John Fetterman, Mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, and former candidate for the U.S. Senate, visited Jim Thorpe earlier this evening to talk politics to a group of local residents.
Fetterman had been a Bernie Sanders supporter who then worked in the Clinton campaign after she won the nomination. He also campaigned for Katie McGinty, who had defeated him in the primary.
He explained that Betsy DeVos would not be the Secretary of Education today had McGinty won. Toomey provided the swing vote on that nomination.
He also noted that the Supreme Court is about to be dominated by extreme conservatives who, had they been in power, would have found the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. He pointed out that neither Sanders nor Clinton would have created the hatred and divisiveness now so common in this country.
All of this seems self-evident, but he said that many Clinton and Sanders people are still taking pot-shots at one another while Trump is threatening nuclear war and thinks that football players taking a knee is more important than helping millions of Americans in crisis in Puerto Rico.
I’m not sure if Mr. Fetterman will be running for an office higher than mayor, but if he should decide to, he has my vote.
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