What’s going on with Pennsylvania’s Senator John Fetterman
Well you might ask.
He experienced a bout of what’s being called “lightheadedness” on Wednesday, was hospitalized, and is still undergoing tests. A new stroke has been ruled out, and now they’re wondering about a seizure.
It may end up being nothing much. But if it is something, and if ultimately Fetterman has to be replaced, it’s interesting to note that the mechanism in Pennsylvania is a special election, not an appointment by the governor.
[CORRECTION: That link apparently is for state and local elections. For US senator, the governor makes an appointment till the next regular general election, which at the moment would be in November of 2024.]
Hospital stays now are very short. Treat them and street them. The doctors must be concerned to hold him as an inpatient .He is damaged goods . He will be kept in office as long as possible. He does what he is told. Why take a chance on an election?? The democratic bench is weak
My daughter, a speech pathology PhD, says that strokes of the type Fetterman suffered may show improvement in a time period as long as twelve months. He’s still having speech processing problems, and it doesn’t seem to be improving.
Does that special election requirement extend to US senatorial vacancies? The link doesn’t really specify, and talks about state and county races.
I don’t think he was expected to last the year even by the Leftists then replaced. His campaign made Sundowner’s look like a steamroller in rallying.
He can’t communicate by speaking, hearing.
Johnny, can you hear me? He ain’t no pinball wizard. He’s a Pennsylvania Senator, and Uncle Joey is the president.
Apologies to Peter Townsend:
“Tommy, can you hear me?
Can you feel me near you?
Tommy, can you see me?
Can I help to cheer you?
Ooh, Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, Tommy”
According to
https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/vacancies-in-the-united-states-senate
Pennsylvania is among 37 states in which the governor makes an appointment to fill a U.S. Senate vacancy, and the appointee serves until the next regularly scheduled statewide general election.
As I see it, if Fetterman exits early from the U.S. Senate, the Pennsylvania governor can appoint someone who would serve until the winner of a November 2024 special election is sworn in.
The fact that Fetterman was elected is a statement about the integrity of our elections. How does his mental and physical condition not make a difference in voters’ minds? It’s a combination of poor MSM coverage and vote fraud. If Fetterman and Biden can be elected, the number of incompetent candidates that can be foisted off on the electorate is amazing. It’s like a big middle finger to anyone who thinks the elections should be fair and honest.
Further reminder what a poor candidate Mehmet Oz was. The GOP seems to find the worst possible candidates for elections in which they have a chance of winning.
I hope Fetterman makes a recovery.
This is why I am on the American voter being held responsible. Voting for someone on the flimsiest of pretext, shirking responsibility, not standing for anything, voting for someone based on who he’s not and not even knowing thissues. We stand for nothing. I believe the phrase was “a virtuous and religious public.”
they had the mail ballots preprinted for shamblings horse,
I had my qualms about oz as often stated, I preferred barnette, but it doesn’t matter,
Nothing wrong with Oz. He is a highly educated professor of thoracic (heart & lung) surgery, with a 2nd home in PA. Spent too much time with Oprah, perhaps. Especially when compared to permanently brain-damaged Fetterman, whose major accomplishment was being mayor of a minor Pittsburgh suburb, who now has all sorts of electronic voice-print screens all thru the Senate chamber and office. And he was a cockroach before his stroke (also called CVA in medical speak, for Cerebro-Vascular Accident).
A majority of voters in PA (fraud aside), are idiots to have elected this brain-damaged fool to the worlld’s highest deliberative body, the US Senate. It does not speak well of Pennsylvanians.
Nor for the US; this a symptom of its rapid decline, electing fools to the Senate.
Oz was a bad candidate? He could at least string two sentences together. He seemed coherent and physically capable. Fetterman? Nope.
Calling Oz a bad candidate because he lost to a zombie is rich. Fetterman is not only a zombie but his record as a politician prior to his stoke showed he is far, far left. Oz, whatever his weaknesses on policy, would have been a more reliable Republican vote in the Seante than Mitch McConnel.
I suppose Tiffany Smiley was a bad candidate because she lost to a near zombie – Patty Murray. Not IMO. Washington state has become another mail-in-ballot phony vote blue state. A Republican can no longer win a statewide office. It’s corrupt and getting worse.
Time.To.Wake.Up!
Oz wasn’t my pick, I too voted for Barnett and said I wouldn’t vote for him but did as Fetterman is a Marxist and had to be stopped. Oz wasn’t a bad candidate, thought his exposure on TV would help him. The Democrats Propaganda Ministry runs all tv except ads and he didn’t get enough money to over compensate that endless Propaganda. He actually did what Fetterman didn’t do and got out to see voters, saw many videos and read what he said.
Vote fraud carries Pa, did in 2020 and in 2022, will in 2024 as nothing in Harrisburg will stop it.
Oz campaigned hard, going out to meet voters all over the state. As Skip says, he didn’t have enough money to counter the TV propaganda.
I hope Fetterman’s ambitious wife is satisfied with the ruination of her husband’s life. With rest, he might have recovered, although that’s not certain; now, he probably never will.
Well, in Fetterman’s defense he says listening to his fellow Senators is like listening to the teacher in Peanuts. I’ve often felt that way myself.
It looks like Fetterman’s campaign violated finance rules by selling its donor lists at widely varying prices: “While it’s neither uncommon nor illegal for political candidates to sell or rent out their donor lists, the Federal Election Commission requires that they be sold at similar prices: ‘At the ‘usual and normal’ rate without the purchaser making a contribution,’ said a spokesman for the FEC. In Fetterman’s case, his list commanded wildly divergent rates and was sold again in the weeks after the midterm elections to one of the Washington-based strategists.”
https://nypost.com/2023/02/10/john-fetterman-campaign-may-have-violated-finance-rules-by-selling-donor-list/
In other news, Uncle Fester is home from the hospital: https://nypost.com/2023/02/10/john-fetterman-released-from-dc-hospital-after-two-night-stay/
I’m glad to hear that it is not by appointment of the governor. Luckily the PA state senate is Republican controlled so they won’t be able to play the games Massachusetts did of changing all the rules when Teddy Kennedy died.
Light headedness, huh? Compared to what? He’s been light headed for as long as he’s been in the public eye
Fetterman’s wife, vain and twisted, is also politically ambitious. Don’t be surprised if she is nominated by the governor to replace him if he’s eventually recognized as incompetent to hold office.
Fetterman is probably feeling overwrought because he can’t live with his parents in their home while he is in Washington, DC; must be really hard for him to get used to living away from his mom and dad.
So we should not hold that against him.
As soon as Dr. Frankenstein adjusts the electrodes in Fetterman’s neck, John will be just fine.
In case your wondering, Fetterman’s electrodes get charged using only wind or solar energy, so no CO2 is emitted.
There are rumors that Dr. Frankenstein is working on ways to reduce methane emissions from Fetterman, so this too must be weighing on Fetterman’s state of mind because it forces him to minimize talking (if you know what I mean).
Oz, whatever his weaknesses on policy, would have been a more reliable Republican vote in the Senate than Mitch McConnel.
Exactly !
Regarding PA election law, the governor appoints a successor who serves until after the next general election. For a vacancy filled before September 2023 the next general election in the Commonwealth would be November 2023.
The most recent example occurred in 1991 when Senator John Heinz was killed in a plane crash. Governor Robert P Casey appointed Harris Wofford to fill the vacant seat. Wofford then ran for the remaining three years of the Senate term, and defeated former governor and US Attorney General Dick Thornburgh in the general election in November 1991.