宾夕法尼亚州参议员候选人约翰·费特曼最近参加了汉普顿斯的一次筹款活动，这是一次以前没有报道过的露面，因为他从中风中恢复过来，并准备面对他经常攻击的共和党人穆罕默德·奥兹博士作为一个精英名人相对于他的蓝领风格。
8月19日发布在公共Instagram上的照片显示，宾夕法尼亚州副州长费特曼在长岛阿马甘塞特的一次聚会上。
奎恩·布莱克威尔在标题中写道:“又一个有趣的故事，我们的#约翰·费特曼#赢了。”。当记者通过电话联系到布莱克威尔时，他拒绝置评;他还将自己的账户设为私人账户。
Linkedin页面上的照片显示，照片中的一个名为“jamesalexandernyc”的账户似乎属于卡西亚集团董事詹姆斯·亚历山大。
据Cassia Group网站介绍，该公司是一家私营公司，在海外推进各种行业的项目，包括在石油资源丰富的中东国家的能源项目。
Alexander没有回复ABC寻求置评的消息，Cassia Group也没有回复电话和电子邮件联系。
萨福克郡汉普顿家的地址记录显示，亚历山大名下的一家信托公司在2012年将它出售给了玛格丽特街有限责任公司。亚历山大的名字既没有出现在联邦选举委员会的竞选财务数据中，也没有出现在费特曼从2021年6月到2022年6月的个人捐赠者名单上。
费瑟曼竞选发言人乔·卡尔韦洛在一份声明中告诉美国广播公司:“像约翰这样的人会去汉普顿的唯一原因是，他的竞选活动需要筹集资金，以反击来自奥兹博士和他的有钱朋友的前所未有的攻击和负面广告。”
卡尔韦洛没有回答有关筹款活动的具体问题。
发布在网上的照片是标准的，显示了穿着传统帽衫的Fetterman与一群带着姓名标签的人混在一起，在室外游泳池前与其他人合影。当然，在选举年，共和党人和民主党人在汉普顿筹集资金并不罕见。
就在今年夏天，根据美国消费者新闻与商业频道的说法来自全国各地的民主党候选人参加了或计划参加那里的筹款活动，包括纽约州州长凯西·霍楚尔(Kathy Hochul)和佐治亚州州长候选人斯泰西·艾布拉姆斯(Michael Bloomberg)以及马里兰州的韦斯·摩尔(Wes Moore)。
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for the state's U.S. Senate seat, speaks during a rally in Erie, Pa., on Friday, Aug. 12, 2022.
(美联社图片/吉恩·j·普斯卡)
费特曼的对手奥兹也在汉普顿呆过参加了一个今年夏天7月4日周末“白色派对”在那里举行。
但Fetterman的停下来是因为他对Oz发起了一系列高调的攻击，指责这位前电视主持人与宾夕法尼亚州的日常选民脱节，更像是在纽约市及其托尼度假飞地的家中。
“我们真是天壤之别。我们有一个住在新泽西的家伙，他有——什么来着，9或10栋房子?”费特曼在最近莫瑟县的一次活动中告诉人群，这是他在5月中风后首次亲自参加竞选活动。
费瑟曼在回到步道整整一周后来到了汉普顿在伊利充满活力的集会上当他继续从中风中恢复时。自那以后，他的日程有限，但他在周末连续几天出现在公共活动中，这是他自健康恐慌以来第一次这样做。
费瑟曼的一些支持者淡化了他的汉普顿之行。
住在宾夕法尼亚州沙龙的杰拉尔丁·埃克特告诉ABC新闻，她想对这一事件做自己的研究，但她说她“不会因此而反对他”
“如果我站在费尔特曼的立场，我想我会去我认为可以为我的竞选筹款的地方，我会对我的选民诚实，”她补充说。
“他是为了老百姓。他支持中产阶级。民主党人Jack Figaretti在一次竞选活动之外对美国广播公司新闻说:“与其他共和党人相比，我更容易认同他。”。
亚历山大的公司Cassia Group从事的业务似乎与费瑟曼的一些竞选议题相冲突。Cassia的网站吹捧金属采矿和石油生产的各个方面，包括“提高油气采收率”和钻井。该网站还描述了2016年的一个项目，该项目涉及与一家与科威特国家石油公司有关联的公司的合作。
费特曼的网站敦促“尽快过渡到清洁能源”...为成千上万的工人保留工会的生活方式。”
Pennsylvania's John Fetterman ramps back up campaign schedule with Hamptons fundraiser
Pennsylvania Senate hopeful John Fetterman recently attended a fundraiser in the Hamptons, a previously unreported appearance as he recovers from a stroke and ramps up to face Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz -- whom he often attacksas an elitist celebrityversus his blue-collar style.
