don t believe it. check it out yourself on realtor.com. so, you know, the story, for decades the biggest employer in braddock was manufacturing. something called the edgar thompson steelworks. in fact, andrew carnegie. the plants closed, and there was unemployment and people left by the thousands. one man saw an opportunity in braddock, pennsylvania, not an opportunity for the town, but for himself. that man s name was john fetorman. he was 35 years old, never in his life had a real job. getterman was not from braddock. he spent his life going to business school, then to harvard for a so-called masters of public policy, which for the uninitiated is an utterly meaningless document that you pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to get in order to tell people that you went to harvard. in fetterman s case, his dad paid for it, and paid for everything else. for a long stretch, deep into his 40s, his income came from his family. in other words, john fetterman was a classic trustfori
dollars to get in order to tell people that you went to harvard. in fetterman s case, his dad paid for it, and paid for everything else. for a long stretch, deep into his 40s, his income came from his family. in other words, john fetterman was a classic trustforian. in 2005, a year after arriving in braddock, fetterman announced he was running for mayor. amazingly, boldly, given that he was a professional student, living off his rich family, john fetterman decided to run as a blue collar populist. they asked no questions. they loved it. in john fetterman, the media saw themselves. he was just like them. fetterman narrowly won the race, and then the campaign to boost john fetterman s career began in