re: #134 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

What’s this stuff about Fetterman talking money from his parents all about? Anyone know?

The bulk of it seems to be just political-campaign bullshit, but a quick leaf through John Fetterman’s bio shows that - despite his roughneck persona - he comes from a fairly affluent background (his father made $ in insurance), and that he did receive a sort of subsidy from his folks during his time as Mayor of Braddock (a virtually unsalaried post).

Fetterman’s story seems to me to be one that one would think to be otherwise admirable: someone from the affluent class who turned away from money-making per se to devote his life to public service (and not in the condescending noblesse-oblige style of say, a Mitt Romney) - but there we are.