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John Fetterman just tweeted (Original Post) Demovictory9 Jun 2022 OP
K&R! SheltieLover Jun 2022 #1
Just the type of Dem that's needed. OnDoutside Jun 2022 #2
every Dem should hammer the fuck out of this... bahboo Jun 2022 #3
You should have heard Nan Whaley True Blue American Jun 2022 #20
Nice !!! Yeah, GZP is losing educated white women still uponit7771 Jun 2022 #31
RIGHT !?!? uponit7771 Jun 2022 #30
K&R - Already working our asses off here in Western PA to get John elected. Tommymac Jun 2022 #4
Northwest or Southwest PA? wnylib Jun 2022 #5
He's a former mayor of Bradford near Pittsburgh SouthBayDem Jun 2022 #13
The city of Bradford is in McKean County, PA, wnylib Jun 2022 #16
Braddock, not Bradford. Wingus Dingus Jun 2022 #24
Thank you. That makes more sense. wnylib Jun 2022 #28
D'oh I meant BRADDOCK not Bradford nt SouthBayDem Jun 2022 #26
Pittsburgh. Tommymac Jun 2022 #37
Since I have been away from Erie for so long wnylib Jun 2022 #38
Rt💕TY & Fetterman! Cha Jun 2022 #35
This is how it's done moose65 Jun 2022 #6
Hmm... Some on DU killed him off BumRushDaShow Jun 2022 #7
Yep. calimary Jun 2022 #12
"There is too much on the line." dchill Jun 2022 #15
And here are some from the guy who MUST MUST MUST become the next Gov. of PA - Josh Shapiro BumRushDaShow Jun 2022 #19
Can't wait to vote for you, Josh Shapiro! FalloutShelter Jun 2022 #22
He got me through the 2020 election nightmare BumRushDaShow Jun 2022 #29
K&R. William769 Jun 2022 #8
K&R DLevine Jun 2022 #9
Sure. And what prevents the USSC from overturning such a law? malthaussen Jun 2022 #10
This conservative Supreme Court is out of control with a hard core conservative political agenda. Martin68 Jun 2022 #11
"The law is a ass, Sir!" Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist txwhitedove Jun 2022 #14
Great message, the whole democratic party needs to run on it! Emile Jun 2022 #17
Recommended. H2O Man Jun 2022 #18
FETTERMAN FOR US SENATE FalloutShelter Jun 2022 #21
Go Pennsylvania! You have your man lined up! Wounded Bear Jun 2022 #23
Love this guy. Exactly what we need right now. Evolve Dammit Jun 2022 #25
We have tweets Glaisne Jun 2022 #27
+1000 Nixie Jun 2022 #33
"they have the courts." BumRushDaShow Jun 2022 #34
I don't think you and I are part of the same "We." johnp3907 Jun 2022 #39
Fetterman has said this from the start: the Right to Choose is sacred peggysue2 Jun 2022 #32
His latest tweets BumRushDaShow Jun 2022 #36
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Jun 2022 #40
Overnight tweet BumRushDaShow Jun 2022 #41

bahboo

(16,337 posts)
3. every Dem should hammer the fuck out of this...
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 11:28 AM
Jun 2022

what is it, close to 70% support a women's right to choose?

True Blue American

(17,984 posts)
20. You should have heard Nan Whaley
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 01:27 PM
Jun 2022

Last edited Fri Jun 24, 2022, 03:52 PM - Edit history (1)

Along with a bunch of women Doctors. They really went after DeWine.

Cornyn came on board for the gun amendment because Republicans are losing the suburbs.

The vote is now taking place in the House on the gun bill. The vote is now 221, 10 Republicans !bill passed!oting yeah.

Tommymac

(7,263 posts)
4. K&R - Already working our asses off here in Western PA to get John elected.
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 11:28 AM
Jun 2022

Please retweet if you agree.




#GOTV2022
#VOTEBLUE2022
#Fetterman4PA

wnylib

(21,447 posts)
5. Northwest or Southwest PA?
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 11:35 AM
Jun 2022

Erie is my home town, although I live in western NY now.

I have not lived in Erie for over 40 years, but when I was growing up there, it was a very Democratic city, but it was also predominantly Catholic and anti abortion.

wnylib

(21,447 posts)
16. The city of Bradford is in McKean County, PA,
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 01:03 PM
Jun 2022

on PA's northwestern border with NY. Pittsburgh is in southwestern PA, near the WVA border. Not near each other. McKean County is east of both Erie County and Warren County.

