Letter to the Editor

Editor:
I sincerely hope voters won’t base their choice for Pennsylvania’s crucial Senate race on one televised debate. Mehmet Oz is a practiced performer who made millions hawking “miracle” cures he knew didn’t work. John Fetterman is an honest, well-educated and devoted public servant.

A stroke doesn’t change that.

A team of medical researchers released a report in 2014 proving that 60% of the advice given on Oz’s TV show was baseless or wrong. Thirteen hundred doctors signed an open letter calling Oz “a quack” and “a charlatan”

whose “advice endangers patients.”
Pennsylvania physicians are participating in a “Real Doctors Against Oz” tour, saying his unethical actions disqualify him from serving as Pennsylvania’s senator and his policy positions endanger Pennsylvanians, especially women.

Oz spent weeks attacking Fetterman for his May stroke (800,000 Americans suffer stroke each year), but the ads said more about Oz’s lack of personal decency than about Fetterman who, according to his physicians, is recovering well and is fit to serve.

Fetterman’s language issues were on display, but rather than disqualifying, I see Fetterman as a fighter and admire his courage for debating at all. A stroke doesn’t change who he is or what he stands for—a dedicated public servant. The smirking Oz is a smooth operator who markets himself as a trustworthy doctor, but used his considerable influence to scam vulnerable Americans.

I’m casting my vote on November 8th for John Fetterman. He speaks the truth and will represent the needs and interests of all Pennsylvanians.

Connie Schulz
State College, PA