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
car garage right in the middle , of town for three thousand00 dollars. don t believe it.realto check it out yourself. for unreal true.com. so you know the story. man for decades,uf the biggestthing employer in braddockca was manufacturing something called the edgar thompson steelworks. in fact, andrew carnegie steelwt it there along with his first stone public library, which still stands so for generations, braddock, pennsylvania, was a real place and then inevitably a steel plant closed and the usualrnegie disasters arrived. unemployment, hopelessness, drugs. people left by the thousands. but one man saw an opportunity br in braddock, pennsylvania, not an opportunityt an for the town but an opportunity for himself. that man s s name was john fetterman. fetterman was thirty five years old and had never in his life had a real job.job. geteran was not from braddock, hardly. he grew up ittn an affluent neighborhood four hours away. fetterman had spent his adulte life going t
homesteading, organic vegetables, art installation. and a heaping dose of climate theology, all imported from harvard. he imposed carbon caps on braddock, pennsylvania. he said it would bring more manufacturing jobs back. he called this initiative carbon caps equals hard hats. so expensive unreliable energy will mean more manufacturing job. how no one laughed at him. john fetterman kept going. in a 2009 advertisement for himself, he promised that, quote, with a smart, economically viable carbon cap policy in place, communities like braddock can begin to build its manufacturing and middle-class back up. this whole notion if we can continue to operate as we have been, and ignore climate change, is ludicrous. ha-ha-ha. they loved it at the aspen institute. and to be fair, john fetterman did not ignore climate change. he talked about climate change
did not ignore climate change.i hech talked about climate change endlessly. he made climate change pennsy the centerpiece of hisua administration in braddock, pennsylvania. as forlly ru actually running int the town or improving the townel of braddock, he was nolit interested, not even a little bit interested. and that s provable as mayor. recoy thg to public records, attained by the washington free beacon, fetterman missed more than a thirhed of the borough s monthly meetings. he was off at the aspen institute in his entire tenure as the mayor of braddock, john fetterman. castries a single vote at a city council meeting and wase a meaningless one . it was, a procedural vote fore. borough president . so what happened hap? this is always our favorite part of the story. what were the results? how did braddock, pennsylvania,, fare under the leadership of john fetterman? that s where the only question that matters. and again, we want f to be ascts fair and objective as we can ws be . so we