There is a county in PA called Bradford, but it also is on the NY/PA border, in the northeastern part of the state.

Tommymac

(7,263 posts)
37. Pittsburgh.
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 09:49 PM
Jun 2022

Not a native but been coming here for 30 years, living here for 22 of those.

Large majority of the folks around here in my neighborhood (working/middle mix) support a women's right to decide what is best for her, it's her body. Good percentage of 'progressive' Catholics, not so many Catholic radicals like the SC has.

wnylib

(21,447 posts)
38. Since I have been away from Erie for so long
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 10:08 PM
Jun 2022

I don't know the attitudes of Erie Catholics on abortion today. The suburban areas are probably pro choice. Don't know about residents inside the city. The Catholic colleges, churches, and cathedral, plus Catholic grade schools and high schools had a lot of influence over people's views when I last lived there. But, due to the Catholic Church's financial problems and families who can't afford tuition, some of those schools have closed.

Also, there used to be a lot of families of first generation Americans from Catholic countries. I think the influence on later generations might have diminished since then. But that's just speculation. I know that at the time of the Roe v Wade ruling in the 70s, there was a strong anti abortion attitude in Erie, led by the Catholic Church. Today I would think that Evangelicals have banded with them on abortion.

moose65

(3,166 posts)
6. This is how it's done
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 11:52 AM
Jun 2022

EVERY Dem candidate for House, Senate, and Governor should say this over and over again. Pound it home. Make the Republicans go on record on this. Hit them with it relentlessly.

This and the Jan. 6 hearings should motivate every Democrat in the country to vote this fall.

BumRushDaShow

(128,930 posts)
7. Hmm... Some on DU killed him off
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 11:54 AM
Jun 2022

Must be the zombie Fetterman.




John Fetterman
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I won’t stop fighting for Roe v. Wade.

Like I’ve *always* said: Abortion rights are non-negotiable.
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11:39 AM · Jun 24, 2022





John Fetterman
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In Pennsylvania, the Governor’s pen will either protect abortion rights or eliminate them.

The stakes can’t be any higher.

We MUST elect @JoshShapiroPA. He has been an absolute advocate of protecting abortion rights here in Pennsylvania.

There is too much on the line.
10:47 AM · Jun 24, 2022

BumRushDaShow

(128,930 posts)
19. And here are some from the guy who MUST MUST MUST become the next Gov. of PA - Josh Shapiro
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 01:25 PM
Jun 2022



Josh Shapiro
@JoshShapiroPA
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Jun 24, 2022
And let's send @JohnFetterman to the Senate to be the 51st vote to put abortion rights into federal law.
John Fetterman
@JohnFetterman
In Pennsylvania, the Governor’s pen will either protect abortion rights or eliminate them.

The stakes can’t be any higher.

We MUST elect @JoshShapiroPA. He has been an absolute advocate of protecting abortion rights here in Pennsylvania.

There is too much on the line.
Josh Shapiro
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It's up to us to defend abortion access in Pennsylvania
Know this: abortion remains legal in Pennsylvania — and will remain legal if I’m elected Governor.
11:12 AM · Jun 24, 2022





Josh Shapiro
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Don't feel hopeless. We have the power to protect the reproductive freedom of women in Pennsylvania.

We have to vote. http://joshshapiro.org/act
12:05 PM · Jun 24, 2022





Josh Shapiro
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If Doug Mastriano becomes Governor, this will happen in Pennsylvania.
Marc Levy
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MADISON, Wisc. (@AP) _ Planned Parenthood in Wisconsin immediately halted all scheduled abortions at its clinics in Madison and Milwaukee following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling striking down the Roe v. Wade decision on Friday.
12:43 PM · Jun 24, 2022





Josh Shapiro
@JoshShapiroPA
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Jun 24, 2022
Our Republican Legislature will send a bill to our next Governor’s desk to ban abortion in Pennsylvania.

Without Roe, the only thing stopping them is the veto pen of our next Governor.
Josh Shapiro
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Doug Mastriano has pledged to sign that bill — with no exceptions for rape, incest, or the life of the mother.

