Pennsylvania’s Senate race between John Fetterman and snake oil salesman Mehmet Oz continues to be lopsided. On the one hand you have a progressive candidate who is offering up a platform of policies and ideas for making both Pennsylvania and the country a better place, and on the other hand there’s Oz. Since Oz has no policy (or medical) remedies for anyone, he has tried very hard to attack Fetterman’s health and Fetterman’s lack of wealth.
In return, Fetterman has pointed out that Oz is a very obvious carpetbagger who has lived in New Jersey for virtually his entire adult life, and whose wealth and celebrity has made him both an out of touch elite and someone who lies about almost everything he does and says. Oz and his campaign, for its part, have made Fetterman’s job pretty easy the last couple of months.
As a result, the Oz campaign has become more desperate of late, swinging well below the belt in their lying about Fetterman. In fact, most of us believed they had reached their nadir when they attacked Fetterman for surviving a stroke. On Thursday, the Oz campaign proved that when you think you’ve reached the bottom, a Republican can find some wiggle room to go even lower.
Trying very hard to not only paint Fetterman as soft on crime, Oz tweeted out that Fetterman is something of a murderer-lover.
That’s a powerful claim. The first thing someone might want to ask is how is it possible that John Fetterman’s campaign can pay two men who are clearly serving life sentences for murdering someone? It’s possible because Oz forgot to mention that the two men, brothers Lee and Dennis Horton, who were “convicted” of that crime, who spent 27 years behind bars (and are now 56 and 51-years old respectively), were charged for their proximity to a man who murdered Samuel Alamo.
It was Memorial Day when the young brothers went for a fateful beer run. They gave a ride to childhood friend Robert Leaf, not knowing Leaf had just murdered a man during a robbery. Police had been following Leaf — and when the car was pulled over, the Hortons were arrested, too.
Both were charged with second degree murder, which in Pennsylvania carries an automatic life sentence without possibility of parole.
So these two young men made the bad decision of giving a ride to a guy they didn’t realize was a really bad guy and then were drawn into a racist nightmare sentence. Their sentences have been commuted and their story has been covered by numerous media outlets the past few years because of how, against all odds, the two brothers seem to have been able to create an optimistic and productive life and mission out of the tragic injustice pressed upon their shoulders.
Oz’s campaign spokesperson Rachel Tripp also released a statement saying that the “Oz campaign calls on John Fetterman to fire convicted murderers on campaign staff.” This response speaks for itself.
And this response sort of synthesizes the facts and what Mehmet Oz is saying he believes.
The dubious supplement seller Oz, who is racist like his benefactor Donald Trump, is so desperate that he is hoping he can get racist white Pennsylvanians to vote against their best interests by scaring them into believing John Fetterman hopes to release murderers into their communities.
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