Comments by "Above Ground" (@Above-Ground) on "Senate Dress Code RELAXED For John Fetterman" video.
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Fetterman's father helped subsidize Fetterman financially because the position of mayor paid only $150 per month.
In 1995, Fetterman joined the recently founded AmeriCorps, and was sent to teach Pittsburgh students pursuing their GEDs.
He later attended Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, graduating in 1999 with a Master of Public Policy degree.
Fetterman served as mayor of Braddock and the full-time director of the city's youth program.
He also founded a nonprofit organization, Braddock Redux, which he used to acquire and save properties in Braddock.
With family money, he purchased the town's First Presbyterian Church for $50,000 and lived in its basement for several months.
The church was later turned into the town's community center.
Fetterman later purchased an adjacent warehouse for $2,000, placed two shipping containers on the roof for extra living space, and moved in.
He worked to convert vacant lots into parks and gardens, build the town's first public basketball court, and establish a two-acre organic urban farm,
worked by teenagers of the Braddock Youth Project.
To help fund programs, Fetterman established relationships with local nonprofit organizations, Allegheny County's economic development program,
and then-county executive Dan Onorato.
For example, Fetterman helped secure a $400,000 grant from the Heinz Foundation toward the building of a green roof,
which provided 100 summer construction jobs for local youth.
During his tenure as mayor, Braddock's homicide rate fell substantially; for five years, there were no gun-related murders in Braddock.
In November 2010, Fetterman was arrested and immediately released after refusing to leave the property of the U.S. Steel Tower in Pittsburgh
while protesting the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's controversial closure of Braddock Hospital.[40][41] The Braddock Hospital
was Braddock's largest employer, and its closure left the town without a healthcare provider.
And my favorite:
In November 2020, Fetterman received national press coverage for saying Donald Trump was "no different than any other random internet troll"
So, what has your cult leader done for anyone other than to further enrich the rich and and rip off 100's of contractors for decades?
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