Fetterman said he had to preside over the state Senate that day. But to some of the roughly 25 clergy who participated, it was a damaging snub.
PHILADELPHIA — When Philadelphia Black clergy members held a forum last week with Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate candidates, there was one notable absence: the Democratic front-runner.His three main primary opponents did, answering policy questions the night after Martin Luther King Jr. Day at the historic Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church in Germantown.
“If you’re gonna run for this position then you have to make time for this community,” said Rev. Mark Tyler of Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. “One of the knocks against white elected officials outside of Philadelphia who seek votes inside Philadelphia is that they don’t understand us or they don’t respect us.
In a letter Fetterman sent the clergy before the event, he apologized for missing it, said he hoped to speak with them another time, and highlighted some of the work he has done on economic inequality, criminal justice and voting rights. “I understand how important the forum is,” he wrote, “and I very much wish that I could be there.” Fetterman also met last year with the host church’s pastor Alyn Waller, the campaign said.
“The ones that wanted to be there were there,” he said. “My father used to tell me 80% of ‘can’t do’ is ‘don’t want to.’” Fetterman, Waller added, “knew it was going to happen, and he was invited to come and he chose not to come.” Fetterman’s public events are often shared with the news media only after they’ve occurred. Multiple requests by Inquirer reporters to join him on the campaign trail have gone unanswered.
Fetterman has said he heard gunfire near his Braddock home in 2013 and pursued a man wearing a mask who he believed was involved. Fetterman chased him in his truck and then approached the man with a shotgun. He turned out to be an unarmed Black jogger. Fetterman said he didn’t know the man’s race and never pointed the shotgun at him, and he posted a lengthy explanation last year.
He was an underdog in the 2016 Democratic Senate primary, and while he won a competitive statewide primary in 2018, the lieutenant governor’s contest is hardly a high-profile one.
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