Lindy Li
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Republicans are pretending to give a damn about the freedom of women in Afghanistan when here at home they’re doing everything they can to smother us and control our bodies.

Gimme a break.

The pool at the former Lieutenant Governor’s residence is officially open!



Now let me be very clear, Thomas. This is NOT my actual residence. I am the only Lieutenant Governor in the history of Pennsylvania to *reject* living in a huge estate with a chef, gardener, and pool paid for by taxpayers. And in late 2019 the Commonwealth divested itself of the property, saving taxpayers as much as $400,000 every year.

Pennsylvania does not owe me or my family a staffed mansion to live in. The supreme honor and privilege of serving as LG is many, many multiples more than enough.

Gisele and I chose to raise our kids and keep our residence, an old car dealership across the street from Andrew Carnegie’s first steel mill in Braddock, instead. Still, we have always maintained that if *our* children were welcome to swim in that beautiful 30-by-40 foot pool, so should every other child…



...So in June 2019, we opened up the pool to the children of Pennsylvania! 😎

Now the pool gets put to good use every summer by public groups and nonprofits. Children with little to no access to a swimming pool can now learn how to swim in a beautiful pool at a historic estate.

The ugly truth is that swimming has a painful legacy of racial segregation. Gisele and I are committed to equity in all spaces. It is our hope that making this pool available to everyone will help end that disparity and allow every kid in Pennsylvania to have a fun + cool summer.

Equity everywhere is worth fighting for, Tommymac. And I *promise* that as a United States Senator, I will fight for equity in your community as if it were my very own.

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Here’s to another great summer,

John

John Fetterman
Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania

https://johnfetterman.com/