Braddock Mayor John Fetterman finds himself in the hot seat in campaign for Pennsylvania lt. gov.
Mayor John Fetterman found himself in the hot seat Tuesday night during an hour-long Q&A with the University of Pittsburgh’s College Democrats.
Fetterman is running for lieutenant governor in the upcoming election, and Pitt’s Young Democratic Socialists on hand took the opportunity to challenge him on some of his progressive stances. The local branch of the Democratic Socialists of America met with Fetterman in December and declined to endorse him in the upcoming election.
Prior to the event this week, the Young Democratic Socialists, lead by co-chair Sean Bailey, researched Fetterman’s positions on a wide range of issues. At the event, they quizzed him on topics ranging from fracking and abortion laws to minimum wage and nonprofit laws.
“We wanted to differentiate between a strong progressive platform and the Fetterman campaign, and I think we did,” Bailey said.
In one of the first questions of the night, student Dignan Kelly challenged Fetterman’s endorsement of Rep. Paul Costa (D-Braddock), who, Kelly said, is “obviously anti-choice.” Kelly researched Costa’s voting record and found he supported a targeted regulation of abortion providers, or TRAP, bill in 2011. Advocates say that these TRAP laws place so many restrictions on abortion providers that many patients are priced out of accessing abortions.
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