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FakeNoose

(36,498 posts)
Fri Mar 29, 2024, 11:21 AM Mar 2024

All three of John Fetterman's top communications staffers have resigned in the last month [View all]

Two staffers are leaving for more progressive political jobs. Fetterman has recently made a big deal of denouncing that ever-nebulous political label.



Philly Inquirer link: https://www.inquirer.com/politics/clout/john-fetterman-staffers-joe-cavello-20240329.html

Clout learns there’s been some serious turnover in Sen. John Fetterman’s office. In the last month, all three of Fetterman’s top communications staffers have left Capitol Hill. Nick Gavio, who was deputy communications director, will leave the office at the end of March to take a new role with the Working Families Party.

Fetterman’s former communications director, Joe Calvello, left earlier this month to work for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. And Emma Mustion, a press and digital aide also left Fetterman’s office to work on the reelection of Sen. Bob Casey.

Gavio and Calvello, two veterans of Bernie Sanders’ 2020 campaign, and Fetterman’s Senate campaign, offered nothing but nice comments about their new jobs. But Clout doesn’t believe in coincidences, and it seems relevant that both are going to more progressive spaces, given that Fetterman has recently made a big deal of denouncing that ever-nebulous political label.

Fetterman has alienated some of his supporters on the left with his defense of Israel’s war against Hamas and his criticism of cease-fire activists. His office did not comment on the departures but chief of staff Adam Jentleson said the office has already hired replacements.
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This isn't hard news so much as it's commentary by a political columnist on the Philly Inquirer staff.

Personally I don't se anything worth stirring up over Fetterman's desire to align himself with President Biden's policies. Fetterman is no less "progressive" now than during his campaign speeches, however he does recognize his responsibility to agree with the President whenever possible. Some Democrats may not like his way of thinking, but that's too bad.

Nothing to see here. No Democrats are in disarray.

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