The group said Sen. John Fetterman’s opposition to a ceasefire “has felt like a gutting betrayal.”…
A group of former campaign staffers for Sen. John Fetterman is calling for the lawmaker, who presented himself as a progressive on the campaign trail, to reverse course on his call for violence against Palestinians in Gaza last week.
They said that they felt Fetterman was not living up to his own purported values of fighting for oppressed people by backing the war. “On the trail, your overarching promise was to ‘Forgotten Communities’ – people and places that get overlooked, written off, and left behind. You can’t be a champion of forgotten communities if you cheerlead this war and the consequent destruction of Palestinian communities at home and abroad,” the group said. “We are speaking out now because we played important roles in electing you. We cannot in good conscience stay silent at this moment.”“Now is not the time to talk about a ceasefire.
Backlash swiftly ensued from progressives, but Fetterman’s team doubled down. When asked on social media whether or not Fetterman would join calls for a ceasefire the day after Fetterman’s post, Chief of Staff Adam Jentleson simply responded “to criticize congressional staffers who last week urged their bosses to support a ceasefire. “he thing about being a staffer is that no one elected you to represent them,” Jentleson wrote.
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