{"id":1670848,"date":"2022-10-03T21:19:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T01:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1670848"},"modified":"2022-10-03T21:21:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T01:21:31","slug":"democrat-senate-candidate-john-fetterman-vandalized-local-business-while-he-was-mayor-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-senate-candidate-john-fetterman-vandalized-local-business-while-he-was-mayor-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Senate Candidate John Fetterman Vandalized Local Business While He Was Mayor: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fdemocrat-senate-candidate-john-fetterman-vandalized-local-business-while-he-was-mayor-report%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=1670848&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--><p>A video clip resurfaced Monday showing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/pennsylvania\">Pennsylvania<\/a> U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman (D), who at the time of the clip was mayor of Braddock,\u00a0vandalizing a sign belonging to a local business back in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The then-owner of Club 804, Assim Chaudhry, and someone who was interested in buying the club at the time, Cordell Collins, showed up to a local city council meeting with a laptop where they then played a video showing Fetterman vandalizing the sign, the\u00a0Pittsburgh Post-Gazette <a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/local\/east\/2010\/11\/11\/Video-shows-Braddock-mayor-changing-business-sign\/stories\/201011110310\">reported<\/a> in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Video showed Fetterman changing the sign from saying, \u201cOpening Soon Under New Management\u201d to \u201cClosed Not Opening Soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the mayor,\u201d Chaudhry said at the city council meeting. \u201cThis is who you guys have running this town.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman didn\u2019t hide the fact that he did it as he bragged about it to a local news station saying that vandalizing the sign was his way of putting the club on notice that he was going to try to shut them down.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Check out what <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnFetterman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JohnFetterman<\/a> did to a Black owned business. My lord. George Floyd would not approve. \u270a\ud83c\udffe <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MGDaQ9vodP\">pic.twitter.com\/MGDaQ9vodP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArthurSchwartz\/status\/1576905291609690112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Democrats are hopeful that Fetterman will win his race against Republican candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/dr-oz\">Dr. Mehmet Oz<\/a> and contribute to a majority in the evenly divided Senate. Amid criticism over his approach to drug policy, the longtime mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, apparently changed his campaign website.<\/p>\n<p>As recently as last month, the website\u2019s issues page discussed Fetterman\u2019s commitment to Black Lives Matter \u2014 although the wording has since been removed. \u201cJohn served as mayor of a city that\u2019s more than 80% Black, and has championed the idea that Black lives matter since long before it became a hashtag,\u201d an archived version of the website said under a section called \u201cBlack Lives Matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman garnered controversy in 2013 after he responded to what he believed was gunfire by pulling a firearm on an African-American and detaining him until police arrived \u2014 an incident that has generated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2022-election\/fettermans-gun-incident-rattles-black-democrats-pa-senate-race-rcna25649\">unease<\/a> among black voters.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman also has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/im-for-decriminalizing-across-the-board-john-fetterman-has-repeatedly-nodded-to-woke-drug-policy\">lengthy history<\/a> of supporting controversial monitored drug injection sites and drug decriminalization. \u201cI think it\u2019s important that we as a society get in front of it,\u201d Fetterman said of the drug crisis in a 2018 podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=deThxim1yD4\">interview<\/a> with Aaron Watson. \u201cI think it\u2019s important that we as a society have all the options on the table \u2014 including needle exchange, which is only technically legal in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh \u2014 and even safe injection sites that are being considered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/surprising-group-of-voters-is-helping-dr-oz-narrow-the-gap-against-john-fetterman-in-pennsylvania-senate-contest\">Surprising Group Of Voters Is Helping Dr. Oz Narrow The Gap Against John Fetterman In Pennsylvania Senate Contest<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video clip resurfaced Monday showing Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman (D), who at the time of the clip was mayor of Braddock,\u00a0vandalizing a sign belonging to a local business back in 2010. The then-owner of Club 804, Assim Chaudhry, and someone who was interested in buying the club at the time, Cordell Collins, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1670851,"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-1670848","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\/1670848","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1670848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1670851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1670848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1670848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}