Doug Mastriano is dangerous. Help us defeat him in November.
secure.actblue.com
It's up to us to defend abortion access in Pennsylvania
Know this: abortion remains legal in Pennsylvania — and will remain legal if I’m elected Governor.
1:10 PM · Jun 24, 2022

BumRushDaShow

(128,930 posts)
29. He got me through the 2020 election nightmare
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 02:09 PM
Jun 2022

working (from the legal side as AG) with Marc Elias to beat back all those insane court cases!

malthaussen

(17,194 posts)
10. Sure. And what prevents the USSC from overturning such a law?
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 12:12 PM
Jun 2022

Even if, mirable dictu, the Federal Legislature enacts a law making abortion legal in the whole country, a lawsuit could be filed claiming that it is not the place of the Feds to make such a law (and the Court has just established that it is the province of the States). I can't imagine that the Court, as it is presently constituted, would not gleefully uphold such a challenge.

-- Mal

BumRushDaShow

(128,930 posts)
34. "they have the courts."
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 02:16 PM
Jun 2022

Last I heard, WE "have" a majority-D State Supreme Court here in Pennsylvania that not only broke the gerrymandered Congressional map here in 2018 and got us 4 (D) seats (which was part of the "blue tsunami" that gave Democrats the House control again), but that same state Supreme Court decided on the 2020/2021 Congressional map that was basically the same as what they drew in 2018 minus one seat that we lost due to the census.

(P.S. and because the SCOTUS does "states rights", all the GOP nonsense cases fighting those maps in 2018 and 2020, were waved away by the SCOTUS)

peggysue2

(10,828 posts)
32. Fetterman has said this from the start: the Right to Choose is sacred
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 02:11 PM
Jun 2022

Unike Oz who has changed his position to fit the extremist mold.

Shapiro will also defend Pennsylvania women and their right to safe, legal abortions.

Unlike Mastriano who supports the 'heartbeat' cut-off (a bogus timeline to begin with) and favors the ban pushed back to conception.

This is a clear choice for PA's electorate: women have been reduced to second-class status, their right to determine their own destiny stripped, removed, made illegal. Consider this: the right to carry a gun in public has been given a green-light while the right of women to make their own personal decisions has been eliminated. In addition, there's a future threat to contraception, as well as same-sex relationships and same-sex marriage.

The decisions of minority extremists cannot stand. Vote these suckers out, right down to dog catcher. March them all into the deep blue sea.

VOTE!

BumRushDaShow

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36. His latest tweets
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 07:13 PM
Jun 2022



John Fetterman
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A woman's reproductive freedom is non-negotiable.

Dr. Oz said he would support a ban on abortion even in cases of rape or incest.

The stakes couldn't be higher for women in PA + across the country - and this isn't the end of attacks on our civil rights.
4:43 PM · Jun 24, 2022

BumRushDaShow

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41. Overnight tweet
Sat Jun 25, 2022, 05:50 AM
Jun 2022



John Fetterman
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I just want to be really clear about something. Abortions will still happen whether it's illegal or not. The difference is that more women will die because they won't be safe, and it will fall hardest on poor women + women of color. We must fight this with everything we’ve got.
9:29 PM · Jun 24, 2022


And gubernatorial candidate PA AG Josh Shapiro tweeted that he will be appearing here in Philly with SE PA Congresswomen Scanlon, Houlihan, and Dean, as well as with other locally-elected SE PA women today in front of the Constitution Center -




Josh Shapiro
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We’re our last line of defense between us and an extreme abortion ban here in Pennsylvania.

And we have to meet this moment to defend the reproductive freedoms of every Pennsylvanian.

Rally with us.
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Defend Our Rights Rally with Josh Shapiro · All In PA 2022
Join Democratic candidate for Governor Josh Shapiro, Congresswoman Madeleine Dean, Congresswoman Chrissy Houlahan, Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon, State Senator Amanda Capelletti, House Democratic...
8:40 PM · Jun 24, 2022




Defend Our Rights Rally with Josh Shapiro
Highest Priority Rally
Defend Our Rights Rally with Josh Shapiro organized by All In PA 2022

Time
Saturday, June 25

1 – 3pm EDT

Location
National Constitution Center, Arch Lawn

525 Arch St
Philadelphia, PA 19106
About this event

Join Democratic candidate for Governor Josh Shapiro, Congresswoman Madeleine Dean, Congresswoman Chrissy Houlahan, Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon, State Senator Amanda Capelletti, House Democratic Leader Joanna McClinton, State Representative Donna Bullock, Commissioner Val Arkoosh, Women's March on Philadelphia, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Planned Parenthood Southeastern PA, and Pennsylvania NOW for the Defend Our Rights Rally in support of reproductive rights for all Pennsylvanians.
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