Posted on 08/05/2022 7:09:56 AM PDT by Oak007
Pennsylvania Democrat U.S. Senate nominee John Fetterman’s “blue collar” image is being called into question after reports revealed he lived off of his parents’ money well into his mid-40s.
Although Fetterman runs ads that purport him to be a “blue collar tough guy,” his parents reportedly financially supported him while he served as mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, for 13 years.
Fetterman, who has acknowledged his “cushy” suburban childhood, has openly admitted to the financial contributions his parents gave him as an adult.
For example, in 2015, his parents gave him $54,000, which he disclosed during his failed 2016 Senate candidacy, according to the Pennsylvania Inquirer. Both of his parents provided he and his wife four $13,500 gifts, totaling $54,000, which was just below the $14,000 threshold for taxable gifts at the time.
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If you want hit pieces on Fetterman, then focus on things he has said and done. Focus on his relationship with Richard (Racheal) Levine and the mass murder of seniors in nursing homes. Focus on Fetterman’s role in picking essential and non essential businesses for COVID shutdowns. Focus on every single Marxist policy position he holds. Fetterman’s past is more than enough to defeat him.
Eff’n Republicans need to learn how to fight without mercy. Fetterman needs and should be destroyed. It seems the only people Republicans are good at destroying are MAGA candidates. What a worthless pieces of schiff.
Oz is not stupid. That's exactly who the SWING voters in PA are. If Trump hadn't alienated so many of them, Pennsylvania wouldn't have been close in 2020 and he would still be President.
When a Democrat is a “blue collar tough guy,” with whom is he “tough”?
Not criminals. Not deviants. Not communists.
Then who?>> The unarmed black guy he pulled his shotgun on.
The “beer joint\titty bar” off the Pa Turnpike crowd will vote for Fetterman because he looks like them or how they would wish to look! Even if it means fairy dust & unicorn farts for energy, Mac&Cheese for all meals, no jobs & sky-high heating bills.
To Dems, welfare recipients are layabouts that weren’t “privileged” enough to have family money.
So Dems will consider this meritorious, not a demerit.
“Wow, a thread that actually criticizes Oz’s opponent. How refreshing.”
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I know. The pro-Fetterman/Pothead crowd will be here soon enough to bash Dr. Oz.
Is that a spare tire around his neck? Every photo I see of that oddball he is wearing a scarf of some sort on his neck. He looks like Zippy the pinhead!
Oz is absolutely stupid, at least when it comes to who the electorate is in this state.
This Attack by Oz is going to alienate even more of the T than he’s already lost....
For the suburbanite upper middle class to matter in in PA as a Republican you better damn well have the T locked down as a Republican... and OZ doesn’t have any support there at all... and if he things pointing out that his Opponent decided to be a mayor of long beat down city after graduating Harvard, and took money from his parents to help support his family while doing it is going to help him across the majority of this state he’s beyond STUPID...
Oz is completely off brand for PA.. he’ll do Okay for a Republican in Philly and NJ Border area, may even overperform a generic REpublican there, but he’s going to get absolutely crushed across the rest of the state... he will underperform a generic Republican everywhere else, and if you want to win in PA you have to KILL IT in those areas, and OZ is just a non starter.
Oz and Fetterman both come from wealthy families... both went to Harvard.... Oz calling attention to how their lives deviate after that commonality does not help OZ once bit in the T...
Oz is a fraud and inauthentic phony, in the places where you get mud on your boots, he won’t perform worth a damn.. and this little “attack” is proof he doesn’t understand this state at all.
Just look at the PRIMARY, they tell you all you need to know... Oz “won” the Jersey boarder/Philly area... and lost everywhere else.... He’s a non starter.. his comments on gun control being a “health care issue” takes him completely off the table for a good segment of the GOP base in this state...
This guy is a turd... If he winds up within 5 on election day it will be a miracle... Completely off brand.
The IDIOTIC assumptions of the establishment and the punditry is a very old playbook... If we do better than average in Philly area we win... because the yokels out in fly over will just show up and pull the lever no matter what... and that ain’t gonna happen with this turd.
Oz got BOOED at the Trump Rally in Erie when Trump introduced him... this guy is a dead man walking.... and to compound this he’s absolutely tone deaf.
Oz wouldn’t go into Braddock, and if he was forced to drive through it because he couldn’t avoid it he’d lock the doors and floor it.... he thinks pointing out your opponent actually put in hard work in areas you wouldn’t be caught dead in is going to help you out beyond the Philly/NY region you are a fool.
Simply put, Fetterman, is authentic about what he believes and says... I don’t agree with it, but he genuine believes it... Oz is a inauthentic hack... and when that’s the choice you are given, the inuthentic hack doesn’t stand a chance outside the urban area.. and as a Republican you need to CRUSH it outside the urban areas... and OZ is not going to... he will underperform across the T....
November will be here soon enough..
Sigh....
As someone who has actually met Fetterman a few times over the years, and been in Braddock, at its lowest damn point, many times... There are many things you can call Fetterman, but fraud ain’t really one of them.
Unlike OZ who just regurgitates focus group tested phrases, and puts on a face front for the cameras... I can assure you Fetterman is not someone who pretends to be anything other than what he is. I don’t agree with the man politically at all, but I don’t and never have once, questioned his belief in what he says and does.
Folks here, largely folks who have never set foot in PA, who flippantly dismiss this man, are going to find themselves in for a rude awakening this fall.
Oz is completely unelectable in PA.. he is utterly off brand, and completely unauthentic. He will sell probably better than a generic republican in the Philly Suburbs and Jersey border area, but he’s going to grossly underperform everywhere else. If he winds up within 5 points on election day I’ll consider it a miracle.
I have never in my nearly 40 years of living in PA seen anyone so utterly and completely off brand for a Republican run for state wide office as the candidate.... Even with all the red wave at his back.. and Trump trying I am sure his best to carry this turd to the end... If he winds up losing by less than 5 points on election day I will consider it miraculous.
Underestimate Fetterman at your own peril folks...
They are not thinking. They are blank slates for the Democrat image making machine in collusion with the mass media. When it comes to politics and the people who will rule over you and tax you.... By and large and large, people would rather be conned, than to exert themselves and think. We also saw this with the Covid.xxx vaxxes and boosters theater.
For every Democrat, Fauci and Greenie con job to win, there must be a population who subconsciously want to be conned. Because it makes them feel virtuous, good about themselves. (House of Games movie)
Simple...
OZ is a fraud, period.
Utterly off brand for PA... It will be a miracle if Oz winds up losing by less than 5 points on election day.
After, Specter, Toomey and Santorum, we know what frauds look like... and won’t be part of putting another one in the Senate....
You put up a crap candidate expect a crap result, and that’s exactly what is going to happen in PA...
Dismiss and hyperbole all you like, been in this state for nearly 4 decades, Oz is the most off brand candidate I’ve ever seen.. there is a reason polling shows him down double digits, its because he’s a terrible candidate, period.
Looks like Woody Harrelson in some of his more sinister roles.
I live not far from Braddock.
There was no “resurgence”. It’s still a completely depressed community.
Fetterman was hoping the resurgence that DID come to a nearby town (Lawrenceville) would work it’s way down the river and he’d be able to take credit.
Nope. Didn’t happen.
Did not know that, thanks for the info !
I bet Bruce Springsteen would support him.
His tickets are now over $5,000!
You know ‘working man of the people’.
lol — I was thinking “how strange”
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