Tall, bald and burly, John Fetterman might not look like your average major but he’s generated acclaim for boosting the economy and public safety record of Braddock, Pennsylvania. Fetterman discusses his strategies in this short revealing interview. John Fetterman, Mayor of Braddock Pennsylvania from Alexis Madrigal on Vimeo.
article-article-bodyTall, bald and burly, John Fetterman might not look like your average major but he’s generated acclaim for boosting the economy and public safety record of Braddock, Pennsylvania. Fetterman discusses his strategies in this short revealing interview.
John Fetterman, Mayor of Braddock Pennsylvania from Alexis Madrigal on Vimeo.
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I was curiously? uplifted watching this big man talk sense. He may not be ‘hyper-educated’ to use his description of others in more affluent places, but he struck me as very rational and wise in his priorities for his town; safety for citizens and recreation facilities for children and youths, so many of whom were unemployed.
I’ll be interested to find out more about him from here on. My immediate Wiki search shows that he is in fact very well educated with a Harvard degree. It seems he went to Braddock initially as a youth worker. Just shows what one man can do to get things happening.
Post-keynesian, institutionalist social demrocracy finds friends in strange places… when people have been chewed up and spat out by capitalist ideology, they join the ranks of the ‘never-haves’ (like us – by which I mean people who never accepted neoliberal ideology). A bitter pill to swallow? …more like a mindset of reason (the ‘never have’ mindset, that is).