Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor comes in Paul Bunyan proportions and made his mark as mayor of a Rust Belt city outside Pittsburgh. More recently, he's become one of the most progressive politicians in the state. Our redesigned local news and weather app is live! Download it for iOS or Android — and sign up for alerts. Pennsylvania Lt. John Fetterman is throwing his hat in the ring for the Democratic nomination for U.
Senate in Republican U. Pat Toomey announced he won't run for reelection. Pennsylvania Feb 11, Senate, jumping into the Democratic primary against two candidates who were both better known and better funded — former state Secretary of Environmental Protection Katie McGinty, and former U. Joe Sestak. Fetterman ran as a staunch progressive and endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders for president. McGinty, who won the primary, ultimately lost the race to incumbent Republican Pat Toomey.
Two years later, Fetterman launched a new bid, this time for lieutenant governor against embattled Democratic incumbent Mike Stack. He won. But Fetterman has sought to make the most of his tenure. What could that mean for his political future?
He also used his position presiding over the Senate to cause some targeted chaos in a chamber that has been controlled by Republicans for decades. On two occasions, he attempted to ignore GOP motions in favor of allowing Democrats to make points — once, when Republicans were getting rid of a program that gave small cash payments to very low-income people , and when they were delaying seating a Democratic member. That information for the Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania has not yet been added.
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Voter information What's on my ballot? In the s, state lawmakers changed the constitutional threshold to recommend a pardon or commutation from a vote to a vote. The change came after Reginald McFadden — a man who raped one woman and killed two others — had his sentence commuted by then-Gov.
Robert Casey, after receiving a recommendation from the Board of Pardons. It's a moral imperative, I believe. And if we were able to return that back to the simple majority, you would make that threshold significant, but not almost virtually impossible, given all the other challenges with this process.
At the time, Fetterman was outside with his son in his hometown of Braddock, when he heard what he believed to be gunshots. Fetterman, wielding a shotgun, proceeded to follow and confront a Black jogger named Christopher Miyares who he saw running away from the direction of the commotion.
According to reports , Fetterman held Miyares, who was unarmed, at gunpoint, until first responders arrived. Never came up. I was elected overwhelmingly to two more terms after that and I've spoken extensively about it.
Senate seat, the same prize that eluded him in , when he finished third in the Democratic primary.
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