{"id":1680934,"date":"2022-10-10T05:06:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T09:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1680934"},"modified":"2022-10-10T05:06:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T09:06:15","slug":"fetterman-opposed-tough-on-crime-policies-in-bid-for-anti-cop-groups-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fetterman-opposed-tough-on-crime-policies-in-bid-for-anti-cop-groups-endorsement\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetterman Opposed \u2018Tough on Crime\u2019 Policies in Bid for Anti-Cop Group\u2019s Endorsement"},"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\">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%2Ffetterman-opposed-tough-on-crime-policies-in-bid-for-anti-cop-groups-endorsement%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=1680934&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>While courting an anti-police group\u2019s endorsement in 2018, Senate hopeful John Fetterman said he opposed &#8220;tough on crime&#8221; policies and was &#8220;very excited&#8221; for the reforms proposed by a Philadelphia district attorney now facing impeachment over a massive spike in violent crime in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman laid out his views of a &#8220;progressive agenda&#8221; in <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@reclaimphiladelphia\/questionnaire-responses-by-john-fetterman-candidate-for-lt-governor-218abd7fd13a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a questionnaire<\/a> for Reclaim Philadelphia, a left-wing activist group that claims Philadelphia\u2019s police budget is derived from money &#8220;stolen from communities.&#8221; Fetterman, who was seeking an endorsement in the race for lieutenant governor, told the organization he would use the office &#8220;as a bully pulpit for the larger issue of criminal justice reform.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a real opportunity to build a statewide platform that elevates and exposes the damage created by the school-to-prison pipeline, the prison industrial complex, and \u2018tough on crime\u2019 policies like \u2018Stop and Frisk\u2019 and cash bail,&#8221; said Fetterman, who expressed support for sanctuary cities and Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner, one of the left-wing prosecutors backed by Democratic billionaire donor George Soros.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman\u2019s campaign ignored questions about his current views of Krasner and cash bail, but a spokesman said Fetterman supported police as mayor of Braddock, Pa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;John has worked hand-in-hand with local police, so he knows the challenges they face and will support\u00a0them with the funding they need,&#8221; said campaign spokesman Joe Calvello.<\/p>\n<p>Fetterman\u2019s past embrace of progressive criminal justice reform could hurt his chances as crime spikes across the country. Republicans have highlighted Fetterman\u2019s positions on the issue as well as his tenure on the Board of Pardons in a series of blistering ads aimed at portraying the Democrat as soft on crime. A GOP group affiliated with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) has aired ads highlighting the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>\u2019s report that Fetterman cast the lone vote to free a man serving a life sentence for the first degree murder of a man he killed for money to buy heroin.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have also emphasized Fetterman\u2019s endorsement of Krasner, who faces impeachment in the Pennsylvania legislature for &#8220;dereliction of duty&#8221; after violent crime skyrocketed in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While courting an anti-police group\u2019s endorsement in 2018, Senate hopeful John Fetterman said he opposed &#8220;tough on crime&#8221; policies and was &#8220;very excited&#8221; for the reforms proposed by a Philadelphia district attorney now facing impeachment over a massive spike in violent crime in the city.<br \/>\nThe post Fetterman Opposed \u2018Tough on Crime\u2019 Policies in Bid for Anti-Cop Group\u2019s Endorsement appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/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-1680934","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\/1680934","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=1680934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680934\/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=1680934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}