Two staffers are leaving for more progressive political jobs. Fetterman has recently made a big deal of denouncing that ever-nebulous political label.

Clout learns there’s been some serious turnover in Sen. John Fetterman’s office. In the last month, all three of Fetterman’s top communications staffers have left Capitol Hill.

    • 5C5C5C
      1081·
      9 months ago

      At least he spared us from Oz becoming a senator. Even with the personality change, he isn’t nearly as bad as that grifter. Now hopefully someone can primary him when his seat is available, or better yet maybe someone can convince him to step aside since he’s no longer the person he used to be.

    • Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.worldOP
      369·
      9 months ago

      The stroke may well have been part of it, but he honestly told us who he was when he pulled a shotgun on an unarmed Black man out for a jog, all because he thought he’d heard gunshots and assumed the man was running away.

        • Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.worldOP
          1824·
          9 months ago

          He pulled a shotgun on a man back in 2013, so before he was even elected, and well before his stroke, so I have no idea how any of what you said relates at all.

            • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
              58·
              9 months ago

              So you agree- he’s racist.

              Having worked in security for decades, including training people to use firearms… everyone is fucking racist.

              Most people have the decency to not act on it to that extreme, though,

              The only ones who do, are the ones who don’t care that they’re racist. For example, in bias training the “shoot, no-shoot” test (which is actually kinda flawed), most cops, and most anyone whose had similar training know better- and on the test can flash the correct answer.

              This doesn’t mean, in the field, knowing they can get away with it, that racist cops always behave appropriately.

                • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  32·
                  9 months ago

                  And if you were paying attention, you’d have seen how that the shotgun thing happened before he was in office. Before his stroke.

                  I liked the guy before too. I was fooled. It’s okay, I’m not omniscient.

                  Edit: Here’s a 2022 article on the 2013 incident.
                  and a 2013 article

                  He jumped in a truck and chased down a guy that was running after getting spooked by fireworks. Getting spooked is understandable. Chasing a guy down in a truck is not. Brandishing a weapon to detain the guy you have no cause to detain; after chasing him down?

                  This story reads more like Ahmad Arbery, than hero mayor. Maybe he tried to right the wrong, but he still did wrong- and very nearly got a man killed.

            • Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.worldOP
              914·
              9 months ago

              He held an innocent man basically hostage with a shotgun. Folks love making excuses to handwave racism and now are shocked that Fetterman is what he is now.

              If only there was this much sympathy for the man he pulled a gun on.

      • ArtVandelay@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        You can trust this folks, it’s on the internet, so it must be true especially in light of the cited evidence.

        /s just in case

  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
    947·
    9 months ago

    I have been saying from the start that this dude is a silver spoon baby, playing the role of the every man. “look I wear a hoodie, cause I can’t be bothered to show respect for my job” and I’m supposed to cheer his wealthy ass? Anyways I’m not surprised that he’s not who even his volunteers thought he was.

    He made his money as a corporate stooge in the insurance industry, in surprised people bought into his shit

    • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
      561·
      9 months ago

      For two years Fetterman worked in Pittsburgh as a risk-management underwriter for Chubb.[15]

      While Fetterman was studying at UConn, his best friend died in a car accident; this impacted Fetterman’s life and career.[16] After his friend’s death, Fetterman joined Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, pairing with an eight-year-old boy in New Haven, Connecticut, whose father had died from AIDS and whose mother was slowly dying from the disease.[17] During his time as a Big Brother, Fetterman says he became “preoccupied with the concept of the random lottery of birth”, and promised the boy’s mother he would continue to look out for her son after she was gone.[18]

      In 1995, Fetterman joined the recently founded AmeriCorps, and was sent to teach Pittsburgh students pursuing their GEDs.[19] He later attended Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, graduating in 1999 with a Master of Public Policy degree.[20]

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fetterman

      So… 2 years at an insurance company is a “corporate stooge” to you? And AmeriCorps and a Harvard MPP is… nepotism?