I realized the Kennedy school was for business, but thought I'd leave it in as sort of a subtle dig at lawyers...I think he got a loan from his folks of around $50,000 which was no doubt fodder in the 2018 ad war when he ran for Lt Governor. But I'm fairly certain that after winning the LT Governorship he'd be making enough $$ to be able to pay his folks back whatever amount they deemed he owed. Not really any different than kids whose parents pay for college, house etc... The problem for OZ is that this was all likely publicly litigated in 2018, which Oz might known if he hadn't been living in NJ and floating from among his 9 other mansions at the time...
You're really stretching here if the implication is somehow that Oz "relates" to blue collar people and Fetterman doesn't. Fetterman came from privilege, as his father built a successful insurance business. His parents were both Conservative republicans and he played college football for 4 yrs at Albright his fathers alma mater, prior to going to UCONN for his MBA.
While at UCONN a close friend's death caused him to re-evaluate his life and alter his plans to join the family business. He joined Big Brothers and Americorps and started teaching kids how to prepare for the GED. He was working as an insurance adjustor and decided to go to Kennedy for his MPP, and then seemed to throw himself into urban renewal after graduating. In 2004 he moved to Braddock a once booming steel town that had been declared a financially distressed municipality in 1988. He became the part time Mayor (paid $150/mo), but his actual job (also low paying) was as the director of the city's Youth Services program.
One of his achievements was to found a non-profit (Braddock Redux) whose goal was to but up and renovate/save properties and repurpose them for the town's use. One of his purchases was an old church which he purchased for $50,000 and after living in the basement for a while he turned it into the town's community center. He has many tattoos but the two that seem to stand out the most are the zipcode of Braddock on one arm and the listed dates of the 9 murders which occurred in the town over the 13 yr period he was Mayor on the other. That decline represented a major shift in the crime/murder rate, and he seems particularly proud of that accomplishment...
John Fetterman has turned the busted town of Braddock, Pa., into a national symbol of hope, hard work and authentic blue jeans. As an actual place to live, however, it’s a much harder sell.
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The Lt Governor has to go thru a primary process to win the nomination in PA, and when he ran in 2018 he had the endorsement of Bernie, Ed Rendell and Bill Peduto who would all be described as pro-worker in the context of PA politics. He actually ran in the 2016 Senate primary and lost when his name recognition was non-existent and he had no funding. But two years laterhe ran away with the Lt Governor race,and this year he beat a guy I actually like (Connor Lamb) because he advocated workers issues like $15 min wage and medicare for all. He's more pro-Israel than I am, and there are other issues I might personally disagree on, but in retrospect he is the best choice over Lamb, despite his atrial fibrillation...
Oz's worker ethos on full display...At a grocery store in New Jersey, with a film crew... "shopping" for crudite?
There was no whataboutism in my post. Simply pointing out that the same people who contend that politicians are living off the public dole turn around and criticize a guy like Fetterman for doing the exact opposite.If he borrowed money from his folks as Mayor and his other duties, he could have easily worked at a different occupation and made a lot of money if that was his goal. it's like damned if you do and damned if you don't with the folks I was referencing, and in this case I don't think I intended that to mean you.
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