What Next: Is Fetterman's Disability Anyone’s Business?

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🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Reporters have questioned whether Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman, who had a stroke in May, is competent to serve in the U.S. Senate. The attention on his apparent aphasia – or ability to process conversation and speak clearly – reveals the biases that keep many disabled people from disclosing their conditions or even running for office in the first place. Guest: Sara Luterman, caregiving reporter for The 19th News. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:09.5	Julia Tarruso remembers exactly where she was when she heard that John Fetterman, the
1:14.3	Democratic candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania, had suffered a stroke.
1:18.4	I do, yes, I was driving to Pittsburgh because I was going to be with him on election
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