Fetterman Tweet:

[applegrove]

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Fetterman photo of his dad and him s a toddler. Union his Dad was involved with "helped keep our young family together and food on the table".

[Demsrule86]

1. I love this picture.

[Karadeniz]

2. He takes after his dad.....

[Mysterian]

3. This guy knows how to campaign

I consider him a shoo-in at this point.

[BumRushDaShow]

19. He declared his run for Senate in FEBRUARY *2021*

U.S. News Feb. 8, 2021 / 7:34 PM
Pa. Lt. Gov John Fetterman announces U.S. Senate run to replace Toomey

By Jean Lotus


Pa. Lt. Gov John Fetterman announces U.S. Senate run to replace Toomey
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, seen here in 2016 as mayor of Braddock, Pa., announced he will run as a Democrat for Senate to replace Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa. File Photo by Archie Carpenter/UPI | License Photo

Feb. 8 (UPI) -- Pennsylvania Lt. Governor Democrat John Fetterman announced Monday that he would run for Senate, in what is predicted to be a highly contested race to replace Republican Sen. Pat Toomey, who said he will retire in 2022. In a video released Monday for supporters, the 6-foot-8 tall, tattooed Democrat said he wanted to represent the rural Pennsylvania voters that voted for former President Donald Trump in 2020.

"These places across Pennsylvania feel left behind. They don't feel part of the conversation," Fetterman said. "That's why Donald Trump went to these small counties and held these big rallies. We cannot afford to take any vote for granted. We cannot afford to take any place for granted."

In the uproar in Pennsylvania leading up to the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol siege, Fetterman was ousted from the Pennsylvania Senate chambers on Jan. 5, after Republican state lawmakers refused to seat a Democrat Senate winner, Jim Brewer, claiming his election was still being legally contested. Fetterman ran a failed bid for U.S. Senate in 2016, losing out in the Democratic primary to Katie McGinty, who then lost to Toomey.

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https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2021/02/08/Pa-Lt-Gov-John-Fetterman-announces-US-Senate-run-to-replace-Toomey/9241612828236/

And then literally went to every one of PA's 67 counties, some multiple times, for 15 months straight until he had his stroke. That's why he WON all 67 counties in the primary, with a more than 30% lead over the next highest vote-getter.



Meanwhile, DUers were rooting for Connor Lamb insisting that Fetterman was "unelectable" and couldn't win statewide (despite the fact that he had won a statewide election for Lt. Governor" ).

[dpibel]

22. Now, now

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Don't step on the action of the "Fetterman's winning, but not the right way" crowd.

These are tender souls and they have issues to work through.

[BumRushDaShow]

23. Some also think he just started tweeting/trolling the past couple months

Hell - HE and Shapiro helped get us through dozens of lawsuits and clown show antics during and after the 2020 election, including when Ghouliani headlined an insurrectionist super-spreader event in Gettysburg organized and run by Doug Mastriano.

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“We have been clear from the beginning: the General Assembly has no role to play in the selection of electors,”- Jason Gottesman, spokesman for the House Republican majority

More snake handling or selling timeshares at the Ramada won’t change anything.
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Claiming victory, Trump wants Pa. lawmakers to consider a special election; leaders say that’s...
Also, Republican legislative leaders showed no movement in changing the way presidential electors are chosen.
12:04 AM · Nov 26, 2020 from Braddock, PA

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“Senate GOP spokeswoman Jenn Kocher said Senate Republican leaders, who have the majority in that chamber, also don’t plan to call senators back to Harrisburg.”
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12:18 AM · Nov 26, 2020 from Braddock, PA

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No, they didn’t actually provide any actual evidence of voter fraud at the gathering, but they DID sign up over 148 new Herbalife partners.
12:22 AM · Nov 26, 2020 from Braddock, PA

[Sympthsical]

24. "but they DID sign up over 148 new Herbalife partners"

That is effing hilarious.

[BumRushDaShow]

25. He was a riot

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Looks like they picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
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President Trump's lawyers have filed a new brief explaining why it should get a restraining order to block Pennsylvania from certifying the election results, and it starts off a lot like the others in that it misspells the name of the governor.
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If PA doesn’t certify our Election results, after November 30th, we technically don’t have a State House of Representatives and 1/2 a state senate.

