The PA Democratic Party has three candidates running in the primary. The winner will face Pat Toomey in the fall. Former admiral Joe Sestak is a smart guy, but he lost to Toomey six years ago. Katie McGinty worked for Al Gore and ran for governor in 2014. I voted for her, but she received less than 10% of the vote.
Then there’s John Fetterman, mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania. Braddock is a former steel town near Pittsburgh that has seen better days. Much better days. It is majority African-American, its population has dropped precipitously, and it has no industry and few jobs. As mayor, Fetterman gave the town hope. Crime has gone down and the town has a new spirit.
Tonight I met Fetterman at a Carbon County Democrats for Progress meeting in Jim Thorpe. The room at the Inn at Jim Thorpe was packed, and the audience, with some Republicans included, was impressed. I went into the meeting prepared to scoff, but I liked what I saw and heard. I even volunteered to circulate a nominating petition for Mr. Fetterman.
I do like being in a party in which any of the three candidates running is head and shoulders above the incumbent Toomey. Toomey was head of the Club for Growth, a group of filthy rich plutocrats whose main desire was to amass even more wealth at the expense of the rest of us. Toomey should be in jail rather than the Senate.
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