bought them with his own money. a diss of fetterman long relied on financial assistance from his family. you lived off your parents until you were almost 50. get off the couch, john. fetterman s recent mail solicitation ironically attacks oz s wealth right on the envelope gop rich dude alert. but new york post columnist reporter for the entire 13 years fetterman was the part time mayor of braddic, pennsylvania, making $150 a month, his parents paid him a supplemental salary, $54,000 in 2015, until he was sworn in as lieutenant governor in 2019 at the age of 49. thursday in the ultimate 2022 media move, fetterman s campaign launched a tiktok account to help spread his videos further again going after oz s carpet bagging. you ll remember that in may three months ago fetterman
for office and senator mitt romney ran for open seat in utah in 2018 despite previously serving as the governor of massachusetts. guess what, all of them won. do voters hold residency to be a problem? with me now to help answer these questions is christopher, the author of the book on point stranger in a strange state the politics of carpet bagging from robert kennedy to scott brown. he is also an associate professor of politics at st. anthem college. professor, where does the term come from? why do we call carpet bagging? it came from southern newspaper editors in the years immediately after the civil war during reconstruction. they were looking for some word use to demeanor northerners coming south looking for their fame and fortune and settled on carpet bagger because it described the suitcases that were literally made from heavy kargts that they carried with
television set and tweeted out, call me old school. i think senators should be long standing residents. i m bothered there are residency questions, i don t mean in a legal or technical sense. they all meet the requirement. i m bothered by the fact that i don t regard three of them from being from pennsylvania, at least not recently. because until recently, mccormick lived in connecticut. sands spent most of her adult life in california and oz is more aptly being described from new jersey. the philadelphia inquirerer pointed out the celebrity known as dr. oz says he moved to pennsylvania last year but more than 20 social media posts in the last three months show him in his north jersey mansion. pennsylvania isn t the only state experiencing political carpet bagging this election cycle. in georgia, former uga football star herschel walker moved back to the state to run for the senate after living for decades in texas. in oregon, new york times columnist announced he was
running for governor but was disqualified because he wasn t a resident of the state for at least three years. in rhode island, morganthal left her commerce department job in washington to run for office to succeed retiring representative jim. she grew up in boston and new york. and in tennessee, former state department spokesperson morgan ortgas moved to nashville and announced her candidacy for a house seat. look, this is a tale as old as time. there are many high-profile instances of carpet bagging when you go back into political history. the late robert f. kennedy became a senator from new york despite his famously being from massachusetts. former senator and secretary of state hillary clinton also represented new york after spending most of her life in illinois, arkansas and washington, d.c. former senator elizabeth dole was a resident of the washington, d.c. area since the mid 1960s before moving from her home at the weathergate hotel back to north carolina to run
more hijacked by extremists, democrat or republican. keep sending in your stick figure drawings. where do you see yourself on an ideological scale and where have you been? wow. this is fancy, smansy. look at this. let my dissect. seems pretty much here is my take away, he or she is sticking the middle but notice what is happening. the right and the left are moving so far that people are falling off the edges. i love that. i agree with it. keep the submissions coming and vote at smerconish.com and register for the newsletter when you re there. still to come, three of the five gop candidates for senate in my home state of pennsylvania i say really aren t from here, at least not recently. other so-called carpet bagging candidates this cycle include herschel walker in georgia, congressional hopeful sara rosenthal in rhode island. will their recent residencies impact their chances?