Photos posted to a public Instagram on Aug. 19 show Fetterman, Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor, at a gathering in Amagansett on Long Island.
"Another fun one with our guy #johnfetterman #winning," Quinn Blackwell wrote in a caption. Blackwell declined to comment when reached by phone; he also made his account private.
An account tagged in the photos, "jamesalexandernyc," appears to belong to James Alexander, a director at the Cassia Group, according to a Linkedin page with his photo.
According to its website, Cassia Group is a private company that advances projects in various industries abroad, including energy ventures in oil-rich Middle Eastern countries.
Alexander did not respond to messages from ABC seeking comment, nor did Cassia Group when contacted by phone and email.
Suffolk County records for the address of the Hamptons home show that it was sold by a trust in Alexander's name to Margaret Street LLC in 2012. Alexander's name did not appear either in Federal Election Commission campaign finance data or on a list of Fetterman's individual donors that spanned from June 2021 to June 2022.
A Fetterman campaign spokesperson, Joe Calvello, told ABC in a statement: "The only reason a dude like John would ever go to the Hamptons is because his campaign needs to raise money to fight back against the unprecedented onslaught of attacks and negative ads from Dr. Oz and his rich friends."
Calvello did not answer specific questions about the fundraiser.
The pictures posted online from the event are standard fare, showing Fetterman -- in his traditional hoodie -- mingling with a group of people with name tags and posing with others in front of an outdoor pool. And it's not, of course, unusual for Republicans and Democrats to raise money in the Hamptons during an election year.
Just this summer,according to CNBC, Democratic candidates from across the country attended or were scheduled to attend fundraisers there, including New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and gubernatorial hopefuls Stacey Abrams, of Georgia, and Wes Moore, of Maryland.
Oz, Fetterman's opponent, has also spent time in the Hamptonsand attended aJuly 4th weekend "white party" there this summer.
But Fetterman's stop occurred as he has launched a number of high-profile attacks on Oz, accusing the former TV host of being out-of-touch with everyday voters in Pennsylvania -- and more at home in the New York City area and its tony vacation enclaves.
"We just can't be more different. We have a guy that lives in New Jersey, a guy that has -- what is it, nine or 10 houses?" Fetterman told a crowd at a recent event in rural Mercer County, in one of his first in-person campaign appearances after his stroke in May.
Fetterman was in the Hamptons exactly one week after he returned to the trailat an energized rally in Erieas he continues to recover from his stroke. He has had a limited schedule since then, but he appeared at public events on consecutive days over the weekend -- the first time he has done so since his health scare.
Some of Fetterman's supporters downplayed his Hamptons visit.
Geraldine Eckert, who lives in Sharon, Pennsylvania, told ABC News that she wanted to do her own research on the event but said she "wouldn't hold it against him."
"If I were putting myself in Fetterman's shoes, I guess I would go where I thought I could get money for my campaign and I would be honest with my constituents," she added.
"He's for the common people. He's for the middle class. I can identify with him on a much easier scale than I can with any of the Republicans who are out there," Jack Figaretti, a Democrat, told ABC News outside a campaign event.
Cassia Group, Alexander's firm, appears to be engaged in business in conflict with some of Fetterman's campaign issues. Cassia's website touts work in metal mining and invarious aspects of oil production, including "enhanced oil and gas recovery" and drilling. The website also described a 2016 project that involved collaboration with a firm linked to the Kuwaiti national oil company.
Fetterman's website urges a "transition to clean energy as quickly as possible ... in a way that preserves the union way of life for the thousands of workers."
