Posted on 10/13/2022 1:54:13 PM PDT by conservative98
America loves a comeback story.
When you grow up in western Pennsylvania you are surrounded by some of the most compelling narratives in our history. In Elementary School, local students take field trips to Ft. Necessity to learn about the French and Indian War.
We are reminded of the outgunned, under equipped, and ill-trained Pennsylvania soldiers who won the American Revolution under George Washington. We hear about Andrew Carnegie coming to America with nothing and building the greatest steel empire that ever existed.
We adapt these stories to the generational Pittsburgh legends like Bill Mazeroski’s hitting the 1960 World Series homerun, the Bradshaw to Harris Immaculate Reception, and Mario Lemieux rescuing the Penguins from bankruptcy to three more Stanley Cups.
It is in our blood to root for the comeback. Pittsburgh was America’s engine when Braddock’s Edgar Tomson Steelworks was running. Then steel factories closed. Pittsburgh suffered. However, today, Pittsburgh is back with high-tech jobs, world-class health care, and a robust restaurant scene.
I am a restaurant owner. About six years ago, I decided to open "Portogallo Peppers N’AT" in Braddock, where John Fetterman was the mayor.
Before we opened, I was living in a nearby community and heard about a renaissance that was happening in Braddock, Pa. I called the mayor because Braddock didn’t have the best reputation then, and frankly, it still could use some work.
He pitched me on the idea that there was increasing traffic through Braddock and the comeback was underway.
I moved in and even served his family pizza. I rooted for the comeback, but like most things about John Fetterman, there was a lot of hype and not a lot of substance.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
America deserves a real comeback. Restaurants, small businesses, and working people need a real comeback.
The polls are tight in Pennsylvania so let’s hope the comeback that America gets on November 8th features Dr. Oz as Pennsylvania’s next Senator-elect. The people of Braddock will be better off with him serving us in Washington.------------------------------
Good read. Video at the link.
Ask the voters that there is a dress code in DC and you cant get in wearing a hoodie. Lump head should address this..
If he wins, I wonder if he’ll show up to the Senate in a hoodie.
Is that allowed?
No.
I’m pretty sure every man I have ever seen there, even interns, are wearing suit and tie.
He should show up dressed like an English Barrister.
It's his(fetterman)look, the hoodie, but the hoodie hides his hunchback, it's definately a benign tumor of some sort, but the tumor does affect his cognitive ability to the brain.
I'm not a doctor. Just my personal opionion.
Sounds like a Ayn Rand novel.
People incapable of anything but manipulation and deceit rise to the top. Productive but less socially influential have to pay the bill.
> Pittsburgh was America’s engine when Braddock’s Edgar Tomson Steelworks was running. <
Was running? Edgar Thomson still is running. I’ll assume that the author here was typing faster than he was thinking.
The exception that proves the rule. John Roberts wore a fashionable black dress there.
Maybe his boyfriend likes it.
Bkmk
Why do you think it’s benign? A friend of mine had a knot like that and it was cancer. It has spread through his body.
What’s the use of me voting, the fix is in.....
“ What’s the use of me voting, the fix is in.....”
So speaks the Democrat concern troll.
ESAD
Unlike the (super liberal a-hole) guy that opened and closed Superior Motors (a high end restaurant that hosed his investors AGAIN) this dude is hanging in there.
Live music, too.
Braddock is WORSE off post Fetterman.
He’s under intense medical care.
If it was cancer, it would have been removed.
What I don’t understand is why a plastic surgeon hasn’t removed it by now.
True, but Braddock is the most dramatic and painful demonstration of the tragic nature of life and the judgement of history. A town haunted by the shadows of those who went before, the smoke and steel and sweat and blood of those thousands now gone who with their labor and intelligence helped cast the steel guts of what was American power. RIP brave and unknown industrial soldiers.
He looks healthy without a brain, it seems the tumor on his neck, is effecting his spinal cord,
Again I'm not a doctor, just an observer.
There were over 85,000 American factory deaths during WW II. That’s an awful lot of people. I worked in a steel mill back in the early 1980s. Even then it was a dangerous place. You had to be on the alert at all times.
Overhead cranes, forklifts, etc. did not watch for you. You were expected to watch for them.
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