{"id":1601532,"date":"2022-08-11T15:50:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T19:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1601532"},"modified":"2022-08-11T15:50:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T19:50:07","slug":"no-show-dem-senate-candidate-skipped-dozens-of-city-council-meetings-as-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-show-dem-senate-candidate-skipped-dozens-of-city-council-meetings-as-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"No-Show: Dem Senate Candidate Skipped Dozens of City Council Meetings As Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fno-show-dem-senate-candidate-skipped-dozens-of-city-council-meetings-as-mayor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1601532&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Former colleagues say &#8216;it\u2019s not true&#8217; that John Fetterman was an effective mayor<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tPennsylvania lieutenant governor John Fetterman (D.) \/ johnfetterman.com\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/chuck-ross\/\" title=\"Posts by Chuck Ross\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Chuck Ross<\/a> \u2022 August 11, 2022 3:45 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Senate hopeful John Fetterman (D., Pa.), a former mayor who is casting himself as the man who &#8220;worked to rebuild&#8221; the town of Braddock, Pa., missed more than a third of the borough\u2019s monthly meetings during his time in office, according to public records.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman skipped at least 53 meetings during his tenure as mayor of the Pittsburgh suburb from 2006 to 2018, according to documents obtained by the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>. The progressive Democrat missed just 4 meetings in his first three years in office, but peaked at 11 no-shows in 2011 and 9 in 2015. The tally may be higher, but records for the year 2016, when Fetterman first ran for Senate, are illegible.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman has been dogged for years by criticism of his spotty work history. Jesse Brown, a former Braddock borough council president, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eTEU0MmCr20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in 2015 that Fetterman &#8220;should have been at all council meetings,&#8221; but stopped showing up after several confrontations over his duties as mayor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He first come in thinking he was in charge of everything,&#8221; said Brown, who also criticized Fetterman for taking credit for Braddock\u2019s economic revitalization. &#8220;Everything that\u2019s happened in this community, he\u2019s gotten credit for it. The people believe that all this has come about through John Fetterman, but it\u2019s not true.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Charda\u00e9 Jones, who succeeded Fetterman as mayor, said Fetterman\u2019s failure to show up to city council meetings eroded his relationships with councilmembers. &#8220;When you\u2019re not present at council meetings, there\u2019s not much of a relationship there,&#8221; she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2021\/04\/16\/john-fetterman-profile-2022-senate-politics-pennsylvania-481259\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> <em>Politico<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman has faced similar complaints as lieutenant governor. State Sen. Tony Williams, the Democratic whip, told <em>Politico<\/em> that Fetterman often failed to show up to preside over Senate sessions, hampering his ability to forge ties with policymakers.<\/p>\n<p>One area where Fetterman has shown up to work as lieutenant governor could hurt him come November. As lieutenant governor, Fetterman\u2019s only official duty is to oversee the Board of Pardons. Fetterman has embraced the role, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/fetterman-voted-to-put-murderers-back-on-streets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voting<\/a> to free multiple murderers from prison, a record that has <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/pennsylvania-sheriffs-press-democratic-candidate-on-crime-policies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drawn criticism<\/a> from a group of Pennsylvania sheriffs.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman\u2019s Republican opponent Mehmet Oz seized on Fetterman\u2019s work ethic with the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/basement-bum-oz-campaign-trolls-fetterman-for-campaign-trail-absence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a campaign website<\/a> this month that portrays Fetterman as a slovenly layabout who works from his basement. The Oz campaign launched the site following a report that Fetterman lived off his wealthy father until his late 40s, when he was elected lieutenant governor in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman\u2019s truancy has drawn notice on the campaign trail, even before he suffered a near-fatal stroke that has kept him out of public view since May. Black clergy members <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillytrib.com\/news\/state_and_region\/black-clergy-says-fetterman-gop-missed-an-opportunity\/article_3a473805-745b-53f2-a7fa-97cb241316cb.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticized<\/a> Fetterman for missing a candidate forum in February, with some speculating he skipped the event to avoid questions about a 2013 incident in which he pulled a shotgun on an unarmed black jogger.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If there is already suspicion on the part of the community that race may be an issue and he may not be in touch with the community the way he thinks he is, then this only reinforces that by not showing up,&#8221; Rev. Mark Tyler, who leads South Philadelphia\u2019s Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, told the <em>Philadelphia Tribune<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman, who <a href=\"https:\/\/triblive.com\/local\/pittsburgh-allegheny\/will-fettermans-legacy-set-braddock-on-a-path-to-renewal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cast only one vote<\/a> during his stint as mayor, has defended his record in Braddock, claiming borough council members were &#8220;absolute obstructionists&#8221; who were &#8220;committed to my failure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Former colleagues say &#8216;it\u2019s not true&#8217; that John Fetterman was an effective mayor  Pennsylvania lieutenant governor John Fetterman (D.) \/ johnfetterman.com  Chuck Ross \u2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1601532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}