Which are controlled by Republicans. 😆
1:53 PM · Nov 21, 2020 from Pittsburgh, PA

[Demsrule86]

28. Yeah...boy do they!

[Demsrule86]

35. Tsk Tsk...Fetterman is a Democratic candidate.

[Wounded Bear]

5. Gotta love the blue collar roots...nt

[Demsrule86]

29. I love the blue color roots...Fetterman is a force of nature.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

6. Looks like his dad was TALL too.

John Fetterman is 6'8" tall. He will be the tallest US Senator to date.

Love how he is using Social Media as well as he has. His TV ads will be awesome as well.

I am reminded of the classic Jimmy Dean song....Big (Bad) John.

[BumRushDaShow]

17. One of his ads released last month

[bluboid]

7. I'm a Fetterman & family fan!!!

your campaign is the one to watch & support, especially now that I know you come from a union background!

best wishes from Washington State!

[qazplm135]

8. bit of a different vibe

from "I don't care which party wins."

He's 100 percent right.

[FakeNoose]

9. I believe John Fetterman just won Union backing throughout Pennsylvania

And we have a lot of Unions in PA. They may not all be Dems, but they'll vote for Fetterman, I'm sure of it.

Go Big John!

[onetexan]

13. K&R!!

[Demsrule86]

32. There will be crossover votes for Fetterman...they just like the guy.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. He's been tweeting out a lot of pics of him and his parents

I laughed when I saw this one yesterday -

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Me + Mom. 1980s. ❤️

Pure PA summer straight from the hose.

Also, wearing my favorite Pyromania Def Leppard shirt.
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9:21 AM · Jul 30, 2022

(at least his hose water wasn't "Schuylkill Punch" )

[Ligyron]

15. This Democrat can really identify...

It so reminds me of summers in the Florida heat drinking cool water pumped straight out of the well. Water with enough iron in it to cure every anemic on the planet several times over.

[BumRushDaShow]

16. Here in Philly, we had

Schuylkill Punch!



I even heard an interview with an old WW2 vet a few years ago, and he even used the term. People have even developed cocktails named for it.

[Ligyron]

20. That really is quite a story.

One of the first large cities in America and certainly one of the oldest.

and everybody's got to have water...

[BumRushDaShow]

21. Well interestingly enough

the place where "Rocky" ran up the steps (Philadelphia Museum of Art) used to be the city's main (downtown) water reservoir (it sits right next to the river and a big "Fairmount Water Works" is adjacent).

The below is a paining where you can see that big hill to the right with what looks like steps going to the top. Behind the mount was a huge reservoir of water pumped right from the Schuykill.



They dismantled that and put the Art Museum there.





(the skyline is almost completely different now )

[whopis01]

27. LMAO. I grew up drinking the same water.

It also had way more calcium than you would ever need!

[Ligyron]

34. Well, we'll never get osteoporosis then!

[Prendy]

11. What we stand for!

This is precisely what we as Democrats are trying to represent!

[Lonestarblue]

12. More Democrats could take a few lessons from Fetterman.

Ryan is up only two points over Vance in Ohio, but I keep getting emails saying that Vance is gaining. How anyone could support Vance is totally mystifying. Democrats really need this win.

I have great hopes for Val Demings too. Little Marco needs to be sent packing. The FiveThirtyEight list of polls mostly show Warnock ahead of Walker, but how Walker has over 40% is astonishing. I don’t trust Georgia Republicans not to try to steal this one.

[Demsrule86]

31. Last poll I saw had Ryan up buy 5...fingers crossed.

[druidity33]

14. Proud UFCW grocery worker right here!

Organizer and steward too! So good to see the recognition here! He's gonna win this thing! A lot of exclamation points!

K&R.

[calimary]

18. He's got genuine Everyman appeal.

How can you not like him?

Massively appealing and totally accessible at the same time.

[uponit7771]

26. K&R,

[RANDYWILDMAN]

30. Unions kept my family together

Go Fetterman

[niyad]

33. I LOVE that the UFCW local is 1776!