Southeastern Pennsylvania should vote for Fetterman because he, himself has never lived in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Braddock is about a six-hour drive from “here.” Even if we ignore the fact that Dr. Oz now lives in Montgomery County, which he does, Dr. Oz’s New Jersey house is probably less than two-hours away — three times closer to us than Fetterman’s house.

While Dr. Oz has strong connections to Southeastern Pennsylvania, Fetterman has none. John Fetterman is not one of us.

Michael Baluk lives in Warminster.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 2022election; droz; election2022; fetterman; johnfetterman; mehmetoz; oz; pennsylvania; theogrefetterman

1 posted on 10/09/2022 4:35:07 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Free-loading Fetterman is a fraud
2 posted on 10/09/2022 4:35:43 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Oz more connected than Fetterman....

Can’t you imagine the Thanksgiving Day Parade volunteers being jostled in the wind and letting go of the lines?

Up, up and away the ugly, ugly balloon. 🎹🎺🎻

Apologies to the Fifth Dimension for the song alteration (I saw them sing that in person).


3 posted on 10/09/2022 4:41:45 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: conservative98

Neither has a connection here.


4 posted on 10/09/2022 4:46:48 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: conservative98

Did he graduate from Hahhhvard?

If so, even worse.


5 posted on 10/09/2022 4:49:37 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: conservative98
What a flippin' meathead.

Fetterman strolls through Braddock:



6 posted on 10/09/2022 4:50:59 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: conservative98

Please use his full name when referring to him.

The Ogre Fetterman

Thank you.


7 posted on 10/09/2022 4:52:31 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: EEGator
Apparently the location of the first Carnegie Library:

Libraries used to be a Good ThingTM.

8 posted on 10/09/2022 4:54:22 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: conservative98

He’s a thug, Jim.


9 posted on 10/09/2022 4:55:45 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

That they were. Speaking of Carnegie…

There’s an outstanding miniseries/documentary called The Men Who Built America.
I recommend it to everyone.


10 posted on 10/09/2022 5:00:55 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: conservative98

What? You mean they don’t want drug crazed criminals roaming their streets like Fetterman does?


11 posted on 10/09/2022 5:06:37 PM PDT by Bullish (Rot'sa Ruck America. )
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To: conservative98

Quasimodo looking for a church tower to climb.


12 posted on 10/09/2022 5:17:38 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: EEGator
#10: "There's an outstanding miniseries/documentary called The Men Who Built America. I recommend it to everyone."

Totally agree. It's a great mini-series. But it almost breaks your heart to see how far we've fallen.

I recommend another one in that same vein: "Westinghouse: The Life and Times of An American Icon".

It's free on Amazon Prime and Freevee too.

13 posted on 10/09/2022 6:46:21 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Thanks, I’ll check it out. I’m a huge Nikola Tesla fan.


14 posted on 10/09/2022 6:47:51 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: conservative98

He has a FB ad mocking Oz tor drinking red wine at a tailgate party. Fetterman looks like a malt-liquor-under-the-overpass kinda guy.


15 posted on 10/09/2022 6:54:04 PM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: conservative98

So is that twin of his growing on his neck.


16 posted on 10/09/2022 9:37:36 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Slava Ukraini!)
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To: gundog

Yep. Democrats are always on top of the “big” issues of our time. Nothing to offer on inflation, crime or the border. As long as he drinks beer he has my vote, said no one ever.


17 posted on 10/11/2022 3:17:29 PM PDT by conservative98
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