{"id":1706295,"date":"2022-10-21T17:03:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T21:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1706295"},"modified":"2022-10-21T17:04:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T21:04:03","slug":"fetterman-to-campaign-with-socialists-in-philly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fetterman-to-campaign-with-socialists-in-philly\/","title":{"rendered":"Fetterman To Campaign With Socialists in Philly"},"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\">14<\/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-to-campaign-with-socialists-in-philly%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=1706295&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>John Fetterman will canvas in Philadelphia this weekend with two members of the Democratic Socialists of America, including a state lawmaker who wants to &#8220;increase the number of socialists in elected office.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania Senate hopeful is launching a voter drive effort on Sunday with state representative Elizabeth Fiedler and state senator Nikil Saval, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/politicalemails.org\/messages\/842431\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an email<\/a> from his campaign. Fiedler and Saval were members of the Democratic Socialists of America, the largest socialist group in the country. As a member, Fiedler in 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dsausa.org\/statements\/dsa-elected-officials-support-teacher-power-and-working-people-everywhere\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expressed<\/a> solidarity with teachers in Oakland, Los Angeles, and Chicago who led successful work strikes. Saval, a former magazine editor, touted socialism in a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dissentmagazine.org\/article\/socialist-politicians-nikil-saval\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a>\u00a0and expressed optimism that more socialists will win elected office. Both also have ties to a left-wing activist group in Philadelphia that supports the movement to defund police departments.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the latest example of Fetterman campaigning with left-wing activists even as he publicly downplays his own progressive views. Fetterman, whose lead over Republican Mehmet Oz has narrowed dramatically in recent weeks, recently walked back his support for the decriminalization of all drugs. He disavowed a former campaign official he appointed to serve on the Board of Pardons following a <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/fetterman-taps-friend-of-black-panther-cop-killer-for-board-of-pardons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> that she is a &#8220;friend&#8221; and supporter of cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. He has also insisted that he never supported the movement to defund police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was always absurd to defund the police,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/10\/18\/2022\/john-fetterman-talks-crime-and-punishment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> this week. &#8220;From my own experience I\u2019d say, anytime you have fewer police, you&#8217;re going to have more crime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Fetterman has still aligned himself with many activists who do support the controversial movement. He <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/fetterman-to-hold-pro-abortion-rally-on-9-11-with-anti-cop-activist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">held a rally<\/a> on September 11 with a pro-abortion activist who supports defunding police. He campaigned in Philadelphia last month with three city council members who have expressed support for the cause.<\/p>\n<p>Saval and Fiedler are both affiliated with Reclaim Philadelphia, a group formed by supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) that also supports the defund movement. The organization in 2020 pushed to defund the Philadelphia police department, saying that much of its funding came from money &#8220;stolen from communities.&#8221; In a bid for the anti-police group\u2019s endorsement in 2018, Fetterman <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/fetterman-opposed-tough-on-crime-policies-in-bid-for-anti-cop-groups-endorsement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> he opposed &#8220;tough on crime&#8221; policies, including cash bail. Saval cofounded Reclaim Philadelphia. Fiedler\u2019s husband is a member of the organization.<\/p>\n<p>Oz and his Republican allies have released an onslaught of ads highlighting Fetterman\u2019s push<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Fetterman will canvas in Philadelphia this weekend with two members of the Democratic Socialists of America, including a state lawmaker who wants to &#8220;increase the number of socialists in elected office.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe post Fetterman To Campaign With Socialists in Philly appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":1706298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1706295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706295","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=1706295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1706298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1706295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1706295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}