Posted on 09/09/2022 2:13:04 PM PDT by conservative98
As mayor of Braddock, Pa., Senate hopeful John Fetterman (D.) ordered a police officer to dig up dirt on one of his political rivals, according to a town solicitor whom Fetterman later fired.
In a heated 2009 mayoral campaign, Braddock solicitor Lawrence Shields accused Fetterman of "abuse of your mayoral authority" for ordering a Braddock cop to obtain a police report from a 2004 domestic incident involving Fetterman’s challenger, Jayme Cox. Braddock city council members called for Fetterman’s arrest for violating state laws regarding the handling of criminal information in cases where charges are dropped.
Three years later, Fetterman cast the tie-breaking vote—his only vote in 13 years as Braddock mayor—to fire Shields as solicitor, purportedly to save money in the borough’s budget. Fetterman said he was an "enthusiastic yes" in favor of ousting Shields. Shields and Fetterman’s campaign did not respond to requests for comment about whether the earlier criticism of Fetterman was a factor in Shields’s firing.
The incident is another black mark on Fetterman’s tenure as mayor of the dilapidated steel town, which the progressive candidate has touted on the campaign trail as evidence of his blue collar bona fides. In 2013, Fetterman pulled a shotgun on an unarmed black jogger he wrongly suspected of firing a gun near his house. The jogger, Christopher Miyares, said Fetterman aimed a shotgun at his chest. Fetterman admitted in a television interview that he "may have broken the law," but he has refused to apologize for the incident.
Fetterman admitted to asking a police officer for the report on Cox and discussing it with others. But he denied pressuring the officer to dig up the information and said it was necessary to inform voters about Cox, who had charges dropped after taking a domestic abuse class.
Reached by phone, Cox acknowledged he got in an altercation with his wife in 2004 but said the allegation he hit her "wasn’t true." The seven-year Navy veteran told the Washington Free Beacon he and his wife reconciled and remained married until she passed away in 2017. He said he still doesn't know how Fetterman obtained the police report.
"He’ll stab anybody in the back who gets in his way," Cox said of Fetterman.
Fetterman also faced allegations from city officials of failing to perform his duties as mayor. He missed more than one-third of council meetings during his tenure, the Free Beacon reported. Jesse Brown, the president of the city council when Fetterman was in office, said he "should have been at all council meetings" but stopped showing up after multiple confrontations over his official duties.
In one city council meeting Fetterman did attend, he "began discussing his political views" about Cox, according to meeting records obtained by the Free Beacon. Fetterman’s rant during the May 2009 meeting prompted Brown to ask Braddock’s police chief "to remove [Fetterman] from the meeting after he refused to end the discussion." Fetterman was allowed to stay in the meeting after calming down.
As lieutenant governor, Fetterman has proposed rewriting the very same law he was accused of violating in 2009, the Criminal History Record Information Act. He claimed the act "unfairly" disqualified "many Black and Brown Pennsylvanians" from employment. Braddock solicitor Shields said in 2009 that Fetterman’s release of the police report on Cox, who is black, opened Braddock up to a potential lawsuit for violating the act, which bars the release of criminal information three years after an arrest when no conviction occurred. Pennsylvania’s Bucks County was fined $67 million in 2019 for violating the act by publishing protected criminal information.
Fetterman is a lowlife POS — the perfect Rat
“””Fetterman cast the tie-breaking vote—his only vote in 13 years as Braddock mayor”””
Let’s see now. Fetterman was a mayor of the derelict town of Braddock, PA from 2006 to 2019.
Then somehow in 2019 Fetterman becomes the Lt Governor of PA based upon his stellar political career of being Mayor of Braddock.
Now this hoodie doofus has been put forward by the Democrats for the voters of PA to make Fetterman be a United States Senator.
Wake up Pennsylvania.
We’re awake and the hits keep coming Johnny boy. By the time November 8 comes around you’re going to be 4‘7“ tall. But still weigh 350 pounds.
This is just normal Democrat behavior.
There are never any consequences for it.
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“””We’re awake and the hits keep coming Johnny boy. By the time November 8 comes around you’re going to be 4‘7“ tall. But still weigh 350 pounds.”””
I like that spirit coming from PA. I can’t wait for the pounding Fetterman will get between now and Nov 8.
Life, and Life Without Parole.
As most Americans know, a life sentence is more often NOT a life sentence, but a long sentence that can have an end, and a prisoner is released.
Life Without Parole (LWOP) on the other hand IS a true life sentence that most families familiar with it refer to it as Death By Incarceration.
LWOP is the more insidious if for no other reason than right beside it (Life) is a get out of jail card.
The TV ads paint Fetterman as evil because he wants to do away with LWOP as an available sentence, and I personally agree with that.
There's nothing else I like about him and I'm convinced he will lose to Oz, which if/when President Trump is re-seated . . . Oz will admittedly be to our advantage.
Fellow Pennsylvanians, we need to get out the vote for Oz. While I didn’t vote for Oz in the primary, he needs to be elected if we want Republican control of the Senate. Toomey’s seat needs to be held. This Senate seat is not a pickup. It can only be a loss if we don’t demolish Fetterman. You can vote for against Fetterman if you don’t want to vote for Oz. That works. I will personally buy clothes pins for anyone unable to hold their nose.
That was one creepy dude. The whole family was nuts.
Good gosh
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