but walked the walk out there in western PA for a couple decades. He was in AmeriCorps 30-some years ago (complimenting Gov. Tom Wolf's Peace Corps experience when they ran together), and was mayor of a small poor abandoned steel town for a couple terms.
His populism when running for Lt. Gov and later, Senator, focused on 3 things - legalizing abortion, legalizing recreational marijuana, and supporting LGBTQ+ rights... and he was always combative in that regard for those subjects. He went to all 67 PA counties TWICE on "listening tours", so a lot of his votes were not just from (D)s. His outfit choices have been the popular (I guess among GenX men) "Carhartt". They seem to be the Midwest version of L.L.Bean (that has sold similar "branded" and durable clothing on the East coast for manual labor workers and for casual wear (including casual name brand clothing for the elite - e.g. those yacht-owning types).
The thing with Israel and later this Iran war, was never on any radar here in PA while he was Lt. Gov. , so that apparently came out of Oct. 7 and its aftermath I expect.
I still think his medical issues (and psychiatric therapy post-election) did a number on him.
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