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General Category => Midterm Elections 2022 => Topic started by: mystery-ak on August 04, 2022, 01:00:50 pm
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‘Blue Collar Tough Guy’ John Fetterman Lived off Parents’ Money Until His Mid-40s
Jordan Dixon-Hamilton 4 Aug 2022
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.
In addition, Fetterman’s father reportedly donated $100,000 single-candidate super PAC that backed his 2016 candidacy. Fetterman also received financial assistance from family members other than his parents. In 2013, he paid his sister $1 for a loft that she purchased for $70,000.
Fetterman’s annual salary while he served as Braddock mayor from 2006 to 2019 was $1,800.
Mehmet Oz’s campaign blasted Fetterman after reports revealed he received an adult allowance for so many years.
Oz campaign communications director Brittany Yanick told Fox News:
Here are facts: John Fetterman was living off of Daddy’s money until he was 46. During this period, he failed to pay his taxes 67 times. Now, he’s running for Senate, and wants to raise your taxes by trillions and spend billions more than even Biden. John Fetterman knows how to tweet, but apparently not how to type TurboTax.com. We suggest he take lessons in between his rush to get from one non-existent public event to the next
Oz called his opponent a “pretend populist” during an interview with Fox News.
“Many folks think it’s because of the way he dresses with his hoodies and his shorts that he’s been working his whole life. It’s quite the opposite,” Oz said.
In response, Fetterman’s campaign blasted Oz for being “an ultra-millionaire” and accused him of using his campaign to look out “for himself and his rich friends.”
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/08/04/blue-collar-tough-guy-john-fetterman-lived-off-parents-money-until-his-mid-40s/
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Wouldn't this make him a role model for democrats?
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I don't know whether he's ever held a real job. But, to be fair, he's always needed a lot of money because he's a freakin' drug addict.
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And then there's his racism:
Fetterman's past gun incident rattles Black Democrats in Pa. Senate race
The incident took center stage in the race last week when John Fetterman’s two Democratic opponents excoriated him over his actions in 2013 and for his refusal to apologize.
April 25, 2022, 4:31 AM EDT
By Marc Caputo
John Fetterman said he heard what sounded like gunfire and saw a man running away. So he reacted by getting his kid inside to safety before he called 911.
What Fetterman did next, however, still haunts him nine years later as he campaigns for the Democratic nomination for the Senate in Pennsylvania: He chased the man down with a shotgun and detained him until police arrived.
It turned out that the man was jogging and wearing running clothes. According to a police report, the man was unarmed and said the sound of gunfire was actually fireworks, although two witnesses thought they heard shots.
The man Fetterman pulled a gun on is Black. Fetterman — the mayor of the Pittsburgh-area borough of Braddock at the time and now the state’s lieutenant governor — is white. Fetterman, 52, said he couldn’t tell the jogger's race initially because of how he was bundled up in the winter cold. ...
NBC News (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/fettermans-gun-incident-rattles-black-democrats-pa-senate-race-rcna25649)
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And then there's his racism:NBC News (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/fettermans-gun-incident-rattles-black-democrats-pa-senate-race-rcna25649)
He should be mercilessly hounded for that.
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In the Rat nomenclature, this is not a bug, it's a feature.
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And then there's his racism:
Well he's a Democrat, so . . .
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If I saw that BigFoot looking mother chasing me I'd run like hell.
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And then there's his racism:NBC News (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/fettermans-gun-incident-rattles-black-democrats-pa-senate-race-rcna25649)
How is what he did racist? We shouldn’t adopt the left’s mindset where every incident involving a white person and a black person automatically qualifies as racism.
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How is what he did racist? We shouldn’t adopt the left’s mindset where every incident involving a white person and a black person automatically qualifies as racism.
By his and the democrats' own yard-stick it's racist. They should be held to their own standards.
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By his and the democrats' own yard-stick it's racist. They should be held to their own standards.
Exactly, we can use Alinsky on them too.
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How is what he did racist? We shouldn’t adopt the left’s mindset where every incident involving a white person and a black person automatically qualifies as racism.
I think the conclusion was that Fetterman saw a black man and assumed he was a criminal.
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How is what he did racist? We shouldn’t adopt the left’s mindset where every incident involving a white person and a black person automatically qualifies as racism.
Agree... in my mind's eye, I could see how everyone that tries to keep their neighborhood in shape could easily be painted with this racist stick.