Washington Free Beacon By Chuck Ross
While courting an anti-police group’s endorsement in 2018, Senate hopeful John Fetterman said he opposed “tough on crime” policies and was “very excited” for the reforms proposed by a Philadelphia district attorney now facing impeachment over a massive spike in violent crime in the city.
Fetterman laid out his views of a “progressive agenda” in a questionnaire for Reclaim Philadelphia, a left-wing activist group that claims Philadelphia’s police budget is derived from money “stolen from communities.” Fetterman, who was seeking an endorsement in the race for lieutenant governor, told the organization he would use the office “as a bully pulpit for the larger issue of criminal justice reform.”
“There is a real opportunity to build a statewide platform that elevates and exposes the damage created by the school-to-prison pipeline, the prison industrial complex, and ‘tough on crime’ policies like ‘Stop and Frisk’ and cash bail,” said Fetterman, who expressed support for sanctuary cities and Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner, one of the left-wing prosecutors backed by Democratic billionaire donor George Soros…
